Olympic Press by Alexander Kidyaev
History in Color: A. Kidyaev The History in Color cover photo showcases Alexander Kidyaev of Lugansk performing the press lift at the 1967 USSR Spartakiad. Alexander Kidyaev (b. 1942) was a vice World champion...
History in Color: A. Kidyaev The History in Color cover photo showcases Alexander Kidyaev of Lugansk performing the press lift at the 1967 USSR Spartakiad. Alexander Kidyaev (b. 1942) was a vice World champion...
History in Color: USA vs. USSR (1958) Team CCCP Weightlifting arrived to the United States in May 1958. The original black-and-white photo might have looked a bit comic. The authors even called them...
History in Color: October 19, 1966, Berlin – Soviet light heavyweight Vladimir Belyaev of Kiev, Ukraine jerks 190kg in the 3rd attempt, sets a world record in total (485kg) and wins the 1966 World...
On the History in Color photo, Soviet super heavyweight Stanislav Batishchev is going for his 3rd attempt in the snatch lift (170kg). Stanislav Batishchev (1940-2011) of Donetsk, Ukraine was a very strong athlete with...
Just added the new items to the Lift Up project. One of them is the great USA vs. USSR weightlifting series of matches in 1955. The matches were a part of a good will...
On the History in Color photo, Oxen Mirzoyan of Yerevan, Armenia performs his snatch lifting at the 1989 Frienship Cup in Tallinn, Estonia. Oxen Mirzoyan (b.1961) was an outstanding bantamweight lifter in the 1980s....
Legendary super heavyweight Vasily Alexeev was a late bloomer in the elite Olympic weightlifting. He won his first medal at the USSR national championship in 1968 in Lugansk, Ukraine. He was 26 at the...
The original black-and-white photo for the History in Color cover came from the archives of the famous Soviet athlete and coach Arkady Vorobyev. The photo shows the Team CCCP Weightlifting on the early morning...
March 4, 1972, Ulm (Germany) – 28-year old flyweight Adam Gnatov of Lvov, Ukraine sets a new world record in the press lift. Adam Gnatov (b. 1944) was a powerful Soviet Olympic weightlifter in...
45 years ago Paul Henderson scored The Goal in Canada vs. USSR Game 8 in Moscow, the last game of the 1972 Summit Series. It was a game winning goal. It was...