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Laima Kamzola (born 13 April 1997 in Riga) is Latvian table hockey player of Latvian women national team, the current World Vice-Champion individually and World Champion with the Latvian team at 2017. She is playing all time for club "VJN Ventspils".

Career
Kamzola has been participating in table hockey tournaments since the autumn of 2009. She started training at coach Aleksandrs Žernovojs in Ventspils Creative House; her brothers Rūdolfs and Matīss had been involving her in trainings for needs of the school team. At December 2009, for the first time, she participated in a semi-professional competition, in which age and gender were not separated - in Riga Open. At the spring of 2010, the Latvian Women's Championship she got 5th place out of 10, and from then her places improved every year, until in 2014 Kamzola became the Latvian Women's Champion and repeated it at the following year. Some success was also achieved in international competitions, so in 2011 she won a bronze medal in the prestigious Swedish Women's Championship. However, individual places in the World and European Championships were not high, because forces were saved for the Latvian women's national team games. With Kamzola's first appearance at the World Championships in 2013, the Latvian women's team won silver medals at the World Championships for the first time in history. In 2015, Kamzola started participating in local competitions less often, but remained one of the leaders in the ranking and selection of Latvian ladies. At the same time, she participated in organizing and conducting table hockey beginners' tournaments in Ventspils.

In 2017, for the first time in history, the Latvian women's team in the Czech city Liberec became world champions, and Kamzola won the decisive game over much stronger Russians.

In 2019, Laima Kamzola got the second place in the Women's World Championship in Belarus, conceding only to Estonian player and coach Maria Saveljeva. This time Latvian women team won the third place, which corresponded to its pre-competition rating.

At time of quarantine in 2020 Laima Kamzola manages videos in YouTube about playing of table hockey in offline table hockey tournaments.

Personal life
From 2015 to 2018, she served on the Board of Ventspils Youth Council. At 2020 - President of Riga Chapter of the Junior Chamber International.

From 2016 to 2019 Kamzola studied at the RTU Faculty of Computer Science and Information Technology, in the Bachelor's study program of Intellectual robotized systems. At 2016-2018 she led electronics lessons for students at Riga French Lycée. In 2017-2018 worked as an engineer at TestDevLab.