Dave Sheppard in Moscow (1955)
History in Color June 1955, Moscow, Russia – Legendary U.S. middle heavyweight Dave Sheppard of NYC, New York is performing a clean-and-jerk lift at the open training session in Moscow during the historical visit...
History in Color June 1955, Moscow, Russia – Legendary U.S. middle heavyweight Dave Sheppard of NYC, New York is performing a clean-and-jerk lift at the open training session in Moscow during the historical visit...
The History in Color cover photo features legendary Team USA Weightlifting visiting Moscow during the historic USA vs. USSR weightlifting match in June 1955 (left to right): Stan Stanczyk (82.5kg), Clarence Johnson, Joe Pitman...
History in Color: 2x Olympic champions – Vasily Alexeev (left) of Shakhty, Russia, USSR and Leonid Zhabotinsky of Zaporozhye, Ukraine, USSR. Leonid Zhabotinsky (1938-2016) won the Summer Olympics in Tokyo (1964) and Mexico City...
January 7, 2019 – Legendary Vasily Alexeev (1942-2011) would have been 77 today. Happy Birthday to the Legend! History in Color: July 24, 1971, Moscow, Russia – 29-year old Soviet super heavyweight Vasily Alexeev...
History in Color: September 17, 1962, Budapest, Hungary – 25-year rookie of Team CCCP, featherweight Eugene Katsura of Kazan, Russia wins a silver medal with a 110+107.5+140 = 357.5kg total in the 60kg class...
The History in Color series features a photo of legendary Soviet bantamweight Mitrofan Kosarev competing outdoors in Russia. Mitrofan Kosarev (1911-2005) was the best Soviet bantamweight in the 1930s and 1940s. Nobody could beat...
History in Color: November 23, 1956, Melbourne, Australia – Best bantamweight athletes in the world gathered behind the stage during the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne (left to right): Vladimir Stogov (USSR), Chuck Vinci...
Happy 70th Birthday to Mukharby Kirzhinov! Kirzhinov was an Olympic champion of 1972, World champion (1972, 1973), European champion (1973, 1974), USSR champion (1971, 1973-1975), champion of Spartakiada in 1971 and 1975. He set...
History in Color: Olympic weightlifting obviously doesn’t have anything to do with the snow. Right? No so fast… On the cover photo, Olympic champion of Helsinki (1952), legendary featherweight Rafael Chimishkyan is performing some...
History in Color: July 24, 1971, Moscow, Russia – The team winners of the 1971 USSR Spartakiade and USSR Championships in Moscow are: Russia (represented by Vasily Alexeev) Ukraine (represented by Stanislav Batishchev) Moscow...