When I started taking interest in masters’ achievements, records and success stories it turned out that in Latvia you practically couldn’t find that kind of information. In 2005, after the current „Second wind” competitions in Valmiera, I got the minutes of the results of competitions from the then „AQUA” club president Ilze Butina. That gave rise to the formation of masters’ statistics. This process seemed interesting to me, and I understood – if this information is not saved it will be lost forever.

That is why I have started this home page -because I have collected quite a lot of information about the results of our swimmers, and I want to share it with you. I am doing it also in order to unite all those who once were engaged in swimming sports and achieved great or not so great success and those who are in serious training now, as well as those who have practised swimming just for fun and those who have regularly attended doctor-recommended treatment classes in swimming, and those who... no matter what! If you are fond of swimming, on my home page you will find information about competitions, results, different ratings and records, you will be able to see picture galleries of swimming competitions and read current news referring to masters’ swimming.

In Latvia, swimming as sports is not among the most popular kinds. Unfortunately. But I hope that this attitude is just temporary. On the other hand, perhaps it is hard to compete with sports games, like basketball, football, hockey... But then again, swimming as a leisure activity occupies one of the leading positions. Year after year, masters’ swimming has been gaining more and more ground in the world - the unbelievably great number of participants in world and European championships is indicative of that. It means that here in Latvia, we ourselves should be more active in participating and promoting masters’ sports!

My e-mail address: aldis@latswimmasters.com

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