Daugavpils sportstmen

Since its foundation, Daugavpils Olympic Center has provided significant support in promoting tens of Daugavpils sportsmen in their preparation for the highest level competitions, including World, European and Latvian Championships and Olympic Games. Among them are such well-known sportsmen as:

Athletes: Igor Kazanov, Dmitriy Yurkevich

Wrestlers: Anastasiya Grigoryeva, Alexander Pomyalov, Karalina Tyapko

Triatlhonists: Anatoliy Levsha, Karina Radionova

Biathlonists: Oleg Malyuhin, Konstantin Deruk

Weghtlifter: Artjom Zherebkov

Fencers: Yuliya Vansovich, Vitaliy Stasyuk

        Daugavpils triathlonist Anatoliy Levsha has achieved grandiose results in his sports career. He has become tripple world champion in double triathlon, and won  gold in 2009  Latvian Championship in "half ironmen" distance.

          Daugavpils biathlonist Oleg Malyuhin, who is the perminent participant of World  and European championships and Olympic Games, in 2002 became European Champion in biathlon. At present Oleg is preparing for the 2010 Olympic Games in Vancouver.

Today Daugavpils can be proud not only of the old generation sportsmen, but of young perspective sportsmen in many disciplines.

In 2008 Daugavpils junior sportsmen showed high results in international competitions. Firstly, these are wrestlers. Anastasiya Grigoryeva  has become European Junior champion in wrestling. In 2009 she  performed the silver result in European Junior Championship in Lithuania and won silver in the World Junior Championship in Turkey.  

Daugavpils weightlifters produced high performance in their discipline.  In 2008  the talented weightlifter Artyom Zherebkov, coached by his father  Alexander Zherebkov (the Olympian in  weightlifting), won the golden medal in European U17 Championship in 50kg weight category. In 2009 Artyom won bronze in Cadet European  Championship, which was held in Israel.

The athlete Dmitriy Yurkevich is a multi times Latvian champion. Today Dmitriy Yurkevich is the only Daugavpils athlete, who has been showing persistent performance.  In 2008 this talented sprinter has performed the olympic "B" normative in  800m sprint, as well as won gold in "B" group European Cup.  In february,2009 in "GE Galan”  competitions in Sweden, he was 1st in "B" finalrun in his favourite 800m distance  sprint with the new personal record.  But in 2009 in International Athletics Competitions in Germany, Dessau, Dmitriy Yurkevich performed the new Latvian record in 1 500m distance sprint (3:39:69). It is interesting to note that the previous State record, which was achieved by another Daugavpils athlete Erik Barkovskiy, has not been broken since 1985 (3:40:68).

         In 2008 successful results in international tournaments achieved: biathlonist Konstantin Deruk (silver in European Cup in summer biathlon) , Karalina Tyapko (silver in European Wrestling Championship) and Alexander Pomyalov (bronze in European Wrestling Championship).

         Daugavpils history is closely connected with sports history , where each city resident can choose his own favourite kind of sport and achieve there  his best.