Summer Olaine Rogaining has concluded
On Saturday, May 12, on the Olaines Mežaparka stage, the Olaine rogaining took place for the second year, which gathered local rogainers and also city guests from Latvia and Estonia, who came to explore the surroundings of Olaine - the city, forests, meadows and swamps. The winners of the longest distance of the competition - 6 hours of rogaining - and the overall ranking were the duo from Riga and Jurmala from the team “NAIDS”, which collected 179 out of 200 possible points.
Original publication date: 16.05.2018
On Saturday, May 12, on the Olaines Mežaparka stage, the Olaine rogaining took place for the second year, which gathered local rogainers and also city guests from Latvia and Estonia, who came to explore the surroundings of Olaine - the city, forests, meadows and swamps. The winners of the longest distance of the competition - 6 hours of rogaining - and the overall ranking were the duo from Riga and Jurmala from the team “NAIDS”, which collected 179 out of 200 possible points.
The start of the competition was given on the Olaines Mežaparka stage when at 2, 4 and 6-hour rogaining teams, as well as an 8-kilometer trail run and a rogaining walk for children, started at 11:00 a.m. Ten minutes later, the MTB riders started, who went on a 3-hour time trial rogaining. In MTB rogaining, the most skilled pedalers in the men's group were Agris Bērziņš, who got 5 penalty points and won the victory, collecting 140 points, Valdis Kokorišs with 132 points and Raitis Muižnieks with 3 penalty points, collecting 130 points and taking third place in the men's competition. The women's competition was won by Ilze Bērziņa with 96 points, Gunta Reinicāne scored the same number of points, but finished 1 minute and 16 seconds later in 2nd place, behind Zani Vitenbergu with 93 points.
In the two-hour rogaining, team “Dinamo-O” (in team Māris Vaivods and Irina Kupina) celebrated a convincing victory, “VaSiTiŠa” was second in the mixed team rating, and “Lukas” was third. In the competition of women's teams for the second year, the best were “2 fast 2 furious”(Džeina Riekstiņa, Erika Olberkyte), the second place was the team "VĪJA MEITAS" and the third place was taken by the team "IQ". Among the family teams, the hardest scorers were the "Saulkrasti Showel Racing Team", where Eduards Pāķis and Lelde Pāķe took part, leaving behind the “Bīberi” and “V3G4” family teams. On the other hand, in the 8-kilometer trail run with small orientation elements, which was performed by individual participants, the victory was celebrated in the men's competition Ivars Jankavs, who finished in 36 minutes and 59 seconds, while the women's first place went to Kristīne Slikšāne with a finishing time of 42 minutes and 13 seconds.
In the four-hour rogaining, the men's team competition was won by the “Vichy” team with Kasparu Adijānu and Valdi Čunku. The winners were 125 points, with the second place team “Purva Malēji” and the third place team “Rogband” with 115 and 100 points. In the mixed team competition, the team “Uz Ziemeļdienvidiem :)” (Didzis Raits and Līga Rukšāne) won with 102 points, the team “Arvils atpakaļ” took second place with 100 points, and the team "Kur tilti?" took third place. with 94 points.
In the longest distance, the participants of which spent 6 hours in the distance, the Riga and Jūrmala duet Mārtiņš Krūze and Edgars Jurjāns (team “NAIDS”) won a convincing victory, gaining 179 points in the distance, leaving behind the team "Auces Aeroklubs" with 165 points and the team "Vaidava 2000" with 125 points. In the competition of adult mixed groups, the first place was won by "Meža kūkišiši" (composed of Einārs Masteiko and Elīna Masteiko) with 160 points, the second place was won by the team "Fraternitas Livonica" with 149 points, the third place with 140 points went to the team "Ampēriņš". In the veteran women's group, the victory was won by the team “Dzintarlapsas”, the second place was Vita Žukovska and Jana Adata (the team "Looking for adventure"), while the third place was won by last year's winning team "Restarts". In the men's veteran group, the first place was won by the team "BEZ STRESA", where Viesturs Šlosbergs and Renārs Skudra competed, the second place winners were "Vecās kedas / Divplākšni" and the third place went to the team "RS".
In the women's team competition, “Ejam lasīt puķītes” won the adult group. The place on the second step of the podium went to team “Neverending story”, while the third step went to team “Meža ogas”. In the women's super veteran group, Silvija Penkule and Dace Strazda (the team "Micites") became the winners with 87 points, while in the men's competition, the team “ASIE PIPARI” won with 111 points. Among the family teams, “teampetersoni” was the fastest and highest-scoring team this time, while “Krēmerbērni” scored 61 points and earned second place.
Olaine rogaining took place for the second year and introduced the participants to a diverse area - from the city, wide gravel roads and scary forests to overgrown meadows, nettle thickets and deep ditches and watery swamps. Rogaining is an orienteering competition, where teams of 2 to 4 participants visit checkpoints located in nature during the selected time limit. The competition is offered by Olaine county council and OLainfarm, supported by Isostar, Magnesia, MagVit, Vitamax, Gerimax, Futura, SLO and Gandrs printing.