Lift Up, History In Color: Feedback Request
As some of the readers of Lift Up project might have noticed, for over a year, we’ve been running the History in Color Series at Chidlovski Blog Chidlovski. During this time we digitally enhanced...
Category: Photography
Oxen Mirzoyan (Armenia)
On the History in Color photo, Oxen Mirzoyan of Yerevan, Armenia performs his snatch lifting at the 1989 Frienship Cup in Tallinn, Estonia. Oxen Mirzoyan (b.1961) was an outstanding bantamweight lifter in the 1980s....
Olympic Press by Vasily Alexeev: Early Years
Legendary super heavyweight Vasily Alexeev was a late bloomer in the elite Olympic weightlifting. He won his first medal at the USSR national championship in 1968 in Lugansk, Ukraine. He was 26 at the...
Morning Promenade in Dubna, Russia
The original black-and-white photo for the History in Color cover came from the archives of the famous Soviet athlete and coach Arkady Vorobyev. The photo shows the Team CCCP Weightlifting on the early morning...
Arvid Andersson (Sweden)
Olof Arvid Andersson (1919-2011) happens to be the most successful Swedish Olympic weightlifter of the 20th century. Andersson was a two-time Olympian and represented Sweden at the Summer Olympics in London (1948) and in...
Olympic Champion Ota Zaremba (Czechoslovakia)
Ota Zaremba (b. 1957) is one of the most successful Czech weightlifters of all times. The were three Olympic weightlifting champions in the history of Czechoslovakia. Heavyweight Jaroslav Skobla won the title in Los...
Another World Record by Adam Gnatov
March 4, 1972, Ulm (Germany) – 28-year old flyweight Adam Gnatov of Lvov, Ukraine sets a new world record in the press lift. Adam Gnatov (b. 1944) was a powerful Soviet Olympic weightlifter in...
45 Years Later: Thinking of the 1972 Summit Series
45 years ago Paul Henderson scored The Goal in Canada vs. USSR Game 8 in Moscow, the last game of the 1972 Summit Series. It was a game winning goal. It was...
The Usual Suspects of York Barbell
The original caption for the black and white photo said: “In the 1950s, George F. Jowett held court with the early York barbell crew. Left to right: George Shandor, Steve Stanko, Dick Bachtell, George...
