17.03.25 NEWS ... Estonian pair Ain Villau and Kätlin Riidebach won bronze at the World Wheelchair Mixed Doubles Curling Championship in Scotland, securing their place at the 2026 Paralympic Games. The medal is Estonia's first ever at a wheelchair curling world championship

17.03.25 NEWS ... On Saturday, March 22, Estonia's European champion Niina Petrõkina will be in action during a figure skating gala at Tallinn's Tondiraba Ice Hall. The event takes place during a full day of ice sports as part of the Tallinn 2025 European Capital of Sport program and is free to attend.

12.03.25 NEWS ... Susan Külm made history on Wednesday by becoming the first Estonian to record victory at the IBU Cup in Otepää, Valga County. Külm won the women's 12.5 km short individual event, with a perfect score in the shooting.

10.03.25 NEWS ... As part of the Tallinn 2025 European Capital of Sport program, a day dedicated to ice sports will take place at the Tondiraba Ice Hall on Saturday, March 22. Skating sessions will be led by top Estonian speed skater Saskia Alusalu, who finished fourth at the 2018 Winter Olympics.

05.03.25 NEWS ... Estonian speedskater Inger Markus may be just 8 years old but she's already the fastest in the world for her age. Speaking on ETV show "Ringvaade," Inger said she dreams of becoming a world champion in the future. Her parents, however, are just glad she enjoys the sport so much.

17.02.25 NEWS ... Estonia's top curling pair Marie Kaldvee and Harri Lill lost out narrowly in the final of the Tallinn Mixed Doubles Masters on Sunday. In a hard-fought contest, the Estonian duo were eventually beaten in an extra round by the Norwegain team of Magnus Nedregotten and Kristin Skaslien.

12.02.25 NEWS ... Cross-country skier Rasmus Penno won Estonia's first gold medal at the Invictus Games this week, which are taking place in Vancouver and Whistler in Canada.

07.02.25 NEWS ... This weekend (February 7 to 9), Otepää in Valga County is hosting the latest leg of the 2025 Nordic Combine World Cup. All the action will be shown live on ERR's channels, starting Friday afternoon.

03.02.25 NEWS ... Natalja Masterova, mother of newly-crowned European figure skating champion Niina Petrõkina, said her heart skipped a few beats during her daughter's free skating routine on Friday.

01.02.25 NEWS ... 20-year-old Niina Petrõkina delivered a showstopping program in the women's free skate finals at the ISU European Figure Skating Championships in her hometown of Tallinn on Friday, clinching the gold and making history as the first Estonian to win the European title.

23.01.25 NEWS ... Just three weeks before the 51st Tartu Ski Marathon is due to take place, the organizers are considering the possibility of relocating the event to Ida-Viru County due to the lack of snow on the usual course.

08.01.25 NEWS ... Europe's best skaters will be in action in Tallinn at the end of January, when the European Figure Skating Championships take place at the Tondiraba Ice Hall. The championships begin on January 29, with 163 figure skaters from 34 countries all expected to compete.

22.12.24 NEWS ... On the first day of winter, the Southern Estonian city of Otepää was once again named the winter capital of the country. While spring and fall can be challenging for local businesses, winter is when Otepää truly shines.

09.12.24 NEWS ... Estonian freestyle skiing star Kelly Sildaru has undergone knee surgery in Tallinn. In November, Sildaru fell during the warm-up at the Freestyle Skiing World Cup stage in Stubai, Austria, injuring the anterior cruciate ligament in her left knee.

27.11.24 NEWS ... Olympic bronze medalist Kelly Sildaru fell during the warm-up at the Freestyle Skiing World Cup stage held last Saturday in Stubai, Austria, and injured the anterior cruciate ligament in her left knee.

18.10.24 NEWS ... Estonian figure skater Aleksandr Selevko finished third in the men's singles short program at the ISU (International Skating Union) Trophy Métropole Nice Côte d'Azur in France.

14.03.24 NEWS ... On Saturday, March 16, the Estonian Freestyle Skiing and Snowboarding Big Air Championships is set to take place at Väike-Munamäe Ski Resort in Otepää. This will be the first time the FIS Estonian Open has been held. Estonia's Olympic bronze medalist Kelly Sildaru will also be competing in her first competition after returning from a year's absence due to injury.

