Lifting Up the World with a Oneness-Heart, number 2,056

Lift 60

Elvira Kolpakova: 120 lbs.

Apparatus: 19 lbs.

Total: 139 lbs.

The first person to be lifted by Sri Chinmoy overhead with one arm on this evening of kaleidoscope lifts was Elvira Kolpakova, a marathon and ultramarathon champion from Russia. She has a world-class marathon best of 2:34:22 and in September 1999 she won the European 100-kilometre championship in a time of 7:33:39.

> “I am from a small town in Siberia. I am really happy to be here. It is great.”

> — Elvira Kolpakova

Elvira became the 2,056th person to be lifted by Sri Chinmoy in his “Lifting Up the World with a Oneness-Heart” programme, which he began on June 26th, 1988.

> Lifting up the world

> With a oneness-heart,

> The Hour of God

> And His Victory-Start. > — Sri Chinmoy’s theme song for this series

From:Sri Chinmoy,The body’s fitness-gong. The soul’s fulness-song, Agni Press, 1999
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