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Kaspars
Kaspars is a Latvian masculine given name. It is a cognate to the German name Kaspar and English name Casper and may refer to: *Kaspars Astašenko (born 1975), Latvian ice hockey player * Kaspars Bērziņš (born 1985), Latvian basketball player *Kaspars Cipruss (born 1982), Latvian basketball player *Kaspars Daugaviņš (born 1988), Latvian ice hockey player *Kaspars Dubra (born 1990), Latvian football defender *Kaspars Dumpis (born 1982), Latvian luger and Olympic competitor * Kaspars Dumbris (born 1985), Latvian biathlete *Kaspars Gerhards (1969), Latvian politician *Kaspars Gorkšs (born 1981), Latvian footballer *Kaspars Ikstens (born 1988), Latvian footballer * Kaspars Kambala (born 1978), Latvian basketball player *Kaspars Liepiņš (born 1984), Latvian sidecarcross rider *Kaspars Ozers (born 1968), Latvian cyclist *Kaspars Petrovs (born 1978), Latvian convicted serial killer *Kaspars Saulietis (born 1987), Latvian ice hockey player * Kaspars Stupelis (born 1982), La ...
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Kaspars Gorkšs
Kaspars Gorkšs (born 6 November 1981) is a Latvian former professional footballer who played as a defender. Gorkšs was also the captain of the Latvian national team. From 2018 to 2019 Gorkšs served as president of the Latvian Football Federation. Gorkšs firstly established himself in his native Latvia before moving to English football in 2006 with Blackpool. He has twice won promotion to the Premier League, with Queens Park Rangers and Reading, respectively. Club career Early career Born in Riga, Gorkšs began his career at FK Auda, scoring nine goals in 77 appearances. After a week-long trial, he joined Swedish club, Östers IF in December 2002, playing in the Allsvenskan, the Swedish top flight. He moved to Assyriska Föreningen in 2005, who were then in the Allsvenskan. He moved back to Latvia in 2006, signing for FK Ventspils, and he scored five goals for Ventspils in the clubs Championship winning 2006 Virslīga season. He also played for Ventspils in the s ...
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Kaspars Kambala
Kaspars Kambala (born December 13, 1978) is a Latvian semi-professional basketball player, currently for BK Jūrmala, and a former professional boxer. Standing at , he plays at the position of forward-center. High school A 1997 graduate of Homestead High School in Mequon, Wisconsin and a native of Riga, Latvia. He averaged 21 points and 12 rebounds in his senior season (1996–97) and earned All-Wisconsin honors, all-state, MVP of the Northshore Conference and all-county. Homestead compiled a 16-9 overall record and finished second in conference. Kambala played in the Eddie Jones Classic All-Star game, which was held at the Pyramid in Long Beach, California, on April 15, 1997. College Kambala played college basketball at UNLV from 1997 to 2001. He led the team in scoring in 1999-2000 (18.5 average) and 2000-01 (16.9). He finished up in 2001 as the program's 10th all-time highest scorer and ranks fourth on the school's all-time rebounding list, leading the team in boards in thre ...
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Kaspars Bērziņš
Kaspars Bērziņš (born 25 August 1985) is a Latvian professional basketball player for New Taipei CTBC DEA of the T1 League. He has also represented the senior Latvian national team. Professional career Kaspars started playing basketball in his hometown of Ogre. Later he played for Skonto Riga, debuting in 2002–2003 season. His role increased in 2003–2004, when he averaged 7.3 points and 3.3 rebounds for Skonto in the LBL and 7.3 points and 3.0 rebounds in the FIBA Europe League, now known as the FIBA EuroCup. In both of those seasons Bērziņš played together with Andris Biedriņš. In 2004 both of them left Skonto. Biedriņš was drafted in the NBA by the Golden State Warriors, while Bērziņš moved to Spain where he joined Unicaja Málaga. He briefly played for Unicaja's first team, where he competed in one game in the ACB league, scoring two points, but most of his season was spent with the junior team in the EBA, Spain's second division. For the 2004–2005 ...
