Nicolai Mallia places 6th in the European Championship of Champions in ten pin bowling.
16 year old Mallia, the current National Champion, had a tremendous performance in Vienna, where he placed 6th to become the highest ever placed Maltese male bowler in ECC history.
Mallia qualified in 6th place overall out of the 38 bowlers, including 37 national champions and the 2024 ECC winner, bowling superbly well to earn a place in the top 12 with an outstanding 226.8 average. During these 3 sets of 8 games, Mallia broke the local youth national record by bowling a 5443 total, that included an outstanding new national record 8 game series of 1866, during the mixed doubles with Cynthia Frendo Duca.
In the finals, Mallia kept performing at a top level, including the first ever perfect 300 game by a Maltese bowler during the ECC! His total for these 8 games, 1754 (219,25 average) together with his previous 5443 total, meant he claimed 6th place, the best ever place achieved by a Maltese Male bowler at the European Championship of Champions.
In the female section, Cynthia Frendo Duca struggled a lot on the first day, but then recovered somewhat on the last day to finish in 36th place. The team finished in 19th place out of 38 teams in the mixed doubles.
Emma Palermaa from Finland was crowned champions after beating Hayley Russel from England 2-0, while Lukas Jelinek from the Czech Republic beat outgoing champion Maxime Dubois from France in a thrilling 2-1 final.
Our national champions were accompanied and followed by National Coach Mark Spiteri during the ECC, and the trip was made possible thanks to the support of SportMalta and the Maltese Olympic Committee.
