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54 maltatoday, SUNDAY, 6 SEPTEMBER 2015 Sport Virtù Ferries This week's winner is DENISE MERCIECA who collected her 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 SWIMMING Spectacular end to Open Water Swimming Season Strong participation in annual Malta - (Gozo) - Malta Open Water Swimming Competition registered THE Open Water Swimming Season came to a thrilling end on Saturday 29th August, when Birkirkara St. Joseph Sports Club organised the highly awaited annual Malta-Gozo-Malta and Gozo-Malta Open Water Swim- ming Competition Marfa Bay was a hive of activ- ity in the early hours of Saturday morning, where Club officials and personnel took care of the final preparations before the start of the race which saw 10 swimmers undertake the 11km swim from Malta to Gozo and back to Malta by Comino, and 79 swimmers tackle the 5.5km stretch from Ras il-Qala in Gozo to Marfa. Swimmers were greeted with overall favourable sea condi- tions, with a slight sea swell changing from force two to three at times. Some currents were experienced in the chan- nel between Gozo and Comino, however it did little to hinder the swimmers' efforts. In the Malta - Gozo - Malta swim, current open water swim- ming champion Neil Agius took the honours, by covering the distance in 2 hours 37minutes 30 seconds. This is the second time that Agius undertook this distance, having won his first attempt four years ago. Richard Zerafa claimed second place on the podium in a time of 2hours 55minutes 48 seconds followed by Gilbert Bartolo in a time of 3hours 59 seconds. Both Zerafa and Bartolo are no newcomers to the distance and both regis- tered improved timings from the previous year's performance. In the females category it was French swimmer Mary vonne Le Brun who clinched first place in 3hours 52minutes 49 seconds followed by seasoned swimmer Sandra Schembri who complet- ed the distance in 4hours 4 min- utes and 7 seconds. With regular participant and 2014 winner Neil Agius out of the Gozo-Malta foray, places on the podium were expected to be clinched by Luke Camilleri Cuschieri, Andrew Sultana and Roberto Demicoli who all per- formed well in the current sea- son. Camilleri Cuschieri won the race comfortably in a time of 1hour 15minutes 14seconds. Under 17 swimmer Andrew Sul- tana finished in second place in 1hour 22 minutes 35 seconds and Roberto Demicoli, who this year opted to forego the Malta - Gozo - Malta swim, came in third place in 1 hours 23 min- utes 11 seconds. Malta-Gozo-Malta Male winners Gozo-Malta Female winners YOUR FIRST CLICK OF THE DAY www.maltatoday.com.mt