Paul Anderson in Egypt (1955)
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...
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...
History in Color: October 10, 1955, Minich, Germany – Team USA Weightlifting gathered for a group shot after the end of the 1955 World Championships in Munich (left to right): Bob Hoffman (coach, manager),...
History in Color: August 10, 1948, London, UK – Middleweight Frank Spellman of Team USA wins a gold Olympic medal in the 75kg weightclass at the 1948 Summer Olympics in London. Frank Spellman (1922-2017)...
History in Color: October 23, 1938, Vienna, Austria – Joseph Manger of Germany wins a gold medal in the 82.5+kg weight class and Steve Stanko of Team USA becomes a silver medalist at the...
History in Color: November 26, 1956, Melbourne, Australia – The strongest man in the world of the 1950s, Paul Anderson of Team USA receives the highest trophy in Olympic weightlifting, the gold Olympic medal...
History in Color: December 1955, NYC, NY – Olympic champion, 2x Olympic vice champion, captain of Team USA Weightlifting Peter George demonstrates a power snatch at the Madison Square Garden arena in New York....
History in Color: December 1955, NYC, NY – Athletes of Team USA Weightlifting seem to be happy, strong and confident before the upcoming 1956 Summer Olympics in front of thousands of spectators at the...
O say, does that star-spangled banner yet wave O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave Francis Scott Key … and should we add a humble but historically essential –...
This is a Happy 4th of July Olympic weightlifting style message! U.S. weightlifting has a long and impressive history of legendary teams, coaches and athletes. One of them was John Terpak (1912-1993) and, by...
History in Color: First ever U.S. athlete that won the Summer Olympics in modern weightlifting, Tony Terlazzo of the York Barbell Club, York, PA shows his gold medal in Berlin, Germany in 1936. Tony...