Riga Rogaining held in spring snow
Team orienteering competition “Rīgas rogainings” was held in Sestdien Pārdaugav, where more than 1000 participants from Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Russia and Norway went to look for checkpoints located in the city and in the forest, despite the spring snow.
Original publication date: 22.03.2015
In the six-hour distance, the victory was won by the Latvian team "In short, it will be difficult!" with Andri Ronimoisu from Riga and Zigmundu Bīberu from Ulbroka.
The start of the competition was given at the shopping center “Damme”, where exactly at At 12:00, more than 400 teams of 2 to 5 participants started the distance, choosing one of the time limits – 2 hours, 4 hours or 6 hours. A large number of company teams used rogaining as a team-building game, but more than 60 children and their parents used the free opportunity to go the competition distance with the forest instructors - Bear, Hare and Squirrel, gaining knowledge about rogaining.
In the two-hour distance, the men's team “Isostar Energy Shot” remained unbeaten, ahead of the closest followers by 17 points, but in the four-hour distance between the men's teams, the victory was won by the team “komandas nosaukums” with Agri Stūri and Ati Rešķi, in the mixed team competition, the team "42km.lv" won, but among the women, the best were “Kārklu muiža”. At the finish line, each participant was greeted with a warm lunch, and after the awards, the participants took part in a prize draw from the sponsor GARMIN.
In the longest distance - six hours - the men's team "In short, it will be difficult!" won the laurels, in the mixed team competition, the veteran team “Isostar Long Distance Energy”, consisting of Irita Puķīte and the world champion in trail orientation Guntars Mankus, won the most points, while among the women's teams, “VSK Noskrien meitenes” won.
The next Riga Rogaining competition will take place in autumn - on November 21. Riga Rogaining is an orienteering sports team competition, where teams of 2-5 people visit checkpoints located in the city and in the forest in a freely chosen order during a certain period of time, trying to collect as many points as possible. At the same time, Riga Rogaining was the first stage of the Latvian Rogaining Cup.
The competition is offered by the Riga City Council and the Education, Culture and Sports Department of the Riga City Council. Organized by xRace in cooperation with the Latvian Orienteering Federation and "O!Latvija". Supported by – Isostar, TC Motors, Garmin, Rimi, Sony Action Cam, Asics, MySport, Vichy, t/c Damme, Chili Pica, 1188, ISIC, VSK Noskrien, Teltispasakumiem.lv.