The Maltese Olympic Committee named the list of athletes who will represent Malta in next month’s Games of the Small States of Europe in Iceland.
Team Malta will be formed by 58 athletes from 10 different disciplines who will compete in the biennial games which will be held between June 1 and 6.
Malta will be competing in athletics, basketball, beach volley, gymnastics, judo, shooting, tennis, table tennis and golf, which will be making its first ever appearance in these Games.
Target shooter Eleonor Bezzina has been named as the team’s flagbearer for the opening ceremony which will be held at the Laugardalsvollur Stadium in Rekyjavik on June 1.
For Bezzina, winner of a gold medal in air pistol in Luxembourg 2013, this will be the second time that she will be carrying Malta’s flag in a major Games as two years ago she led Team Malta during the opening ceremony of the Mediterranean Games in Mersin, Turkey.
The contingent
Athletics: K. Moore (200m, 400m, 4x400m), C. Wingfield (100m, 200m), R. Dimech (400m, 4x400), J. Richard (400, 4x400), F. Borg (400m, 4x400), M. Crocker (800, 4x400), G. Camilleri (5,000m, 10,000), R. Camilleri (long jump), R. Sare (triple jump), N. Brimmer (4x400), Y. Pace (4x400), C. Attard (4x400).
Basketball women: R. Brincat Thoresen, S. Brincat, E. Cassar, S. De Martino, M. De Martino, C. Grima, J. Grima, N. Handreck, G. Mifsud, L. Sciberras, A. Vella, B. Zammit.
Beach volley (women): A. Borg, G. Zarb.
Golf: A. Borg, D. Holland, J.J. Ver Elst Micallef.
Gymnastics: C. Azzopardi, S. Buttigieg, K. Caruana, P. Dalli, S. Grillo.
Judo: J. Saywell (-66kg), G. Atanasov (-73kg, -81kg), M. Korchilava (-90kg, -100kg), I. Bezzina (-100kg), A. Battistino (-52kg), J. Camilleri (-57kg, -63kg), M. Bezzina (-63kg, -78kg).
Shooting: G. Azzopardi Spiteri (air rifle), W. Vella (air rifle), C. Farrugia (skeet), D. Vella (skeet), A. Formosa (air rifle), E. Bezzina (air pistol).
Swimming: M. Galea (50 free, 100 free, 200 free, 4x100 free, 4x100 IM), A. Chetcuti (50 free, 100 free, 100fly, 4x100 free, 4x100 IM), N. Muscat (50 free), J. Harding (100 breaststroke, 100 fly, 200 fly, 4x100 free, 4x100 IM), M. Umnov (200 breaststroke, 200 fly, 200 IM, 400 IM, 4x100 free, 4x100 IM).
Table tennis: V. Lucenkova, J. Pace.
Tennis: M. Asciak, B. Callus, E. Genovese, K. Sammut.