Disadvantage of Being a Teenager
One of the disadvantages of being a teenager is that you can’t really be nostalgic. You can’t see photos or videos of yourself 20+ years ago. You can’t really hit the playback button on your...
Tagged: USSR
Training Camp in Dzintare (1950)
The debut of the weightlifting Team CCCP at the 1946 World Championship in Paris in Paris was successful. However, with the exception of the world class level of Grigory Novak, the rest of the team...
Hot in Lima in 1971
History in Color: It was hot in Lima in 1971. Vasily Alexeev wore a hat while warming up in the outside training before the 1971 World Championship. In the back, the head coach of...
Weightlifting Poster Athlete
Gennady Ivanchenko is getting ready for lifting at the 1970 World Championship in Columbus, OH. Ivanchenko was in his prime. He won the World title in Columbus and literally stole the show. Many North...
Training Hard In 1946
This photo came from the personal archives of George Popov. We have enhanced it for the Lift Up project about the history of Olympic weightlifting. The photo shows how Team CCCP candidates are training...
Snatch Lift by Vasily Alexeev
Legendary Olympic weightlifter Vasily Alexeev was obviously the “King of the Clean and-Jerk Lift”. Nobody really knew how much he could have cj’d in his times. I suspect it was more than his 256kg...
Medvedev
As an athlete, Medvedev was a member of the national Soviet team for 16 years. Medvedev didn’t have impressive promising talent for the weightlifting. It was his work ethics and ability to focus on...
Rigert
David Rigert was and remains an absolutely “cult figure” for many generations of the fans of the Iron Game. David Rigert (b. 1947) was one of the leading athletes in a legendary Soviet team...
Dynnikov
Riga, Latvia, 1963 – Alexander Dynnikov is performing a cj lift of 121.5kg and breaks a record of Latvia in the 56kg weight class. The original black-and-white photo came to me from the personal...
Ryzhenkov
On this photo exclusively enhanced for the Lift Up project, Vladimir Ryzhenkov of Team CCCP is competing in the 82,5 class at the 1974 World Champioship in Manila. He is going for the world...
