Zygmunt Smalcerz
History in color: One of all-time best bantamweights in the world, Zygmunt Smalcerz is training with the national Team Poland in the late 1960s.
History in color: One of all-time best bantamweights in the world, Zygmunt Smalcerz is training with the national Team Poland in the late 1960s.
History in Color: One of all-time best Olympic weightlifters, Blagoy Blagoev competes for Bulgaria at the 1983 World Championship in Moscow. In 1983, Blagoev won the World title in the 90kg weight class with...
Here is a collector’s edition for the fans of Olympic weightlifting. This is the first batch of the posters I designed to commemorate the 100th Anniversary of the first CCCP championship held in March 1918....
History in Color: March 5, 1972 – Soviet heavyweight star Pavel Pervushin of Leningrad snatches 171kg and sets the new world record in Ulm, Germany. Original b/w photo courtesy of Rolf Eberhard (Switzerland)
History in Color: Team CCCP weightlifting in the training camp in Feodosia in 1978. Top row (l to r): G. Baldin, R. Naniev, A. Saydullaev, V. Kuznichenko, Yu. Vardanyan, D. Rigert, V. Shary, I....
History in Color: Anatoly Mayasin of Latvia competes in the 75kg weight class at the 1971 USSR Spartakiada in Moscow. In 1971, Mayasin was 40 and the 1971 USSR Spartakiada was the last tournament...
History in Color: Olympic weightlifting legend, Norbert Ozimek of Poland performs a 220kg back squat in training. His coach Augustyn Dziedzic is spotting behind.
History in Color: One of the greatest weightlifters of Poland, Marian Zielinski is training in the national team camp. Marian Zielinski (1929-2005) was one of the best in the world in the 1960s. He...
Another poster by Lift Up celebrating the upcoming 100th Anniversary. This time it features Ivan Udodov, the first Soviet Olympic champion in weightlifting (1952). Ivan Udodov previosly at Chidlovski Blog Chidlovski:
The actual celebration should take place next year but here goes the Lift Up poster for the 100th Anniversary of the 1sy Soviet Weightlifting Championship. It was held from March 14, 1918 to March...