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maltatoday, WEDNESDAY, 14 DECEMBER 2016 23 Sport Answers to the MaltaToday crossword will be published next Wednesday WEATHER: Fine or partly cloudy VISIBILITY: Good WIND: Southeast force 3 to 4 locally force 4 to 5 SEA: Slight to moderate SWELL: Low Southeast becoming Northeast 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. MAINLY SUNNY 18 º C / 12 º C UV INDEX: 2 Today's Weather Chess Sudoku Pursuits Across 1. Allowable 6. Lecture 7. Indonesian resort island 10. Browned sliced bread 11. Undo 12. Female fowl 13. Soft felt-like fabric 14. Shut 16. Crustacean 18. Magician 19. Dorset town Down 1. Item having exchange value 2. Cocktail 3. Make smooth 4. Front part of an apron 5. Abrading tool 8. Person engaged in spaceflight 9. Intersection 13. German composer 15. Duck with soft down 17. Bleat of a sheep Nd6 Any move Qb6+ mate or Qb6+ Ke8 Nb6 mate Games WEIGHTLIFTING Yazmin Zammit Stevens represents Malta at the Junior and U23 European Championships in Israel THE Junior and U23 European Weightlift- ing Championships came to an end this weekend in Eilat, Israel. The six-day long competition saw over 350 top athletes from all over Europe, including Olympic gold medallists from Rio 2016. Malta's repre- sentative at this major event, Yazmin Zam- mit Stevens, gave a stellar performance in the 69kg category. She started off with a close miss at 73kg in the snatch, but quickly recovered to make both the second and third attempts at 73kg and 75kg. Feeling confident, she performed the clean and jerk part of the competition perfectly, getting all three of her attempts at 88kg, 91kg and 93kg, totalling at 168kg. This performance placed Zammit Ste- vens in 1st place in the B group in the snatch, clean and jerk and the total, outlift- ing athletes from Poland, Turkey, Nether- lands, Israel, Ireland, Czech Republic, Den- mark and Finland. Overall, she managed to place 9th with seven new national records capping off her 37th national record this year. Jesmond Caruana was selected as international technical official for the competition, and he also participated in the EWF congress and the EWF technical meetings. Both Zammit Stevens and Caruana will be travelling to Doha this week to compete in the 4th Qatar International Cup. These international events would not be possible without the support of the Malta Olympic Committee, SportMalta, EWF and AWF. Yazmin Zammit Stevens, gave a stellar performance in the 69kg category