This report from the Irish Federation of Sea Anglers:

It was a bittersweet end to the World Championships in Spain for our young Irish teams.

Our U21s ended the campaign in a tie with Italy and the Netherlands on 12 points and suffered cruelly in the tie break ending up in 4th position and just out of the medals. They fished brilliantly all week and their efforts will stand them in good stead in the years to come.

On the other hand our young guns refused to give up after a semi disastrous first day where some pegs were completely unfishable. The lads battled back on the southern beaches of Pinar to haul themselves up the table. Day 3 was another head scratcher at times but practice pays off and the lads with palometta on their pegs bagged up notably Daniel Gricius blazing a trail. In the end when the dust settled Alex, Mochara, Joseph, Danny and Daniel along with management team of Barry and Liam took to the podium to collect their well earned Bronze medals.

Outstanding fishing by our young anglers and a huge thank you to all the parents and members that took time to get the lads there driving half way across Europe with gear and pulling together to make this happen.

Final scoreboards

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In the end a double podium eluded us but I for one am very proud of the effort that was put in to get the results and on another day it would of gone our way.

Training days at sunset

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