SELL Student Games
Multi-sport event for students
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SELL Student Games is an annualy held multi-sport event that is open for all university and college students all over the world. The Games are named as an acronym after the hosting Baltic Region countries in their native languages – Finland, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania (Finnish: Suomi, Estonian: Eesti, Latvian: Latvija, Lithuanian: Lietuva). The principles of the games are that everyone can participate and therefore the event combines top sports and joyful student event. The most recent 2026 games gather around 1,200 competing students.
Events
The main disciplines of the games are athletics, swimming, orienteering, judo, powerlifting and chess as individual events. Basketball and 3x3 basketball, volleyball and beach volleyball, seven-a-side football and floorball / unihockey are as team events. Also tennis, badminton, table tennis, padel, wrestling, ultimate frisbee, aesthetic group gymnastics and ice-hockey has appeared in the games.
History
In 1923 student organizations of Finland, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania established an extensive co-operation agreement, which resulted in first regional student competition for the university students of the respective countries in Tartu, Estonia. During this period there were organized separately summer games, winter games and chess tournaments. The competitions lasted until 1940 when the last winter games were held before the ties between Baltic States were severed by occupation of the Baltic States around the World War II.
After Baltic States became independent again the tradition of competition was restored in a meeting held 21 April 1997, and the 1998 SELL Games were organized in Tartu. The competition has been open to all university students around the world since then.
Hosts
SELL summer games
SELL winter games
SELL chess tournaments
Results
Records
Athletics has been one of the sports held at the Games since the inaugural edition.[4]
