Turkey and Italy claim three golds apiece as swimming finals conclude at Mediterranean Games
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Turkey and Italy both claimed three gold medals on the final day of swimming finals at the Mediterranean Games in Oran, Algeria.
Turkey and Italy both claimed three gold medals on the final day of swimming finals at the Mediterranean Games in Oran, Algeria.
Italy enjoyed another memorable day at the Mediterranean Games in Oran, with Lisa Angiolini's record for the multi-sport event in the women's 50 metres breaststroke among a plethora of successes.
Italy have soared to the top of the swimming medals table at the Oran 2022 Mediterranean Games with five gold medals after superb day in the pool.
Italian Federico Musolesi and Leyre Fernandez Infante of Spain claimed the individual archery gold medals at the Oran 2022 Mediterranean Games.
Spaniard Pablo Abián and Turkey's Neslihan Yiğit secured gold medals in the men's and women's badminton singles competitions, respectively, at the Oran 2022 Mediterranean Games.
Olympic champion Distria Krasniqi earned Kosovo a first gold medal of the Oran 2022 Mediterranean Games in the women's under-52 kilograms judo event.
Adem Asil won the men's all-around-final in artistic gymnastics to help Turkey go top of the medals table at the Mediterranean Games in Oran.
Egypt's karate team had a day to remember at the Oran 2022 Mediterranean Games in Algeria, taking two gold medals as competition at the Mohammed ben Ahmed CCO Hall concluded.
Karateka Cylia Ouikene has won Algeria's first gold medal of its home Mediterranean Games in Oran.
France and Serbia were victorious in the second day of the water polo competition at the Oran 2022 Mediterranean Games.
Oran is ready to take centre stage as its hosting of the Mediterranean Games are on the horizon, making it the second Algerian city to do so after capital Algiers in 1975.
Mayors of the cities which will host the 2026 Mediterranean Games have called for the Italian Government to provide "adequate financial support".
Bernard Amsalem, the second vice-president of the International Committee of Mediterranean Games (CIJM), ensured delegates that preparations for Oran 2022 in Algeria are on track and that the city will host the event "in the best way".
Algeria's Minister of Youth and Sport Abdel-Razzaq Sebgag has insisted his visit to the competition sites scheduled for use at the 2022 Mediterranean Games in Oran next June was routine, and "not in response to the declaration of the International Committee of the Mediterranean Games (ICMG)".
New International Committee for the Mediterranean Games (ICMG) President Davide Tizzano has demanded "immediate solutions" from 2022 host city Oran after Coordination Commission chairman Bernard Amsalem told the Executive Committee of “his concern and worries”.