Final day golden charge fizzles out under spotlight

GUERNSEY did not have the golden ending they would have so wished for in the table tennis campaign at Aland's Idrottscenter.

Garry Dodd and Dawn Morgan claimed singles bronze having fallen in Saturday morning's semi-finals while Morgan and Kay Chivers teamed up to take silver in the doubles.

The Sarnian pairing was involved in an epic final against Gotland's Annika Ahlgren and Elin Schwartz.

The Scandinavians took the opening leg comfortably, 11-3, but the Guernsey combination found their rhythm in the second, to level the match 11-8.

Another tight leg followed, this time edged by the Gotlanders 11-9, but Chivers and Morgan responded well in a marathon fourth set, forcing a decider by winning it 15-13.

However, Ahlgren and Schwartz denied the Sarnian stalwarts another Games gold by the narrowest of margins in the fifth, at 11-9.

Dodd's singles semi-final was similarly tight.

He had fallen 2-0 down to Johan Petterson in their best of seven match, but then reeled off three legs on the bounce to take the lead.