Matīss Burģis (born 31 August 1989) is a
Latvia
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table tennis
Table tennis, also known as ping-pong and whiff-whaff, is a sport in which two or four players hit a lightweight ball, also known as the ping-pong ball, back and forth across a table using small solid rackets. It takes place on a hard table div ...
player. He represented Latvia at
2012 Summer Olympics
The 2012 Summer Olympics (officially the Games of the XXX Olympiad and also known as London 2012) was an international multi-sport event held from 27 July to 12 August 2012 in London, England, United Kingdom. The first event, the ...
, reaching the second round.
Burģis was the first Latvian table tennis player who competed at Olympics.
He was born in
Priekule, Latvia
Priekule (; german: Preekuln) is a town in South Kurzeme Municipality in the Courland region of Latvia
Latvia ( or ; lv, Latvija ; ltg, Latveja; liv, Leţmō), officially the Republic of Latvia ( lv, Latvijas Republika, links=no, l ...
.
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1989 births
Living people
Latvian table tennis players
Table tennis players at the 2012 Summer Olympics
Olympic table tennis players of Latvia
Table tennis players at the 2015 European Games
European Games competitors for Latvia
People from Priekule Municipality
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