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On January 18, the international athletics competition “Arkadija Sports School Riga Cup 2024” will take place at the Riga Sports Arena, bringing together several strong domestic and foreign athletes.
Not only track and field athletes, but also sports fans are known for the long-standing “Riga Cups” athletics competition. Taking this legendary competition as an example, the “Riga Indoor Cups” were held for the first time in the second half of December 2022 in the Riga Sports Arena, currently known as the Riga Sports Arena of the “Arkādija” Sports School. Continuing the tradition that has begun, this winter season top athletes from the homeland and other countries will once again compete against each other in several athletics disciplines in the modernized Riga sports arena.
“Sports School “Arkādija” Riga Cup in the premises 2024” includes both cup disciplines and promo disciplines. There are a total of six cup disciplines – three for men and three for women. Both disciplines have two events in common: 60m sprint and long jump, but the final event of the third cup will be the pole vault for men and the 60m hurdles for women.
Athletes from Lithuania, Estonia, Ukraine, Germany and even Brazil and Singapore take part in the Riga Cup.
From the Latvian athletes we will see Valter Kreiš, the 4th place winner of last year’s U23 European Championships in pole vault, who is now also the Latvian record holder at U23 age (5.65 m), and Sandi Dzenīti, the 5th place winner of the same U23 championships in the triple jump, who will compete in the long jump. In the women’s long jump, an intense duel could unfold between the fourth-place finisher in the 2017 Youth World Championships and the Latvian U18 record holder Kitija Paula Melnbardi and the fifth-place finisher in the 2022 Junior World Championships in the heptathlon, Gerda Keri Dreimani. They will have a very strong competitor – the 2023 Ukrainian indoor champion Irina Nerubalshchuk, who jumped the six and a half meter mark. European U23 Championship 800m finalist Invida Mauriņa will compete in the 500m.
In the 60m sprint, where last year’s winner Robert Jānis Zālītis is missing, we will have the two fastest Latvian sprinters of the season over 60m, Rinalda Valta Zariņa (6.85) and Aleksi Pelcmani (6.88), as well as the Latvian Last year’s champion can see Oskar Grava (10.38) from the 100 m stadium, whose competition will be Lithuanian junior and youth champions as well as medalists in adult championships who ran faster than 6.90 and also 6.80.
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