
Dear amateurs of swimming and masters athletes, beautiful Riga is glad to invite you to participate in the Latvian Open Masters Swimming Championships 2018! This international tournament will be held in 26-27 May 2018 in Kipsalas 50-metres pool with 8 lanes and OMEGA timekeeping system.
Latvian Open Masters Swimming Championships 2018
26-27 May 2018 ⇒ Riga, Latvia / 50m, 8-lane swimming pool with OMEGA Ares 21 timekeeping system;
General info: International Open Tournament for amateurs & masters swimmers (Age Groups from 20+) .
Web: www.swimming.lv | Regulations ⇒ Regulations | Entry fees ⇒ Athlete = 20 € / Each Relay = 20 €

Latvian Masters Open is a great brand-project of Latvian Swimming Federation (LPF) with international sports promotion of EMG European Masters League. International Open Masters swimming tournaments in Latvia it’s always an atmosphere of friendship and a great sports holiday!

Program of the Latvian Masters Open 2018:
26th May (Saturday) 2018
Participant registration – 14:30
Warm up – 15:15
Start – 16:00
100m freestyle (women, men)
50 breaststroke (women, men)
400m medley (women, men)*
100m backstroke (women, men)
200m butterfly (women, men)
400m freestyle (women, men)*
200m breaststroke (women, men)
50m butterfly (women, men)
800m freestyle (women, men)*
4×50m freestyle relay (MIX)
27th May (Sunday) 2018
Warm up – 11:00
Start – 11:45
200m freestyle (women, men)
100m breaststroke (women, men)
100m butterfly (women, men)
50m backstroke (women, men)
200m medley (women, men)
50m freestyle (women, men)
200m backstroke (women, men)
1500 freestyle (women, men)*
4×50 medley relay (MIX)
Award ceremony 30 minutes after last start
* – in these events there is time limit:
• 400m free style women – 9:00.00; men – 8:00.00
• 400m medley woman – 9:30.00; men – 8:30.00
• 800m free style woman – 20:00.00; men – 19:00.00
• 1500m free style woman – 35:00.00; men – 34:00.00
If there will be a lot of participants in the events of 800m and 1500m free style, then there will be two persons per lane. Please pay attention that each participant has only half lane in which he stays all the time of the event.

Awarding:
• First, second and third place is awarded in individual events and relay events with the respective medals in each age group.
• 10 best swimmers will be awarded with money prizes. Best swimmers will be found out by counting together two event points by using DSV Master Performance Table 2016.
• In public group (beginners) each swimmer will be awarded with medal and diploma.

Registration:
Applications are accepted from organizations which represent swimmers, team representatives or individual swimmers (Official Clubs or Teams) and individual participants (don’t have a masters licence or membership in sport club). Official masters athletes with club licence (entry fee 20 € / athlete), participants without membership (licence) – entry fee 25 € / person.
• Completed application form needs to be sent to LPF email address → info@swimming.lv – till 20th May 2018, 23:59.
• After the deadline the registration is closed.
• If it’s necessary the final changes in entry needs to be sent till 22nd of May, 23:59, to email address → info@swimming.lv
• One hour before the session start is the last chance to submit team relay participant list – name, surname, year of birth and relay team age group – to competition secretary staff.
Web: www.swimming.lv | Regulations ⇒ Official Rules and Regulations

Photo: © Ķīpsalas Peldbaseins
Discover Riga with your sports friends and family!
Open your active summer with Latvian Open Masters Swimming Championships 2018!

Photo: © Ķīpsalas Peldbaseins
European Sports Promoter: © EMG , Latvian Swimming Federation via Swim.by



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