The Baltic States Swimming Championships is an annual swimming competition between best swimmers from Baltic states: Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia.
Highest ended 2 swimmers from each nation collect points for their team. Even though there is a lot of competing swimmers only 6 swimmers in each event end up collecting the points in individual events: 2 from Estonia, 2 from Latvia, 2 from Lithuania. Those 6 swimmers distribute points among themselves in this order: 1st place – 7 points, 2nd place – 5 points, 3rd – 4 points, 4th – 3 points, 5th – 2 points, 6th – 1 point. In relay competition only one team per nation can score the points, which are 14 points for 1st place, 10 points for 2nd place and 8 points for 3rd place in nations classification. If a relay team (or a swimmer) did not start, did not finish or get disqualified country automatically receives 0 points penalty for that event. Country with the most points wins overall championships. [1]
In 2018, points scoring for the open age group were the following: 1st place – 20 points, 2nd place – 15 points, 3rd – 12 points, 4th – 10 points, 5th – 8 points, 6th – 6 points, 7th – 4 points, 8th – 3 points. The 8 participants in the final are based on the morning heat results – 1 fastest swimmer from each country and 5 any other fastest swimmers. One relay team per country brings points to their team, scoring previously mentioned points multiplied by 2. [2]
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Year | City | Venue | Date | Overall winner |
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2009 | Alytus | Alytus Sports and Recreation Centre | February 28 – March 1 | Lithuania [3] |
2010 | Tartu | Aura Center | March 6–7 | Lithuania [4] |
2011 | Riga | Ķīpsala Pool | March 12–13 | Lithuania [5] |
2012 | Alytus | Alytus Sports and Recreation Centre | March 9–10 | Lithuania [6] |
2013 | Tartu | Aura Center | March 8–9 | Lithuania [7] |
2014 | Riga | Ķīpsala Pool | March 7–8 | Lithuania [8] |
2015 | Kaunas | Girstutis Swimming Pool | April 10–11 | Lithuania |
2016 | Tallinn | Kalev Spa Water Park | April 22–23 | Estonia [9] [10] |
2017 | Riga | Ķīpsala Pool | March 31 – April 1 | Estonia [11] |
2018 | Kaunas | Girstutis Swimming Pool | March 23–24 [12] | Lithuania [13] [14] |
2019 | Tartu | Aura Center | March 22–23 [15] | Estonia [16] |
2020 | Riga | Ķīpsala Pool | March 7–8 [17] | Estonia [18] |
2021 | Klaipėda | Klaipėda Pool | March 6–7 [19] | Lithuania |
2022 | Tartu | Aura Center | March 26–27 [20] | Estonia [21] |
2023 | Riga | Ķīpsala Pool | March 3–4 [22] |
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