Jingkai Chen (China)
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...
Tagged: Weightlifting
Poltoratsky
The Lift Up:History in Color series: Sergey Poltoratsky focuses on upcoming lift at the 1970 CCCP Championship in Vilnus, Lithuania. At the time, Poltoratsky was only 23. In Vilnus, he won the silver medal...
The Sots Press
The Sots press is one of the textbook strength development exercises. It was named after the Soviet Olympic weightlifter Victor Sots (on the cover photo). Sots was an extremely strong Soviet lifter of the...
Kaarlo Kangasniemi in Mexico City
The Lift Up:History in Color series: Legendary Finnish Olympic weightlifter Kaarlo Kangasniemi lifting in the snatch part of the 1968 Summer Olympics in the 90kg weight class in Mexico City. 27-year old Kangasniemi won...
Medvedev and Yenaldiev
The Lift Up:History in Color series: The head coach of Team CCCP Weightlifting Alexey Medvedev is discussing the training plan with the super heavyweight candidate to Team CCCP Aslanbek Yenaldiev. Medvedev was an ex-super...
Spartakiada 1979
The Lift Up:History in Color series: Super heavyweight Sultan Rakhmanov is getting ready to perform the snatch lift at the 1979 Spartakiada in Leningrad, Russia. He managed to lift 420kg in total (185+235) at...
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...
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...
