2015 Commonwealth Youth Games - Bonne’s bronze medal helps Seychelles to 38th position |12 September 2015

Seychelles has finished in 38th position on the medals after collecting a solitary bronze medal at the fifth Commonwealth Youth Games in Samoa.

Four athletes from two sports represented Seychelles at the games and the only medal – a bronze – came from promising boxer Lorenzo Bonne who lost his 69kg semifinal fight to win a bronze medal for Seychelles.

The other athletes in the competition for Seychelles were Edrian Volcère, also a boxer, along with swimmers Felicity Passon and Dean Hoffman.

Hoffman was in action on Thursday as he finished 16th in the 200m freestyle with a time of 2 minutes 08.29 seconds (2:08.29). The winner of this event was Australia’s Clyde Lewis (1:48.88) and he was followed by Malaysia’s Welson Wee Sheng Sim (1:49.22) and England’s Kyle Chisholm (1:51.21) in second and third places respectively.

Australia has topped the medals table with a total of 62 medals (24 gold, 19 silver and 19 bronze). South Africa has finished second with a total of 35 medals (13 gold, 7 silver and 15 bronze) followed in third place by England with 44 medals (12 gold, 16 silver and 16 bronze).

The top 10 also features Malaysia in fourth place (11 gold, 3 silver 3 bronze), India fifth (9 gold, 4 silver, 6 bronze), New Zealand sixth (7 gold, 9 silver, 5 bronze), Nigeria seventh (6 gold, 2 silver, 3 bronze), Northern Ireland eighth (4 gold, 4 silver, 4 bronze), Kenya ninth (4 gold, 3 silver) and Jamaica 10th (4 gold, 1 silver, 1 bronze).

Host nation Samoa finished 12th on the medals table with 12 medals (2 gold, 4 silver and 6 bronze), while Mauritius has finishing in 25th position with two bronze medals.

Other gold medallists at these games include Scotland, Fiji, Botswana, Wales, Papua New Guinea, Bangladesh, Barbados, Ghana and Guernsey.

A total of 64 countries took part in the Games and 23 failed to win a medal.

S. N.