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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…
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 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...
The Lift Up: History in Color series: Mukharby Kirzhinov is competing in the 67.5 kg weight class at the 1973 national championship in Donetsk. Kirzhinov was an Olympic champion of 1972, World champion (1972,...
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 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...
The Lift Up:History in Color series: The head coach of Team CCCP Weightlifting Alexey Medvedev is discussing the training plan with the super heavyweight candidate to Team CCCP Aslanbek Yenaldiev. Medvedev was an ex-super...
Rudolf Plyukfelder in the Lift Up: History In Color series. Plyukfelder (b. 1928) was a milestone figure in the history of the Soviet and international weightlifting. He proved his legendary status as both active Olympic...
As a continuation of our Lift Up: History In Color series, here is a re-mastered photo from the 1970s featuring legendary Vasily Alexeev lifting weights in the… Don river. The b/w original was published...
Legendary hockey player Vladimir Petrov died in Moscow, Russia. He was 69. It’s a very sad news for all people in the world who love hockey. Petrov was a fantastic hockey player. He had...
Gennady Ivanchenko is performing high pulls during his training session in the old Dynamo gym in Riga Latvia in the 1970s. This is an enhanced photo from the Ivanchenko’s personal archive featured in our...