Latvia at the 2010 Winter Olympics explained

Noc:	LAT
Nocname:	Latvian Olympic Committee
Games:	Winter Olympics
Year:	2010
Website:
Location:	Vancouver, Canada
Competitors:	58
Sports:	9
Flagbearer:	Martins Dukurs
Rank:	23
Gold:	0
Silver:	2
Bronze:	0
Appearances:	auto
See also:	(1900–1912) (1952–1988)

Latvia participated at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, with 58 athletes in 9 sports, which tied the biggest Latvian delegation to the Olympics ever.

At the Games, Haralds Silovs became the first athlete in Olympic games to participate in both short track (1500m) and long track (5000m) speed skating, and the first to compete in two different disciplines on the same day.^{[1] [2] [3] [4]}

Bobsledder Jānis Miņins, who was among the favourites in four-man bobsleigh, missed the Olympics, because of an appendix surgery he went through, when he had already arrived in Canada just days before the Olympic start. He participated also in several trainings for the four-man event, but after crashing twice, decided not to start.^[5]

Medalists

Medal	Name	Sport	Event	Date
					February 17
					February 19

Alpine skiing

See main article: Alpine skiing at the 2010 Winter Olympics.

Men

Athlete	Event	Final
		Time	Rank
Roberts Rode	Downhill	2:03.36	58
	Combined	-	DNF
Kristaps Zvejnieks	Giant slalom	2:58.62	62
	Slalom	1:51.29	37

Women

Athlete	Event	Final
		Time	Rank
Liene Fimbauere	Giant slalom	2:46.93	51
	Slalom	2:02.11	49

Biathlon

See main article: Biathlon at the 2010 Winter Olympics.

Men

Athlete	Event	Final
		Time	Misses	Rank
Ilmārs Bricis	Sprint	25:41.3	2 (1+1)	14
	Pursuit	36:14.9	4 (0+0+2+2)	32
	Individual	108:33.9	6 (3+1+1+1)	74
Kaspars Dumbris	Individual	56:30.1	5 (2+0+2+1)	73
Kristaps Lībietis	Sprint	27:32.5	1 (1+0)	64
	Individual	56:02.4	3 (2+0+1+0)	70
Edgars Piksons	Sprint	28:23.0	2 (1+1)	78
	Individual	52:52.5	2 (1+1+0+0)	37
Andrejs Rastorgujevs	Sprint	27:05.3	3 (2+1)	50
	Pursuit	41:35.9	9 (2+2+3+2)	58
Edgars Piksons Ilmārs Bricis Andrejs Rastorgujevs Kristaps Lībietis	Relay	1:35:15.5	7+16	19

Women

Athlete	Event	Final
		Time	Misses	Rank
Līga Glāzere	Sprint	22:47.7	1 (0+1)	69
	Individual	50:20.3	5 (3+0+1+1)	78
Žanna Juškāne	Sprint	23:32.4	3 (1+2)	79
	Individual	53:36.4	7 (3+1+1+2)	84
Gerda Krūmiņa	Sprint	22:09.3	1 (0+1)	48
	Pursuit	34:02.6	3 (0+0+2+1)	57
	Individual	48:00.1	4 (0+3+1+0)	69
Madara Līduma	Sprint	22:23.8	4 (2+2)	57
	Pursuit	37:58.7	4 (0+2+1+1)	38
	Individual	47:30.2	6 (0+3+1+2)	67
Žanna Juškāne Madara Līduma Līga Glāzere Gerda Krūmiņa	Relay	1:18:56.2	4+12	19

Bobsleigh

See main article: Bobsleigh at the 2010 Winter Olympics.

Two-man

Four-man

Sled	Athletes	Final
		Run 1	Run 2	Run 3	Run 4	Total	Rank
LAT I	Jānis Miņins Daumants Dreiškens Oskars Melbārdis Intars Dambis	DNS
LAT II	Edgars Maskalāns Pāvels Tulubjevs Raivis Broks Mihails Arhipovs	51.60	51.42	51.85	51.78	3:26.65	11

Cross-country skiing

See main article: Cross-country skiing at the 2010 Winter Olympics.

Men

Athlete	Event	Final
		Time	Rank
Jānis Paipals	15km freestyle	38:18.0	72
	30km pursuit	LAP	54
	Sprint	4:04.48	62

Women

Ice hockey

See main article: Ice hockey at the 2010 Winter Olympics.

Men's tournament

See main article: Ice hockey at the 2010 Winter Olympics – Men's tournament.

Roster

Group play

Latvia played in Group B.

Round-robinAll times are local (UTC-8).--------

Standings

Final rounds

Qualification playoff

Luge

See main article: Luge at the 2010 Winter Olympics.

Athlete(s)	Event	Run 1		Run 2		Run 3		Run 4		Total
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Inārs Kivlenieks	Men's	48.960	18	49.065	19	49.259	18	48.920	18	3:18.204	18
Guntis Rēķis	Men's	49.275	25	49.625	27	49.476	26	49.071	26	3:17.447	26
Mārtiņš Rubenis	Men's	48.818	13	48.831	11	49.064	11	48.809	11	3:15.525	11
Agnese Koklača	Women's	42.627	27	42.334	24	43.091	27	42.336	24	2:50.388	24
Anna Orlova	Women's	41.998	11	41.947	14	42.260	13	42.100	13	2:48.305	13
Maija Tīruma	Women's	41.773	4	41.933	8	42.012	8	41.936	9	2:47.654	9
Andris Šics & Juris Šics	Doubles	41.420	2	41.549	2		1:22.969
Oskars Gudramovičs & Pēteris Kalniņš	Doubles	41.982	12	42.013	12		1:23.995	12

Short track speed skating

See main article: Short track speed skating at the 2010 Winter Olympics.

Men

Athlete	Event	Heats		Quarterfinals		Semifinals		Final
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Haralds Silovs	500 m	41.673	2 Q	41.837	3	-	-		12
	1000 m	1:25.951	2 Q	1:50.292	4	-	-		14
	1500 m	-	-	2:14.900	2 Q	2:14.009	4 QB	2:19.435	10

Skeleton

See main article: Skeleton at the 2010 Winter Olympics.

Athlete(s)	Event	Run 1		Run 2		Run 3		Run 4		Total
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Martins Dukurs	Men's
Tomass Dukurs	Men's

Speed skating

See main article: Speed skating at the 2010 Winter Olympics.

Men

Notes and References

1. News: Latvia's quick-change artist makes Olympic history . Toronto Star . 2010-02-14 . 2010-02-18 . 2012-02-27 . https://web.archive.org/web/20120227075340/http://olympics.thestar.com/2010/article/765257--latvia-s-quick-change-artist-makes-olympic-history . dead .
2. News: Harris . Beth . Latvian speedskater is 1st to do double duty . Washington Post . 2010-02-13 . 2010-02-19.
3. CTV Olympics, "Latvian skater makes Olympic history", Agence France Press, 14 February 2010. Retrieved 18 February 2010.
4. New York Times, "Crosstown Ride to a Speedskating First", Associated Press, 30 January 2010. Retrieved 18 February 2010.
5. (in Latvian) parSportu.lv, "Miņins nestartēs arī četriniekos", 25 February 2010. Retrieved 27 February 2010.