Tagged: USA
Norbert Schemansky in Moscow (1963)
History in Color Series: One of the Olympic weightlifting greatest Norbert Schemansky of Team U.S.A. is competing at the 1963 Prize of Moscow International. The original photo by Jacob Gimmelstein. This photo has an...
Grippaldi (USA)
History in Color: Phil Grippaldi (b. 1946) was one of the most talented and popular U.S. Olympic weightlifters in the 1970s. He competed in the 90kg weight class and had an impressive look of...
Peter George (USA)
History in Color: Peter George (b. 1929) of Team USA was one of the most distinguished Olympic weightlifter in the history of this sport. He won the gold medal at the 1952 Summer Olympics...
Resting in Vienna (1961)
Participants of the 1961 World Championship in Vienna are taking break between training and competitions: Left to right: Alexander Kurynov (Kazan, 75kg), Rudolf Plyukfelder (Shakhty, 82.5kg), Yury Vlasov (Moscow, 90+kg), Vasily Stepanov (Riga, 90kg)...
Tommy Kono in Budapest (1962)
The History in Color series: September 18, 1962 – Legendary Tommy Kono of the Team USA competes in the 82.5kg weight class at the 1962 World Championship in Budapest, Hungary. Kono is getting ready to lift 150kg in his...
Portrait Of A Champion
This is obviously a media staged shot of legendary Norbert Schemansky. Team USA just arrived to Helsinki for the 1952 Summer Olympics. Schemansky is 28. He is not Mr. Weightlifting yet. It will come...
Muscles From Moscow
History in Color: May 12, 1958 – Team CCCP coach Alexander Bozhko assists Vladimir Stogov before his lift in the bantamweight competition of the 1958 USA vs. USSR match in Chicago. John Terpack, Chuck...
Dave Ashman (USA), the First To Clean-and-jerk 200 Kilos
Dave Ashman of Team USA Weightlifting was the first Olympic weightlifter who managed to clean-and-jerk 200kg. The cover photo from the History in Color series, depicts this historical moment, when Ashman cj’d 2o1 kg...
Joe Di Pietro
The cover photo from the History in Color series features American bantamweight Joseph Di Pietro (1914-1999) competing at the 1948 Summer Olympics in London. At the time, Di Pietro was 34. At the size...