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Latvia’s Ghetto Games initiator receives European Week of Sport award

BC, Riga, 20.09.2016.Print version

Raimonds Elbakjans, the initiator of Ghetto Games street sport and culture movement in Latvia, has received the European Week of Sport award in #BeActive Local Hero category, the event’s communication coordinator in Latvia Ieva Karklina told.


The award is presented by the European Commission to persons who inspire and facilitate participation of a certain group of the society in sport and physical activity.

Among finalists of the award there were also Jelgava Secondary School No.4 in the category of Education Award, and Swedbank in the category of Workplace Award.

The European Week of Sport starts out today. Latvian residents are invited to participate in 600 different events across Latvia. Some 200,000 participants have already registered for the events.





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