Saying Goodbye to Age 18...

29.06.1962 (Padomju Jaunatne)

Sun or Rain - Fighting Fire Will Not Go Out

The exams in secondary schools are over, but several hundred students — all the best athletes — have to pass one more test: in the great spectacle of sportsmanship — the XV (anniversary) Spartakiad of the school youth of the Latvian SSR. That's why these days you see so many athletic, sun-tanned young people on the streets of Riga. Opening the Spartakiad, the Deputy Minister of Education of the Latvian SSR, b. L. Grudulls, wished them a lot of fighting spirit. This is a good wish, because many of the participants in these competitions will already represent our republic next summer in such an outstanding sports event as the III Spartakiad of the Peoples of the USSR.

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Saying Goodbye to Age 18...

A few more days, and Artūrs Sliede will be 19 years old. He competed in the shot put outside the competition the day before yesterday. There were a lot of rural youth who watched how the 6 kg shot put flew 16m 56cm from the hands of the republic's youth record holder. No, Artūrs had not come to the "Dinamo" stadium in vain - he said goodbye to 18 years of age with a new Latvian SSR youth record . 

The best shot put students this time were: Eduards Kārkliņš (15,16) from Liepaja, P. Rasimovičs (Lēnin district) and K. Māziņš (Valmiera).