Best of the pictures by    Antti Everi

Nordic Championships - the competition where 8 nations can compete - Sweden, Finland, Denmark, Iceland plus three Baltic nations - Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia. This time Iceland, Lithuania and Estonia did not compete, but from the next time participation of Baltic States is to be restricted

My competition

Opening ceremony and presentation of my category...

Two succesful attempts - on left my second snatch attempt of 128.0 kg and on the right - 151.0 kg in the clean&jerk. Pretty easy lifts!

This was my last attempt on 163.0! Unsuccesful - not enough freshness. On the right - what did I do wrong?? :-)

Dette mesterskapet har de senere år også vært åpent for de Baltiske landene noe som har medført at bla Norge har "mistet" flere nordiske mestere. I for ble Jarleif Amdal utsatt for dette, i år ble det Steinar Kvame som ble nr 2 i selv om han var beste nordiske deltaker. Med norsk rekord i rykk med 129 kg og med 145 i første forsøk i støt ble han en sikker " vinner" utenom en løfter fra Baltikum.Han hadde også et forsøk på 151 kg som ikke var håppløst. The two weakest Nordic nations - Norway and Denmark - better would like to compete without Baltic States!

"God, bless Latvia!" (Anthem of the Republic of Latvia) - for the third time in the Noridc Championships (2000, 2003 and 2005).

Some other competitors

Norwegian Ruth Kasirye on left was the best female lifter, but Antti Everi on the right - was the best male lifter!

Swedish Jowan Safari on left and Gerda Sundstrom on the right.

Attractive girls from Finalnd - Katariina Vestman on left and Anna Everi on the right.

<- Jag och  Patric Bettembourg; Jowan, Madaleine, Gerda och Ulf fran Sverige  ->

So, the time has come... for something unusual. We had a non-traditional competition there. You should understand what for competition it was. But, not like in the real competition, it was very hard to decide the winner :-) (I think I should not put here the enlargement option)

And our talisman - SNUS, of course :-)

There could have been many more nice pictures - but the place where they should have been taken, was not really suitable for making pics cause of the character of the place and, of course, because of some national charictaristics of the host nation ;-)