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==Sports events and clubs==
[[File:2017 European Beach Volleyball Championships.jpg|thumb|left|[[2017 European Beach Volleyball Championships]]]]
The [[2017 European Beach Volleyball Championships]] was held from August 16 to August 20, 2017. The draw consisted of 32 men's & 32 women's teams, with 100,000 EUR prize money per gender. The best Latvian men's team of [[Aleksandrs Samoilovs]] and [[Jānis Šmēdiņš]] took home silver, losing 2–0 to Italy in the finals. The best Latvian's women's team of [[Tina Graudina]] and Anastasija Kravcenoka lost in the quarterfinals to Germany 2–0. A 2,800 stadium was purpose built on [[Majori]] beach, with near capacity for most games.<ref>{{cite web|title=CEV - Confédération Européenne de Volleyball|url=http://www.cev.lu/BeachVolley-Area/BeachVolley_3BOX.aspx?ID=1009&mID=2053&sID=0&pID=0&chID=0&phaseID=0&champID=0&Mod=|website=www.cev.lu|access-date=22 December 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180108014856/http://www.cev.lu/BeachVolley-Area/BeachVolley_3BOX.aspx?ID=1009&mID=2053&sID=0&pID=0&chID=0&phaseID=0&champID=0&Mod=|archive-date=8 January 2018|url-status=dead}}</ref>

The 2012 [[Winter Swimming World Championships]] were hosted in Jūrmala in January with a then-record 1,129 participants attending. This made [[Latvia]] the 3rd international host since its inception in 2000 at [[Helsinki]], [[Finland]].<ref>{{cite web|title=About - Winter Swimming World Championships 2018|url=http://winterswimming.world/about/|website=Winter Swimming World Championships 2018|access-date=23 December 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=World Championships - International Winter Swimming Association|url=https://iwsa.world/world-championships|website=iwsa.world|access-date=23 December 2017|archive-date=14 May 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210514230527/https://iwsa.world/world-championships|url-status=dead}}</ref>

[[FK Spartaks]] is a Latvian football club in Jūrmala that plays its home matches in the 2,500 capacity [[Sloka Stadium]]. They won the [[Latvian Higher League]] football premiership in 2016 and 2017.

The [[Baltic Open]] tennis tournament, which is part of the [[WTA Tour]], is held at the National Tennis Center Lielupe in Jūrmala in July, starting in 2019.