Thursday, March 31 - Competition got off to a great start Thursday morning at Bowling Pedralbes, Barcelona with Georgios Stefanidis from Patra, Greece taking the gold medal in the Men's Singles of the 14th Mediterranean Challenge Cup.
Stefanidis opened his account with 190 and 180 then fired on all cylinders with games of 266, 213, 188 and 244 to win gold with the total pinfall of 1281.
The silver medal was taken by Habib Dogan of Ankara, Turkey, just 14 pins behind the champion, and the bronze was clinched by Italy's Marco Reviglio from Turin.
20-year-old Stefanidis, a keen bowler for the past ten years, was pleased with his first medal in the Mediterranean Challenge Cup. "I have won medals in the Youth Championships," he said. "At the start here I bowled well but in the third game the lanes opened up and I did very well. I did good on lanes 1-2 with a 266."
Apart from Stefanidis, the medals came down to the final balls of the tenth frame of the last game, with Israel's Lior Yizhaq Koren and Michael Wood from Gibraltar also in the hunt for a place on the podium when the medals are presented on Saturday evening.
Stefanidis and Gibraltar's Michael Wood claim the high game of the event to date, both rolling a 266 in the third game of the Singles.
The record 13-nation event will see the women take to the lanes Thursday afternoon. Tomorrow the disciplines switch to Doubles for both divisions and then the first three of six games in the team event.
Full results and information on www.fiq.org/mcc and click on the MCC logo.
P | Player | Fed | S1 | S2 | S3 | S4 | S5 | S6 | AVG | Total |
1 | GEORGIOS STEFANIDIS | GRE | 190 | 180 | 266 | 213 | 188 | 244 | 213,50 | 1281 |
2 | HABIB DOGAN | TUR | 222 | 201 | 195 | 199 | 191 | 259 | 211,17 | 1267 |
3 | MARCO REVIGLIO | ITA | 238 | 205 | 181 | 208 | 198 | 214 | 207,33 | 1244 |
4 | LIOR YIZHAQ KOREN | ISR | 183 | 203 | 206 | 246 | 188 | 213 | 206,50 | 1239 |
5 | MICHAEL WOOD | GIB | 197 | 208 | 266 | 188 | 199 | 174 | 205,33 | 1232 |
6 | EVANGELOS KRIZINIS | GRE | 170 | 216 | 224 | 207 | 192 | 204 | 202,17 | 1213 |
7 | NEIL SULLIVAN | MAL | 175 | 200 | 246 | 216 | 194 | 172 | 200,50 | 1203 |
8 | MARCIAL OVIDE | CAT | 184 | 193 | 169 | 237 | 206 | 178 | 194,50 | 1167 |
9 | YONI BILLIAUT | FRA | 178 | 211 | 180 | 204 | 197 | 193 | 193,83 | 1163 |
10 | MATEJ FEGUS | SLO | 223 | 179 | 179 | 177 | 220 | 185 | 193,83 | 1163 |
11 | RON BERLOV | ISR | 187 | 231 | 161 | 193 | 210 | 179 | 193,50 | 1161 |
12 | CHRISTOS KRASSAS | CYP | 173 | 213 | 193 | 194 | 179 | 204 | 192,67 | 1156 |
13 | MARK SPITERI | MLT | 176 | 176 | 168 | 202 | 192 | 201 | 185,83 | 1115 |
14 | ZIAD MOKNI | TUN | 192 | 211 | 190 | 169 | 165 | 186 | 185,50 | 1113 |
15 | JEROME DURUPT | FRA | 166 | 192 | 159 | 172 | 194 | 223 | 184,33 | 1106 |
16 | MOISES PEREZ | CAT | 162 | 178 | 203 | 192 | 181 | 189 | 184,17 | 1105 |
17 | TAYGUN ERKESKIN | TUR | 180 | 205 | 152 | 178 | 215 | 165 | 182,50 | 1095 |
18 | CHARIS PANAYIOTOU | CYP | 202 | 178 | 172 | 188 | 205 | 146 | 181,83 | 1091 |
19 | DANIELE BRONZETTI | SMR | 161 | 193 | 192 | 176 | 186 | 171 | 179,83 | 1079 |
20 | GIOVANNI BATTAGLIA | ITA | 203 | 177 | 152 | 162 | 178 | 194 | 177,67 | 1066 |
21 | ZIGA KALAN | SLO | 223 | 199 | 154 | 139 | 170 | 173 | 176,33 | 1058 |
22 | ETTORE BACCIOCCHI | SMR | 177 | 158 | 204 | 166 | 182 | 161 | 174,67 | 1048 |
23 | DAMIR BRNIC | CRO | 157 | 165 | 172 | 215 | 151 | 149 | 168,17 | 1009 |
24 | MATTHEW STOTT | GIB | 149 | 150 | 149 | 175 | 156 | 177 | 159,33 | 956 |
25 | VEDRAN VEDRIS | CRO | 144 | 160 | 197 | 127 | 178 | 143 | 158,17 | 949 |
26 | KHALED MEZIOU | TUN | 140 | 144 | 151 | 158 | 160 | 155 | 151,33 | 908 |