MY LIFTING SITE

A personal photo album. I was both a competitor and fan of the sport of weightlifting.

MY SCRAPBOOK

STANDING BESIDE IVAN ABADJIEV IN JANUARY 1999



 



 

 

 

Krastev front squating 250kg on March 9, 1994

at the Diana Sport Base in Sofia,. Bulgaria

Standing beside Krastev in February 1995.

Scrapbook pics

IN THE SUMMER OF 1994 I WEIGHED 320LBS

Although I am Canadian,

The next few photos were taken while training in Bulgaria in 1993, 1994.

THE UTILITARIAN HIGH PERFORMANCE TRAINING CENTER

FOR WEIGHTLIFTING AND WRESTLING

AT DIANA, SOFIA, BULGARIA.

Standing beside 75kg world record holder

and the lightest man to ever clean 500lbs, Alexander Varbanov

Standing beside Emil Dochev

 March 1994





my Canada record

AUGUST 1995

Scrapbook pics

October 1993: Bench 405lbs x 4 reps

 

 

 

 

 

 

1996: GOLD MEDAL

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

ALWAYS DRUG-FREE:

 



Junior Lifting

JUNIOR WITH 150.

 



ABADJIEV

my lifting heros

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Paul Anderson

 

 

 

Vasili Alexeev

THE 1970'S

 

 BONK

 

 

 

 

ALEXEEV

FINAL RECORD ERA

 

 

KRASTEV SETS WORLD TOTAL MARK AT 467.5KG IN 1987.

IT HAD BEEN STUCK AT 465 SINCE 1984; MODIFIED

TO 475 BY 1988 AND UNCHANGED EVER SINCE.

 

 

 

 

NERLINGER ELATED AFTER WINNING THE

CLEAN&JERK EVENT AT THE '86 WORLDS

 

1987 WORLDS:

NOTHING LIKE IT....EVER SINCE!!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

THE BIG BOYS OF OLYMPIC LIFTING WERE REAL STRONG BACK THEN!!!