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This is a rising Soviet light heavyweight (82.5kg) star Rudolph Plyukfelder competing at his first World championship in Warsaw in 1959. Plyukfelder totaled 457.5kg (145+140+172.5) and won the World title. More History in Color Series...
Olympic champion (1976), Valery Shary performs a snatch lift at the 1973 national championship in Donetsk. It was a difficult period in his career. He just bombed out at the 1972 Summer Olympics and...
The cover photo from the History in Color series features American bantamweight Joseph Di Pietro (1914-1999) competing at the 1948 Summer Olympics in London. At the time, Di Pietro was 34. At the size...
The Lift Up: History in Color showcases the photo of Team Hungary Weightlifting of the 1960s. That was one of the best teams in the history of the 20th century and, no doubts, the...
Dave Sheppard of Team USA is one my favorite Olympic weightlifters of that era. People like Sheppard are usually being called “classy guys” with a loud “Wow” with it. Unfortunately, I didn’t get a...
History in Color @LiftUp One of the strongest middleweight lifters of the 1960s, Alexander Kurynov performs clean-and-jerk lift in training. Kurynov won the Olympic gold medal when he managed to win over the legendary...
Legendary Olympic weightlifting coach and athlete Ivan Abadzhiev of Bulgaria has passed way. He died after a complication of open heart surgery. He was 85. Ivan Abadzhiev needs no special introduction in the world...
The Lift Up project features Alexander Kidyaev of Avangard Lugansk performing the snatch lift at the 1968 USSR championship in Lugansk. By the end of the day, he finished second after Jaan Talts in...
Bruins lost the last four games… Ouch! Time to watch Mr. Helmut Balderis again! Save Save
Petr Korol (1941-2015) of Lvov, Ukraine performs clean and jerk lift at the 1973 USSR National Championship in Donetsk. He won the silver medal with 317.5kg total (135+182.5) in the 75kg weight category. Three...
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