Two Cents Into Olympic Weightlifting
Here it goes – my 2 cents to the history of Olympic weightlifting 🙂 Heads or tails?.. You flip it! Best wishes to all!
Monthly Archive: December 2017
Ireneusz Palinski
Ireneusz Palinski (1932-2006) was one of the best middle heavyweights in the history of Polish and world weightlifting of the 20th century. He was the first Olympic weightlifter of Poland to win the Olympic...
Holiday Season Quiz For the Fans of Olympic Weightlifting
The year 2017 is almost over. We at the Lift Up project hope it was a good year for you and yours. And we definitely hope that the Year 2018 will be wonderful and...
Trying To Press 170 kg In Munich
September 2, 1972, Munich, Germany – Light heavyweight Valery Shary of Minsk, Belorussia is performing one of his three official attempts to press 170kg at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich. Valery Shary competed...
Felix Naniev
November 28, 1971 – 21-year old Felix Naniev of the Northern Ossetia sets a new world record in the clean-and-jerk lift at the 1971 USSR Championship (youth) in Cherepovets, Russia. Felix Naniev cleaned-and-jerked 194kg...
Special Thinking About Someone Very Special
Our latest selfie photo session lasted about 3 hours! Who has patience for a 3-hour long selfie? The answer is simple – WE DO! She had to go back to the hospital with a...
Gewichtheben Means Weightlifting In German
History in Color: David Rigert, his coach Rudolph Plukfelder, both of Team CCCP, and Rolf Milser of West Germany are smiling for the group shot after the end of the 90kg competition at the...
World Record By Dzhamal Panakhov
Dzhamal Panakhov in the History in Color A few days ago, we received a nice message sent to us by one of the best Soviet sub heavyweights (100kg weight class) Dzhamal Panakhov:...
The Last Tournament of Yury Vlasov
History in Color: Moscow, USSR, April 15, 1967 – Yury Vlasov presses 199kg (world record) at the 9th Summer Spartakiade of Moscow. This was the last world record set by the legendary super heavyweight...
Karimov
History in Color: Soviet featherweight Erkin Karimov competes at the 1968 USSR Cup in Alma Ata, Kazakhstan. Erkin Karimov (b. 1942) was one of the athletes that belonged to the so called “unsung heroes”...
