THE LAST OF the individual gold medals were won this afternoon at the PREDATOR EUROPEAN Youth Pool Championships, as Sweden and Lithuania added to their respective hauls, whilst Portugal took their first medal of the championships. In the Under 19s, breakout star, Jokubas Silantjevas defeated Seymen Atila of Austria 8-1, while in the Under 17s, it was Ruben Gomes of Portugal who claimed the trophy with a 7-1 defeat of Wiktor Kaczmarek (Poland). Finally, Linnea Hjalmarstrom of Sweden was victorious once again with a 6-3 win over Poland’s Julia Babica. Jokubas Silantjevas capped off a wonderful week, taking his second […]

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IT WAS FITTING that the last gold medal of the PREDATOR EUROPEAN Youth Pool Championships went Lithuania’s way as they triumphed in the Under 19s Team final. The Baltic nation certainly punched above their weight as they topped the medal table, grabbing four golds as well as a silver and a bronze. In the championship match, they defeated Norway in a close game, with double-gold medal winner Jokubas Silantjevas clinching the winning point in a 9-ball match against Joakim Langkas. It was a game he never led until dropping the final 9-ball, showing terrific stamina after playing three rounds of […]

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