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maltatoday, WEDNESDAY, 28 DECEMBER 2016 23 Sport Answers to the MaltaToday crossword will be published next Wednesday WEATHER: Partly cloudy VISIBILITY: Good WIND: Northeast force 4 to 5 backing North force 4 and becoming force 5 to 6 overnight SEA: Moderate becoming rough SWELL: Low Northwest 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. PARTLY CLOUDY 16 º C / 12 º C UV INDEX: 2 Today's Weather Chess Sudoku Pursuits Across 1. Capital (5-4) 8. Clock pointers (5) 9. Task (5) 10. Placard (6) 12. Slip (4) 14. Inheritor (4) 15. Closer (6) 17. White-and-black bear-like mammal (5) 18. Small hard particle (5) 20. Telegraph messages (9) Down 2. Slender metal fastener (3) 3. Christian festival (6) 4. Rooster (4) 5. Sensational novel (7) 6. In good order (9) 7. Agent for destroying odours (9) 11. Systematically arranged body of facts (7) 13. Act of merging (6) 16. Walk in water (4) 19. Direct a gun (3) ......... Nc3+ Nxc3 Rhxd2# ......... Nc3+ Qxc3 Be2# WEIGHTLIFTING The 2016 Malta Weightlifting Association awards THE Malta Weightlifting As- sociation organised their annual event where they honour the athletes for their achievements in 2016. The presentation kicked off by awarding athletes with their achievements for the National Championships were a total of 35 titles were given. The pre- senters of these awards included the Malta Olympic Commit- tee President Mr. Julian Pace Bonello and General Secretary Mr. Joseph Cassar. Numerous awards were given to a number of athletes that had an impres- sive performance in 2016. Mr Alfred Elull Mercer Honor- ary President of the association presented the awards. Yazmin Zammit Stevens was the star of the day, winning the Master level Award with 76.23%, the Achievement award with 37 national records and the most improvement Award with 62.26 points. She also won the Nation- al Championships award in the 69kg category. Kieran Mifsud won the Master level athlete award with 77.18%. Vlad Baldacchino won the most improved new comer award with 87.17 points. Shelby Vas- sallo won the most improvement Award while Rylee Borg won the most committed athlete award. A recognition award was also given to Kyle Micallef for being the first Maltese athlete to par- ticipate in weightlifting in the Olympic Games. President of the association, Mr. Jesmond Caruana, gave some interesting statistics to show how local weightlifting is always getting stronger. He mentioned how, in 2016, a total of 115 new national records were broken, 40 of which were broken in international events. 19 athletes from the Maltese weightlifting team participated in 16 international events, while national coaches and officials participated in a total of 16 in- ternational representations. Some athletes even represent- ed Malta more than once each, with a selection participating five and even six times inter- nationally. This increases the representation in these compe- titions to a total of 39 appear- ances. A respectable amount of medals were won in the interna- tional scene by our local athletes Mr. Caruana ended his short speech by emphasising that the entire association will continue their hard work and together build for a stronger and even more successful 2017. Yazmin Zammit Stevens

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