Elīna Ringa is the first official female pole-vaulter in Latvia and also the first Latvian female national record holder in this event. She won the Latvian National Championship competition outdoors and indoors more than ten times. Elina Ringa was born in

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, the capital of

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, on 29 September, in 1980.Latvian sports book series: "Vieglatlētikas gadagrāmata" 1997-2009Latvian newspaper "Sports" 1996-2001 The first official record in Latvian athletics for female pole-vault was set by Elina at the Riga Championship in 1996, she vaulted at 2.60 m. The national record was broken by Elina more than 15 times. Her last national record outdoor was 3.72 m, set in 2000 in

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and indoor - 3,75 m, set in 2001 in

. She ended her sporting career after sustaining injuries several times.

Result progression

Elina set a new national record for pole-vault with a jump of 3.10 m in

, Latvia in 1996; her personal best at the time. In 1997, at

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in Finland, she improved upon this by achieving 3.40 m, again setting the National Record. In 2000, in

(a large town in the

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of Latvia), she vaulted to 3.72 , setting a new record there as well as improving upon her personal best. In 2006, in the same town, she achieved 3.80 m.

Personal bests in other events

Elina has also competed in other athletic events. In the

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, her personal best is 1.70 m. In the

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, she has achieved 5.85 m. In sprint events, she has run 100 m in 12.4 seconds, and 60 m in 7.6 seconds.

Education

Instead of attending the Latvian Academy of Sport Education, Elina chose

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and studied Education Sciences, then, Applied Computer Science. In 2012th she has successfully completed master's degree program in Computer Science ( IT field) a
Computing faculty
("Tradition brought to life - University of Latvia, Faculty of Computing Lady Adas Lavleisas birthday party")

Job

Elina has a various work experience. She started as a Teacher of Sports for handicapped children, then she worked as a Teacher of Applied Computer Science and Trainer of Computer courses. A lot of time she worked in IT Support and as IT consultant. Then, she worked as a System Administrator, System Test Analyst, Project Manager and also as IT Solutions Architect. Currently Elina continues to work in IT field.

Publications

Elina has written study materials about

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applications 2000-2007,

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2000/XP, HTML/CSS, MOSS 2007 and others. Her book, "Microsoft Excel 2007. Strādāsim ātrāk, ērtāk un efektīvāk!" ("Let's work faster, easier and more efficiently!"), was published by Turiba. and bought by many Education institutions and bookstores.

References

New link to worldathletics.org profile https://www.worldathletics.org/athletes/latvia/elina-ringa-14290071 {{DEFAULTSORT:Ringa, Elina Latvian female pole vaulters 1980 births University of Latvia alumni Living people Athletes from Riga