On Friday, the medal sets of this year’s Latvian championship in luge sports were distributed at the Sigulda bobsleigh and luge track. The championship titles in the adult singles competition were won by brother and sister Kristers and Kendija Aparjodi, and in the doubles crew competition – Mārtiņš Bots and Roberts Plūme, as well as Anda Upīte and Zane Kaluma.
In the last competition of the season, in both men’s races, K. Aparjods from Saulkrasti was the fastest, who beat Sigulda’s Ginta Bērziņš by almost three tenths of a second. The third and fourth places were taken by juniors – skier Kaspars Rinks and Roberts Dreimanis from Riga, according to information from the Latvian Luge Sports Federation.
In the competition for ladies and juniors, twice as many participants started. In the sum of both races, K. Aparjode beat Elīna Ieva Vītola from Sigulda by 0.046 seconds, while Sigita Bērziņa took third place according to the last season’s ranking. For juniors, Zane Kaluma (Saulkrasti), Margita Sirsniņa (Ropaži) and Zanda Ulbika (Saulkrasti) made it into the top three.
There were no surprises in the men’s doubles competition – Mārtiņš Bots and Roberts Plūme (Sigulda/Ropaži) convincingly beat Eduard Ševica-Mikelševica and Lukas Krasta (Garkalne/Alūksne), as well as Raimonda Baltgalvi and Vitalija Jegorov (Saulkrasti/Ulbroka). Anda Upīte and Zane Kaluma (Sigulda/Saulkrasti) were superior to juniors Viktorija Ziediņa and Selīna Elizabeti Zvilna (Salaspils/Ropaži) in both races in the duet of two ladies.
In Sigulda, the best sled drivers in three age groups for young people were also determined, where, as usual, the representatives of Pierīga districts dominated. Roberts Lazdāns (Sigulda) beat Dēvida Smirnova and Gustava Babri (Sigulda) in the senior A group for boys, while Amanda Ogorodnikova (Saulkrasti), Anna Aizupe (Ulbroka) and Enia Elizabete Łdre (Ropaži) ranked in the first three.
Jānis Gruzdulis-Borovojs/Edens Eduards Čepulis (Ropaži) and Elīna Pamžina/Madara Pavlova (Ropaži/Sigulda) won the two-man crew competition. Second places go to Martin Čižiks/Kristians Čižiks (Stopiņi parish) and Enia Elizabeth Údrei/Louise Vucānei (Ropaži/Preiļi), third place to Henry Bāles/Alfred Vanag (Ropaži parish/Salaspils).
In the B group for boys, Adrian Šits (Sigulda) left behind Everts Precinieka (Ropažu parish) and Reinhold Žūrina (Saulkrasti), but for the girls, Līna Kraslavska (Stopiņu parish), Katija Rimicāne (Ropažu parish) and Līna Zilvere (Sigulda).
Finally, in the youngest group C, places in the top three for boys were won by Ādams Šic (Sigulda), Renārs Kūkojs (Saulkrasti) and Ernests Ozoliņš (Stopiņu parish), as well as L. Kraslavska, L. Zilvere and Ilze Ungure (Saulkrasti).
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2024-03-08 13:33:16
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