Maximum score achieved in the City Legends team orienteering season finale
On Saturday, November 27, at the "Sāga" and "IKEA" stores in Riga, the season of the largest Latvian team orienteering sport or rogaining series “Pilsētu leģendas” ended with the last fifth stage, with a total of over 700 participants starting at different times. In the “Garmin 6h” distance, as in the first stage of the season, the winning team collected the maximum number of points.
Original publication date: 29.11.2021
The last stage of this season, which was held in cooperation with the Department of Education, Culture and Sports of Riga City Council, took place in a completely new place and also on the map. The participants enjoyed the surroundings of "Sāga" and "IKEA" stores and the outskirts of the capital with neat and also beautiful forest areas in the autumn weather. Rogaineri the edge of Riga, the beginning of Piķurga, the end of Mazās Juglas, the deepest corner of Brekši corner, the oldest pine in the forest, the thickest oak that even the whole team could not cover. The start took place in the same way as in the first stage in Olaine, namely at a time of your choice between 9:30 and 15:00.
In the “Garmin 6h” distance, the maximum score of 200 was collected by the team “Onkuļi” in the first stage, but last Saturday the same was repeated by “Surikāti” (Pēteris Grīviņš, Alvis Danovskis, Jānis Kūms), moreover, doing it in less than five hours. A good harvest (193 points) was also achieved by Gatim Baronam and Mārtiņam Līsmanim (Blodiņkalns), but the best mixed or Mix team “Kreisais krasts” (Zane Gruberte, Uģis Inka) finished with 167 points in the overall ranking of the trio in the competition of 84 teams. In the season standings (counting the best four stages out of five), “Vijolīšu grava” (Klāvs Svilpe, Māra Pucena) and “Mežpils” (Kaspars Adijāns, Elīna Kabaļina) rose to the first two places, as expected, who had missed stage 4, but in the end earned above the only for 600 points – 651 and 631 points, respectively. “Būs labi” (Edijs Šņickovskis, Artūrs Škuts) reached third place with 594 points.
In the Isostar 4h course, “Riga Adventure team” (Jānis Ķemers, Valdis Čunka and Mārtiņš Ozoliņš) scored 143 points in the final round, behind teammates “Riga Adventure team I” (Jānis Šneiders and Zigmunds Bībers, 156 points). However, their 520-point season total secured a convincing overall victory ahead of the best mixed team, “Maldugunij pa pēdām” (Edgars Zaķis, Māra Braslava and Natālija Treulande), on 436 points. Among 68 teams in the round, “Auces aeroklubs” (Raimonds Kaže, Roberts Brūveris and Maksims Berjoza) finished third with 128 points. Third in the season standings was “Vienā laivā” (Kristaps Kļaviņš, Egils Staris and Gatis Berķis).
Making their first appearance of the season in Magnesia 2h, “LV Bārdas” (Uldis Pormeisters and Gunārs Ozoliņš) won among 40 teams with 63 points. Second and third, both on 60 points, were the best mixed team “Begemots un kaķis” (Kalvis Bricis and Lillija Brice) and the best women's team “Ar smaidu” (Aiga Kalniņa, Kristīne Vieta and Ieva Godiņa). Two teams exceeded 200 points in the season standings: winners “Saulkrasti Showel racing team” (Eduards Pāķis and Sniedze Brakovska) scored 234, and runners-up “Bez steigas” (Intars Metums and Uldis Metums) scored 205. “Šurpu trupu” (Reinis Zābers and Anete Zābere) secured third with 191 points.
In the Rogaining race, the winners were Anita Užule and Jānis Kopmanis, and in the overall standings - the unbeatable Užule and Gints Poris. The best in MTB 3H on Saturday were Raitis Muižnieks and Zane Vitenberga-Verza, but Mārtiņš Linde and Annija Krūma left the rest of the competitors behind in the overall season standings.
After the competition there was an award ceremony, lottery and “Red Bull” season finale event