Podolsk, August 1963
While preparing for the 1964 Summer Olympic in Tokyo, Team CCCP weightlifting gathered in August 1963 in Poldolsk training camp. Most athletes on the photo just finished competing at the 3rd Soviet Spartakiade and...
While preparing for the 1964 Summer Olympic in Tokyo, Team CCCP weightlifting gathered in August 1963 in Poldolsk training camp. Most athletes on the photo just finished competing at the 3rd Soviet Spartakiade and...
This is another enhanced photograph for the Lift Up project featuring Team CCCP at the 1937 World Workers Olympiad in Antwerp, Belgium. Mid 1930s was the time when the pioneers of Olympic weightlifting in...
Happy New Year to all fans of the Iron Game and Olympic weightlifting on behalf of the Lift Up project! May this New Year 2017 bring you good luck, good health, good fortune and...
In the last few days, there was a load of heavy lifting at Lift Up. Mostly, database related… New tournaments have been added. The Summer Olympic tournaments has been expanded up to top 8...
Basically, no comments seem to be necessary here. Norbert Schemansky, one of the greatest lifters ever, is watching the lifting by Ken Patera at the U.S. Olympic Trials for the 1972 Summer Olympics in...
Paris, France in 1946. It was the first world championship for Team USSR ever. On the restored photo, the Soviet athletes are taking part in the closing ceremony of the tournament: Left to Right:...
Here is more of digital enhancement of group photos of national Team CCCP from the glorious days of the Soviet Olympic weightlifting. This time the original photo was taken during the preparation for the...
History in Color : This is another digitally enhanced photo of the parade of weightlifting champions of the 37th CCCP championship that was held in Tbilisi in May 1962. The standing ovation of the...
This is a digitally enhanced version of weightlifting Team CCCP in Kharkov in 1947. Top row (left to right): Roman Moroz, Vladimir Pushkarev (Moscow, 1921-1994), George Popov (Kiev, 1912-1984), Nikolay Laputin (Kiev, 1913-1986), Nikolay...
Here is a digitally enhanced photo national weightlifting Team CCCP at the training camp in Feodosia. Top row (left to right): David Rigert (Shakhty, 90kg), Rudolf Plyukfelder (Shakhty, coach), Pavel Pervushin (Leningrad, 110kg), N/A,...