Liepāja Canals Rogaining welcomes 500 participants
On Saturday, April 22, the Liepāja canal rogaining competition was held, in which about half a thousand participants started in one of two, three, four or six hour orienteering distances.
Original publication date: 24.04.2023
The competition was attended by experienced long-distance athletes as well as new participants, for whom it was their first experience in this type of competition. As one and the other admitted, it was interesting to plan a route with as many options as possible, as well as being able to visit places that even the people of Liepāja did not know existed.
The goal of the Rogaining competition is to collect as many points as possible within a given time limit. Checkpoints have different values and the task of each participant is to plan the route to be followed in order to be able to visit as many and more valuable checkpoints as possible.In total, more than 160 teams and 60 individual participants gathered at the competition center near the Liepājas Valsts technical school building on Vānes Street 4 to walk, run or cycle the route they had developed.
76 teams competed in the longest – six-hour – distance, of which the team “Laid mums tur laimē diet” (Zigmunds Bībers and Alberts Jasāns) collected the most points (192).Team “Ādaži city” (Sniedze Brakovska and Eduards Pāķis) showed the best result with 130 points in the competition of 41 teams.Vilnis Frišfelds showed the best result in the two-hour rogaining with 81 points, while Raitis Muižnieks ranked 1st in the three-hour velorogaining with 164 points.The results of the competition in all groups according to the places won can be viewed: https://rigasrogainings.lv/lv/rezultati/2023/2023lie/t/
Every participant received a specially designed medal at the finish line, and also participated in a lottery with valuable prizes from the sponsors of the competition - Isostar, Garmin, Valmiermuižas alus, Magnesia and Kokmuižas alus.
The team orienteering competition “Liepājas kanālu rogainings” is the second stage of the largest rogaining competition series “Pilsētas leģendas” in the Baltics. Rogaining of this scale has been taking place in Latvia for the fourth year already. It is organized by the association “Piedzīvojumu sacensību apvienība” with the support of the municipality of Liepāja, as well as with the support of Isostar, Garmin, Valmiermuiža beer, Magnesia and Kokmuiža beer. The next round of the competition will take place in the vicinity of Riga Airport already on May 21.