Elīna Ringa

Elīna Ringa is the first official female pole-vaulter in Latvia and also the first Latvian female national record holder in this event. She won the Latvian National Championship competition outdoors and indoors more than ten times.

Elina Ringa was born in Riga, the capital of Latvia, on 29 September, in 1980.

The first official record in Latvian athletics for female pole-vault was set by Elina at the Riga Championship in 1996, she vaulted at 2.60 m. In 2006, in the same town, she achieved 3.80 m.

Personal bests in other events Elina has also competed in other athletic events. In the high jump, her personal best is 1.70 m.

Job Elina has diverse professional experience across education, information technology, and consulting. She began her career as a Teacher of Sports for handicapped children, a Teacher of Applied Computer Science, and a Trainer of corporate Computer courses. She later built extensive experience in IT support and consulting before expanding her expertise into systems administration, software testing, business analysis, project management, and solution architecture. Currently, Elina continues to work in the IT and services field.

Since 2021, Elina has also been consulting and coaching young pole vaulters.

Publications Elina has written study materials about Microsoft Office applications 2000-2007, Windows 2000/XP, HTML/CSS, MOSS 2007 and others. Her book, "Microsoft Excel 2007. Strādāsim ātrāk, ērtāk un efektīvāk!" ("Let's work faster, easier and more efficiently!"), was published by Turiba. and bought by many educational institutions and bookstores.