Kristaps Dargais is a Latvian dunker who competed at the top of the international circuit for sixteen years and retired in the summer of 2026. He is listed at 195 centimetres, around 6’5”, with a verified vertical of 115 centimetres, and he takes off from one foot.
He won the first FIBA 3x3 All Stars dunk contest ever held, in Doha on December 12, 2013, closing with a reverse between-the-legs and a windmill. FIBA later described him as one of the best one-legged dunkers in the world, and he returned to the All Stars in 2015 as a replacement for the injured Dmytro Krivenko.
He medalled at the FIBA 3x3 World Cup three times, all bronze: Amsterdam in 2019, Antwerp in 2022 behind Piotr Grabowski and Remco Frankin, and Ulaanbaatar in 2025 behind Grabowski and Chen Dengxing. On the World Tour he took silver in Debrecen in 2017 and Prague in 2019, bronze in Chengdu in 2019, and then won the dunk contest outright at Debrecen in 2024.
At home he is a Ghetto Games fixture. He entered his first dunk contest at Grizinkalns in Riga in 2010, first appeared at Kings of Air in 2015, and shared the 2018 Kings of Air title with Guy Dupuy after the two finished level through overtime.
He is also a professional basketball player rather than a dunker who plays. He captained BK Ogre, was named regular-season MVP of the Latvian-Estonian League in 2022, and holds that league’s single-game rebounding record with 24, set on November 19, 2025.
He chose the venue for the ending. On June 30, 2026 he entered Kings of Air at Grizinkalns, the same court where he started in 2010, announced it as his last contest and went out in the semi-finals, finishing fourth in a field Grabowski won. He now works for a road-construction company.
Nothing in the public record names a single dunk as his signature, which fits the way he competed. The Taamallah variants, the tornado, the underboth and the J-Rich reverse all sit in his logged catalogue, and the through-line is the one-foot takeoff rather than any one trick.