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The History in Color cover photo depicts legendary Belgian super heavyweight Serge Reding competing at the international tournaments in Moscow, USSR. Serge Reding needs no special introduction for anyone who followed the history of...
May 13, 1980, Moscow – Alexander Senshin of Voroshilovgrad, Ukraine clean-and-jerks 142.5 kg at the 1980 USSR Championship held at the Izmaylovo Arena in Moscow. It’s a new world record in the 52kg weight...
In memory of legendary athletes that we lost in 2017… In Memoriam 2017 Naim SULEYMANOGLU, Turkey 1967 – 2017 Marek GOLAB, Poland 1940 – 2017 Velichko CHOLAKOV, Bulgaria 1982 – 2017 Falahati Mohammad NEJAD, Iran 1976 –...
Here it goes – my 2 cents to the history of Olympic weightlifting 🙂 Heads or tails?.. You flip it! Best wishes to all!
Ireneusz Palinski (1932-2006) was one of the best middle heavyweights in the history of Polish and world weightlifting of the 20th century. He was the first Olympic weightlifter of Poland to win the Olympic...
The year 2017 is almost over. We at the Lift Up project hope it was a good year for you and yours. And we definitely hope that the Year 2018 will be wonderful and...
September 2, 1972, Munich, Germany – Light heavyweight Valery Shary of Minsk, Belorussia is performing one of his three official attempts to press 170kg at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich. Valery Shary competed...
November 28, 1971 – 21-year old Felix Naniev of the Northern Ossetia sets a new world record in the clean-and-jerk lift at the 1971 USSR Championship (youth) in Cherepovets, Russia. Felix Naniev cleaned-and-jerked 194kg...
History in Color: David Rigert, his coach Rudolph Plukfelder, both of Team CCCP, and Rolf Milser of West Germany are smiling for the group shot after the end of the 90kg competition at the...
Dzhamal Panakhov in the History in Color A few days ago, we received a nice message sent to us by one of the best Soviet sub heavyweights (100kg weight class) Dzhamal Panakhov:...
Mladen Kuchev Sets a New Bulgarian Record
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Springtime in Florida: Got water?
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Norbert Schemansky Marathon. The Legend Turns 91.
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