Monday March 2nd, 2026 - Round-Robin Day 1 Schedule (GMT +8)   13:00   Israel vs Bulgaria 16:30   Turkiye vs New Zealand 20:30   Uzbekistan vs Hong Kong

Tentoglou won the men's long jump with 8.22. He only had two valid jumps today.   Another U20NR came in the women's shot put from Maria Rafailidou. She had 16.53 earlier this week and now got 16.59. She's second in the world for U20 this year    So of course Karalis was the big star of our nationals this year, more than Tentoglou, but we also had a lot of teenagers show good signs for the future (Antonatou, Alivizatos, Mitropoulou, Iakovaki, Rafailidou etc).   Antonatou and Alivizatos are both from Kefalonia island. Antonatou's brother is a shot putter who is 19 yo and had a new PB yesterday of 17.92 in the NCAA. I don't remember us ever having any strong athletes from Kefalonia in any sport aside from the late Anna Pollatou who won an Olympic bronze in rhythmic gymnastics. What are they feeding these kids on this island (it only has about 35.000 residents)?! Very impressive.

Final Standing   Nation P W(OTW) L(OTL) GF GA +/- Pt. Romania 5 4(1) 1(0) 18 9 +9 11 Thailand 5 3(0) 2(1) 15 13 +2 10 Turkiye 5 3(0) 2(0) 14 15 -1 9 Croatia 5 3(1) 2(0) 16 11 +5 8 Serbia 5 1(1) 4(2) 13 18 -5 4 Bulgaria 5 1(1) 4(1) 10 20 -10 3   The following Nations have qualified for the Women's Ice Hockey IIHF Division II Group B World Championship 2027 Romania   The following Nations have qualified for the Women's Ice Hockey IIHF Division III Group A World Championship 2027 Croatia  Serbia Thailand Turkiye   The following Nation has been relegated to the Women's Ice Hockey IIHF Division III Group B World Championship 2027 Bulgaria

Sunday March 1st, 2026 - Round-Robin Last Day Results (GMT +1)   12:30   Turkiye  2 - 3  Thailand 16:00   Serbia  2 - 3OT  Bulgaria 19:30   Romania  5 - 2  Croatia

Sunday March 1st, 2026 - Round-Robin Day 2 Results (GMT +2)   12:30   South Africa  2 - 3  Bosnia and Herzegovina 16:00   Israel  1 - 4  Estonia 19:30   Singapore  0 - 8  Philippines   Provisional Standing After Day 2:   1.    6 ----------------- 2.   6 3.   3 4.   3 5.   0 6.   0

won the last, decisive match against in the Super-8 phase and qualified to the semifinals, especially thanks to a great performance by Samson Sanju with the bat (97 not out from 50 balls)  once again, the bowlers let the Windies' hopes down when it really mattered (and despite a decent start with 2 important wickets in the early overs)   Semifinals   Wednesday, March 4th:  vs  in Kolkata (7 p.m. local, 2.30 p.m. CET)   Thursday, March 5th:  vs  in Mumbai (7 p.m. local, 2.30 p.m. CET)

Monna & Maldini 

10m European Championships ( Yerevan)   men's Air Pistol   Gold: () Anton Aristarkhov Silver:  Robin Walter Bronze:  Jason Solari   Full Results https://shootingsportscloud.com:8594/sub-events?competition=bdf7ea09-b65b-49c7-935d-e224d2f9ceb3&event=f19a4e7b-e717-4b56-b889-5f082584fdaa

Day 3 in Ancona   women's 60m: 1.Zeynab Dosso, 7.10 (7.09 in the heats), 2.Kelly Ann Doualla (16 years young), 7.21 men's High Jump: 1.Christian Falocchi, 2.30m men's 60m: 1.Filippo Randazzo, 6.61, 2.Samuele Ceccarelli, also 6.61, 3.Eduardo Longobardi, 6.62 (very nice race, despite the timings are not world class) men's Triple Jump: 1.Andrea Dallavalle, 16.99m, 2.Andy Diaz, 16.90m, but he was well far from the board, with a good board, it would have been a 17.50+ jump (ps both only jumped twice) women's 400m: 1.Eloisa Coiro (800m specialist), 52.02 men's Eptathlon: 1.Dario Dester, 6121 pts (new Italian Record)   Day 2 in Mariano Comense   the only non loughable result is the women's discus throw: 1. Daisy Osakue, 59.79m, 2.Benedetta Benedetti, 58.17m (PB)   men's Marathon   world bronze medallist Iliass Aouani ranked 6th at the Tokyo Marathon and improved the Italian men's National Record up to 2:04:26 (7th European runner in history)

Was an interesting competition...as I was watching, I was thinking that the boulders seemed a bit simple for this caliber of athletes (and also a lack of more dynamic moves).  Glad my suspicions were confirmed when Oriane and Janja stated that they wished the boulders were harder at the end.  We'll see what this looks like if this happens again!   (Biggest complaint: SF1 and SF2 was immediately followed by the Small Final, so the loser of SF2 wasn't as rested.  They could have switched genders to the other SFs first.)