Red Army: Olympic Weightlifting
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...
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Team USA Weightlifting (1948)
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...
Soviet Finest in Montreal (1976)
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...
Hop Hop Hop
It ain’t an Easter Bunny… This is a World champion Gennady Ivanchenko is training in Riga, Latvia in the 1970s. Explosive jumping is essential for Olympic weightlifting. The Lift Up:History in Color series continues…
Yurik Vardanyan (1979)
Yurik Vardanyan is getting ready for a clean-an-jerk lift in the Yubileyny Palace in Leningrad. This is an enhanced photo from the Lift Up: History in Color series and it brings us to the...
Kirzhinov
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 (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...
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...
