Guy Carlton (USA): Leningrad, 1979
History in Color: August 1, 1979, Leningrad, Russia – Guy Carlton of Decatur, IL, USA competes in the 100kg class at the 1979 USSR Spatrakiade and USSR Championships in Leningrad. Guy Carlton (1954-2001) was...
History in Color: August 1, 1979, Leningrad, Russia – Guy Carlton of Decatur, IL, USA competes in the 100kg class at the 1979 USSR Spatrakiade and USSR Championships in Leningrad. Guy Carlton (1954-2001) was...
History in Color: December 1955, New York City, NY, USA – The strongest man in the world of the 1950s, U.S. heavyweight Paul Anderson is in the spotlight during the U.S. fundraiser for the...
History in Color: July 1936 – U.S. weightlifters, coaches and administrators are about ready to travel to Europe for the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin (left to right): Front row: Mark Berry (Head Coach),...
History in Color: September 26, 1947, Philadelphia, PA, USA – 33-year old bantamweight Joe Di Pietro of Paterson, NJ, USA wins the World title and sets new world records in press (102.5kg), snatch (87.5kg)...
The History in Color series features a color version of the group shot of U.S. medalists of the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome. The original black-and-whire photo was taken in the Roman Olympic village...
History in Color: August 1953, NYC, NY, USA – The U.S. weightlifting team is about to embark from New York to the 1953 World championships in Stockholm via Scandinavian Airlines (left to right): John...
History in Color: June 27, 1952, New York City, NY, USA – Lightweight Tommy Kono of the U.S. Army and middleweight Peter George of the ACMWL club receive top awards for winning the championships...
History in Color: October 18, 1964, Tokyo, Japan – 40-year old Norbert Schemansky of Michigan, USA won bronze medal in the 90+kg weightclass at his 4th Summer Olympics in Tokyo. Got muscles? Norb Schemansky...
History in Color: For the most of the world, he is known as Oddjob from the Goldfinger (1964), one of the classics of the James Bond movies. In his life outside the James Bond...
The History in Color series features 18-year old junior lightweight Roberto Urrutia of Team Cuba competing in a weightlifting tournament in Camaguey, Cuba in 1975. Roberto “Tony” Urrutia (born in 1957) was the first...