Lots of Joy, No Less Worries

24.03.1970 (Padomju Daugava (Jēkabpils))

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507.5 kilograms - with this result, the third Latvian athlete to enter the "five hundred club", the first heavyweight athlete Valentīns Bročs. But Artūrs Sliede has already raised the republic's absolute record to 525 kilograms . Let's hope that Genadijs Ivančenko and Kārlis Pumpuriņš will recover from their injuries by the time of the USSR championship and that the record-breaking campaign that began last year will continue.