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European Team Championship (Division 3),
Marsa, Malta
Ukraine & Denmark Share European Titles
Ukraine
and Denmark triumphed in the second staging of the European
Team Championship (Division 3), the European Squash Federation
event at Marsa Sports Club in Marsa, Malta.
Led by
Line Hansen, the world No25 from Odense, Denmark won the women's
title with a comprehensive win over Sweden in the final tie in
the round robin event.
In an
exciting climax for hosts Malta, their women defeated Croatia
3/0 in front of a packed and partisan crowd, thus finishing third and
winning the Bronze Medal.
Undefeated throughout the qualifying rounds, top seeds Ukraine
went on to beat Poland 4/0 in the men's final - with individual
wins by Ruslan Sorochynskyi, Kostiantyn Rybalchenko,
Denys Podvornyi and Valeriy Fedoruk.
Seventh seeds Norway defeated Luxembourg in the third
place play-off to secure the Bronze Medal.
There
was a courageous display in the play-off for ninth place where sixth
seeds Turkey took on Lithuania, a nation making its debut
on the international squash stage.
Lithuania took the first two matches, but points gained by wins in the
second two matches gave Turkey the narrowest victory of the tournament,
by 125-120 on points countback!
Men's
Final:
[1] UKRAINE bt [5] POLAND 4/0
Ruslan Sorochynskyi bt Wojciech Nowisz 11-9, 12-10, 9-11,
11-5
Kostiantyn Rybalchenko bt Marcin Karwowski w/o
Denys Podvornyi bt Kamil Dominiak 11-7, 11-2, 11-2
Valeriy Fedoruk bt Konrad Tyma 11-8, 6-11, 11-5 ret.
3rd
place play-off:
[7] NORWAY bt LUXEMBOURG 4/0
Kim Are Killingberg bt Sanjay Raval 11-6, 11-6, 11-3
Kristian Solhaug bt Niall Woodger 12-10, 11-8, 11-6
Ronny Aasbo bt Daniel Kaiser 11-6, 11-7, 11-4
Edvard Hegbom bt Daniel Hutchines 9-11, 11-9, 9-11, 12-10,
11-6
5th
place play-off:
[3] CROATIA bt [2] GIBRALTAR 4/0
Manuel Fistonic bt Anthony Brindle 11-5, 11-8, 13-11
Robert Petrovic bt Christian Navas 11-7, 2-11, 11-7, 11-7
Srdan Maksimovic bt Stephen Shacaluga 11-9, 9-11, 11-3,
11-4
Ivan Dolovcak bt Colin Davis 11-5, 11-2, 11-7
7th
place play-off:
[4] MALTA bt CYPRUS 4/0
Bradley Hindle bt Yiannis Eftychiou 11-2, 11-4, 11-1
Mark Lupi bt Andreas Tsouris 11-4, 12-10, 11-9
Carl Camilleri bt Nearchos Hadjimitsis 11-7, 11-2, 11-9
Nigel Dunkerley bt Sofoklis Panayides 11-4, 11-6, 11-5
9th
place play-off:
[6] TURKEY bt LITHUANIA 2/2 (Turkey win 125-120 on points countback)
Huseyin Gumus lost to Mantas Kociunas 11-3, 8-11, 10-12,
4-11
Uzay Aysev lost to Martynas Pempe 10-12, 2-11, 3-11
Ergul Yilmazel bt Andrius Voisnis 11-9, 11-8, 11-13, 11-5
Burhan Atasoy bt Gediminas Saudargas 11-9, 11-5, 11-0
Women's event final positions:
1 DENMARK, 2 SWEDEN, 3 MALTA, 4 NORWAY, 5 GREECE, 6 CROATIA, 7 TURKEY
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