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Rasalas dominates the last race

All good things come to an end. After series warm-up race in Lorupe, the first 3 races in Priekuļi, Rakši, Madona it was time for the last race of Latvian downhill longboarding series at the short & fast track next to recreation complex ‘’Rakši’’ at the event ‘’Alpacas 2nd chance 2014’’! Riders from Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia took part in the race.

In ladies Elīza Marija Gailīte managed to finish a perfect season with another win (6th win in a row!). Elza Volonte took 2nd place and ended at 2nd place in series overall as well. 3rd was Anna Monika Gailīte – for her this was first downhill race since last June when she won ‘’Alpaca speed festival 2013’’!

Damas

WOMEN

1.Elīza Marija Gailīte

2.Elza Volonte

3.Anna Monika Gailīte

In juniors Toms Dreiblats just by 30cm lost to Gustavs Zēgners and ended his 5 race winning streak in his last race in juniors. With this win Zēgners grabbed 2nd place in overall.

Juniori

JUNIORS

1.Gustavs Zēgners

2.Toms Dreiblats

In masters Ģirts Vārtiņš got his 1st win of the year – adding 2nd place in Priekuļi and Madona was enough to become the series masters champion! Artjoms Smirnovs was 2nd in the race & 2nd in the series, but Ints Barkāns stayed in 3rd.

Masters

MASTERS

1.Ģirts Vārtiņš

2.Artjoms Smirnovs

3.Ints Barkāns

4.Andrejs Solncevs

5.Krišjānis Krūmiņš

In Open group racing the favorite was qualification winner guest rider from Lithuania – Šarunas Rasalas. But the big intrigue was about who will become Latvian downhill longboarding series 2014 champion – will it be Gustavs Gailītis (1st in Priekuļi, missed Rakši race because of broken foot & got 1st in Madona) or Jānis Jirgens (5th in Priekuļi, 1st in Rakši, 9th in Madona) – the guy who would finish higher would have the series title!

In the final Šarunas was dominating from the start! Jānis managed to hold his 2nd place and win the series title for 2014! Gustavs after winning the series in 2012 and 2013 this time ended 3rd in the race and 2nd in the series, but 4th place in the race was enough for Kaspars Balamovskis to finally get 3rd spot overall! Interesting that Šarunas win was first time that rider from abroad took the Open group win Latvian downhill longboarding series since the beginning in 2012 ( so far Lithuanians Lukas Kirkilionis had three 2^nd places & Stepas Jonaitis one 2^nd place)!

Open

OPEN

1. Šarunas Rasalas (LT)

2. Jānis Jirgens

3. Gustavs Gailītis

4. Kaspars Balamovskis

5. Klāvs Balamovskis

6. Jānis Kundziņš

7. Toms Dreiblats

8. Artjoms Smirnovs

9. Kārlis Karlsons

10. Mārtiņš Kivlinieks

11. Gustavs Zēgners

12. Ģirts Čonka

13. Toms Jansons

14. Elīza Marija Gailīte

15. Valdis Vītoliņš

16. Elza Volonte

17. Anna Monika Gailīte

18. Ģirts Vārtiņš

19. Rolands Stepanovs

20. Ints Barkāns

21. Andrejs Solncevs

22. Kārlis Gross

23. Krišjānis Krūmiņš

24. Ņikita Izratov (EE)

Qualification results: here.

Standings for 2014: Standings

That was the final race of Latvian downhill longboarding series 2014 powered by RIPOshop.lv! Thank you to all the riders – see you all next year!

‘’Alpacas second chance 2014’’ downhill race coming up!

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Raksi 2nd chance

Latvian downhill longboarding series 2014 last event is just around the corner! The last race ‘’Alpacas second chance 2014’’ will happen on 20-21 September next to recreation complex ‘’Rakši’’ (GPS coordinates – 57.275887 , 25.193367 ).

On this course also ‘’Alpaca speed festival race was held in 2013 and 2014 – check the videos

The course is less than a kilometer long, fast with top speed a bit over 80km/h (average speed 65km/h for fastest) – raw run

Riders will compete in 4 groups – juniors, ladies, Masters & OPEN.

On the first day we will have practice runs & qualification but on second more practice and head-to-head finals.

Entry fee is 30 EUR (juniors 20 EUR). If you register later than 16th September 23:59 + 10 EUR are added (you pay on the race place),

Racers can compete in just one day, but it won’t affect the entry fee!

As usual we are planning to rent a guest house for riders and their friends – bed will be 10 EUR per person (you must bring your own sleeping bag/pillow).