11.03.24 NEWS ... Estonia's Kristjan Ilves finished third in this weekend's Nordic Combined World Cup event in Holmenkollen, Oslo, Norway. Ilves is fifth in the overall standings for the season.

22.02.24 NEWS ... Remo Perli, chief investigator at the Estonian Anti-Doping and Sports Ethics Foundation (EADSE), recommends that the Estonian Skating Federation involves people from outside in the committee investigating the Anna Levandi case. In an interview on ETV show "Terevisioon," Perli expressed hope that the law will move in a direction whereby the EADSE will also be able to deal with misconduct cases in all sports in Estonia.

21.02.24 NEWS ... Figure skating coach Anna Levandi, who has been accused by former students of mental and physical abuse, filed a similar complaint against coach Stanislav Zhuk during her own career. Zhuk lost his job at the CSKA sports club as a result of the complaint, essentially bringing his successful career to an end.

15.02.24 NEWS ... This weekend, the 50th edition of the Tartu Ski Marathon is set to take place. According to Andras Laugamets, head of the event's medical team, Sunday's participants have to be prepared for a demanding course.

04.02.24 NEWS ... Sunday saw the conclusion of the four-day Estonian Curling Championships at Tondiraba Ice Hall in Tallinn, where Team Veltsman, headed by skip Eduard Veltsman, came in first in the men's competition, bested overall only by the women's competition-winning Team Turmann, Estonia's national women's curling team, skipped by Liisa Turmann.

14.01.24 NEWS ... The Estonian Olympic Committee (EOK) is sending two dozen young athletes to South Korea to represent Estonia at the 2024 Winter Youth Olympic Games in Gangwon. Competing in nine different disciplines, Team Estonia will be in Gangwon from January 19 through February 1.

13.01.24 NEWS ... Estonia's Aleksandr Selevko has won silver at the ISU European Figure Skating Championships in Kaunas, Lithuania. Selevko followed an impressive short program on Wednesday with an even better performance in the men's free-skating to bring home Estonia's first ever figure skating medal at an adult championship.

11.01.24 NEWS ... Estonia's Aleksandr Selevko finished third in the men's individual short program at the ISU European Figure Skating Championships in Kaunas, Lithuania. In doing so, Selevko set a new Estonian national record.

10.01.24 NEWS ... Tõnis Sildaru, the father of Estonian Olympic freestyle skiing bronze medalist Kelly Sildaru, has been acquitted on charges of assault and threatening behavior, as the Prosecutor's Office said there was insufficient evidence against him. Sildaru was however, charged with the illegal use of property earned by his underage daughter.

09.01.24 NEWS ... In less than a month, the world's best Nordic combined skiers are set to arrive in Otepää, Valga County for the Veissmann FIIS Nordic Combined World Cup. The event takes place from February 9 – 11, with 82 competitors from 14 different countries expected to take part.

12.12.23 NEWS ... The Estonian Skating Union has announced that after a fall last week during a training session, Niina Petrõkina will most likely miss out on the 2024 European Figure Skating Championships in January.

10.12.23 NEWS ... After previously hitting Estonian biathletes earlier this season, the majority of the Estonian cross-country ski team at the Östersund World Cup in Sweden this weekend got COVID-19.

04.12.23 NEWS ... Estonia's Marie Kaldvee and Harri Lill took bronze at the British Curling Mixed Doubles Super Series World Cup in Stirling, Scotland this weekend.

27.11.23 NEWS ... Estonian freestyle skiing star Kelly Sildaru, who took bronze at the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics, says she is recovering well from the serious knee injury she suffered last year and cannot wait to get back out on the snow. Sildaru was speaking on ERR's winter sports show alongside double Olympic cross-country skiing champion Kristina Šmigun-Vähi.

10.11.23 NEWS ... Estonia's Niina Petrõkina is in fourth place at the International Skating Union (ISU) Grand Prix (GP) Series Cup of China in Chongqing after the women's short program.

25.10.23 NEWS ... 19-year-old Niina Petrõkina made Estonian sporting history at the weekend when she became the country's first figure skater to finish in the top three at a Grand Prix (GP) Series event.

