Training Hall in 1970
The Lift Up: History in Color series showcases the training hall with Olympic weightlifters in 1970. Gennady Ivanchenko (Riga, Latvia) and David Rigert (Shakhty, Russia) are enjoying the moment of rest between the lifts....
The Lift Up: History in Color series showcases the training hall with Olympic weightlifters in 1970. Gennady Ivanchenko (Riga, Latvia) and David Rigert (Shakhty, Russia) are enjoying the moment of rest between the lifts....
The Lift Up: History in Color series at Chidlovski Blog Chidlovski presents the cover photo with Bob Hoffman (1898-1985) of York Barbell and Team USA at the opening of the USA vs USSR weightlifting...
Igor Rybak (1934-2005) of Kharkov, Ukraine was one of the first Soviet Olympic champions. He won the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne with a 380kg total (110+120+150) in the 67.5kg weightclass. In the same...
The duo Rudolph Plyukfelder and David Rigert was perhaps one of the most inspiring example of work between coaches and athletes in the history of Olympic weightlifting. Plyukfelder (b. 1928) had an outstanding career...
Continuing the Lift Up: History in Color series, the cover photo shows Team CCCP Weightlifting being interviewed by famous Soviet media personalities before the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo. Front row (left to right):...
On the cover photo from the Lift Up: History in Color series, legendary David Rigert is preparing for the 210kg clean-and jerk lift at the 1975 World Championship in Moscow. I think the original black-and-white...
History in Color: Boris Pavlov (1947-2008) of Donetsk, Ukraine was the World Champion (1971), European Champion (1972) and USSR Champion (1972) in the light heavyweight class (82.5kg). His strongest lift was clean-and-jerk. He set...
Champion of the 1976 Summer Olympics, Valery Shary of Minsk, Belarus cleans the weight at one of the competitions in the late 1960s. So far, I wasn’t able to identify the tournament. My initial...