Don’t forget to register and see you in ‘’Rakši’’ – Alpacas are waiting 😉

Riders list:

Npk	Vārds Uzvārds / Name Surname
1.	Gustavs Gailītis
2.	Kaspars Balamovskis
3.	Kārlis Gross
4.	Ģirts Čonka
5.	Elīza Gailīte
6.	Jānis Geisters
7.	Toms Dreiblats
8.	Jānis Pundiņš
9.	Nikita Izratov (EE)
10.	Ģirts Vārtiņš
11.	Mārtiņš Kivlinieks
12.	Gustavs Zēgners
13.	Marks Kiseļovs
14.	Artjoms Smirnovs
15.	Rolands Stepanovs
16.	Elza Volonte
17.	Valdis Vītoliņš
18.	Toms Jansons
19.	Ints Barkāns
20.	Jānis Jirgens
21.	Klāvs Balamovskis
22.	Kārlis ''GEO'' Karlsons
23.	Āris Muitinieks
24.	Jānis Kundziņš

Latvian downhill longboarding series 2014 ranking before last round!

Point system (Masters, Women, Juniors) – 1st-25 points, 2-18, 3-15, 4-12, 5-10, 6-8, 7-6, 8-4, 9-2, 10-1.

Masters

Top5 riders are so close that the rider who wins ‘’Alpacas second chance’’ will win the series as well!

#	Name Surname	Priekuļi	Rakši	Madona	Total
1	Arguts Skudrēns	12	18	12	42
2	Edžus Konošonoks	15	12	10	37
3	Ģirts Vārtiņš	18	-	18	36
4	Artjoms Smirnovs	6	15	15	36
5	Ints Barkāns	10	-	25	35
6	Erikas Jaksiboga	8	25	-	33
7	Lukas Kirkilionis	25	-	-	25
8	Ritmārs Stivriņš	-	10	-	10
9	Krišjānis Krūmiņš	-	-	8	8

Ladies

Elīza Gailīte won all the races and already is the series champion for 2014!

#	Name Surname	Priekuļi	Rakši	Madona	Total
1	Elīza Marija Gailīte	25	25	25	75
2	Elza Volonte	12	15	18	45
3	Liene Bērziņa	18	18	-	36
4	Baiba Grunsberga	8	10	10	28
5	Arta Skudrēna	10	-	15	25
6	Līga Žvingule	15	-	-	15
7	April Whitlow	-	12	-	12
8	Zhanna Ramanovich	-	-	12	12
9	Kitija Blūma	-	-	8	8
10	Ieve Sefere	-	-	6	6

Juniors

Toms Dreiblats during his last season in juniors is unstoppable – he is series champion and if he wins in Rakši again, he will have perfect season!

#	Name Surname	Priekuļi	Rakši	Madona	Total
1	Toms Dreiblats	25	25	25	75
2	Jānis Geisters	18	18	12	48
3	Gustavs Zēgners	12	15	15	42
4	Ernests Liepiņš	15	-	18	33
5	Jānis Pundiņš	-	-	10	10
6	Eduards Dainis	-	-	8	8

OPEN

Point system for OPEN – 1st -115 points, 2-95, 3-85,4-76, 5-68, 6-61, 7-55, 8-50, 9-46, 10-42, 11-41 (one position lower – 1 point)

Gustavs Gailītis, Jānis Jirgens, Oleg Ramanovich – top3 guys in the ranking! The champion will be the one who wins the last race (or finishes highest)!

Gustavs won the 1st race (Priekuļi), but felt in the finish and broke his foot. He wasn’t able to praticipate in the 2nd race, but came back and won 3rd one (Madona).

Jānis was 5th in Priekuļi, won Rakši, but made a big mistake in Madona – he felt and finished just 9th losing 1st place in the ranking.

Oleg had a solid season (6th in Priekuļi, 3rd in Rakši, 5th in Madona), he also participated at ‘’Kozakov challenge 2014’’.

Theoretically there are 6 more guys that might win the series, but it won’t be easy! Also there are few fast names on the rider list who haven’t raced this year, so finals and fight for top10 in the series overall will be spectacular!

