Joe Dube (USA) Turns 80!
February 15, 2024 – Great Olympic weightlifting champion, Joe Dube (USA) turns 80!!! Joe Dube is a true legend of American and world weightlifting. Competing for the United States, Joe became a World Champion...
February 15, 2024 – Great Olympic weightlifting champion, Joe Dube (USA) turns 80!!! Joe Dube is a true legend of American and world weightlifting. Competing for the United States, Joe became a World Champion...
History in Color: Charles “Chuck” Vinci (1933-2018), of Cleveland, Ohio, USA, was one of the greatest bantamweight athletes in the history of Olympc weightlifting. Vinci was the last U.S. weightlifter who won the Olympic...
History in Color@Lift Up: Philadelphia, PA, USA, July 1947 – Weightlifting legends Joe Di Pietro and Peter George are enjoying a moment of a “strength and health” celebration at the 1947 World Championships in...
History in Color: July 27, 1952, Helsinki, Finland – Heavyweight contenders receive their medals in the 90+kg weight class in the last day of the weightlifting tournament at the 1952 Summer Olympics at the...
Remembering Olympic weightlifting legends, athletes, coaches, administrators and many more, that we lost in 2023.
History in Color: December 19, 1982, Moscow, USSR – Super heavyweight champion of the 1980 Summer Olympics, Sultan Rakhmanov of the Avangard Club (Dnepropetrovsk) competes for Team Ukraine in the 110kg+ class at the...
April 14, 1972, Tallinn, Estonia – National medal winners in the 110kg weightclass at the 1972 USSR Championships in Tallinn(left to right): Jaan Talts (Estonia, silver medal), Yury Kozin (Moscow, gold medal), Karl Pumpurins...
Legendary flyweight champion Kanybek Osmonaliev of Kyrzgyzstan turns 70! Kanybek Osmonaliev was a phenomenal flyweight of Team CCCP. From mid 1970s to mid 1980s, he won the 1980 Olympics, 4 World championships, 2 European...
History in Color @ LiftUp: January 1980, Podolsk, Russia, USSR– Legendary Soviet weightlifter David Rigert prepares for a control lift during a Team USSR training camp in Podolsk. Seven months to go before the...
In the hospitals, doctors always wash their hands before surgeries. In Olympic weightlifting, athletes always chalk their hands before lifting weights at the competitions. Presenting more episodes of our retro “weightlifting chalkathon” series within...