The third Olaine Rogaining has been successfully completed

Original publication date: 14.05.2019

On Saturday, May 11, the Olaine rogaining took place for the third year in a row in Olaine, which gathered more than 600 participants - both local orienteering and cycling activists, as well as city guests from all over Latvia, who came to explore the surroundings of Olaine - the city, forests, meadows and swamps. The winners of the competition's longest distance – 6-hour rogaining, for the second year in a row, were the boys' duo from the “NAIDS” team, who collected 153 points.

This year, the start of the competition was given at the Jaunolaine sports house. In the previous two years, Olaine rogaining took place in the west of the highway, but this year both the competition center and the distance will be in the northeast of Olaine. "The competition area between Jaunolaini and Plakanciems is really flat in space, but in time - it was able to captivate like a roller coaster. Deeper in the woods - zigzag trenches and underground bunkers told the participants how many times more extreme things were here for our Latvian archers 100 years ago. And then a little deeper - in the swamp, the participants found the checkpoint they were looking for, to which they had to use cunning and to come up with your own strategy, to reach the highest surface point of the county, or the 1st step of the podium," says the author of the distance Reinis Bērziņš. It should be mentioned that the participants of the distance had to go after the checkpoints not only across swamps, through forests and meadows, but also to swim across an oil-based reservoir in a boat in order to reach them as quickly as possible.

In the two-hour rogaining, team “PE PEEEK” (in team Austris Armans and Agate Kristapsone) celebrated a convincing victory, “Saulkrasti Showel Racing Team” was second in the mixed team rating, and “Saldumiņi” was third. In the women's team competition, the best were “LM&LM” (Lauma Muceniece and Lāsma Midrijāne). Among the family teams, the team “Squishy OK’’, aiz sevis atstājot “Saulkrasti SRT” and “Jūrmalas rūķīši” family teams were the most diligent scorers. On the other hand, in the 12-14 kilometer “O-RUN” race with small orientation elements, which was performed by individual participants, Miķelis Zumbergs celebrated the victory in the men's competition, while Ingrīda Zaķe won the first place among the women.

In the four-hour rogaining, the men's team competition was won by the “Krūšu inspekcija” team with Gunti Šmauksteli and Kasparu Adijānu. The winners were 123 points, with the second place team “Policija” and the third place team “Onkuļi". In the mixed team competition, team “Saldus bitītes” (Agris Robs and Inese Margeviča) won the laurels with 101 points.

In the longest distance, the participants spent 6 hours in the distance, the Riga and Jurmala duo Mārtiņš Krūze and Edgars Jurjāns (team “NAIDS”) won a convincing victory in the men's competition, gaining 153 points in the distance. Among the family teams, “WANAMORE” was the fastest and the team with the most points this time.

In the Xrace Olaines adventure distance men's competition, the first place with 141 points was won by the team “mežā galvenais”, the team - Māris Freimanis, Renārs Pūce, Arvis Gelbis. Second place goes to the Lithuanian team – “Baltu lokys”, third place to the team “Hanzas Maiznīca”. On the other hand, in the women's competition, the best team with 96 points was “Čop Čop Čop”, the second place is followed by the team “Trusīši skrien” and the third place is “Vējš matos”. In the mixed group competition, team “NLP” won first place, followed by team “AIS FLOW”, leaving team “ELITA” in third place.

On the other hand, in MTB rogaining, Edgars Bričonoks was the most skilled pedal thrower in the men's group, Jānis Lācis was in second place and Raitis Muižnieks was in third place in the men's competition. The women's competition was won by Gunta Reinicāne. Elīna Grīnvalde took second place, leaving Inesi Kantori behind.

Already on July 6, all rogaining and orienteering enthusiasts are invited to join the Riga summer, nighttime rogaining adventure, which will take place in the Ethnographic Open-Air Museum of Latvia. Registration is already open and more information - http://www.rigasrogainings.lv

Rogaining is an orienteering competition, where teams of 2 to 4 participants visit checkpoints located in nature during the selected time limit, while Xrace is an adventure orienteering competition, where teams, moving on foot, bike and boat, cover a distance, visit checkpoints and complete tasks.

The competition is offered by Olaine County Council, supported by OlainFarm, “Laima” Better4U, Isostar, Magnesia, Hansa bakery, MagVit, Vitamax, Gerimax, Futura, SLO, RedBull, Veikals “Ceļotājs”, Long Chips and Velosock.