#	Name Surname	Priekuļi	Rakši	Madona	Total
1	Gustavs Gailītis	115	-	115	230
2	Jānis Jirgens	68	115	46	229
3	Oleg Ramanovich	61	85	68	214
4	Kaspars Balamovskis	76	50	61	187
5	Toms Dreiblats	50	29	95	174
6	Klāvs Balamovskis	46	68	43	157
7	Stepas Jonaitis	40	95	-	135
8	Edžus Konošonoks	35	43	55	133
9	Mārtiņš Liepiņš	-	76	50	126
10	Jānis Kundziņš	41	37	35	113
11	Dominikas Pečkys	85	26	-	111
12	Āris Muitinieks	43	61	-	104
13	Jānis Geisters	34	28	40	102
14	Rytis Stankevičius	-	23	76	99
15	Elīza Gailīte	33	36	29	98
16	Lukas Kirkilionis	95	-	-	95
17	Arguts Skudrēns	39	25	31	95
18	Elza Volonte	31	38	24	93
19	Erikas Jaksiboga	36	55	-	91
20	Sergey Aksenov	-	-	85	85
21	Artjoms Smirnovs	10	35	38	83
22	Gustavs Zēgners	23	24	33	80
23	Darius Stankevičius	-	46	34	80
24	Ģirts Čonka	17	33	27	77
25	Karolis Mažulis	37	39	-	76
26	Kristaps Dzīvītis	32	41	-	73
27	Aivars Kārkliņš	30	40	-	70
28	Mārtiņš Kivlinieks	28	-	37	65
29	Baiba Grunsberga	13	30	22	65
30	Ernests Liepiņš	24	-	36	60
31	Ints Barkāns	25	-	32	57
32	Edijs Jermačenko	55	-	-	55
33	Kārlis Karlsons	27	27	-	54
34	Alvils Bijons	12	-	41	53
35	Liene Bērziņa	19	34	-	53
36	Rolands Stepanovs	16	-	30	46
37	Krišjānis Liepa	18		25	43
38	Ģirts Vārtiņš	22	-	20	42
39	Krišjānis Krūmiņš	-	-	39	39
40	Jānis Podiņš	38	-	-	38
41	Arta Skudrēna	14	-	23	37
42	Aivars Prokopovičs	18	-	16	34
43	Kārlis Gross	11	22	-	33
44	Valdis Vītoliņš	-	32	-	32
45	April Whitlow	-	31	-	31
46	Vladislavs Kuzminskis	29	-	-	29
47	Jānis Pundiņš	-	-	28	28
48	Dāvis Andersons	26	-	-	26
49	Eduards Dainis	-	-	26	26
50	Olafs Bura	-	21	-	21
51	Henrijs Geidāns	21	-	-	21
52	Zhanna Ramanovich	-	-	21	21
53	Ritmārs Stivriņš	-	20	-	20
54	Arnas Repečka	20	-	-	20
55	Toms Jansons	-	19	-	19
56	Mikus Rullis	-	-	19	19
57	Kitija Blūma	-	-	18	18
58	Ieva Sefere	-	-	17	17
59	Līga Žvingule	15	-	-	15
60	Timo Lorenzo	-	-	15	15

Push Race in Jurmala

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Jurmala Push Race

On Saturday, September 6 at. 11:30 in Dzintaru “Mezaparks” will happen longboard push race!

“Madona longboard challenge” champions have been crowned!

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Madona Podium

On 30-31 August in Madonas city sports and recreation complex ‘’Smeceres Sils’’ two day international longboard event was held called ‘’Madona longboard challenge 2014’’! Riders from 5 countries attended the race – Latvia, Lithuania, Belarus, Russia and Italy.

On the first day the 3rd race of Latvian downhill longboarding series 2014 was held. In the qualification in both OPEN and junior groups the fastest was Toms Dreiblats. 2nd place went to Gustavs Gailītis, for whom it was first downhill event after breaking his foot on the 1st race of the series. 3rd place went to Jānis Jirgens, 4th Mārtiņš Liepiņš, 5th Rytis Stankevičius.

In Masters group Edžus Konošonoks dominated the qualification, but for ladies Elīza Gailīte was unbeatable again.

The finals were exciting in all the groups and luckily there weren’t serious injuries.

In juniors Toms Dreiblats dominated 4th race in a row winning all the heats, leaving behind him Ernests Liepiņš, Gustavs Zēgners and Jānis Geisters who was first after the start but felt during one of the turns. With this win Dreiblats became also the series junior champion before the last race!

In ladies group just 17 year old Elīza Gailīte also was unstoppable and also managed to win and become series women champion in advance! Second place went to Elza Volonte, third Arta Skudrēna, but fourth Zhanna Ramanovich from Belarus.

