Editing Latvia (section)

=== Sport ===
{{Main|Sport in Latvia}}
[[File:Arena Riga CAN-CZE-2006-05-14.JPG|thumb|[[Arena Riga]] during the 2006 IIHF World Championship]]
Ice hockey is usually considered the most popular sport in Latvia. Latvia has had many famous hockey stars like [[Helmuts Balderis]], [[Artūrs Irbe]], [[Kārlis Skrastiņš]] and [[Sandis Ozoliņš]] and more recently [[Zemgus Girgensons]], whom the Latvian people have strongly supported in international and NHL play, expressed through the dedication of using the NHL's All Star Voting to bring Zemgus to number one in voting.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nhl.com/ice/news.htm?id=743166|title=Sabres' Girgensons expands lead as top vote-getter in 2015 NHL All-Star Fan Vote presented by SiriusXM|work=nhl.com|access-date=12 December 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141211004651/http://www.nhl.com/ice/news.htm?id=743166|archive-date=11 December 2014|url-status=live}}</ref> [[Dinamo Riga]] is the country's strongest hockey club, playing in the [[Latvian Hockey Higher League]]. The national tournament is the [[Latvian Hockey Higher League]], held since 1931. The [[2006 IIHF World Championship]] was held in Riga.
[[File:Kristaps Porzingis.jpg|thumb|left|150px|Kristaps Porziņģis]]
The second most popular sport is basketball. Latvia has a long basketball tradition, as the [[Latvia men's national basketball team|Latvian national basketball team]] won the first ever [[EuroBasket]] in [[EuroBasket 1935|1935]] and silver medals in [[EuroBasket 1939|1939]], after losing the final to [[Lithuania men's national basketball team|Lithuania]] by one point. Latvia has had many European basketball stars like [[Jānis Krūmiņš]], [[Maigonis Valdmanis]], [[Valdis Muižnieks]], [[Valdis Valters]], [[Igors Miglinieks]], as well as the first Latvian [[National Basketball Association|NBA]] player [[Gundars Vētra]]. [[Andris Biedriņš]] is one of the most well-known Latvian basketball players, who played in the [[National Basketball Association|NBA]] for the [[Golden State Warriors]] and the [[Utah Jazz]]. Current [[National Basketball Association|NBA]] players include [[Kristaps Porziņģis]], who plays for the [[Boston Celtics]], [[Dāvis Bertāns]], who plays for the [[Oklahoma City Thunder]], and [[Rodions Kurucs]], who last played for the [[Milwaukee Bucks]]. Former Latvian basketball club [[Rīgas ASK]] won the [[Euroleague Basketball|Euroleague]] tournament three times in a row before becoming defunct. Currently, [[BK VEF Rīga|VEF Rīga]], which competes in [[Eurocup Basketball|EuroCup]], is the strongest professional basketball club in Latvia. [[BK Ventspils]], which participates in [[EuroChallenge]], is the second strongest basketball club in Latvia, previously winning [[Latvijas Basketbola līga|LBL]] eight times and [[Baltic Basketball League|BBL]] in 2013.{{citation needed|date=March 2015}} Latvia was one of the [[EuroBasket 2015]] hosts and will be one of the hosts once again in [[EuroBasket 2025|2025]].

Other popular sports include [[association football|football]], [[floorball]], tennis, volleyball, cycling, [[bobsleigh]] and [[skeleton (sport)|skeleton]]. The [[Latvia national football team|Latvian national football team]]'s only major [[FIFA]] tournament participation has been the [[UEFA Euro 2004|2004 UEFA European Championship]].<ref>{{cite web| url=http://www.uefa.com/teamsandplayers/teams/teama/team=56558/profile/| title=Latvia team profile| publisher=[[UEFA|Uefa.com]]| date=6 January 2014| access-date=3 November 2015| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160205161652/http://www.uefa.com/teamsandplayers/teams/teama/team=56558/profile/| archive-date=5 February 2016| url-status=dead}}</ref>

[[Latvia at the Olympics|Latvia]] has participated successfully in both [[Winter Olympics|Winter]] and [[Summer Olympics]]. The most successful Olympic athlete in the history of independent Latvia has been [[Māris Štrombergs]], who became a two-time Olympic champion in 2008 and 2012 at Men's BMX.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.espn.com/action/bmx/story/_/id/8255371/colombia-mariana-pajon-latvia-maris-strombergs-win-olympic-bmx-gold-london|title=Pajon, Strombergs win Olympic BMX Finals|work=ESPN.com|access-date=17 November 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171118222249/http://www.espn.com/action/bmx/story/_/id/8255371/colombia-mariana-pajon-latvia-maris-strombergs-win-olympic-bmx-gold-london|archive-date=18 November 2017|url-status=live}}</ref>

In Boxing, [[Mairis Briedis]] is the first and only Latvian to date, to win a boxing world title, having held the WBC cruiserweight title from 2017 to 2018, the WBO cruiserweight title in 2019, and the IBF / The Ring magazine cruiserweight titles in 2020.

In 2017, Latvian tennis player [[Jeļena Ostapenko]] won the [[2017 French Open – Women's Singles|2017 French Open Women's singles title]], being the first unseeded player to do so in the open era.

In Futsal, Latvia will host the [[UEFA Futsal Euro 2026]] alongside Lithuania, their national team will make their debut as co-host.