Lappeenrannan Kisa-Toverit (LrKT), originally a multi-sport club, is at the moment mainly a competition and hobby swimming club from Lappeenranta, Finland. In addition to swimming, the fitness division of the club plays petanque and the touring division has arranged tours.

Contact Details, Club Administration

Juho Ratava
Chairman
Katajakatu 9 B 7
FI-53810 Lappeenranta
Finland
+358 50 512 4389
firstname@lrkt.fi

Contact Details, Swimming

Coaches’ mailing list
coaches (at) lrkt (dot) fi

Juho Ratava
Head coach & competition registrations
+358 50 512 4389
firstname@lrkt.fi

Social Media and Blogs

The club swimming division is an active user of Instagram and our Facebook page can be found at http://www.facebook.com/LappeenrannanKT. We’ll do our best to remember our password for Twitter (@LrKT). You may also be interested in English-language blog posts on this site.

Brief Club History

Lappeenrannan Kisa-Toverit (lit. Sports Fellows of Lappeenranta) was found in 1960. The club started operating as a general sports club and during its history has had teams playing many sports including but not limited to ice hockey, bandy, volleyball and rinkball. At the moment, the organization is mainly a swimming club. Originally, the swimming exercises started in Lappeenranta swimming pool in the city center, but after Lauritsala swimming pool was completed, the club started to organize exercises there, as well. At the moment, the club mainly trains in Lauritsala. In 2023, the club has roughly 200 active swimmers.

In addition to the swimming division, the club has a fitness division. The fitness division has played petanque and is assembled once a week at the Tirilä sports field during summer. There are also some gym classes available via the club, ask Elina Karttunen (firstname (at) lrkt (dot) fi). In addition, the fitness division organizes other events as well as participates on events organized by others.

The aim of the club is to offer varied and incentive sports activities to children, youth and the whole family. The swimming exercises are organized also for adults (”Masters” team). Children and adults have the chance to train under the supervision of trainers, experience new things, have new friends and enjoy success and learning. In chilren’s sports the training is at the children’s terms, encouraging for well-rounded exercise.

In addition to regular swimming exercises the club organizes other activities. In addition to our own swimming competitions our team co-operates with other teams in organizing for example skiing, ice fishing and petanque competitions. The goal is also to organize camps for the swimmers. Before winter holidays, the club comes together in a common Christmas party (for the whole family). Parent’s evenings, lectures and other meets are organized as necessary.