Latvia at the 2008 Summer Olympics

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Latvia will compete at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, China. This will be Latvia's 9th appearance in Summer Olympics.

Contents 1 Qualified athletes 1.1 Canoeing 1.1.1 Flatwater 1.2 Cycling 1.2.1 Road 1.3 Judo 1.3.1 66-73 kg 1.3.2 90-100 kg 1.4 Modern pentathlon 1.5 Shooting 1.5.1 25m Rapid Fire 1.6 Weightlifting 1.6.1 +105kg 2 Other 2.1 Athletics 2.2 Basketball 2.3 Canoeing 2.4 Cycling 2.4.1 BMX 2.4.2 Road 2.5 Swimming

[edit] Qualified athletes

[edit] Canoeing

Main article: Canoeing at the 2008 Summer Olympics

[edit] Flatwater

Men's K-2 500 m

• Krists Straume and Kristaps Zaļupe

[edit] Cycling

Main article: Cycling at the 2008 Summer Olympics

[edit] Road

• Raivis Belohvoščiks

[edit] Judo

Main article: Judo at the 2008 Summer Olympics

[edit] 66-73 kg

• Vsevolods Zeļonijs

[edit] 90-100 kg

• Jevgeņijs Borodavko

[edit] Modern pentathlon

Main article: Modern pentathlon at the 2008 Summer Olympics

• Deniss Čerkovskis
• Jeļena Rubļevska

[edit] Shooting

Main article: Shooting at the 2008 Summer Olympics

[edit] 25m Rapid Fire

• Afanasijs Kuzmins (wild card)

[edit] Weightlifting

Main article: Weightlifting at the 2008 Summer Olympics

[edit] +105kg

• Viktors Ščerbatihs

[edit] Other

[edit] Athletics

Main article: Athletics at the 2008 Summer Olympics

There are 25 Latvian athletes which has done A or B normative already, but as there is quota for numbers of participants in one event (from one country), not all of them will participate in Olympics.

• A normative: Jolanta Dukure, Aiga Grabuste, Ingus Janēvics(50km walk), Jānis Karlivāns, Igors Kazakēvičs, Ainārs Kovals, Dmitrijs Miļkevičs, Staņislavs Olijars, Jeļena Prokopčuka(marathon), Ēriks Rags, Arnis Rumbenieks, Vadims Vasiļevskis.
• B normative: Linda Brīvule, Edgars Eriņš, Ingus Janēvics(20km walk), Voldemārs Lūsis, Sinta Ozoliņa, Madara Palameika, Jeļena Prokopčuka(10,000 m), Ineta Radēvica, Igors Sokolovs, Māris Urtāns, Atis Vaisjūns, Ronalds Arājs, Poļina Jeļizarova.

Although Jeļena Prokopčuka has done A normative in marathon, she has already announced that she won't run marathon in Beijing.

[edit] Basketball

Main article: Basketball at the 2008 Summer Olympics

As Latvia women's national basketball team finished 4th in 2007 European Championship it will participate in 12 team qualifying tournament for 5 last places to Olympics.

[edit] Canoeing

At the 2008 European championship, Latvians also qualified for K-2 1000m race.

[edit] Cycling

[edit] BMX

Latvia won three quota place for men's BMX as it was ranked 3rd in UCI ranking. There are four riders which are candidates for these three places - Ivo Lakučs, Artūrs Matisons, Māris Štrombergs and Edžus Treimanis.

[edit] Road

Latvia won two quota places for men's road cycling, but Raivis Belohvoščiks ensured his participation in Olympics by finishing 12th in 2007 Road World Championship in Time Trial.

[edit] Swimming

Main article: Swimming at the 2008 Summer Olympics

Romāns Miloslavskis has done A normative in 200m freestyle and B normative in 100m backstroke, meanwhile Kirils Sanžarovecs has done B normative in 100m breaststroke. It's not certain that they will participate in Olympics, because deadline of filling normatives will be on July 15.

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