In Masters Ints Barkāns grabbed the 1st spot, but Ģirts Vārtiņš was close behind. 3rd place was Artjoms Smirnovs, 4th Arguts Skudrēns, but 5th Edžus Konošonoks. All of them still continue fight for the series title in 2014!

In OPEN group every heat was super intense. In quarterfinal previous race winner & series ranking leader Jānis Jirgens felt which leaved him in 9th place.

From first semi final Gustavs Gailītis and Moscow rider Sergey Aksenov grabbed places in final, but from second Toms Dreiblats and Lithuanian rider Rytis Stankevičius.

In the big final Latvians dominated from the start – Gailītis managed to win but junior Dreiblats got his first OPEN podium grabbing 2nd place. 3rd went to Aksenov but Rytis Stankevičius got 4th.

With this win Gailītis went back to the lead in series ranking (2 wins and one race missed because of injury) just one point in front of Jirgens (5th, 1st, 9th) and Ramanovich (6th, 3rd, 5th). Series champion will be decided in the last race n 20-21 September in ‘’Rakši’’.

On the second day ‘’Skate&shoot’’ event was held of 2nd day in a row – in men group Ramanovich won, Ernests Liepiņš was second, but Masters rider Edžus Konošonoks third. For ladies Elīza Gailīte won again, Arta Skudrēna was second and Elza Volonte third.

In ‘’Slide jam’’ just 13 year old Jānis Pundiņš was awarder as hardworking grom with his impressive stand up slides.

The Latvian downhill longboarding series 2014 will end on 20-21 September with ‘’Alpacas second chance 2014’’ race next to recreation complex ‘’Rakši’’!

Qualification results: here.

DH Race results

Masters
1. Ints Barkāns
2. Ģirts Vārtiņš
3. Artjoms Smirnovs
4. Arguts Skudrēns
5. Edžus Konošonoks
6. Krišjānis Krūmiņš

Women
1. Elīza Marija Gailīte
2. Elza Volonte
3. Arta Skudrēna
4. Zhanna Ramanovich (BY)
5. Baiba Grunsberga
6. Kitija Blūma
7. Ieva Sefere

Juniors
1. Toms Dreiblats
2. Ernests Liepiņš
3. Gustavs Zēgners
4. Jānis Geisters
5. Jānis Pundiņš
6. Eduards Dainis

OPEN*
1. Gustavs Gailītis
2. Toms Dreiblats
3. Sergey Aksenov (RU)
4. Rytis Stankevičius (LT)
5. Oleg Ramanovich (BY)
6. Kaspars Balamovskis
7. Edžus Konošonoks
8. Mārtiņš Liepiņš
9. Jānis Jirgens
10. Klāvs Balamovskis
11. Alvils Bijons
12. Jānis Geisters
13. Krišjānis Krūmiņš
14. Artjoms Smirnovs
15. Mārtiņš Kivlinieks
16. Ernests Liepiņš
17. Jānis Kundziņš
18. Darius Stankevičius (LT)
19. Gustavs Zēgners
20. Ints Barkāns
21. Arguts Skudrēns
22. Rolands Stepanovs
23. Elīza Gailīte
24. Jānis Pundiņš
25. Ģirts Čonka
26. Eduards Dainis
27. Krišjānis Liepa
28. Elza Volonte
29. Arta Skudrēna
30. Baiba Grunsberga
31. Zhanna Ramanovich (BY)
32. Ģirts Vārtiņš
33. Mikus Rullis
34. Kitija Blūma
35. Ieva Sefere
36. Aivars Prokopovičs
37. Timo Lorenzo (IT)

