IWF120y/45 – 1964: Uesaka gains visibility at the Tokyo Games

The business had started 35 years earlier in a downtown neighbourhood of Tokyo: Uesaka was founded as an ironworks company, taking since then the best possible advantage of high-quality Japanese steel. In 1959, the production started to focus on weightlifting equipment, with bars and plates being manufactured by quite precise engineering methods. The quality of the equipment is recognised in Japan, and the brand is chosen, without surprise, as a supplier of the Tokyo 1964 Olympic Games. It was...