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maltatoday, WEDNESDAY, 25 MARCH 2015 Sport 23 Answers to the MaltaToday crossword will be published next Wednesday WEATHER: Rather cloudy VISIBILITY: Moderate to good becoming good WIND: Southeast force 4 becoming Northwest force 3 to 4, locally force 4 to 5 in evening SEA: Rough SWELL: Moderate East Southeast SEA TEMP: 15 °C A B C D E F G H 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 White to play and mate in four moves A B C D E F G H 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Last week's solution Sudoku rules are extremely easy: Fill all empty squares so that the numbers 1 to 9 appear once in each row, column and 9x9 box. PARTLY CLOUDY 17 º C / 11 º C UV INDEX: 2 Today's Weather Chess Sudoku Pursuits WEIGHTLIFTING Across 1. Rope-like hairstyle (10) 8. Tiny particles (5) 9. Person used as one's excuse (5) 10. Oceans (4) 12. Self-defence (6) 14. Female sibling (6) 17. Hearing organs (4) 21. Harvests (5) 22. Will (5) 23. Eyeglasses with tinted lenses (10) Down 2. Dry red Spanish wine (5) 3. Too (4) 4. Capital of Tibet (5) 5. Porcelain tableware (5) 6. Nail-like fastener (5) 7. Droops (4) 11. Be seated (3) 13. Fish eggs (3) 14. Arranges in groups (5) 15. Kingdom in SW Europe (5) 16. Artist's support (5) 18. Diminish (5) 19. An auction (4) 20. Inquires (4) Nxd7+ Ka7 Qc7 Bd6 Qxd6 Be2+ Ke1 Ka8 Qb8# Malta place fourth at the Mediterranean Weightlifting Cup Last weekend The Malta Weightlifting Association organised the ninth edition of the Mediterranean weightlifting cup ELEVEN countries participated in this team event. Tunisia team won this competition with 1891 points, followed by France 1754 points and Italy 1607 points. Malta team placed fourth with 1482 points followed by Turkey 1321 point, Spain, Israel, Slovenia, Greece, Bosnia & Herzegovina and San Marino. The official Malta's team consisted of 6 athletes' four men and two women. Kyle Micallef was the best men from the Maltese team with 306 points, Ryan Agius 292 points, Rodmar Pulis 274 points, Jovan Reljic 266points, whilst on the female side Pamela Psaila 173 points and Krista Camilleri 171 points. Besides the of- ficial team, other Maltese lifters participated in this international event to gain more experience. These lifters were Hayley Mizzi, Sarah Grixti, Dorianne At- tard, Natalie Borg, Noel Coleiro, Owen Bugeja, Mat- thew Camillieri and Daryl Psaila, who all of them did a great job and made Malta proud with their results. This event will surely be remembered throughout history since several Mediterranean records were broken, 11 new records were achieved in the women section whilst 7 in the male section. The best youth in this event was achieved by one of our own, Owen Bugeja, whilst Best Male was taken by Tunesia, Karem Ben Hnia, who also is the World Champion in the 77kg category; the Best Woman was also taken by Tunisian, Yosra Dhieb. This event was a good preparation for the Maltese Team who will be competing in another international event; the Small Nations in Monaco in April, hoping for other great results. The Maltese weightlifting team