Mareks Ārents

Mareks Ārents

Personal information
Nationality	Latvian
Born	(1986-08-05) 5 August 1986 (age 38) Riga, Latvia
Height	1.89 m (6 ft 2 in)
Weight	78 kg (172 lb)
Sport
Country	Latvia
Sport	Track and field
Event	Pole vault
Coached by	Igors Izotovs, Marita Ārente, Maigonis Pūliņš
Achievements and titles
Personal best	5.70 m (2016)

Mareks Ārents (born 6 August 1986) is a Latvian track and field athlete competing in the pole vault. He has won the Latvian national championship 12 times. His personal record is 5.70 m, set in Jablonec in 2016. It is the third-best vault in the history of Latvian pole vault behind Aleksandrs Obižajevs's Latvian record (5.80 m) and Valters Kreišs (5.72 m).

He qualified for 2012 Summer Olympics in London, but did not reach the final.^[1][2] He also competed at the 2013 and 2015 World Championships.

At the 2013 European Indoor Championships he jumped 5.50 m, ranking him in 11th place, missing the final by 10 cm. In the Polish city of Bydgoszcz, at the XIII European Athletic Festival Ārents won the pole vault with a vault of 5.50 m.

Competition record

Year	Competition	Venue	Position	Notes
Representing  Latvia
2012	Olympic Games	London, United Kingdom	22nd (q)	5.35 m
2013	European Indoor Championships	Gothenburg, Sweden	11th (q)	5.50 m
	Universiade	Kazan, Russia	8th	5.30 m
	World Championships	Moscow, Russia	33rd (q)	5.25 m
2014	European Championships	Zürich, Switzerland	–	NM
2015	European Indoor Championships	Prague, Czech Republic	11th (q)	5.60 m
	World Championships	Beijing, China	25th (q)	5.55 m
2016	European Championships	Amsterdam, Netherlands	6th	5.50 m
	Olympic Games	Rio de Janeiro, Brazil	16th (q)	5.45 m
2017	European Indoor Championships	Belgrade, Serbia	8th	5.60 m
2018	European Championships	Berlin, Germany	22nd (q)	5.36 m

References

1. Kārtslēcējam Ārentam olimpiskais B normatīvs – 5.60 Archived 2012-07-06 at the Wayback Machine
2. "Mareks Ārents Bio, Stats, and Results". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Archived from the original on 2020-04-18. Retrieved 2016-03-20.

• http://www.olimpiade.lv/londona/olimpiska-delegacija/sportisti/vieglatletika/50-mareks-arents

External links

• Mareks Ārents at World Athletics