Cup disciplines:
Men – 400m, triple jump, javelin throw
Women – 200m, long jump, javelin throw
Promo disciplines:
Men – 100m, 200m, 800m, 3000m/st.
Women – 100m, 400m, 800m, high jump
Best Latvian athletes are motivated to achieve high results in front of a home crowd – Latvian record holder in javelin throw Madara Palameika, European U23 champion in 400m – Gunta Vaicule (ex. Latiseva-Cudare), Latvian record holder in 400m Janis Leitis and javelin throwers with personal best over 83m – Rolands Strobinders and Gatis Cakss. Some of the top athletes competing in Riga Cup:
100m and 200m – Krystsina Tsimanouskaya (Belarus) – European U23 Championships 2 nd place 100m (2017)
400m – Małgorzata Hołub-Kowalik (Poland) – European Championships 1 st place (2018) and World Championships 3 rd place 4x400m relay (2017)
High jump – Iryna Herashchenko (Ukraine) – European U23 Championships 2 nd place (2017)
Javelin throw – Liveta Jasiūnaite (Lithuania) – European Championships 3 rd place (2018)
Long jump – Jazmin Sawyers (Great Britain) – European championships 2 nd place (2016)
100m – Jorge Henrique Da Costa Vides (Brazil) – Olympic Games 6 th place 4x100m relay
400m – Karol Zalewski (Poland) – World Indoor Championships 1 st place 4x400m relay (2018)
Javelin throw – Bernhard Seifert (Germany) – European U23 Championships 2 nd place (2013)
Triple jump – Yoann Rapinier (France) – European Championships 4th place (2014) and European Indoor Championships 4th place (2019)
Home page, starting lists, online results –
www.rigaskausi.lv and https://athletics.lv/en/event/36490/riga-cup-2019