Medal
Tally
Overall Men: 4th Place (Francis Taylor,
George Federico, Dylan Duo, Justin Broton).
Overall Ladies: Silver Medal (Erika Ward, Sue Parody)
Team
Men: Bronze Medal (Francis Taylor, George Federico, Dylan
Duo, Justin Broton).
Team Ladies: Silver Medal (Erika Ward, Sue Parody).
Team
Pairs: Silver Medal (Justin Broton, Dylan Duo).
Mens
Singles: Bronze Medal (George Federico).
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The
Gibraltar Selection recently came back from the Med Cup
in France (Granville / Normandy). Having
gained a healthy position in the team event reaching the
semi-finals (Bronze medal) it was all to play for on the
next day with the singles and doubles events.
Fantastic games played, however all but one of the men’s
team did lose in the 1st game, a close 4-3 which was a
true shame as they where cracking matches.
George
Federico was the singles player of the moment and he also
missed out losing in the semi-finals (Bronze medal), with
a very good total average per dart thrown.
The same day that afternoon saw a great comeback too in
the pair’s event, where Justin Broton and Dylan
Duo basically blasted there way through to the final,
beating France, Italy and Cyprus. The final game was strongly
fought against the Greek players but Gibraltar should
be proud of reaching a well deserved stage final and obtaining
a silver medal in the pairs event.
The
Ladies representation did really well this year achieving
an overall Bronze Medal.
In
the Team event they reached the final too, but the French
girls where just too strong for them. Credit must still
be awarded as they battled some stiff opponents especially
the young Italian Ladies who always want to prove how
good they are.
The
Gibraltar selection obtained higher averages per dart
than most of the other participating countries in all
events including the best leg thrown in the whole event.
Unfortunately the highest averages of scores do not win
games, but it proves that Gibraltar is increasingly becoming
a strong contender in any International event (watch this
space, it will happen, it’s solely a question of
money and time).
This
is what the president of the Mediterranean Cup, Cyprus
- Michael Savvides, had to say in the closing ceremony,
“The Med Cup has grown well and is continuing to
create great friendships between Mediterranean Cup countries”.
The closing dinner gala had a few surprises installed
for Justin Broton too. The French Vice President, Jean-Claude
Miguel, after presenting participating helpers and organisers
with gifts (which must be said without them the competition
is not possible), also presented Justin with a gift for
having helped out during the initial phases of the event
where Justin provided software, instructions and other
material for the upcoming event in France. Furthermore
as if one surprise wasn’t enough later on in the
evening Justin got called up again by Jean-Claude, he
went to say some encouraging words in which he produced
a score sheet highlighting the best leg of the Med Cup
(between Gibraltar - Justin Broton & France - Laurent
Fagnone) and he continued in say the following “This
proves the good quality of darts thrown this week and
that the competition is growing and spreading to produce
good darts from all participating countries making it
an excellent event”. These where very nice surprises
for Justin and he appreciated the gestures made to him
by Jean-Claude.
This
year Gibraltar through the kindness of a sponsor which
paid for an extra player ; manager to attend the event.
Solely due to this the medal tally speaks for itself.
Gibraltar even on the last day (the finals), given the
right permutations of who lost against who would have
given the Men’s team the overall Gold. However that
was not to be the case but we got pretty close. For this,
gratitude has to be overwhelmingly given to Alan Kimberley
for his managers and supporting role during the entirety
of the event. Thanks Alan from the Team. |
