In the Middleweight
Vasily Denisov (1955-1996) of Perm, Russia was one of the strongest Soviet middleweight athletes of the end of the 1970s and beginning of the 1980s. He won the 1980 USSR championship in the 75kg...
Vasily Denisov (1955-1996) of Perm, Russia was one of the strongest Soviet middleweight athletes of the end of the 1970s and beginning of the 1980s. He won the 1980 USSR championship in the 75kg...
Fans of Iron Game often refer to record breaking leg strength of Olympic weightlifter Vladimir Marchuk and quote that he was able to squat 435KG three times! For those who are challenged by kilograms...
The greatest Olympic weightlifter from Estonia, Jaan Talts is getting ready to lift at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico city. He competed in the middle heavyweight class (90kg) and won the silver medal...
No one can deny that these are difficult times… It’s the U.S. versus U.S.S.R. Yet we more or less are — No one can deny that these are difficult times… Tim Rice, Chess (1986)...
History in Color: The enhanced cover photo from the Lift Up: History in Color series features Rafael Chimishkyan and his coach Pavel Gumashyan in their training gym in Tbilisi, Georgia in 1956. At the...
David A. Rigert is ready for the lift. Does anyone have an idea what kind of exercise is it going ti be? Obviously the black and white version of this photo has been around...
Valery Yakubovsky was a world class athlete in the 110kg weight class. The competition for the place in the national team in his weight class was tough. The list of the usual suspects was...
On the enhanced in color photo, Arkady Vorobyev is lifting at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki. Legendary Olympic weightlifter, scientist, coach and educator, Arkady Vorobyev (1924-2012) belongs to the generation of the Soviet...
Sultan Rakmanov (1950-2003) won the Olympics in the super heavyweight competition in 1980 in Moscow when his legendary teammate Vasily Alexeev was eliminated after he failed three times to snatch 180 kg. Rakhmanov made...
Just a quick reminder… Balderisomania Never Stops @ Chidlovski Blog Chidlovski With latest amount of posts about the history of Olympic weightlifting and the latest new development of the Lift Up project, we had...