He was born and raised in Riga. He attended Rīgas sporta skola "Arkādija". He is coached by Mareks Ārents.^[2]^[3]^[4]

He won the Latvian national championship pole vault title for the first time in July 2023 in Valmiera.^[5] He finished fourth in the pole vault at the 2023 European Athletics U23 Championships in Espoo, Finland, with a new personal best height of 5.60 metres.^[6]

He made his senior championships debut at the 2024 European Athletics Championships in Rome, where a clearance of 5.45 meters saw him share 14th place.^[7] That month, he increased his personal best and Latvian under-23 record to 5.72 metres and retained his Latvian national title.^[8]^[9] He competed in the pole vault at the 2024 Paris Olympics where he qualified for the final with a 5.70 metres clearance, before placing twelfth overall in the final.^[10]^[11] In February 2025 he set a new national record with a 5.82 metres clearance at Roubaix.^[12]

He competed at the 2025 European Athletics Indoor Championships in Apeldoorn, Netherlands where he cleared 5.75 metres in the qualifying round to reach the final of the competition.^[13] In the final, he finishes in sixth place overall, the highest finish achieved by a Latvian athlete at the Championships.^[3]

He competed at the 2025 World Athletics Indoor Championships in Nanjing in March 2025, where he tied for eighth place in the pole vault with a 5.50 metres clearance. It was the best placed finish by a Latvian athlete at a global games for 15 years.^[4] He won the silver medal for Latvia at the 2025 Summer World University Games in Germany.^[14]

Career

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