Latvian Youth Winter Olympics in Ērgļi. Education news

For 19^th time Latvian Youth Winter Olympics was held in Ērgļi from 8^th till 9^th of February. Each year it is organized by the Latvian Olympic Committee in cooperation with Ērgļi county council. In overall ranking of school teams winner isSecondary school ofAlūksnes County – they took home six gold and three silver medals. At least one medal in these competitions was won by 57 school teams.

33 pupils from eight city schools:Daugavpilsstate gymnasium,Daugavpilscentre secondary school, secondary schools №3, №9, №12, №13, №16 and elementary school №11, represented our city.

Fight spirit willingness to win demonstrated all our pupils, but especially good start and finish was for athletes of elementary school №11. They got two gold and one bronze medals and representative of secondary school №13 won one silver medal.

Congratulations to athletes who got gold medals in the discipline of biathlon relay, the team of elementary school №11: Jevgenijs Šunkovs, Aļona Deiko and Vadims Kaufmans! Congratulations to winners in discipline of biathlon sprint: gold medallist Jevgenijs Šunkovs (elementary school №11), silver medallist Ņikita Osipovs (secondary school №13) and bronze medallist Aļona Deiko (elementary school №11)!

Thanks to sport teachers Sergejs Vasiļjevs, Sergejs Smirnofs, Pjotrs Sardiko and Eduards Boltruks!

More information: http://www.latvijasolimpiade.lv/lv/?p=2895

Scoreboard:  http://www.latvijasolimpiade.lv/rezultati/LJZO2013/Medalas.pdf

Photos of Olympics:  http://latvijasolimpiade.lv/foto/#/content/0989_ljzo2013/

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