Joe Dube (USA) Turns 80!
February 15, 2024 – Great Olympic weightlifting champion, Joe Dube (USA) turns 80!!! Joe Dube is a true legend of American and world weightlifting. Competing for the United States, Joe became a World Champion...
Category: Sports History
Chuck Vinci: Olympic Bantamweight with a Look and Feel
History in Color: Charles “Chuck” Vinci (1933-2018), of Cleveland, Ohio, USA, was one of the greatest bantamweight athletes in the history of Olympc weightlifting. Vinci was the last U.S. weightlifter who won the Olympic...
Soviet Super Heavyweights, late 1970s: Vasily Alexeev and Aslanbek Yenaldiev
History in Color@LiftUp: Feodosia, Ukraine, USSR, Summer 1977 – Lead USSR super heavyweights Vasily Alexeev (right) and Aslanbek Yenaldiev are preparing for the 1977 World Championships in Stuttgart. Vasily Alexeev (1942-2011) remains one of...
Golden Era of U.S. Weightlifting: Joe Di Pietro and Peter George
History in Color@Lift Up: Philadelphia, PA, USA, July 1947 – Weightlifting legends Joe Di Pietro and Peter George are enjoying a moment of a “strength and health” celebration at the 1947 World Championships in...
Alexander Kolodlov: Unsung Hero of Weightlifing from Kazakhstan
Alexander Kolodkov is definitely an unsung hero of Olympic weightlifting. When the international federation scheduled a sunset of an Olympic press lift after the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, there were number of outstanding...
Joe Di Pietro: Exhibition Lifting in France (1949)
History in Color: September 13, 1949, Paris, France– Olympic champion, bantamweight Joe Di Pietro of the Bates Barbell Club, New Jersey performs a cj lift during an exhibition meet of the U.S. weightlifting team...
Anatoly Pisarenko Wins His 1st National Title and Sets 3 WRs (1982)
History in Color: May 23, 1982, Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine, USSR – 24-year old super heavyweight Anatoly Pisarenko of the Dynamo Club, Kiev is on his way to a new world record (258.5kg) while competing in...
Vlasov Sets His First World Records (1959)
History in Color@LiftUp: April 22, 1959, Leningrad, Russia, USSR – 23-year old heavyweight Yury Vlasov sets his first career set of World records competing in the 90+kg weight class at the 1959 Soviet Army...
Grand Finale at the Messuhalli
History in Color: July 27, 1952, Helsinki, Finland – Heavyweight contenders receive their medals in the 90+kg weight class in the last day of the weightlifting tournament at the 1952 Summer Olympics at the...
Starke Arvid
History in Color@LiftUp: Nicknamed “Starke Arvid”, Olof Arvid Andersson (1919-2011) was a two-time Olympian and represented Sweden at the Summer Olympics in London (1948) and in Helsinki (1952). Anderson was the most successful Swedish...