28.04.23 NEWS ... The Estonian team of Marie Kaldvee and Harri Lill went out of the World Mixed Doubles World Championship in Gangneung, South Korein on Friday after losing 5-8 to Norway in the qualifying round. The Estonian team had to settle for joint fifth place in the competition, which they shared with Scotland.

27.04.23 SPORTS ... The Estonian mixed doubles curling pair of Marie Kaldvee and Harri Lill lost their final world championship group match 6-8 against the Netherlands, meaning they failed to progress straight to the semi-finals. The Estonians still have another chance to make it to the semis however, when they face Norway in the qualification round on Friday.

26.04.23 NEWS ... The Estonian pair of Marie Kaldvee and Harri Lill have qualified for the playoffs of the World Mixed Doubles Curling Championship in South Korea.

03.04.23 NEWS ... This weekend, the Estonian curling pair of Marie Kaldvee and Harri Lill finished second at the WCT (World Curling Tour) Mixed Doubles Trophy in Prague. The Estonians suffered their only loss of the tournament in the final match against Finnish pair of Immonen and Sipilä.

31.03.23 NEWS ... Estonian Freestyle skiing star Kelly Sildaru has said, that the injury she sustained to her right knee injury in January is proving much more difficult to recover from, than ones she has faced in the past.

30.03.23 NEWS ... Estonia ended the recent World Triathlon Winter Championships in Norway with a total of six medals. Two of those were won by 74-year-old Juhan Lukk, who recorded victories in both of the championships' senior men's events. On Wednesday, Lukk was given a hero's welcome as he returned to his hometown of Palivere, Lääne County with two new gold medals.

17.03.23 NEWS ... At the Song Festival Grounds (Lauluväljak) in Tallinn, preparations are well underway for Tuesday's FIS (International Ski Federation) Cross-Country World Cup sprint event.

22.02.23 NEWS ... This Saturday, the 25th Tallinn Ski Marathon is set to take place in Kõrvemaa. The Tallinn Marathon is the fourth stage of this year's "Estoloppet" series, which also includes other ski marathons in Tartu, Viru, Alutaguse, Haanja and Tamsalu-Neeruti. On the day, there will be marathons of 38km and 19km as well as races for children.

14.02.23 NEWS ... On Tuesday morning the formal decision was mad to confirm, that the main races of the 49th Tartu Ski Marathon (63 and 31 kilometers respectively) will go ahead as planned along the full original route, stretching from Otepää to Elva. The marathon takes place this Sunday, February 19.

07.01.23 NEWS ... Estonian skater Marten Liiv took bronze at the European Speed Skating Championships in Hamar, Norway, after the decisive 1000-meter race held Saturday afternoon.

07.01.23 NEWS ... Norway came first in the world cup Nordic combined mixed team event in Otepää Friday.

06.01.23 NEWS ... Challenging wind conditions prevented competitors from completing their scheduled ski jumping practice sessions in the Nordic Combined World Cup in Otepää on Thursday. As a result, Friday's schedule has now been altered.

06.10.22 NEWS ... Shortly after Russia's invasion of Ukraine, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) instructed sports federations to ban Russian and Belarusian athletes from their competitions. However, more recently, there have been increasing suggestions that they may soon return to top-level international sport. Indrek Kannik, head of the International Center for Defense Studies, Tallinn University senior lecturer in recreation management Kaarel Zilmer, Estonian Ice Hockey Federation President Rauno Parras, and basketball legend Heino Enden discussed the situation on Vikeraadio.

06.10.22 NEWS ... Both the Ministry of Culture and the Estonian Olympic Committee have sent out the message in recent weeks, that Russian athletes are not welcome in Estonia while Vladimir Putin continues to wage war in Ukraine. However, a number of Russian ice hockey players will still take part in this season's Estonian Coolbet Hokiliiga, which started on October 1.

03.10.22 WINTER SPORTS ... Estonian curling duo Marie Kaldvee and Harri Lill reached the semi finals of the inaugural Mixed Doubles Super Series event in Ottawa, Canada, on Sunday, finishing third overall, out of 24 entries.

17.09.22 WINTER SPORTS ... Estonian ski jumper Kristjan Ilves took bronze on Friday at the Norwegian summer championships in Lillehammer.

17.09.22 WINTER SPORTS ... The South Estonian town of Otepää has been chosen to host the 2027 Biathlon World Championships, for the first time ever.