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Kaspars Vecvagars
Kaspars Vecvagars (born 3 August 1993) is a former Latvian professional basketball player and currently an assistant coach for Valmiera Glass ViA. Professional career On 25 January 2023, Vecvagars signed a 5-week contract with Heroes Den Bosch, with an option for an extension. After his experience in Netherlands, Kaspars call it a day in his player career and immediately started coaching. National team career Vecvagars has represented the Latvian national youth team in several competitions, including 2011 FIBA Under-19 World Championship The 2011 FIBA Under-19 World Championship (Latvian: 2011. gada FIBA pasaules čempionāts līdz 19 gadu vecumam) was the 10th edition of the FIBA U19 World Championship, the biennial international men's youth basketball championship contested by .... Vecvagars was a member of Latvia national team in EuroBasket 2015. References External links Kaspars Vecvagarsat draftexpress.com Kaspars Vecvagarsat eurobasket.com Kaspars Vecvagarsa ...
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Kaspars Dubra
Kaspars Dubra (born 20 December 1990) is a Latvian professional football defender who plays for RFS. He plays as a centre-back and as a defensive midfielder. Club career Skonto Riga Dubra started playing football at the age of seven, as a youth player he played for Skonto Riga academy JFC Skonto. In 2007, he was taken to the first team by that time manager Paul Ashworth, but didn't appear on the pitch that season. Before the start of the 2008 season Dubra was loaned out to another Latvian Higher League club located in Riga JFK Olimps. He played 25 matches through the season and managed to score twice. In 2009 Dubra was taken back to Skonto, but, playing only one match, was once again loaned to Olimps, playing 9 games and scoring once during this loan spell. In 2010, Dubra was one of several Olimps players to be taken to Skonto by the club's new manager Aleksandrs Starkovs. Dubra made a surprisingly good impact and earned himself a place in the starting line-up right af ...
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Kaspars Daugaviņš
Kaspars Daugaviņš (born May 18, 1988) is a Latvian professional ice hockey player who is currently an unrestricted free agent. He most recently played with Iserlohn Roosters of the Deutsche Eishockey Liga (DEL). Daugaviņš has played professionally in the National Hockey League (NHL) for the Ottawa Senators and Boston Bruins. The Senators selected him in the third round, 91st overall, in the 2006 NHL Entry Draft. Playing career As a youth, Daugaviņš played in the 2002 Quebec International Pee-Wee Hockey Tournament with a team from Riga. Professional After the Majors failed to qualify for the playoffs in the 2006–07 season, the Ottawa Senators assigned Daugaviņš to the Binghamton Senators to finish the season. In 11 games with Binghamton, Daugaviņš had two goals, both coming against the Albany River Rats goaltender Tyler Weiman in a 5–4 Binghamton win. On June 1, 2007, Daugaviņš signed a three-year, entry level contract with the Ottawa Senators. He spent the 20 ...
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Kaspars Stupelis
Kaspars Stupelis (born 7 July 1982) is a Latvian sidecarcross passenger and quadruple World Champion. Stupelis won the 2015 and 2019 World Championship as passenger of Etienne Bax. His previous two world championships were gained when being the passenger in Daniël Willemsen's team. In his time with Willemsen, he also won two Dutch titles in 2003 and 2004, an achievement repeated at the side of Bax in 2012, 2014 and 2015. Sidecarcross world championship results Kaspars Stupelis entered the sidecarcross world championship as a passenger for his fellow Latvian driver Modris Štelle in 2001. His first two seasons alongside Štelle were not particularly successful and it came as a surprise when the reigning world champion, Daniël Willemsen, picked him as his passenger for the 2003 season. The team was successful from the start, winning the first race of the season in Talavera de la Reina, Spain on 6 April 2003. It was Stupelis first race victory and he gained another 30 in this and ...
