Summer Paralympics 2008 / Participant (Latvia)

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Latvia took 18 athletes to the 2008 Summer Paralympics in China's Beijing in part.

The team's flag bearer at the opening ceremony was the athlete Edgars Bergs , Latvia's most successful athlete Aigars Apinis with a gold and a silver medal.

Participants by sport

Judo

Men

• Kaspars Biezais

athletics

Women

• Liene Gruzite
• Ingrida Priede

Men

• Aigars Apinis , 1 × (discus throwing, class F33 / 34/52), 1 × (shot put, class F33 / 34/52)
• Edgars Bergs , 1 × (shot put, class F35 / 36)

Powerlifting (bench press)

Men

• Aigars Visnevskis

Sitting volleyball

Women
Inara Barkane Una Dzalba Ionna Gailite Oksana Gromova Diana Ivanova Olga Jegorova Irina Yermolenko League Karliete Marite Pudane Nellija Rusina Linda Sila Zanna Skutane

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Summer Paralympic Participant List ( Memento from March 16, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Query at paralympic.org (as of September 28, 2008)
2. ↑ Paralympic.org, September 28, 2008, list of standard bearers ( memento of March 26, 2009 in the Internet Archive )