In 2015, Bero Bobus and Ruben Vieira became the Jersey players to win a NatWest Island Games volleyball medal of any colour, bronze in the men’s beach discipline. And the affable duo recreated those scenes at a blustery – and at times drizzly – ICA Maxi arena yesterday.
The Caesarean pair began the day with a comprehensive defeat, 21-7, 21-15, at the hands of the eventual gold medallists from Gotland – a ‘warm-up’ for the bronze medal match, as Bobus put it.
But they bounced back in style, beating Menorca’s Francesc Bagur Catalá and Jose Maria De Olivar Romeo 21-19, 21-19 to claim back-to-back bronze medals.
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