Bob Bednarski: The 8th Wonder of the World
Robert “Bob” Bednarski of Team USA was one of the most exciting and fun to watch Olympic weightlifters in the 1960s. He won the World Championship in 1969 and was the silver medalist in...
Robert “Bob” Bednarski of Team USA was one of the most exciting and fun to watch Olympic weightlifters in the 1960s. He won the World Championship in 1969 and was the silver medalist in...
The original photo was taken during the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome Italy. Those were the tallest and the shortest members of the Olympic Team CCCP – Janis Krumins (218 cm, basketball, silver medal)...
The Lift Up: History in Color series features a photo of Suren Bogdasarov and Yury Vlasov discussing training plans back in the 1960s. Bogdasarov (1920-2009) was a prominent lifter of the 1940s and one...
The Lift Up: History in Color series continues… This time enhanced photo features the Read Army members of Team CCCP Weightlifting training for the 1956 Olympics in Melbourne. Trofim Lomaking is working on his...
The Lift Up: History in Color series continues with the cover photo featuring 1948 Team USA Weightlifting in front of the ship with the all other U.S. Olympians. They are about to depart overseas...
Naim Suleymanogly used to be called by the World media as the “Pocket Hercules“. Adam Gnatov of Lvov, Ukraine was 20+ years older than Naim and competed in a lighter weight class. If I...
Vladimir Ryzhenkov wins a bronze medal in the light heavyweight class (82.5kg) at the 1972 USSR Championship in Tallinn. The Lift Up project expands its coverage of national and international tournament from Top 3...
Valery Shary and David Rigert are ready to start their training session prior to the 1976 Olympics in Montreal. Shary and Rigert shared many things in common. Both were the finest and perhaps most...
The Lift Up: History in Color series: Mukharby Kirzhinov is competing in the 67.5 kg weight class at the 1973 national championship in Donetsk. Kirzhinov was an Olympic champion of 1972, World champion (1972,...
Jingkai Chen was an amazing athlete with an extremely powerful clean and jerk for the time. In 1956, he authored the first world record ever to be set by a Chinese athlete – clean...