History of BW

History of the Baltic Way

About Baltic Way

The first Baltic Way competition - "Baltic Way `90" - took place in Riga, Latvia, 1990. The name of the competition comes from the mass demonstration for the freedom of the Baltic states organized in August 23, 1989, when people from Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania stood hand in hand along the road from Tallinn to Vilnius. Participants in Baltic Way `90 and Baltic Way `91 were student teams from Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, two teams from each state. Since 1992 teams from other countries surrounding the Baltic Sea are invited. Now normally 11 teams are participating in the contests:  Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Germany (represented mainly by Rostock and Hamburg), Denmark, Iceland, Norway, Sweden, Finland and Russia (represented by St.Petersburg). Though Iceland is not formally a Baltic state, it is invited because it was the first state in the world which recognized the independence of Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia in 1991. The participating teams consist each of five contestants, a leader and a deputy leader. The contestants must be high school students. The contest consists of solving 20 mathematical problems selected by the Jury. The time for the contest is 4 hours 30 minutes. Each team works together and the team members are free to discuss the work between them.

Earlier Baltic Way contests