Plyukfelder
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...
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World Record In 1962
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...
Are You Ready For A Beach Weightlifting?
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...
Nosseir
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...
Good Old Olympic Weightlifting High Pulls
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...
In the Middleweight
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...
Heavy Squats by Marchuk (1980s)
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...
Pride of Estonia
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...
Russ Prior (Canada, 1949-2017)
Russel Prior of Team Canada Weightlifting died in Winnipeg, Manitoba. He was 67. Russ Prior competed in the heavyweight class (110kg) and won gold medals at the Commonwealth Games in 1970,1974, and 1978 and...
These Are Difficult Times
No one can deny that these are difficult times… It’s the U.S. versus U.S.S.R. Yet we more or less are — No one can deny that these are difficult times… Tim Rice, Chess (1986)...
