SELL Student Games

SELL Student Games is a multi-sport event that is open for all university and college students all over the world. The name of the games is according to the first letters of the hosting countries who all in the Baltic Sea precinct – Finland, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania – in their respective languages (Finnish: Suomi, Estonian: Eesti, Latvian: Latvija, Lithuanian: Lietuva). The principles of the games are that everyone can participate and therefore the event combines top sports and joyful student event. Nowadays the games gather around 1800–2000 students.

Events

The main disciplines of the games are athletics, swimming, orienteering, judo and chess as individual events. Basketball, volleyball (mini) football and floorball / unihockey are as team events. Also tennis, badminton, table tennis, wrestling, ultimate, aesthetic group gymnastics and ice-hockey has appeared in the games.

History

In 1923 student organizations of Finland, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania established an extensive co-operation agreement, which resulted in first regional student competition for the university students of the respective countries in Tartu, Estonia. The competitions lasted until 1940 when the last winter games were held before the ties between Baltic States were severed by World War II. During this period there were organized separately summer games, winter games and chess tournaments. After Baltic States became independent again the tradition of competition was restored in a meeting held 21.4. 1997, and the SELL Games were organized in 1998 in Tartu. The competition has been open to all university students around the world since then.

Hosts

SELL summer games

	Year	Host
I	1923	Tartu, Estonia
II	1924	Riga, Latvia
III	1926	Helsinki, Finland
IV	1929	Kaunas, Lithuania
V	1930	Tallinn, Estonia
VI	1931	Riga, Latvia
VII	1932	Helsinki, Finland
VIII	1933	Kaunas, Lithuania
IX	1934	Tartu, Estonia
X	1935	Riga, Latvia
XI	1936	Helsinki, Finland
XII	1937	Kaunas, Lithuania
XIII	1938	Tartu, Estonia
XIV	1939	Riga, Latvia (cancelled)
	1940–1997	Not held
XV	1998	Tartu, Estonia
XVI	1999	Kaunas, Lithuania
XVII	2000	Jelgava, Latvia
XVIII	2002	Tartu, Estonia
XIX	2003	Kaunas, Lithuania
XX	2004	Tampere, Finland
XXI	2005	Riga, Latvia
XXII	2006	Tartu, Estonia
XXIII	2007	Kaunas, Lithuania
XXIV	2008	Espoo, Finland
XXV	2009	Jelgava, Latvia
XXVI	2010	Tartu, Estonia
XXVII	2011	Kaunas, Lithuania
XXVIII	2012	Espoo, Finland
XXIX	2013	Riga, Latvia
XXX	2014	Tartu, Estonia
XXXI	2015	Kaunas, Lithuania
XXXII	2016	Tampere, Finland
XXXIII	2017	Riga, Latvia
XXXIV	2018	Tartu, Estonia
XXXV	2019	Kaunas, Lithuania
XXXVI	2020	Lahti, Finland (cancelled)
	2021	Not held
XXXVII	2022	Riga, Latvia

SELL winter games

	Year	Host
I	1929	Riga, Latvia
II	1931	Helsinki, Finland
III	1933	Kaunas, Lithuania (cancelled)
IV	1935	Riga & Sigulda, Latvia
V	1938	Zarasai, Lithuania
VI	1940	Otepää, Estonia

SELL chess tournaments

	Year	Host
I	1937	Riga, Latvia
II	1938	Tartu, Estonia
III	1939	Helsinki, Finland

Records

Athletics has been one of the sports held at the Games since the inaugural edition.

