Mediterranean Challenge Cup

Athens (Greece) hosted the third MCC with a new team from the western shore of the Mediterranean sea, Spain.The doubles event winners were Sue Abela-Melissa Anastasi (Malta) and Dimitrios Karetsos-Leonidas Maragos (Greece).The fourth MCC was held in Nicosia (Cyprus) for the second time, and one of the teams withdrew, Turkey.Greece swept the "all-events" gold medals, with singles event winners Kaltsou and Karetsos prevailing.In fifth MCC was held in Barcelona, increasing the number of teams to seven with the return of Turkey and the first participation of France.[4] The eighth MCC was held in St. Julian's (Malta) for the second time at Eden Superbowl, with Turkey withdrawing.A Masters event was introduced, which consisted of the top 8 in the All-Events standings for men and women playing three rounds of best-of-three single eliminations.Chiara Roiati (Italy) and Mark Spiteri (Malta) emerged as winners of the masters event.[7] The eleventh MCC was held in Chania (Greece) at Bowling Mega Palace The teams were the same as last year except Israel and Morocco, both withdrawing.Liat Vizenfeld (Israel) and Lluís Montfort (Catalonia) won the All-Events gold medals.Antonio Francesco-Marco Reviglio (Italy) and Niki Schiza-Myria Kastori (Cyprus) won the doubles event.The All-Events gold medals went to Marco Reviglio (Italy) and Niki Schiza (Cyprus), and the Masters event were won by Or Aviram and Sarit Mizrahi, both from Israel.In 2011 the MCC was held in Barcelona (Catalonia) for the second time, increasing the number of teams to 13 with the first participation of Croatia,[10] Slovenia[11] and Tunisia.In 2012 the MCC was held in Serravalle, San Marino for the second time (previously hosted in 2006) from April 17 to 21 at Rose'n Bowl with the same 13 teams as 2011.The winners in the doubles event were Ebru Ozogluuntur-Adile Michajlow (Turkey) and George Stefanidis-Evangelos Krizinis (Greece), the Greek team winning for the second straight year.A new event, mixed doubles, was added to the schedule, with Daniela Buzzeli-Enzo Zucchinelli (Italy) emerging as winners.The singles events were won by Helga Di Benedetto (Italy) and Justin Scicluna (Malta).The winners in the doubles event were Sue Abela-Tiziana Carannante (Malta) for the second time and Julien Sermand-Nicolas Marchand (France).The doubles winners were Lauriane Célié-Stéphanie Dubourg (France) and Anže Grabrijan-Nino Stenko (Slovenia).The doubles winners were Giada Dimartino-Annalisa Balzano (Italy) and Stavros Parasakis-Ioannis Stathatos (Greece).The 2016 Mediterranean Bowling Championships (MBC) was held in Bologna (Italy) at RenoBowling, Casalecchio di Reno from April 12–16.The 2017 MBC was held March 26 to April 2, 2017, in Ljubljana (Slovenia) for the second at Bowling Klub 300 (previously hosted in 2013).The singles events were won by Lauriane Célié (France) and Justin Caruana Scicluna (Malta).The 22nd MBC was held March 31 - April 7, 2019 in St. Julian's, (Malta) for the third time (previously hosted in 1999 and 2005) at Eden Superbowl.Egypt, Kosovo and Portugal participated for the first time, while Gibraltar and Israel returned after a one-year absence.The 23rd MBC was to be November 8-15, 2020, in Moussy-le-Neuf, (France), at Escape Factory, but was postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic from October 11-17, 2021.The singles events were won by Tali Itzhak Abdu (Israel) and Walter Alessandro Santu (Italy).Tali Itzhak Abdu & Netanel Shimon Volpert (Israel) won mixed doubles.15 Federations participated, with Egypt and Tunisia returning after missing last year's edition, while Kosovo not sending bowlers.