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Feature Articles @Lift Up

This section of the site presents selected articles, interviews, presentations and research studies related to various aspects Olympic Weightlifting.

• Interviews
• Lift Up Blog (English)
• Reviews
• Training Methodology
• Press Clip Archives
• Olympic Weightlifting Blog (Russian)

Lift Up Blog (English)

• Articles 2024
• Articles 2023
• Articles 2022
• Articles 2021
• Articles 2020
• Articles 2019
• Articles 2018
• Articles 2017
• Articles 2016 and Earlier

Interviews

• Agam Gnatov, Ukraine (2008)
• Kaarlo Kangasniemi, Finland (2008)
• Gennady Ivanchenko, Latvia (2007)
• Gennady Bessonov, Russia (2006)
• Joe Dube, USA (2005)
• Norair Nurikian, Bulgaria (2005)
• David Rigert, Russia (2003)
• Leonid Taranenko, Belarus (2002)
• Aslanbek Yenaldiev, Russia (2002)
• Norbert Schemansky, USA (2002)
• Rudolph Plukfelder, Germany (2002)
• Anatoly Pisarenko, Ukraine (2000)
• Ivan Abadzhiev, Bulgaria (1999)
• Alexander Kurlovich, Belarus (1999)
• John Davis, USA (1993)
• Yury Vlasov, Russia (1986)

Reviews

• Lift Up: In Memoriam (2018)
  by Arthur Chidlovski (2018)
• All Time Christmas Records
  by Arthur Chidlovski (2018)
• Club 500 Interactive
  by Arthur Chidlovski (2018)
• Lift Up: Olympic Weightlifting History In Color
  by Arthur Chidlovski (2017)
• In Memoriam
  by Arthur Chidlovski
• Chidlovski Blog Chidlovski: Lift Up
  by Arthur Chidlovski (2009-today)
• Norbert Shemansky: Celebration of the 91st Birthday
  by Arthur Chidlovski, Karen Sherman Ketover (2015)
• Top National Level Olympic Lifters of the USSR: 1918-1991
  by Arthur Chidlovski (2014)
• Who In the World Has Ever Lifted Three Times Their Body Weight?
  by Arthur Chidlovski (2012)
• 140 Happy Characters Live From London 2012
  by Arthur Chidlovski (2012)
• Norbert Schemansky And How He Changed the Shape of Weightlifting
  by Dresdin Archibald, Canada (2010)
• John Davis Revisited
  by Dresdin Archibald, Canada (2010)
• Club 600
  by Arthur Chidlovski (2009)
• USSR: Top National Level Athletes
  by Arthur Chidlovski (2008)
• Next Stop Beijing: 2008 Olympics, Before and After
  by Arthur Chidlovski (2008)
• The Eraser: Drug-Related Disqualifications in Men's Weightlifting at Summer Olympics
  by Arthur Chidlovski (2008)
• In Memoriam
  by Arthur Chidlovski (2007)
• Weightlifting Equipment Through The Ages
  by Dresdin Archibald, Canada (2007)
• Kakhi Kakhiashvili, Olympic Champion
  by Ana Datiashvili, Georgia (2007)
• Powerlift Rules
  by Arthur Chidlovski (2007)
• Taranenko, 266Kg: The Untold Story
  by Paul Coffa (2007)
• Super Study: Another Mystery of the Legend
  by Arthur Chidlovski (2006)
• Split Style Techniques in the Snatch and in the Clean Lifts
  by Arthur Chidlovski (2006)
• Olympic Press Techniques: The Way They Did It Before 1972
  by Arthur Chidlovski (2006)
• Olympic Snatch Techniques: The Classics in Action
  by Arthur Chidlovski (2006)
• Olympic Clean and Jerk Techniques
  by Arthur Chidlovski (2006)
• Non-Split Jerk Techniques
  by Arthur Chidlovski (2006)
• Karl Pumpurins
  by Arthur Chidlovski (2006)
• The Last Days Of Alexander Pervy (2006)
• Doug Hepburn and Paul Anderson: Comparison and Contrast
  by Dresdin Archibald, Canada
• Olympic Weightlifting: All-Time Top Lists (200-250-450) (2004)
• Gold Rush of Trofim Lomakin (2004)
• Olympic Weightlifting: Qualification Ranking System in Russia (2001)
• Olympic Weightlifting: Qualification Ranking System in Russia (1988)
• 1984 International Friendship Cup ("Druzhba-84") by Y. Sandalov and S. Lepikov, USSR (1985)
• 1980 Olympics: David Rigert and Vasily Alexeev by Arkady Vorobyev, USSR (1980)
• Training Big Men In Sport
  by Dresdin Archibald, Canada
• A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words
  Olympic Weightlifting Classics by Arthur Chidlovski

Training Methodology

• Program of Multi-Year Strategic Planning of Training in Olympic Weightlifting
  by Boris Severov, Finland

Press Clip Archives

• Bar Bellmen, Time Magazine, Jul. 17, 1939
• Muscletown, Time Magazine, Jun. 19, 1944
• Muscles from Moscow, Time Magazine, May. 26, 1958
• Without Moving a Muscle, Time Magazine, Jan. 31, 1964
• The Big Caracas Drug Bust, Time Magazine, Sep. 5, 1983
• More Shorts, Time Magazine, Monday, Oct. 03, 1988

Portraits

Ivan Abadzhiev (Bulgaria) Vasily Alexeev (USSR) Paul Anderson (USA) Waldemar Baszanowski (Poland) Isaac Berger (USA) Gerd Bonk (Germany) Andrey Chemerkin (Russia) John Davis (USA) Pyrros Dimas (Greece) Imre Foldi (Hungary) Bob Hoffman (USA) Christos Iakovou (Greece) Akakide Kakhiashvilis (Greece) Tommy Tamio Kono (USA) Alexander Kurlovich (USSR) Alexey Medvedev (USSR) Yoshinobu Miyake (Japan) Halil Mutlu (Turkey) Rudolf Plukfelder (USSR) Sultan Rakhmanov (USSR) David Rigert (USSR) Yanko Rusev (Bulgaria) Norbert Schemansky (USA) Gottfried Schoedl (Austria) Naim Suleymanoglu (Turkey) Leonid Taranenko (USSR) Yurik Vardanyan (USSR) Charles Vinci (USA) Yury Vlasov (USSR) Arkady Vorobyev (USSR) Yury Zakharevich (USSR) Leonid Zhabotinsky (USSR)

Olympic Weightlifting Blog (Russian)

It Is Time To Learn Chinese, What did David Rigert say to his team after the WC 2009?, New world records, The Strongest Woman In the World, Fabulous Podobedova, The Sport of the Communists, Uncle Sasha, Kashpirovsky, 40-Years Long Distance , Numer Uno, Weightlifting Ads, In Memory Of Bogdasarov, Legends and Myths, Olympic Flag Bearers, Sad News From Poland, Baszanowski Turns 74, Team of Our Youth, Time of Scandals, and more at chidlovski.livejournal.com

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