Medvedev and Yenaldiev
The Lift Up:History in Color series: The head coach of Team CCCP Weightlifting Alexey Medvedev is discussing the training plan with the super heavyweight candidate to Team CCCP Aslanbek Yenaldiev. Medvedev was an ex-super...
The Lift Up:History in Color series: The head coach of Team CCCP Weightlifting Alexey Medvedev is discussing the training plan with the super heavyweight candidate to Team CCCP Aslanbek Yenaldiev. Medvedev was an ex-super...
The Lift Up:History in Color series: Super heavyweight Sultan Rakhmanov is getting ready to perform the snatch lift at the 1979 Spartakiada in Leningrad, Russia. He managed to lift 420kg in total (185+235) at...
Rudolf Plyukfelder in the Lift Up: History In Color series. Plyukfelder (b. 1928) was a milestone figure in the history of the Soviet and international weightlifting. He proved his legendary status as both active Olympic...
The cover photo from the Lift Up: History in Color series features early Gyozo Veres (1936-2011) setting up a new press world record in Budapest in May 1962. He pressed 155kg in the light...
As a continuation of our Lift Up: History In Color series, here is a re-mastered photo from the 1970s featuring legendary Vasily Alexeev lifting weights in the… Don river. The b/w original was published...
The Lift Up: History in Color series continues with the enhanced photo of El Sayed Nosseir of Egypt lifting at the Festival of World Press at the Berlin Sports Palace in Berlin 1935. El Sayed Nosseir...
Gennady Ivanchenko is performing high pulls during his training session in the old Dynamo gym in Riga Latvia in the 1970s. This is an enhanced photo from the Ivanchenko’s personal archive featured in our...
Vasily Denisov (1955-1996) of Perm, Russia was one of the strongest Soviet middleweight athletes of the end of the 1970s and beginning of the 1980s. He won the 1980 USSR championship in the 75kg...
Fans of Iron Game often refer to record breaking leg strength of Olympic weightlifter Vladimir Marchuk and quote that he was able to squat 435KG three times! For those who are challenged by kilograms...
The greatest Olympic weightlifter from Estonia, Jaan Talts is getting ready to lift at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico city. He competed in the middle heavyweight class (90kg) and won the silver medal...