Rigert in 1975
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...
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...
History in Color: Alym Achichaev was one of the best Soviet athletes in the 100kg weight class in the late 1970s. He won the USSR championship in 1976, the USSR Cup in 1975 and...
The Lift Up: History in Color series continues… There were two months left before the beginning of the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo. Yury Vlasov broke 6 (six !!!) world records in Podolsk, Russia...
The original photo was taken during the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome Italy. Those were the tallest and the shortest members of the Olympic Team CCCP – Janis Krumins (218 cm, basketball, silver medal)...
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...
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...
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...
Vladimir Ryzhenkov wins a bronze medal in the light heavyweight class (82.5kg) at the 1972 USSR Championship in Tallinn. The Lift Up project expands its coverage of national and international tournament from Top 3...