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Kaspars Znotiņš
Kaspars Znotiņš (born 7 October 1975) is a Latvian stage and film actor. Born in Jelgava, Latvia, Znotiņš began his career working on the New Riga Theatre, and has performed in stage productions at the Latvian National Theatre and Daile Theatre. Znotiņš has also appeared in a number of Latvian films, such as the 2010 Gatis Šmits-directed comedy-drama ''Return of Sergeant Lapins ''Return of Sergeant Lapins'' ( lv, Seržanta Lapiņa atgriešanās or initially ''Tas notika ar viņiem'') is a 2010 comedy-drama film directed by Latvian director Gatis Šmits. The film's plot is based on the play ''Tas notika ar viņiem'' ('' ...''. In 2010, he won the Season Award (Latvian: ''Spēlmaņu nakts''), an annual award bestowed upon to the best Latvian dramatic stage actor by the Latvian Theatre Union (LTDS) for his role in '' Ziedonis un visums'' (''Ziedonis and the Universe''). In 2017, he won the Lielais Kristaps Award for Best Actor for his role as Francis in the Aik Karape ...
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Kaspars Astašenko
Kaspars Astašenko (17 February 1975 – 20 November 2012) was a Latvian professional ice hockey player. Astašenko was born in Riga, Latvia. Astašenko was drafted by the Tampa Bay Lightning in the 1999 NHL Entry Draft, 127th overall. Astašenko played parts of two seasons in the National Hockey League with the Lightning. Playing career Junior Astašenko began his career in his native Riga with HK Pārdaugava Rīga, competing in both the Latvian top league and later to Russian Superleague before signing with Russian club, HC CSKA Moscow in 1995. North America In 1998, Astašenko signed with the Cincinnati Cyclones of the International Hockey League (1945–2001), International Hockey League. After a stint with the Cyclones, Astašenko was surprisingly drafted by Tampa Bay and went on to play 23 regular games in the National Hockey League (NHL) for the Lightning as well as playing for the IHL's Detroit Vipers and Long Beach Ice Dogs. He later played in the American Hockey ...
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Kaspars Gerhards
Kaspars Gerhards (born 7 February 1969 in Jelgava, Latvia Latvia ( or ; lv, Latvija ; ltg, Latveja; liv, Leţmō), officially the Republic of Latvia ( lv, Latvijas Republika, links=no, ltg, Latvejas Republika, links=no, liv, Leţmō Vabāmō, links=no), is a country in the Baltic region of ...) is a Latvian politician of the TB/LNNK (2008–11), respectively National Alliance (since 2011) party. He was the economy minister from 2007 to 2009, minister of transport from 2009 to 2010 and minister of environmental protection and regional development from 2014 to 2019. Since January 2019 he has served as minister of agriculture of Latvia. References 1969 births Living people People from Jelgava Ministers of Economics of Latvia Transport ministers of Latvia Ministers of the Environment of Latvia Ministers of Agriculture of Latvia For Fatherland and Freedom/LNNK politicians National Alliance (Latvia) politicians University of Latvia alumni Recipien ...
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Kaspars Dumbris
Kaspars Dumbris (born February 25, 1985 in Cēsis) is a retired Latvian biathlete. He competed in the 2010 Winter Olympics for Latvia. His lone race was the individual, where he finished 73rd. As of February 2013, his best performance at the Biathlon World Championships, is 12th, in the 2007 men's relay. His best individual performance is 41st, in the 2008 File:2008 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: Lehman Brothers went bankrupt following the Subprime mortgage crisis; Cyclone Nargis killed more than 138,000 in Myanmar; A scene from the opening ceremony of the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing; ... sprint. As of February 2013, his best Biathlon World Cup finish is 7th, as part of the Latvian men's relay team at Oberhof in 2009/10. His best individual finish is 48th, in the individual at Pokljuka in 2007/08. References 1985 births Biathletes at the 2010 Winter Olympics Latvian male biathletes Living people Olympic biathletes for Latvia People from Cēsis ...
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