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maltatoday, SUNDAY, 28 JUNE 2015 57 Sport FENCING Virtù Ferries This week's winner is KEITH MUSCAT who collected his two tickets from Virtù Ferries MaltaToday and Virtù Ferries have teamed up to take one lucky winner and a companion every week to Sicily, with two tickets to be won every week in our photography competition. Already been on holiday? Good: we're sending you back if your best photograph from your holidays and travels makes the cut. That's right: send us a good quality image of your holidays and we'll send the best one to the gateway of Italy with Virtù Ferries. Malta - Sicily Express Ferries For more information visit www.virtuferries.com or contact by telephone 23491000 RULES OF THE COMPETITION maltatoday Conditions apply: 1. Tickets for each week's competition can only be won by one person who submits one entry of a high-res image with description. Entrants with more than one entry WILL NOT be considered. Entrants must send a description of photo. 2. Winners will be informed before the end of the week, and then announced on maltatoday.com.mt and MaltaToday on Sunday. 3. By entering this offer, entrants consent to their photos being published and owned by Mediatoday Co Ltd. 4. The entrant with the best photograph will be awarded two (2) return tickets, valid for travel to any Virtù Ferries destination. Mediatoday's decision is final. 5. Tickets are issued free of charge, excluding port charges, and in accordance with Virtù Ferries' rules and regulations. All taxes and charges are to be paid accordingly by the winning entrant upon the issuance of tickets. 6. This offer is closed to employees and contributors of Mediatoday Co. Ltd and Virtù Ferries, or their family members. This week's theme: Travel SEND US PHOTOS FROM YOUR FAVOURITE HOLIDAY PHOTO COMPETITION Photos should be a hi-res image (one per individual entry) with a sentence or two about what inspired you to take your photo. Entrants are kindly reminded not to send in personal family pictures that might be unrelated to theme subjects unless expressly requested. If sending a photo by post, address it to: 'MaltaToday photo competition', Mediatoday, Vjal ir- Rihan, San Gwann, SGN9016 Please supply your daytime telephone number, your name, your home address and an email address. Send the photo via email on info@mediatoday.com.mt [SUBJECT HEADING: MaltaToday photo competition] by next Friday at 9am. Themes may change from one week to the other Great Britain win fencing gold Great Britain's fencing team stunned reigning champions Italy to win an improbable European Games gold in the men's foil team competition in Baku THEIR win came just two days after a poor performance in the individual event led team mem- ber Richard Kruse to insist "we knew we would fence badly" ahead of the upcoming world championships in Russia. But Kruse and team-mates Alex Tofalides, Marcus Mep- stead and Ben Peggs rose to the occasion to clinch a thrilling 45- 41 win at the Crystal Hall, and with it one of their most signifi- cant triumphs. Kruse's men had surprised France earlier in the day to reach the gold medal match and took an early lead in the first-to-45 final, holding an eight-point ad- vantage at one point before be- ing slowly clawed back. Italy led for the first time at 32-31 but an inspired final leg by Kruse saw him power past indi- vidual champion Alessio Forconi and secure a nail-biting triumph which rounds off a successful Games for Great Britain. The team will now head to the World Championships in Mos- cow in three weeks' time and Kruse insisted: "I didn't mean to ruff le anyone's feathers but we are still in a training phase ahead of the worlds. "We didn't come here to mess around but to get brilliant prep- aration. We are not going to cel- ebrate this gold medal, we are going to get our heads down and go to Moscow where I know we are good enough to get on the podium." Gemma Gibbons' hopes of a judo medal were ended at the second stage of her -78kg com- petition when she was beaten by Ukraine's Victoria Turks. The result capped more frustra- tion for Olympic silver medallist Gibbons, who recently returned from injury and rued her incon- sistency after a fine first-round win over top-ranked French woman Madeleine Malonga. Gibbons will now pin her hopes on the qualification process for Rio but admitted her long spell of inactivity could count against her. She said: "It's really frustrating because I'm beating some of the best girls in the world but I'm not good enough to beat three or four of them on the same day - that's my problem. "I've been back on the mat for six months now after two years out with injuries. The Olympics are a year away so my consist- ency needs to come quicker than it is."