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...
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World Record In 1962
The cover photo from the Lift Up: History in Color series features early Gyozo Veres (1936-2011) setting up a new press world record in Budapest in May 1962. He pressed 155kg in the light...
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...
Pride of Estonia
The greatest Olympic weightlifter from Estonia, Jaan Talts is getting ready to lift at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico city. He competed in the middle heavyweight class (90kg) and won the silver medal...
These Are Difficult Times
No one can deny that these are difficult times… It’s the U.S. versus U.S.S.R. Yet we more or less are — No one can deny that these are difficult times… Tim Rice, Chess (1986)...
The Best of Georgia
History in Color: The enhanced cover photo from the Lift Up: History in Color series features Rafael Chimishkyan and his coach Pavel Gumashyan in their training gym in Tbilisi, Georgia in 1956. At the...
Legends of Egypt
The Lift Up: History in Color series continues with this enhanced cover photo of Team Egypt: Left to right: El Sayed Mohaned Nosseir, El Touni, Ibrahim Hassan Shams, Mahmoud Fayed, Kamal Mahgoub The original...
Vorobyev
On the enhanced in color photo, Arkady Vorobyev is lifting at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki. Legendary Olympic weightlifter, scientist, coach and educator, Arkady Vorobyev (1924-2012) belongs to the generation of the Soviet...
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...
