Joe Dube (USA) Turns 80!
February 15, 2024 – Great Olympic weightlifting champion, Joe Dube (USA) turns 80!!! Joe Dube is a true legend of American and world weightlifting. Competing for the United States, Joe became a World Champion...
February 15, 2024 – Great Olympic weightlifting champion, Joe Dube (USA) turns 80!!! Joe Dube is a true legend of American and world weightlifting. Competing for the United States, Joe became a World Champion...
History in Color: Charles “Chuck” Vinci (1933-2018), of Cleveland, Ohio, USA, was one of the greatest bantamweight athletes in the history of Olympc weightlifting. Vinci was the last U.S. weightlifter who won the Olympic...
History in Color@Lift Up: Philadelphia, PA, USA, July 1947 – Weightlifting legends Joe Di Pietro and Peter George are enjoying a moment of a “strength and health” celebration at the 1947 World Championships in...
History in Color: September 13, 1949, Paris, France– Olympic champion, bantamweight Joe Di Pietro of the Bates Barbell Club, New Jersey performs a cj lift during an exhibition meet of the U.S. weightlifting team...
History in Color@LiftUp: April 22, 1959, Leningrad, Russia, USSR – 23-year old heavyweight Yury Vlasov sets his first career set of World records competing in the 90+kg weight class at the 1959 Soviet Army...
History in Color: July 27, 1952, Helsinki, Finland – Heavyweight contenders receive their medals in the 90+kg weight class in the last day of the weightlifting tournament at the 1952 Summer Olympics at the...
History in Color: Muscle Beach, CA, USA, Summer 1956 – Legends of the York Barbell are lifting during a demo session of Olympic weightlifting for a general public at the Muscle Beach, California in...
Art Ritzik (Jim Belushi): Where’d you learn to speak English so well? Ivan Danko (Arnold Schwarzenegger): Army. Compulsory training. Language school in Kiev. Art Ritzik: Oh, yeah. That’s like as in Chicken Kiev. Yeah,...
History in Color: Melbourne, Australia, November 1956 – Paul Anderson (USA) and Yakov Kutsenko (USSR) in the Olympic village at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne. At the 1956 Olympics, Paul Anderson won the...
History in Color@LiftUp: September 10, 1963, Stockholm, Sweden – 33-year old Tommy Kono of the United States competes in the middleweight class (75kg) at the 1963 World Championships in Stockholm. It was the last...