Sports News

23.10.1969 (Padomju Daugava (Jēkabpils))

As always recently, our weightlifters are making a splash. At the All-Union Rural Sports Associations Championship in Yoshkar-Ola, Master of Sports Valdis Alksnītis won third place, while Imants Eriksons took sixth. Valdis' result in the triathlon is 477.5 kilograms. Thus, the strongest man in our district, but the third in the Soviet Union among rural strongmen, together with the dynamic and world record holder Kārlis Pumpuriņš, Valentīns Bročs and Artūrs Sliede, has already claimed a place in the world-class 500m club..: Let's not forget that ten years ago, at the "dawn" of weightlifting in our district, the 400 kilogram mark was unattainable, but 300 kilograms was an excellent result in the triathlon.