Hot in Lima in 1971
History in Color: It was hot in Lima in 1971. Vasily Alexeev wore a hat while warming up in the outside training before the 1971 World Championship. In the back, the head coach of...
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Bulgarian Training and Bulgarian Championships
Bulgarian training methodology was a truly revolutionary look at the training and competition process in Olympic weightlifting. It was masterminded by Ivan Abadzhiev, the head coach of Team Bulgaria for 20 years (1969-1989). Sometimes...
Atanas Kirov (1946-2017)
Atanas Kirov of Bulgaria died in Burgas on January 27, 2017. He was 70. Atanas Kirov was an outstanding Olympic weightlifter. He was the first Bulgarian weightlifter who won the European Championship for his...
Team USA In York, PA (1952)
This enhanced team photo portrays the U.S. Olympic weightlifters in York, PA before they went to represent the country at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki (left to right): John Davis (90kg+, gold medal),...
Weightlifting Poster Athlete
Gennady Ivanchenko is getting ready for lifting at the 1970 World Championship in Columbus, OH. Ivanchenko was in his prime. He won the World title in Columbus and literally stole the show. Many North...
Training Hard In 1946
This photo came from the personal archives of George Popov. We have enhanced it for the Lift Up project about the history of Olympic weightlifting. The photo shows how Team CCCP candidates are training...
Snatch Lift by Vasily Alexeev
Legendary Olympic weightlifter Vasily Alexeev was obviously the “King of the Clean and-Jerk Lift”. Nobody really knew how much he could have cj’d in his times. I suspect it was more than his 256kg...
Medvedev
As an athlete, Medvedev was a member of the national Soviet team for 16 years. Medvedev didn’t have impressive promising talent for the weightlifting. It was his work ethics and ability to focus on...
Isaac Berger
Isaac Berger (b. 1936) was one of the strongest featherweight lifters in the 1950’s and 1960’s. His accomplishments exceed those of any other past or present. During the late 1950’s, no lifter in this...
Rusev
Yanko Rusev (b.1958) was a graduate of the Bulgarian weightlifting school that challenged the Soviet team to dominate Olympic weightlifting in the 1970’s and the 1980’s. Overall, while most of the time the Soviets...
