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...
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...
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...
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:...
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...
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...
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...
Here is a digitally enhanced photo national weightlifting Team CCCP at the training camp in Feodosia. Top row (left to right): David Rigert (Shakhty, 90kg), Rudolf Plyukfelder (Shakhty, coach), Pavel Pervushin (Leningrad, 110kg), N/A,...
They are ready to go to the Worlds in Stockholm Here is an interesting photo from the good old Strength and Health magazine published by Bob Hoffman. This is Team USA 1958 posing for...
The Lift Up project continues its historical research of the past of Olympic weightlifting. There is plenty of work ahead on restoring the statistics and visual artifacts from the history of this sport in...
My coach competed in Olympic weightlifting back in the 1950s. The world of Olympic weightlifting was much smaller in those times and everybody knew each other pretty well. It was my coach who was...