Soviet Finest in Montreal (1976)
Valery Shary and David Rigert are ready to start their training session prior to the 1976 Olympics in Montreal. Shary and Rigert shared many things in common. Both were the finest and perhaps most...
Valery Shary and David Rigert are ready to start their training session prior to the 1976 Olympics in Montreal. Shary and Rigert shared many things in common. Both were the finest and perhaps most...
It ain’t an Easter Bunny… This is a World champion Gennady Ivanchenko is training in Riga, Latvia in the 1970s. Explosive jumping is essential for Olympic weightlifting. The Lift Up:History in Color series continues…
Yurik Vardanyan is getting ready for a clean-an-jerk lift in the Yubileyny Palace in Leningrad. This is an enhanced photo from the Lift Up: History in Color series and it brings us to the...
The Lift Up: History in Color series: Mukharby Kirzhinov is competing in the 67.5 kg weight class at the 1973 national championship in Donetsk. Kirzhinov was an Olympic champion of 1972, World champion (1972,...
Just a happy message with a happy chickadee fella on the photo. Don’t worry. Be happy. Good night!
Jingkai Chen was an amazing athlete with an extremely powerful clean and jerk for the time. In 1956, he authored the first world record ever to be set by a Chinese athlete – clean...
Do you celebrate the March 8th day? It is considered an international women’s day in many countries. Not in U.S., though. Here it is just a day in the calendar. This year is the...
The Lift Up:History in Color series: Sergey Poltoratsky focuses on upcoming lift at the 1970 CCCP Championship in Vilnus, Lithuania. At the time, Poltoratsky was only 23. In Vilnus, he won the silver medal...
The Sots press is one of the textbook strength development exercises. It was named after the Soviet Olympic weightlifter Victor Sots (on the cover photo). Sots was an extremely strong Soviet lifter of the...
Sparrow or not? This guy looks like a White-throated Sparrow. See the small yellow spot between the eyes and a white throat patch and a white stripes alternating with clack ones on the crown?...