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This super well-illustrated and detailed (stats) book tells the history of Estonian cycling.
"The First Golden Age of Estonian Cycling" summarises the period from the early 1950s to 1970. Until the beginning of the years. Here we talk about the first post-war cycling tours and the growth of the cycling generation, who soon made it to the top of the Soviet Union and to major international competitions. Trips abroad that seemed exotic at the time, the fight to make the national team, the problems of the time with equipment, health and everyday life, also encounters with doping. There are more in-depth stories about the top artists of their time, Kalju Koch, Peep Jöffert, Liidia Hallik, Nikolai Matvejev, Johannes Rajala, Rein Leeg and others. At the end of the book, the statistics of cycling tours in Estonia and the USSR are presented, and many rare pictures have been found in museums and private collections.
22 x 15 cms, hardback, 504 pages.
2024
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