The 11th Winter Swimming World Championships took place in Tallinn, Estonia from 6 to 10 March. This championship set new records – 1386 winter swimmers representing 40 countries were registered, which made it the largest in terms of the number of countries and participants to date.

The team “LATVIA” 48 winter swimmers, 25 from them “Jelgavas Roņi” team returned from the Winter Swimming World Championships with very good results!

The best results of the team “JELGAVAS ROŅI”:

Age group/name 25m breaststr. 50m breaststr. 100m breaststr. 25m butterfly
(A1) Aleksandrs Jakovļevs  (2003) 2 place (00:18,18) 1 place (00:40,49) 1 place (01:38,34) 3 place (00:16,95)
(E) Aleksandrs Jakovļevs (1969)     3 place (01:33,19)  
(C) Mihails Petrišins (1985)     3 place (01:28,76)  
Age group/name 25m breaststr. 25m freestyle 50m freestyle 100m freestyle
(A1) Aleksandrs Jakovļevs  (2003)   2 place (00:31,88) 2 place (01:16,68)
(J1) Viktors Valainis (1943.)   2 place (00:19,42) 2 place (00:45,93)
(I) Ivans Bergmanis (1951)   2 place (00:16,56)
 (J2) Jurijs Jakovļevs (1936) 3 place (00:44,46)

 

Team “LATVIA” total: 18 medals (3 gold, 8 silver, 7 bronzes), team “JELGAVAS ROŅI” 12 medals (2 gold, 6 silver, 4 bronzes). For the team “LATVIA” – 10th place from 40.

Air temperature: -2 ..- 5 ° C, water + 0,1 ° C, water area: Old City Marina.

Winter Swimming World Cup season 2017/2018 results of the club «JELGAVAS ROŅI» from the best of 10 (total points by age groups):

Aleksandrs Jakovļevs (junior) 1 place Group A1 506 points
Jurijs Jakovļevs 2 place Group J2 58 points
Ivans Bergmanis 4 place Group  I 328 points
Mihails Petrišins 4 place Group C 315 points
Aleksandrs Jakovļevs 5 place Group E 317 points
Dmitrijs Žigunovs 8 place Group B 133 points

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