Malta reaches 20 gold medals in GSSE

Excuse the pun, but Malta has made well with its golden opportunity of playing at home to rack up a total of 20 gold medals as of Thursday, 1st June in the Games of the Small States of Europe.

Yesterday saw a total of 18 medals in total won, with 8 of them Gold, building up on the previously won 12 in the previous days.This time around it was Janet Richard who won gold in Athletics Women’s 400m and Claire Azzopardi yet again in the Athletics Women’s Triple Jump. Gina McNamara too won another Gold in Athletics Women’s 1500m.

Matthew Grech won the medal in Shooting Men’s Double Trap, followed by the Malta Squash Men’s Team and closed off by Camella Iacob and Renata Strbikova in the Table Tennis Women’s Doubles.

Swimming too saw two gold awarded, with Kyle Micallef winning it in the Swimming Men’s 50m Freestyle and Georgia Kate Bohl in the Swimming Women’s 100m Breaststroke.

Here are the other awards for the day:

SILVER

Athletics Men’s Long Jump – Jeremy Zammit

Athletics Men’s 400m – Graham Pellegrini

Athletics Women’s Triple Jump – Rebecca Sare’

Athletics Women’s 1500m – Mireya Bugeja

Shooting Men’s Double Trap – William Chetcuti

Table Tennis Men’s Doubles – Dimitrij Prokopcov/Felix Wetzel

BRONZE

Athletics Men’s Long Jump – Ian Paul Grech

Athletics Men’s 1500m – Jared Micallef

Athletics Men’s 3000m Steeplechase – Luke Micallef

Swimming Women’s 4 x 100m Medley Relay – Malta Team

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