History in Color:
March 17, 1978, Moscow, Russia – Brilliant Yanko Rusev of Team Bulgaria performs a 135kg snatch lift in the 67.5kg weight classat the 1978 Friendship Cup in Moscow.
Rusev won the tournament with 135+175=310kg.
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March 18, 1977, Vilnius, Lithuania, USSR – 24-year old flyweight Kanybek Osmonaliev of Frunze, Kirgizia performs a snatch lift in the 52kg class at the 1977 Friendship Cup in Vilnius.
Kanybek Osmonaliev (b. 1953) was a phenomenal flyweight of the Team CCCP. From mid 1970s to mid 1980s, he won the 1980 Olympics, 4 World championships, 2 European Championships and 2 USSR Championships. His official personal best total was 247.5kg (110+137.5) and it was reached when he won a World title at the 1981 World Championships on September 14, 1981 in Lille, France. Besides the medals and results, he was an outstanding athlete – a hardworker in training, a clutch lifter in the competition and an exemplary character on and off the competitions.
At the 1977 Friendship Cup, the 1st place in the flyweigjt class was won by Olympic champion Alexander Voronin with a total of 242.5kg (107.5+137.5). Osmonaliev finished with a 230kg (100+130) total. It was the first international tournament on the way to the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow.
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June 18, 1955, Leningrad, Russia, USSR – Paul Anderson of Team USA competes in the 90+kg class in the second match of the historical USA vs. USSR Olympic weightlifting meet held in the Leningrad Circus Arena.
In the first match in Moscow, Anderson outlifted Alexey Medvedev of the USSR by 65kg in total. In Leningrad, Medvedev was replaced with Yevgeny Novikov of Belarus, USSR and Anderson won again. This time by 62.5kg.
90+ kg 6/18/1955
1 Paul ANDERSON 512.5 (180+142.5+190)
2 Yevgeny NOVIKOV 450 (152.5+127.5+170)
It was the first ever visit of the American sports teams to Russia during the Cold War time. Thousands of Russian spectators were following Paul Anderson in Moscow to get a glimpse of the Miracle of Nature, the strongest men they’ve ever seen!
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June 23, 1970, Szombathely, Hungary – Legendary Gennady Ivanchenko of Riga, Latvia performs a 162.5kg press lift in the light heavyweight (82.5kg) class at the 1970 European Championships in Szombathely.
In the end of that night, Ivanchenko won his first European title with 487.5kg in total (162.5+140+185).
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History in Cover@LiftUp :
Legendary U.S. bodybuilder and weightlifter John Grimek (1910-1998) in front of the the entrance to the York Barbell Club in York, PA.
John Grimek trained with the York Barbell Club and was one of the “usual suspects” in Bob Hoffman’s empire of strength headquartered in York. PA. Grimek’s look and feel on the magazine’s photos and competitions, in many ways, helped Bob Hoffman’s enterprise to propel to the very top of American strength-related market. He was a definite “poster boy” of men’s strength and physique as his photos were published on the covers of the “Strength and Health” and all major weightlifting publications of the time.
For many fans, Grimek was known as an outstanding bodybuilder As a bodybuilder, he won the AAU Mr. America (1940, 1941), Mr. Universe (1948) and Mr. USA (1949), In bodybuilding world, Grimek earned such nicknames as “The Glow” and “The Monarch of Muscledom”.
However, Grimek won was successful both in bodybuilding and Olympic weightlifting contests and tournaments of his time. As an Olympic weightlifter, John Grimek competed for the Team USA at the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin. He won the 9th place with the 357.5kg total (115+105+137.5), Grimek won the U.S. national championship in 1936, vice-championship in 1935 and a bronze medal in 1940.
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April 15, 1972, Tallinn, Estonia, USSR – National medal winners in the 110+kg weightclass at the 1972 USSR Championships in Tallinn (left to right):
Stanislav Batishchev (Avangard, Donetsk, Ukraine, 620kg, silver medal), Vasily Alexeev (Trud, Shakhty, Russia, 645kg, gold medal), Nikolay Kozintsev (Dynamo, Donetsk, Ukraine, 590kg, bronze medal).
The official IWF sunset of the press lift took place after the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich. The cover photo features was the last time the USSR national championships included Olympic press competitions and the total of 3 lifts (press, snatch and cj). The athletes on the photo were the last Soviet super heavyweights (110+kg) to win national medals in a 3-lifts total program.
Vasily Alexeev also set 6 wor -ld records in Tallinn that night
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April 7, 1976, Berlin, East Germany – 26-year old middleweight Vartan Militosyan of Gyumri, Armenia sets a new world record in cj at 190.5kg and wins a gold medal at the 1976 European Championships in East Germany.
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July 31 1983, Moscow, Russia, USSR – 22-year old super heavyweight Alexander Kurlovich of Grodno, Belarus competes in the 110kg+ weight class at the 1983 USSR Spartakiade and Championships in Moscow.
It was the first USSR Championships for Alexander Kurlovich. He won his first national title and set his first world record – 460kg in total.
