New WR: 217 Kilos Snatch
At the 2017 European championship in Split, Croatia, Lasha Talakhadze, super heavyweight from Georgia, just set up a new world record in the snatch lift (217kg!!!!) Looks too easy and effortless for a world...
At the 2017 European championship in Split, Croatia, Lasha Talakhadze, super heavyweight from Georgia, just set up a new world record in the snatch lift (217kg!!!!) Looks too easy and effortless for a world...
Valery Shary of Minsk, Belarus just finished his attempt at the 1975 World Championship in Moscow. This was the first World title won by Shary. He finished first with the 357.5kg total (162.5+195). There...
The History in Color photo features Karlis Pumpurins of Riga, Latvia competing at the 1971 USSR Championships in Moscow, Russia. Karlis Pumpurins (b. 1941) was one of the graduates of Michael Freifeld’s weightlifting club...
The cover photo of our History in Color series presents Yurik Sarkisyan (1922-2004) and the graduates if his training school in Krasnodar Russia: Left to Right: Sergey Arakelov, Yurik Sarkisyan, Vladimir Kuznetsov, Mukharby Kirzhinov...
The photo from the History in Color features legendary David Rigert training with the Team CCCP Weightlifting in the late 1970s. More… Save Save
History in Color: Vladimir Anikin (1946-2010) was one of the strongest Soviet bantamweight lifters of the 1970s. He was a vice champion of Europe (1974), USSR champion (1974), USSR Cup winner (1971, 1972), USSR...
Olympic champion Sultan Rakhmanov and his coach Eduard Brovko of Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine are being featured in this issue of the Lift Up: History in Color series. Both were outstanding lifters. Eduard Brovko (1936-1998) competed...
History in Color: Louis Martin (1936-2015) is perhaps the best British athlete in the history of Olympic weightlifting. He won 4 World championships (1959, 1962, 1963, 1965), 4 European championships (1959, 1962, 1963, 1965), 3 Commonwealth...
New book by Susie Stone gets a good review from celebrities. Arnold has send us a message that he might be interested in playing a part of the movie. Of course, requests to change...
The History in Color series continues with a historical photo depicting Yury Vlasov breaking world record in the press lift in 1962 in Moscow. It was the first press world record set by Vlasov....