Ryzhenkov
On this photo exclusively enhanced for the Lift Up project, Vladimir Ryzhenkov of Team CCCP is competing in the 82,5 class at the 1974 World Champioship in Manila. He is going for the world...
On this photo exclusively enhanced for the Lift Up project, Vladimir Ryzhenkov of Team CCCP is competing in the 82,5 class at the 1974 World Champioship in Manila. He is going for the world...
Paris, France (February 14, 1971) – Vasily Alexeev just lifted 230kg (cj) and set another world record at the Memorial Jean Dame. This is his third world record of the day. Before, he lifted...
There were definitely many candidates for a “poster boy” of Olympic weightlifting through its history. Gennady Ivanchenko, by all means, is in the top of this group. Well-built and strong. Confident, slick and reliable....
The weightlifting part of the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome was about to begin. Soviet lifters were conducting their open training session and fellow athletes from Team USA stopped by to say hello. On...
“Weights are to be lifted by the back and legs!” It is the axiom of Olympic weightlifting. Whenever you first enter the training gym, it will be the first lesson by the coach. The photo...
Joe Dube sent me this photo as a present a few years ago. The photo shows Team USA walking at the opening ceremony of the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City. A few days...
Trofim Lomakin was perhaps one of the most memorable personalities among the Soviet Olympic weightlifters in the 1950s. Lomakin won the gold medal at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki and the silver medal...
Legendary Vasily Alexeev was impressive not only on the competition platform in the Olympic weightlifting. There are many accounts of eyewitnesses about his multi-disciplinary talent. He was great in playing volleyball and tennis, in shot...
Olympic champion and one of the legends of the York Barbell weightlifting team, Frank Isaac Spellman died at 94 on January 12, 2017. Frank Spellman competed for Team USA weightlifting in the late 1940s....
The moment captured here shows Soviet lightweight Victor Bushuev pressing 125kg at the weightlifting match between Team USA and Team USSR in 1958. These matches between the Soviet and American athletes in the mid...