Russ Prior (Canada, 1949-2017)
Russel Prior of Team Canada Weightlifting died in Winnipeg, Manitoba. He was 67. Russ Prior competed in the heavyweight class (110kg) and won gold medals at the Commonwealth Games in 1970,1974, and 1978 and...
Russel Prior of Team Canada Weightlifting died in Winnipeg, Manitoba. He was 67. Russ Prior competed in the heavyweight class (110kg) and won gold medals at the Commonwealth Games in 1970,1974, and 1978 and...
No one can deny that these are difficult times… It’s the U.S. versus U.S.S.R. Yet we more or less are — No one can deny that these are difficult times… Tim Rice, Chess (1986)...
History in Color: The enhanced cover photo from the Lift Up: History in Color series features Rafael Chimishkyan and his coach Pavel Gumashyan in their training gym in Tbilisi, Georgia in 1956. At the...
David A. Rigert is ready for the lift. Does anyone have an idea what kind of exercise is it going ti be? Obviously the black and white version of this photo has been around...
Valery Yakubovsky was a world class athlete in the 110kg weight class. The competition for the place in the national team in his weight class was tough. The list of the usual suspects was...
The Lift Up: History in Color series continues with this enhanced cover photo of Team Egypt: Left to right: El Sayed Mohaned Nosseir, El Touni, Ibrahim Hassan Shams, Mahmoud Fayed, Kamal Mahgoub The original...
On the enhanced in color photo, Arkady Vorobyev is lifting at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki. Legendary Olympic weightlifter, scientist, coach and educator, Arkady Vorobyev (1924-2012) belongs to the generation of the Soviet...
Sultan Rakmanov (1950-2003) won the Olympics in the super heavyweight competition in 1980 in Moscow when his legendary teammate Vasily Alexeev was eliminated after he failed three times to snatch 180 kg. Rakhmanov made...
Just a quick reminder… Balderisomania Never Stops @ Chidlovski Blog Chidlovski With latest amount of posts about the history of Olympic weightlifting and the latest new development of the Lift Up project, we had...
The debut of the weightlifting Team CCCP at the 1946 World Championship in Paris in Paris was successful. However, with the exception of the world class level of Grigory Novak, the rest of the team...