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Everybody Loves Balderis Launching a new web site about Helmut Balderis, legendary hockey wizard of the 1970s-1980s. It’s a soft launch of a beta version available for desktops and laptops. Smaller resolution (modile devices)...
To be honest with you, I found this quote by Helmut Balderis interesting and rather surprising. In my hockey book, Balderis was the best hockey player of all times and nations. In my view,...
July 31, 2022 – Legendary hockey magician Helmut Balderis celebrates his 70th Birthday today. As most of you might know, Balderisomania never stops at Chidlovski.Com. To me, Helmut Balderis is the best hockey player...
History in Color: July 23, 1971, Moscow, Russia – Heavyweight Karl Pumpurins of the Dynamo (Riga) club competes for Team Latvia in the 110kg weight class at the 1971 USSR Championships and Spartakiade at...
History in Color: July 21, 1971, Moscow, Russia – The first light heavyweight in the club 500, World Champion, Gennady Ivanchenko of Riga, Latvia is pressing heavy on his way to a gold medal...
History in Color: July 23, 1971, Moscow, Russia –Heavyweight Karl Pumpurins of Team Latvia is seen at the weighing procedure before the beginning of the 110kg competitions at the 1971 USSR Championships and Spartakiade...
History of Olympic weightlifting consists of many stories about legendary weightlifters, coaches, trainers and administrators. Some of them are well-known. Some less. Some for a variety of reasons escaped the spotlight of historic reviews...
Karl Pumpurins of Riga, Latvia competes in the press lift at the 1971 USSR Spartakiad in Moscow. Pumpurins pressed 195kg in the 110kg weight class and took the 5th place with the 540kg total (195+145+200)....
Continuing celebration the 65th Birthday of Helmut Balderis, we present a mini-player with selected under 15 seconds clips showcasing some of his magic moments on ice. Click “View More” and celebrate!
Happy Birthday to Helmut Balderis! The greatest hockey magician of all times, nations and leagues around the world turns 65 on July 31! It was a pure joy to watch him playing when we...
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