Olympic Press by Alexander Kidyaev
History in Color: A. Kidyaev The History in Color cover photo showcases Alexander Kidyaev of Lugansk performing the press lift at the 1967 USSR Spartakiad. Alexander Kidyaev (b. 1942) was a vice World champion...
History in Color: A. Kidyaev The History in Color cover photo showcases Alexander Kidyaev of Lugansk performing the press lift at the 1967 USSR Spartakiad. Alexander Kidyaev (b. 1942) was a vice World champion...
People should be beautiful in every way – in their faces, in the way they dress, in their thoughts, and in their innermost selves. Anton Chekhov, Russian playwright One of the greatest playwrights in...
History in Color: USA vs. USSR (1958) Team CCCP Weightlifting arrived to the United States in May 1958. The original black-and-white photo might have looked a bit comic. The authors even called them...
On the History in Color photo, legendary U.S. weightlifters are training in the good old York Barbell gym in York, PA. I know it might sound too pathetic – too many “legendaries” here. It’s...
History in Color: October 19, 1966, Berlin – Soviet light heavyweight Vladimir Belyaev of Kiev, Ukraine jerks 190kg in the 3rd attempt, sets a world record in total (485kg) and wins the 1966 World...
On the History in Color photo, Soviet super heavyweight Stanislav Batishchev is going for his 3rd attempt in the snatch lift (170kg). Stanislav Batishchev (1940-2011) of Donetsk, Ukraine was a very strong athlete with...
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...
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....
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...
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...