Men 56 kg bodyweight category is celebrating its seventy years!
In 1947 – exactly 70 years ago – the men’s 56 kg bodyweight category was introduced in weightlifting. Until then there had been 5 different categories from 60 kg up to 82,5 kg where men could compete. At the birth of weightlifting around the turn of the 19th century athletes competed without any bodyweight categories. In […]