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Lift Up Blog Articles in 2022
This section of the site presents selected articles, interviews, presentations and research studies related to various aspects Olympic Weightlifting.
2022
Young
Vaclav Psenicka Jr: Weightlifting Promise of Czechoslovakia,
Bonne
année 2023 à la Charles Rigoulot!,
Where
Were You on December 19, 1982?,
Mihaly Huszka (1933-2022),
Karl
Swoboda (Austria): Strong in the 1900s,
Featherweight
Legend Isaac Berger at the World Championships in Warsaw (1959),
Adam Saydullaev (1956-2022),
William
"Bill" March (1937-2022),
Pavel Pervushin (1947-2022),
Yury Zaitsev (1951-2022),
Rafael Chimishkyan (1929-2022),
Nikolay Varava in Braunau, Germany,
Team Great Britain: Royally
Strong Before the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome,
Rudolf Plyukfelder is 95!,
Doug Hepburn: Be Strong. Be Canadian!,
Go Canada! Happy Heavenly 95th Birthday to Gerry Gratton!,
Joe Pitman (USA): Gold Medal in Paris (1950),
Rudolf
Plyukfelder: Gold Medal at the 1961 World Championships in Vienna,
Serge
Reding (Belgium) at the 1965 Prize of Moscow International,
World
Champion and Records Holder Sergey Arakelov is 65,
Mr. Little Giant of the Flyweight,
U.S. Weightlifting Team at the 1964 Summer Olympics,
Sebastiano Mannironi (Italy): Grandi Classici del Sollevamento Pesi,
Split
Style Mesmerizer: Snatch Lift by Norbert Schemansky,
Beach Day in China,
Leonid
Taranenko: Super Heavyweight Debut in Katowice,
Isaac
"Ike" Berger (1936-2022),
Ups
and Downs of the Dinamo Riga Weightlifters in Vilnius (1970),
Leif
Nilsson (Sweden): National Record in Snatch (1977),
Rolf
Maier: 1960 France vs. Poland Meet in Paris,
Lennart "Hoa-Hoa" Dahlgren is 70,
One-Hand
Lifting By Legendary El Sayed Nosseir
of Egypt,
Plamen Asparukhov: CKDA
Championships in East Germany,
Plamen Asparukhov: CDKA Championships in East Germany,
Mladen Kuchev: 1975 World and European Championships,
Olympic
Champion Ota Zaremba is 65,
Ibrahim
Shams: Split Style Magic in the Air (Milan, 1951),
Rudolf
Plyukfelder: World Record in Ufa (1961),
Jan
Lostowski (Poland) Sets a World Record in Berlin,
Valentin Khristov: Four World
Records Night in Moscow (1975),
Vladimir
Marchuk: Smiling Super Heavyweight Champion in Donetsk,
Weightlifting
Americana: U.S. Champions in the Training Hall (Paris, 1950),
Gerry
Gratton of Canada in Cardiff, Wales (1958),
Kyiv Strong: Yakov Kutsenko,
Kyiv Strong: Vladimir Belyaev,
Kyiv Strong: Valery Kuznichenko,
Kyiv Strong: Anatoly Pisarenko,
Kyiv Strong: Nikolay Laputin
Kyiv Strong: Alexander Donskoy,
Kyiv Strong: Grigory Novak,
David Rigert is 75,
Tony Terlazzo (USA) Wins Gold at the Last World
Championships Before the War,
Happy Birthday to Joe Dube (USA)!,
Victor Sots at the USSR Spartakiade (1983),
Oscar Chaplin III, USA (1980-2022),
Olympic champion Israil Arsamakov is 60,
Czech Super Heavyweight Champion Petr Pavlasek is 75,
Referee Sergey Artamonov is 85,
Erkin Karimov (Uzbekistan, USSR): Happy 80th Birthday!
Eugene Katsura: 1963 Prize of Moscow,
60
Years Ago: Weightlifting Legends Zhabotinsky and Stogov in Training,
Viktor Mazin (1954-2022),
Going
for the World Records in Press in 1968, Part 3: Kaarlo Kangasniemi (Finland),
Going
for the World Records in Press in 1968, Part 2: Karl Pumpurins (Latvia, USSR),
Going
for the World Records in Press in 1968, Part 1: Bo Johansson (Sweden),
Lift Up: In Memoriam (2021),
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