Men's athletics

Event	Record	Athlete	Nationality	Year	Games	Ref.
100 m	10.47	Rytis Sakalauskas		2010	Template:Flagicon Tartu
200 m	20.89	Rytis Sakalauskas		2010	Template:Flagicon Tartu
400 m	47.20	Jānis Leitis		2010	Template:Flagicon Tartu
800 m	1:50.29	Vitalij Kozlov		2007	Template:Flagicon Kaunas
1500 m	3:45.85	Dmitrijs Jurkevičs	Template:Flagu	24 May 2013	Template:Flagicon Riga, Latvia
5000 m	14:18.23	Simas Bertašius	Template:Flagu	20 May 2017	Template:Flagicon Riga, Latvia
110 m hurdles	13.85 Template:Wind	Elmo Lakka	Template:Flagu	13 May 2016	Template:Flagicon Tampere, Finland
400 m hurdles	52.27	Valdas Valintėlis		2011	Template:Flagicon Kaunas
High jump	2.25 m	Raivydas Stanys		25 May 2013	Template:Flagicon Riga, Latvia
Long jump	7.78 m	Povilas Mykolaitis		2003	Template:Flagicon Kaunas
Triple jump	16.10 m	Mantas Dilys		2010	Template:Flagicon Tartu
Shot put	20.05 m	Māris Urtāns		2007	Template:Flagicon Kaunas
Discus throw	64.79 m	Andrius Gudžius	Template:Flagu	17 May 2014	Template:Flagicon Tartu, Estonia
Hammer throw	59.56 m	Juha Rinta-aho	Template:Flagu	14 May 2016	Template:Flagicon Tampere, Finland
Javelin throw	86.36 m	Vadims Vasilevskis		2007	Template:Flagicon Kaunas
5000 m walk (track)	20:16.07	Marius Žiūkas		2011	Template:Flagicon Kaunas
4 × 100 m relay	40.57	LKKA		2010	Template:Flagicon Tartu

Women's athletics

Event	Record	Athlete	Nationality	Year	Games	Ref.
100 m	11.51	Lina Grinčikaitė		2010	Template:Flagicon Tartu
200 m	23.69	Lina Grinčikaitė		2010	Template:Flagicon Tartu
400 m	53.48	Agnė Orlauskaitė		2011	Template:Flagicon Kaunas
800 m	2:02.55	Eglė Balčiūnaitė		2008	Template:Flagicon Espoo
1500 m	4:21.12	Rasa Drazdauskaitė		2003	Template:Flagicon Kaunas
3000 m	9:20.93	Vaida Žūsinaitė	Template:Flagu	May 2012	Template:Flagicon Espoo, Finland
5000 m	16:38.90	Milda Vilčinskaitė	Template:Flagu	14 May 2016	Template:Flagicon Tampere, Finland
100 m hurdles	13.55	Sonata Tamošaitytė		2011	Template:Flagicon Kaunas
400 m hurdles	1:01.82	Sandra Kruma		2009	Template:Flagicon Jelgava
High jump	1.92 m	Anna Iljuštšenko		2010	Template:Flagicon Tartu
Long jump	6.40 Template:Wind	Aiga Grabuste	Template:Flagu	16 May 2014	Template:Flagicon Tartu, Estonia
Triple jump	13.42 m	Adrija Grocienė		2000	Template:Flagicon Jelgava
Shot put	16.50 m	Chia-Ying Lin		2006	Template:Flagicon Tartu
Discus throw	51.75 m	Dace Ruskule		2003	Template:Flagicon Kaunas
Hammer throw	63.33 m	Kati Ojaloo	Template:Flagu	14 May 2016	Template:Flagicon Tampere, Finland
Javelin throw	61.60 m	Anete Kociņa	Template:Flagu	19 May 2017	Template:Flagicon Riga, Latvia
3000 m walk (track)	13:10.75	Anita Kažemaka		2011	Template:Flagicon Kaunas
4 × 100 m relay	45.93	LKKA		2007	Template:Flagicon Kaunas

See also

• South American University Games
• European Universities Games
• ASEAN University Games
• All-Africa University Games
• Baltic Sea Games

References

• Bell, Daniel (2003). Encyclopedia of International Games (Pg. 337-8). McFarland and Company, Inc. Publishers, Jefferson, North Carolina. Template:ISBN.