Olympic Weightlifting Hall of Fame @ Lift Up (original) (raw)

The Hall of Fame section of the Lift-Up web site is a gallery featuring outstanding athletes, Olympic heroes and world champions of the 20th century in weightlifting.

All lifters are listed in alphabetical order. For more information on the athletes' bio, performance at the major international tournaments, world records set and more, please select a specific lifter's name from the lists below:

Lift Up Hall of Fame: Honored Athletes

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

Akakide KAKHIASHVILIS, Greece

Tommy Tamio KONO, USA

Alexander KURLOVICH, USSR

Yoshinobu MIYAKE, Japan

Halil MUTLU, Turkey

Sultan RAKHMANOV, USSR

David RIGERT, USSR

Yanko RUSEV, Bulgaria

Norbert SCHEMANSKY, USA

Naim SULEYMANOGLU, Turkey

Leonid TARANENKO, USSR

Yurik VARDANYAN, USSR

Charles VINCI, USA

Yury VLASOV, USSR

Yury ZAKHAREVICH, USSR

Leonid ZHABOTINSKY, USSR