Cypriot athletes won on Sunday five more medals, 20 in total, at the Malta Invitational Games organised by the Malta Olympic Committee.
In the context of the Games, Malta hosted 180 athletes, representing 10 countries including Andorra, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Faroe Islands, Gibraltar, Iceland, Luxembourg, Montenegro, San Marino and Malta.
According to an announcement by the Cyprus Olympic Committee (COE), on Sunday, the last day of the games, Cyprus won one gold, two silver and one bronze medal in the Triathlon and one bronze medal in the Women’s Doubles in Bowling.
Cyprus in total won 20 medals in Tae Kwon Do, Triathlon and Bowling and more specifically, 12 gold, three silver and five bronze medals, “a harvest that is the best of all the 10 countries participating in the games,” the COE said.
It is noted that the Cypriot team “came very close to winning first place,” in the overall score of all three events of Biathlon, Aquathlon, and Triathlon, after collecting a total of 51 points, one point behind the home team of Malta, winning the silver medal.
The COE also said that, in the context of the games, the Head of Mission and Member of the Executive Board, Odysseas Patsalides, met on Sunday morning with a delegation of the team of the Faroe Islands, with the representatives of the Faroes expressing their intention to join the countries of the Games of the Small States of Europe (GSSE).
Patsalides also met with the President of the Malta Bowling Association, Edward Mifsud, it adds.
Source: Cyprus News Agency