Almost Daily
History in Color: September 13, 1949, Paris, France– Olympic champion, bantamweight Joe Di Pietro of the Bates Barbell Club, New Jersey performs a cj lift during an exhibition meet of the U.S. weightlifting team...
History in Color: May 23, 1982, Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine, USSR – 24-year old super heavyweight Anatoly Pisarenko of the Dynamo Club, Kiev is on his way to a new world record (258.5kg) while competing in...
History in Color@LiftUp: April 22, 1959, Leningrad, Russia, USSR – 23-year old heavyweight Yury Vlasov sets his first career set of World records competing in the 90+kg weight class at the 1959 Soviet Army...
History in Color: July 27, 1952, Helsinki, Finland – Heavyweight contenders receive their medals in the 90+kg weight class in the last day of the weightlifting tournament at the 1952 Summer Olympics at the...
History in Color@LiftUp: Nicknamed “Starke Arvid”, Olof Arvid Andersson (1919-2011) was a two-time Olympian and represented Sweden at the Summer Olympics in London (1948) and in Helsinki (1952). Anderson was the most successful Swedish...
Remembering Olympic weightlifting legends, athletes, coaches, administrators and many more, that we lost in 2023.
Paul Anderson: Circus Act in Leningrad (1955)
September 8, 2024
John Grimek at York Barbell Club
May 25, 2024
World Record by Vartan Militosyan (Armenia, USSR)
May 19, 2024
May 2, 2015
Norbert Schemansky Marathon. The Legend Turns 91.
May 12, 2015
September 28, 2015
May 1, 2016
May 1, 2017
