Coaches and Athletes: Bogdasarov and Vlasov
The Lift Up: History in Color series features a photo of Suren Bogdasarov and Yury Vlasov discussing training plans back in the 1960s. Bogdasarov (1920-2009) was a prominent lifter of the 1940s and one...
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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...
Mr. Little Giant of the Flyweight
Naim Suleymanogly used to be called by the World media as the “Pocket Hercules“. Adam Gnatov of Lvov, Ukraine was 20+ years older than Naim and competed in a lighter weight class. If I...
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...
Chickadeeeeeliciously Happy!
Just a happy message with a happy chickadee fella on the photo. Don’t worry. Be happy. Good night!
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...
Poltoratsky
The Lift Up:History in Color series: Sergey Poltoratsky focuses on upcoming lift at the 1970 CCCP Championship in Vilnus, Lithuania. At the time, Poltoratsky was only 23. In Vilnus, he won the silver medal...
The Sots Press
The Sots press is one of the textbook strength development exercises. It was named after the Soviet Olympic weightlifter Victor Sots (on the cover photo). Sots was an extremely strong Soviet lifter of the...
