Youth Team Scotland celebrated two silver medals on the Apia Park tennis courts to end their Commonwealth Youth Games experience on a high today in Samoa.
The team will be returning home to Glasgow on Monday with 21 medals; three gold, ten silver and eight bronze. Five of the eight sports won medals (Swimming, Athletics, Boxing, Tennis and Weightlifting) and 18 athletes enjoyed medal success with 100% of the boxers and the track and field team going home with medals.
With the popularity of the Youth Games growing world-wide, this was Scotland’s smallest team ever selected with just 28 athletes, yet their return of medals stands amongst the highest at 75%.
Commonwealth Games Scotland Chairman, Paul Bush OBE said: “Huge congratulations to our Youth Games team they have done the nation proud winning 21 medals. They have been truly inspired by the success of Team Scotland at Glasgow 2014 last year and have shown just how much it means to represent their country on the international stage.
“Whilst the Youth Games is primarily about enabling young athletes to get a positive international multi-sport experience, it is also fantastic to see so many of them win medals. It is difficult to make direct comparisons from Youth Games to Youth Games, due to the different numbers of countries and Scottish athletes competing, as well as the very different sports on the programme, however this is certainly one of our most successful teams to date.
“The popularity and standard of competition at these Games has grown massively over the last few years and they are proving to be the ideal launch pad for athletes to move on to senior international success. We now look forward to seeing many of these names move on to make their mark in Gold Coast 2018 and Durban 2022.”
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