Team USA: Olympic Champions of Helsinki
History in Color: July 27, 1952, Helsinki, Finland – John Davis of NYC, NY, USA just won his second Olympic medal in the 90+kg class and now he is being joined by his teammates,...
History in Color: July 27, 1952, Helsinki, Finland – John Davis of NYC, NY, USA just won his second Olympic medal in the 90+kg class and now he is being joined by his teammates,...
History in Color: July 25, 1976, Montreal, Canada – Phil Grippaldi of Team USA competes in the snatch program in the 90kg class at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal. Phil Grippaldi was almost...
History in Color: July 25, 1976, Montreal, Canada – 22-year old middle heavyweight Lee James of Team USA wins a silver Olympic medal in the 90kg class at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal....
The History in Color features a group shot of the strongest heavyweights of the late 1960s – early 1970s gathered in one room during the 1970 World Championships in Columbus, Ohio, USA (left to...
The cover photo from the History in Color series features one of the finest athletes of the Golden Age of the U.S. Olympic weightlifting Dave Sheppard (1931-2000) performing a clean-and-jerk lift in 1953. David...
History in Color: September 26, 1947, Philadelphia, PA, USA – 22-year old Stanley Stanczyk of the York Barbell Club, USA wins the World title in the 75kg class at the 1947 World Championships in...
History in Color: Legendary bodybuilder and Olympic weightlifter John Grimek of the York Barbell is flexing muscles with Marquis the Chimpanzee at the London Palladium in the late 1940s. Just out of curiosity, was Marquis...
History in Color: May 12, 1958, Chicago, IL – Light heavyweight James George of Akron, OH, USA competes Team USA Weightlifting in the 82.5kg class in the first match of the 1958 USA vs...
July 27, 1952, Helsinki, Finland: 28-year old Norbert Schemansky of Team USA Weightlifting wins the gold at the 90kg class at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki. Schemansky had a great performance in Helsinki...
History in Color: June 1955, Alexandria, Egypt – Legendary super heavyweight Paul Anderson of Team USA is lifting in Egypt during the historical 1955 Team USA Weightlifting Tour to USSR, Egypt and Iran. In...