Happy Training Camp in 1981
Another group shot of Team CCCP weightlifting is showing the national team in the training camp in Crimea in 1981. This time, the photo session occasion was the visit of legendary dancer and artist...
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7,232 Miles Away From Mexico City
Team CCCP Weightlifting is having a good time at the Volga River. It’s 1968 and they are 7,232 miles away from Mexico City where is a few weeks they will compete at the 1968...
Split Style Classics in 1954
Very few athletes nowadays perform the snatch lifts using split style. Split Style Techniques Here is a digitally enhanced photo of Norbert Schemansky (USA) doing split style snatch. The original photo session took place...
Podolsk, August 1963
While preparing for the 1964 Summer Olympic in Tokyo, Team CCCP weightlifting gathered in August 1963 in Poldolsk training camp. Most athletes on the photo just finished competing at the 3rd Soviet Spartakiade and...
Antwerp 1937
This is another enhanced photograph for the Lift Up project featuring Team CCCP at the 1937 World Workers Olympiad in Antwerp, Belgium. Mid 1930s was the time when the pioneers of Olympic weightlifting in...
Two Generations of Heavyweights
Basically, no comments seem to be necessary here. Norbert Schemansky, one of the greatest lifters ever, is watching the lifting by Ken Patera at the U.S. Olympic Trials for the 1972 Summer Olympics in...
First Time in Paris
Paris, France in 1946. It was the first world championship for Team USSR ever. On the restored photo, the Soviet athletes are taking part in the closing ceremony of the tournament: Left to Right:...
Before Montreal 1976
Here is more of digital enhancement of group photos of national Team CCCP from the glorious days of the Soviet Olympic weightlifting. This time the original photo was taken during the preparation for the...
Parade of Champions in 1962
History in Color : This is another digitally enhanced photo of the parade of weightlifting champions of the 37th CCCP championship that was held in Tbilisi in May 1962. The standing ovation of the...
Pioneers of Soviet Weightlifting
This is a digitally enhanced version of weightlifting Team CCCP in Kharkov in 1947. Top row (left to right): Roman Moroz, Vladimir Pushkarev (Moscow, 1921-1994), George Popov (Kiev, 1912-1984), Nikolay Laputin (Kiev, 1913-1986), Nikolay...
