Harold Toshiyuki Sakata (USA)
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...
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...
History in Color June 18, 1955, Leningrad, Russia – Paul Anderson of Team USA competes in the 90+kg class in the second match of the historical USA vs. USSR Olympic weightlifting meet held in...
History in Color: November 11, 1944, York, PA, USA – Legendary American featherweight, 33-year old Olympic champion Tony Terlazzo performs a clean-and-jerk lift while training at the good old York Barbell Club in York,...
History in Color: September 26, 1947, Philadelphia, PA, USA – 18-year old lightweight Peter George of Akron, OH, USA wins the World title with a 352.5kg (97.5+110+145) total in the 67.5kg class at the...
November 9, 2018 – Legendary Bob Hoffman (USA, 1898 – 1985) would have celebrated his 120th Birthday. Bob Hoffman was the key figure of the U.S. Olympic weightlifting for decades. It’s almost impossible to...
History in Color June 16, 1955, Moscow, Russia – Legendary Paul Anderson of Team USA, nicknamed as “Miracle of Nature” for his phenomenal strength, is competing for USA during the USA vs. USSR Olympic...
October 31, 2018 – One of the brightest stars of the U.S. and world weightlifting of the 1970s, Lee James celebrates his 65th Birthday! Happy Birthday, Champ!
“Where in the World is Ashgabat, Clarence?” “No idea. Somewhere in Russia, Bob?” What?!. History purists are getting frustrated now. And they are absolutely right. It is highly unlikely that this conversation between Bob...
This issue of our History in Color series features legendary Paul Anderson, Olympic champion of Melbourne (1956) appearing as a guest contestant at one the first comedy-quiz TV shows “The Best of Groucho” in...