Baltic States Swimming Championships

The Baltic States Swimming Championships is an annual swimming competition between best swimmers from Baltic states: Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia.

Rules

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]

Championships

The list is incomplete

Year	City	Venue	Date	Overall winner
2009	Alytus	Alytus Sports and Recreation Centre	February 28 – March 1	Lithuania[3]
2010	Tartu	Aura Keskus	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 Keskus	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	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 Keskus	March 22–23[15]	Estonia[16]

Events

• Freestyle: 50 m, 100 m, 200 m, 400 m
• Backstroke: 50 m, 100 m, 200 m
• Breaststroke: 50 m, 100 m, 200 m
• Butterfly: 50 m, 100 m, 200 m
• Individual medley: 200 m, 400 m
• Relay: 4×100 m free, 4×100 m medley

See also

• List of Baltic records in swimming

References

1. "Šiaulių plaukimo mokyklos "Delfinas" internetinis puslapis. – Plaukimo mokykla, "Delfinas"".
2. https://www.swimrankings.net/services/CalendarFile/20732/Baltic_states_2018_FINAL_OK.pdf%5B%5D
3. "2009 Full results" (PDF).
4. "Baltijos šalių plaukimo čempionatas ir Baltijos šalių jaunučių plaukimo mačas". ltuswimming.com.
5. "2011 Full results" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2012-03-13. Retrieved 2014-06-27.
6. "2012 Full results" (PDF).
7. "2013 results" (PDF).
8. "2014 Full results" (PDF).
9. "2016 results" (PDF).
10. "2016 points" (PDF).
11. "2017 results" (PDF).
12. "Baltic States Swimming Championships 2018 results".
13. "Baltijos šalių čempionatą laimėjo lietuviai, pagerinti du šalies mergaičių rekordai". ltuswimming.com.
14. "2018 results" (PDF).
15. "2019 results" (PDF).
16. "Baltimaade meistrivõistlustel kogusid eestlased kõige enam punkte, Valdmaa püstitas noorte rekordi - Eesti Ujumisliit".