MILO Journal: Weight Training and Fitness - Strength stars of the past - their stories

MILO Articles by Topic: History

 

Vic Boff 1.3
Joe Ponder 1.4
Siegmund Breibart 2.3
John Gallagher 2.4
Richard and William Joy 3.1
Arthur Saxon 4.2
Thomas Topham 6.2
Joseph Soukup 6.4
Fridolin Hoyer 7.1
David Webster 7.2
Bill Clark 7.3
Milos Snajdr 7.4
Wladislaw Pytlasinki 8.2
Peter Krylov 8.3
Stanislaus Zbyszko 8.3
William Moor 8.4
Marquis Luigi Monticelli Obizzi 8.4
Edward Aston 8.4
Ron Walker - Part I 9.2
Sergey Eliseyev 9.2, 18.4
Ron Walker - Part II 9.3
Superstar Billy Graham 9.3
Georg Lurich 9.4
Wilhelm Turk 10.1
Bruno Sammartino 10.1
William Bankier 10.2
      (Apollo, the Scottish Hercules)  
Giovanni Raicevich 10.4
Yakuba Tchekhovskoi 11.1
Alexandre Maspoli 11.1
Josef Steinbach 11.2
Josef Grafl 11.3
Grigori Novak 11.4
Karl Swoboda 11.4
Abbye "Pudgy" Stockton 12.1
Gustav Fristensky 12.1
Launceston Elliot 12.1
Milo, Romulus, and Remus 12.2
Dr. Wladyslaw Krajewski 12.2
Grigori Kashcheyev 12.3
W. A. Pullum 12.3
Carl Abs 12.3
Enrico Scuri 12.4
Nikader Vakhturov 12.4
Ivan Shemiyakin 13.1
Heinrich Rondi 13.2
Ivan Zaikin 13.2
I. M. Poddubny 13.3
Heinrich Schneidereit 13.3
Hermann Gassler 13.4
Jan Krause 13.4
Alexander Aberg 14.1
Louis Vasseur 14.1
Jim Pedley 14.2
Russian pioneers (Pytlasinski, Boesberg, 14.3
Tchaplinsky, Lebedev, Morro-Dmitriev)  
Kathe Brumbach 14.4
Peter Jankowski 14.4
Russian strongmen 15.1
Theodor Siebert 15.1
Ivan V. Lebedev 15.2
Hans Köck 15.2
Philip de Haas 15.3
Strong men of the circus 15.3
Circus wrestling giants 15.4
Edmond Desbonnet 15.4

   

Arvid Andersson 16.1
Women circus wrestling stars 16.1
Andreas Lutz / Hans Abraham 16.2
Viktor Solovyev 16.3
Bert Assirati 16.3
Max Dauthage 16.3
Charles Atlas 16.3
Paul Trappen 16.4
V. G. Kostenetsky 17.1
Ludwig Lutz 17.1
Tullio Camillotti 17.2
Jack King 17.2
Count G. I. Ribeaupierre 17.3
Andreas Maier 17.3
Alois Selos 17.4
Georg Lurich 18.1
Linda Belling 18.1
Harold Wood 18.2
Miro Gamba 18.2
Rick Meldon 18.3
Early Austrian strongmen (Jagendorfer,             18.3
  Rippel, Bader, and Walz)  
Hofböck, Eibel, Swoboda 18.4
Pytlasinski, Poddubny, Krylov 19.2
Emil Kliment 19.4
Bosberg, Meyer, Moor-Znamensky 19.4
Jean Francois Le Breton 20.1
Georg Lurich 20.2
Francois Lancoud 20.2
John Grun 20.3
Spull, Bull, Chufistov 20.4
Ludwig Grammer, Rudolf Klar 20.4
Alexander Bukharov, Jan Sparre 21.1
The Four Athletas 21.1
Emile Boudgoust 21.2
Ivan Lobanov, Nikolai Zherebtsov 21.2
Georg Hackenschmidt
21.3
Witzelsberger, Tandler
21.3
Gabetti, Galimberti, Tonani 21.4
Georg Hackenschmidt 21.4
Charles Rigoulot 22.1
Louis Hostin 22.2
Ludwig Chaplinskiy 22.4
Edmond Decottignies 22.4
Estonian heros: Neuland, et al 22.4
Anthony Terlazzo 23.2
Horseshoe, Chesmenskiy, Koren 23.4
Franz Zinner, Rudolf Ismayr 23.4
Josef Manger 24.1
David Shaw 24.2
Shatov, Popov, Mekhanic 24.3
Zakhar Yalov, Vassily Shulgin 24.4
Kosta Maisuradze 25.1
Luka P. Kopyev 25.2

 

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