Latvia_at_the_2016_Summer_Paralympics
Latvia at the 2016 Summer Paralympics
Sporting event delegation
Latvia competed at the 2016 Summer Paralympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from 7 to 18 September 2016. They won four medals; two gold and two bronze. It was their most successful paralympic games to date.
| Latvia at the 2016 Summer Paralympics | |
|---|---|
| IPC code | LAT |
| NPC | Latvian Paralympic Committee |
| Website | www |
| in Rio de Janeiro | |
| Competitors | 11 in 6 sports |
| Medals Ranked 45th |
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| Summer Paralympics appearances (overview) | |
| Other related appearances | |
 Soviet Union (1988) | |
Every participant at the Paralympics has their disability grouped into one of five disability categories; amputation, the condition may be congenital or sustained through injury or illness; cerebral palsy; wheelchair athletes, there is often overlap between this and other categories; visual impairment, including blindness; Les autres, any physical disability that does not fall strictly under one of the other categories, for example dwarfism or multiple sclerosis.[1][2] Each Paralympic sport then has its own classifications, dependent upon the specific physical demands of competition. Events are given a code, made of numbers and letters, describing the type of event and classification of the athletes competing. Some sports, such as athletics, divide athletes by both the category and severity of their disabilities, other sports, for example swimming, group competitors from different categories together, the only separation being based on the severity of the disability.[3]
| Medal | Name | Sport | Event | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 Gold | Aigars Apinis | Athletics | Men's discus throw F51/52 | 8 September |
| Gold | Diāna Dadzīte | Athletics | Women's javelin throw F515/56 | 10 September |
 Bronze | Edgars Bergs | Athletics | Men's shot put F35 | 12 September |
| Bronze | Diāna Dadzīte | Athletics | Women's discus throw F55 | 17 September |
| Medals by sport | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sport |  |
 |
 |
Total | ||
| Athletics | 2 | 0 | 2 | 4 | ||
| Total | 2 | 0 | 2 | 4 | ||
Latvia qualified one archer for the Rio Games following their performance at the 2015 World Archery Para Championships. Ieve Melle earned the spot in the women's recurve open after defeating Czech archer Marketa Sidkova in straight sets.[4]
| Athlete | Event | Ranking round | Round of 32 | Round of 16 | Quarterfinals | Semifinals | Finals | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Score | Seed | Opposition score |
Opposition score |
Opposition score |
Opposition score |
Opposition score |
Rank | ||
| Gints Jonasts | Men's individual recurve open | 541 | 32 |  Ranjbarkivaj (IRI)L 2–6 |
did not advance | 17 | |||
| Ieva Melle | Women's individual recurve open | 592 | 12 |  Lee (TPE)W 6–5 |
 Silva Carvalho (BRA)W 6–4 |
 Olszewska (POL)L 0–6 |
did not advance | 8 | |
| Gints Jonasts Ieva Melle |
Mixed team recurve open | 1133 | 13 | Bye |  Airoldi /Mijno (ITA) L 0–6 |
did not advance | 9 | ||
| Athlete | Event | Heat | Final | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Result | Rank | Result | Rank | ||
| Aigars Apinis | Men's discus throw F52 | — | 20.83 | | |
| Edgars Bergs | Men's shot put F35 | — | 14.55 | | |
| Diāna Dadzīte | Women's discus throw F55 | — | 22.66 | | |
| Women's javelin throw F56 | — | 23.26 | | ||
| Taiga Kantāne | Women's discus throw F38 | — | 23.53 | 11 | |
| Women's shot put F37 | — | 8.78 | 7 | ||
The country earned an individual slot via the Para Equestrian Individual Ranking List Allocation method.[5]
| Athlete | Horse | Event | Final | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Result | Rank | |||
| Rihards Snikus | King of the Dance | Individual Championship test grade Ia | 73.174 | 6 |
| Individual Freestyle test grade Ia | 72.900 | 5 | ||
| Athlete(s) | Event | Heats | Repechage | Final | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Time | Rank | Time | Rank | Time | Rank | ||
| Eduards Pupelis Žanna Cvečkovska |
Mixed double sculls | 4:36.95 | 6 R | 4:41.33 | 5 FB | 4:32.39 | 11 |
Eduards Pupels Qualification Legend: FA=Final A (medal); FB=Final B (non-medal); R=Repechage
- Men
| Athlete | Event | Heat | Final | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Result | Rank | Result | Rank | ||
| Jānis Plotnieks | 100 m backstroke S10 | 1:07.96 | 11 | did not advance | |
- Women
| Athlete | Event | Group stage | Quarterfinals | Semifinals | Final | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Opposition | Result | Rank | Opposition Result |
Opposition Result |
Opposition Result |
Rank | ||
| Polina Rožkova | Individual épée A |  Yevheniia Breus (UKR) |
L 2–5 | 6 | did not advance | |||
 Yu Chui Yee (HKG) |
W 5–2 | |||||||
| Marta Fidrych (POL) |
L 3–5 | |||||||
 Veres Amarilla (HUN) |
L 1–5 | |||||||
 Bian Jing (CHN) |
L 1–5 | |||||||
On 15 November 2016 Latvijas Pasts issued three different postage stamps to commemorate the three Latvian medal winners of the 2016 Paralympics, which makes it the first time in Latvian history that paralympics are commemorated with a postage stamp issue.[6]
- "Paralympics categories explained". ABC. 3 September 2008. Retrieved 25 December 2015.
- "Making sense of the categories". BBC Sport. 6 October 2000. Retrieved 25 December 2015.
- "A-Z of Paralympic classification". BBC Sport. 28 August 2008. Retrieved 25 December 2015.
- "DONAUESCHINGEN AWARDS 82 RIO 2016 PARALYMPIC QUOTA PLACES". World Archery Federation. 26 August 2015. Retrieved 24 December 2015.
- "EQUESTRIAN" (PDF). FEI. International Paralympic Committee. August 24, 2016. Retrieved August 24, 2016.
- "Latvijas Pasts izdevis paralimpiskajiem varoņiem veltītas pastmarkas" (in Latvian). kasjauns.lv. 15 November 2016. Retrieved 24 December 2016.