World Record by Victor Korzh (1956)
History in Color: April 11, 1956, Moscow, Russia, USSR – 22-year featherweight Victor Korzh of Rostov, Russia sets a new world record in press (113.5kg) in the 60kg weight class at the international tournament...
Category: Sports History
Rudolf Plukfelder Sets 2 National Records (1964)
History in Color: March 21, 1964, Moscow, Russia, USSR – 35-year old light heavyweight Rudolf Plukfelder of the Trud club (Shakhty) lifts 175kg in the clean-and-jerk program and wins the 1st place in the...
Fiction and Nonfiction: Ivan Danko and Alexander Bozhko
Art Ritzik (Jim Belushi): Where’d you learn to speak English so well? Ivan Danko (Arnold Schwarzenegger): Army. Compulsory training. Language school in Kiev. Art Ritzik: Oh, yeah. That’s like as in Chicken Kiev. Yeah,...
Weightlifting Classics: Waldemar Baszanowski (Poland)
History in Color: June 23, 1970, Szombathely, Hungary – Legendary lightweight champion, 35-year old Waldemar Baszanowski of Poland performs a split style clean in the 67.5kg weight class at the 1970 European Championships in...
Rafael Chimishkyan at Chalkathon by LiftUp
In the hospitals, doctors always wash their hands before surgeries. In Olympic weightlifting, athletes always chalk their hands before lifting weights at the competitions. Presenting more episodes of our retro “weightlifting chalkathon” series within...
Gennady Ivanchenko at Chalkathon by LiftUp
In the hospitals, doctors always wash their hands before surgeries. In Olympic weightlifting, athletes always chalk their hands before lifting weights at the competitions. Presenting more episodes of our retro “weightlifting chalkathon” series within...
Michel Broillet at Weightlifting Chalkathon by LiftUp
In the hospitals, doctors always wash their hands before surgeries. In Olympic weightlifting, athletes always chalk their hands before lifting weights at the competitions. Here goes another episode of our retro “weightlifting chalkathon” series...
Weightlifting Chalkathon at LiftUp: Valery Shary (1975)
In the hospitals, doctors always wash their hands before surgeries. In Olympic weightlifting, athletes always chalk their hands before lifting weights at the competitions. Here goes our retro “weightlifting chalkathon” within History in Color...
The Strongest Basketball Player in the 1970s
History in Color@LiftUp: The cover photo of this issue features the strongest man on the planet in the 1970s playing basketball What team did he compete for? Boston Cetics LA Lakers Quebec Nordiques Real...
Alexander Pervy: Milestone World Record at the Olympics in 1980
History in Color: July 24, 1980, Moscow, Russia, USSR – Alexander Pervy of Donetsk, Ukraine sets up an Olympic and world record in a clean-and-jerk program (200kg) in the 75kg weight class at the...