Skate& shoot 2014

Vārds / Name	Rezultāts / Result
1. Oleg Ramanovich	2:17:12 + 0 = 2:17:12
2. Ernests Liepiņš	2:10:96 + 1 = 2:30:96
3. Edžus Konošonoks	2:31:79 + 0 = 2:31:79
4. Vladislavs Kuzminskis	2:48:87 + 0 = 2:48:87
5. Kaspars Balamovskis	2:50:93 + 0 = 2:50:93
6. Jānis Jirgens	2:32:16 + 1 = 2:52:16
7. Rolands Stepanovs	2:54:66 + 0 = 2:54:66
8. Darius Stankevičius	2:35:63 + 1 = 2:55:63
9. Mārtiņš Liepiņš	2:36:94 + 1 = 2:56:94
10. Jānis Kundziņš	2:38:97 + 1 = 2:58:97
11. Rytis Stankevičius	2:27:50 + 2 = 3:07:50
12. Artjoms Smirnovs	2:52:16 + 1 = 3:12:16
13. Alvils Bijons	2:32:28 + 2 = 3:12:28
14. Elīza Marija Gailīte	3:13:75 + 0 = 3:13:75
15. Gustavs Zēgners	2:34:72 + 2 = 3:14:72
16. Sergey Aksenov	2:36:37 + 2 = 3:16:37
17. Mārtiņš Kivlinieks	2:17:81 + 3 = 3:17:81
18. Krišjānis Liepa	2:45:00 + 2 = 3:25:00
19. Klāvs Balamovskis	3:05:91 + 1 = 3:25:91
20. Eduards Dainis	3:06:13 + 1 = 3:26:13
21. Ints Barkāns	2:47:40 + 2 = 3:27:40
22. Arguts Skudrēns	3:09:41 + 1 = 3:29:41
23. Arta Skudrēna	3:16:87 + 1 = 3:36:87
24. Gustavs Gailītis	2:22:97 + 4 = 3:42:97
25. Valdis Sermols	2:56:00 + 3 = 3:56:00
26. Jānis Pundiņš	2:59:53 + 3 = 3:59:53
27. Timo Lorenzo	3:01:44 + 3 = 4:01:44
28. Ģirts Čonka	3:49:22 + 3 = 4:49:22
29. Elza Volonte	3:16:00 + 5 = 4:56:00
30. Ģirts Vārtiņš	3:22:40 + 5 = 5:02:40
31. Kitija Blūma	3:36:15 + 5 = 5:16:15

1 penalty = 20 seconds (raw time + penalties = final time)

Registration for “Madona longboard challenge 2014” has begun!

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Madona challange 2014

On 30th and 31st of August in Madona city, ‘’Smeceres Sils’’ biathlon complex ‘’Madona longboard challenge 2014’’ will be held – this will be the 3rd race of Latvian downhill longboarding series 2014! On the first day the downhill race will happen – practice & qualification runs, as well as the final heats. On Sunday second year in a row we will have skate&shoot event – a mixture of biathlon and longboarding. Also a slide jam contest will be held.

Downhill race course – this 1,4km course is the slowest of all the courses, but at the same time quite technical and interesting even for experienced riders

In downhill event racers will compete in 4 groups – open, women, masters, juniors. In skate& shoot we will have 2 groups – men and women, but in slide jam we will have one combined group.

Entry fee for ‘’Madona longboard challenge 2014’’ – EUR 25 (for juniors – EUR 15).
If you register after 26th august + EUR 10.

Just like last year we will rent the lovely guest houses and we recommend all of you to stay there (cost is EUR 10 per person).

Race registration – here

Schedule (subject to change):

Saturday, 30th August
12:00-14:00 – practice
14:00-17:00 qualification
17:00-21:00 final heats

Sunday. 31st August
11:00-13:00 skate&shoot
13:00-14:00 slide jam
14:30 award ceremony

See you in Madona!

Nr	Vārs/Name
1	Gustavs Gailītis
2	Elza Volonte
3	Erikas (Rico) Jaksiboga (LT)
4	Gustavs Zēgners
5	Mārtiņš Liepiņš
6	Jānis Pundiņš
7	Eduards Dainis
8	Alvils Bijons
9	Ernests Liepiņš
10	Elīza Gailīte
11	Mikus Rullis
12	Toms Dreiblats
13	Mārtiņš Kivlinieks
14	Kārlis Gross
15	Jānis Geisters
16	Kaspars Balamovskis
17	Aivars Kārkliņš
18	Krišjānis Liepa
19	Oleg Ramanovich (BY)
20	Zhanna Ramanovich (BY)
21	Alexey Litvinsky (BY)
22	Sergey Zagusta (BY)
23	Edžus Konošonoks
24	Rolands Stepanovs
25	Kitija Blūma
26	Jānis Jirgens
27	Imants Bisenieks
28	Einārs Lansmanis
29	Andrejs Solncevs
30	Arguts Skudrēns
31	Ģirts Vārtiņš
32	Sergey Aksenov (RU)
33	Gints Zommers
34	Darius Stankevicius (LT)
35	Arta Skudrēna
36	Sīmanis Berziņš
37	Ints Barkāns
38	Ieva Sefere
39	Baiba Grunsberga
40	Kārlis ''GEO'' Karlsons
41	Rytis Stankevičius (LT)
42	Artjoms Smirnovs
43	Ričards Litavnieks
44	Ralfs Gailītis
45	Klāvs Balamovskis