Kulta-Kalle
History in Color: Kaarlo Kangasniemi, also known as “Kulta-Kalle” competes at one of the Nordic tournaments in 1968. Kaarlo Kangasniemi of Pori, Finland is a true legend of Olympic weightlifting. 3x Finnish Olympian, author...
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Jaan Talts: Lifting in the Late Period of His Career
History in Color: Estonia, Spring 1973 – Olympic champion Jaan Talts of Tallinn, Estonia competes in the 110kg class at one of the local meets in Estonia. After winning gold at the 1972 Summer...
Boris Pavlov Goes for a World Record in Minsk
History in Color: March 17, 1970, Minsk, Belarus – 23-year old Boris Pavlov. light heavyweight of the Spartak Donetsk club, is going for a world record in clean-and-jerk (192kg) in the 82.5kg class at...
Sultan Rakhmanov: Training with Team CCCP
History in Color @ LiftUp: January 1980, Podolsk, Russia, USSR– Super heavyweight Sultan Rakhmanov of Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine works on the snatch routines in a national team training camp. Also on the photo, other candidates...
Golden Age of American Weightlifting: At the Muscle Beach, USA (1956)
History in Color: Muscle Beach, CA, USA, Summer 1956 – Legends of the York Barbell are lifting during a demo session of Olympic weightlifting for a general public at the Muscle Beach, California in...
David Rigert: Illuminating 215lbs of Personal Charisma
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...
World Record by Victor Korzh (1956)
History in Color: April 11, 1956, Moscow, Russia, USSR – 22-year featherweight Victor Korzh of Rostov, Russia sets a new world record in press (113.5kg) in the 60kg weight class at the international tournament...
Rudolf Plukfelder Sets 2 National Records (1964)
History in Color: March 21, 1964, Moscow, Russia, USSR – 35-year old light heavyweight Rudolf Plukfelder of the Trud club (Shakhty) lifts 175kg in the clean-and-jerk program and wins the 1st place in the...
Weightlifting Classics: Waldemar Baszanowski (Poland)
History in Color: June 23, 1970, Szombathely, Hungary – Legendary lightweight champion, 35-year old Waldemar Baszanowski of Poland performs a split style clean in the 67.5kg weight class at the 1970 European Championships in...
Rafael Chimishkyan at Chalkathon by LiftUp
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...
