Bob Bednarski: The 8th Wonder of the World
Robert “Bob” Bednarski of Team USA was one of the most exciting and fun to watch Olympic weightlifters in the 1960s. He won the World Championship in 1969 and was the silver medalist in...
Robert “Bob” Bednarski of Team USA was one of the most exciting and fun to watch Olympic weightlifters in the 1960s. He won the World Championship in 1969 and was the silver medalist in...
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 cover photo from the Lift Up: History in Color series features early Gyozo Veres (1936-2011) setting up a new press world record in Budapest in May 1962. He pressed 155kg in the light...
Paris, France (February 14, 1971) – Vasily Alexeev just lifted 230kg (cj) and set another world record at the Memorial Jean Dame. This is his third world record of the day. Before, he lifted...
Just a quick photo review of the world records set at the 2016 Olympics in Rio on August 16, 2016. Grand finale of Olympic weightlifting tournament! More at Lift Up
I did not feel any pressure, I just focused on each lift. The first thing I thought when I knew I had won was that I had made our Beloved Leader (Kim Jong Un)...
Suping Meng of China won the gold Olympic medal in the over 75KG class for women in Rio. Meng lifted total of 307KG which was 1KG more than the silver medalist Kuk Hyang Meng...
Two world records and two Olympic records were set in Rio tonight in the 77KG weightclass. Xiaojun Lyu (China) snatched 177KG and Nijat Rakhimov (Kazakhstan) clean-and-jerked 214 KG. Rakhimov bypassed the current cj record...
Just look at this lineup of lifts in the Women’s 63KG weight class tonight in Rio Clean & Jerk 138 kg DENG Wei China OR Clean & Jerk 143 kg CHOE Hyo Sim North...
Russian President Putin took the whole situation with doping scandal and participation of Russia in the 2016 Summer Olympics under personal control. Of course, most of the work is to be done for years...