Malta trio make history

Kirsty Caruana, Nicole Pace and Adriana Zammit won Malta's first ever GSSE medal in women's gymnastics after a third-place finish in the team competition at the Spyros Kyprianou Sports Centre in Limassol.

The Maltese trio totalled 128.100 points to occupy the lower step on the podium in the medals ceremony behind winners Cyprus (150.750) and Iceland (144.450). Monaco was fourth on 126.300.

This was the first time that the Malta Gymnastics Federation has won a medal in women's gymnastics and the second successive in GSSE competition after Philip Caruana Turner's bronze in vault in Monaco 2007.

The achievement takes added significance when one considers that Caruana, Pace and Zammit are only 13-year-olds.

Meanwhile, Zammit and Caruana progressed to the finals in vault, beam and floor exercises while Pace made it to the vault final.

Caruana Turner did well yesterday to reach the final in vault.

He was also due to compete in the floor exercise but pulled out not to aggravate a shoulder injury.