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The Latvijas Universitāte men's basketball team represents University of Latvia in Riga, Latvia, also known as LU. and it plays in the Latvian Basketball League and Latvian-Estonian Basketball League. The LU once won seven Latvian championships in the 1930s and returned to the Latvian League Division 1 before the 2010-11 season.
With the beginning of the Soviet occupation, the university was renamed as the Latvian State University (LVU, Latvian: Latvijas Valsts Universitāte) from 1940 to 1941 and from 1944/1945 to 1958. Under the Nazi occupation , from 1942 to 1944/1945 its name was the University of Riga ( Latvian : Rīgas Universitāte ).
FK Metta (also called FK Metta/Latvijas Universitāte from 2007 till the end of 2018 season) is a professional Latvian football club in Riga. As of 2012 they play in the Latvian Higher League. Metta play their home games at Daugava Stadium. Until June 2018, their home venue was the Riga Hanza Secondary School Stadium.
The 2011 final again went to 7 games, with VEF Rīga defeating Ventspils. Between 2011 and 2018, the title changed hands frequently, with BK Valmiera Ordo claiming the title in 2016. Since the introduction of the Latvian-Estonian Basketball League in the 2018/2019 season, the regular LBL championship was merged into the LEBL.
[11] [12] After the renovation the stadium now meets UEFA Category 4 and IAAF Category 2 requirements. [13] The second and final phase – during which the construction of a roof over the west terrace, a new ice rink replacing the one built in 1960 (demolished in 2018) and new, multi-functional sports halls is planned – is scheduled to be ...
The Latvian football league system, also known as the football pyramid, is a series of interconnected leagues for men's association football clubs in Latvia.The system has a hierarchical format with promotion and relegation between leagues at different levels, allowing even the smallest club the theoretical possibility of ultimately rising to the very top of the system, the Latvian Higher League.
7 May 2023 Riga, Latvia 10,000 m: 30:38.78 Jeļena Prokopčuka: 7 August 2006 European Championships: Gothenburg, Sweden 10 km (road) 31:33 Jeļena Prokopčuka: 21 May 2006 Great Manchester Run: Manchester, United Kingdom 20 km (road) 1:06:44 Jeļena Prokopčuka: 13 October 2002 Paris, France Half marathon: 1:08:43 Jeļena Prokopčuka: 7 ...
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