Jim Bradford (USA)
History in Color: March11, 1961, Moscow, Russia – Heavyweight James Bradford of Team USA competes in the 110+kg class at the 1961 Prize of Moscow international tournament in Moscow. Jim Bradford (1928-2013) was one...
History in Color: March11, 1961, Moscow, Russia – Heavyweight James Bradford of Team USA competes in the 110+kg class at the 1961 Prize of Moscow international tournament in Moscow. Jim Bradford (1928-2013) was one...
History in Color: Olympic champion, 4x U.S. Olympian, also known as “Mr. Weightlifting”, legendary Norbert Schemansky performs various support lifting in training for the Olympic press in the early 1960s.
The History in Color series presents a group shot of the best heavyweights of Team USA in the 1950s. Actually, those were the best heavyweights not only of the USA but the whole world...
The History in Color series feature a color version of the photo with two important characters in the Team USA Weightlifting history – trainer Dick Smith and lifter Phil Grippaldi. We published a few...
History in Color: August 29, 1953, Stockholm, Sweden – Team USA middleweight Tommy Kono just became a World champion in the 75kg class at the 1953 World Championships in Stockholm. His teammate and another...
First of all, Happy Birthday to Dan Cantore of Team USA of the 1970s! Minsk, Belarus, USSR, 1974 (left to right): Dan Cantore (USA), Anatoly Yakovlev, Dmitry Yurago, Phil Grippaldi (USA), Anatoly Kovalevsky. (Courtesy...
History in Color: October 27, 1951, Milan, Italy – Legendary Peter George of Akron, USA wins the World title in style in the 75kg class at the 1951 World Championships in Milan. Prior to...
History in Color: June 1955 – During the historical 1955 Team USA Weightlifting Tour to USSR, Egypt and Iran, U.S. weightlifters competed in the weightlifting matches in Cairo and Alexandria (Egypt). The cover photo...
History in Color: October 14, 1955, Munich, Germany – Legendary Olympic weightlifter Tommy Kono of Team USA wins the light heavyweight gold medal at the 1955 World Championships in Munich. It was the 3rd...
History in Color: November 24, 1956, Melbourne, Australia – Legendary Peter George of Team USA competes in the 75kg class at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne and wins his 3rd Olympic medal at...