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On Saturday, January 20, the athletes of the “Arkadija” sports school showed excellent results at the annual international athletics competition in Kuldīga on the “Katrīnas kausi” terrain. Victories were achieved by the pole vaulter Valters Kreiss in a very strong competition with the best athletes of other disciplines, who achieved the most valuable result of this competition, and Invida Mauriņas in the 400 m run, while Kitty Paula Melnbarde took third place in the cross-country jump, informs SS -Representative of “Arkadia” Ivars Bācis.
Two days earlier, the leading national pole vaulter Valters Kreišs won with 5.60 m and became the cup winner and owner of the highest result of the competition at the Riga Cups of the strong team “Arkādija” in the Sport Arena in Riga. The student of Marek Ārenta and Ildze Bortaščenoka did the same at the indoor athletics competition Katrīnas kausi, which took place on Saturday in Kuldīga.
The fourth-place finisher at last year’s U23 European Championships was close to repeating what he achieved on Thursday in Riga, but still showed a result above the world-class level of five and a half meters (5.53 m). This gave Walter 1,138 World Athletics (WA) points and also the status of a new Katrina Cup record holder. Two points less for Slovenian hurdle sprint champion Nika Glojnaric, who won the 60-meter dash with a new arena record: 8.11 seconds.
The second victory for the “Arkādija” athletics was achieved by one of the fastest 400 m and 800 m runners in Latvia, Invida Mauriņa, who also took two first places in three days. On Thursday Invida, very close to the Latvian record, won the “Arkādija” Riga Cup over 500 m indoors, and on Saturday the finalist of the U23 European Championships over 800 m achieved the same in a stronger competition with representatives of other countries 400 m distance. Mauriņa ran close to her indoor record with 56.21 seconds and was 0.3 seconds ahead of her closest competitor from Greece.
Andrei Sannikov’s student made no secret of the fact that she was happy about the victory. “This time I ran completely freely. Considering it was the second competition in three days, I’m happy with the result, but I can be much faster,” says Invida, who became the season leader in Latvia
Kitty Paula Melnbarde, the runner-up in the “Arkadija” Cup, also won an award-winning place in Kuldīga. Last year’s Latvian indoor and stadium long jump champion also reached the 6m mark in this competition, which earned her third place and the status of the best representative of Latvia. The Ukrainian champion Irina Nerubalshchik won again, this time with 6.32 m, which she achieved in the last attempt, but second place went to the Frenchwoman.
We have to praise Laura Ķirse, who made it to the 60m final and was the best representative of Latvia with fifth place. Ineta Zālīte’s student achieved the second best result of her career at this distance.
Pole vaulter Valters Kreis won the victory
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