Young England athletes picked up a hatful of medals at the Table Tennis Hopes Open European Games event in Hungary, including winning three of the four team competitions.

The competition is for Under-13 and Under-15 players and featured 24 teams in total across both age groups and two genders – a mixture of club and national teams from several countries, including China, Romania and the host nation.

When all the results were put together, England finished top of the 24-team league table.

England won both team competitions in the Under-13 age group, and both only dropped one individual match all tournament.

The duo of Lusio Wen and Malek Shamakh confirmed the title with a 3-0 win over Chinese team Tengfei TT Zhuhai in the final.

Wen started by beating Dongze Lin 3-0 (11-7, 11-4, 11-4), and Shamakh then overcame Haolin Yang 3-0 (13-11, 11-9, 11-6), before the boys combined to take the doubles 3-0 (11-5, 11-6, 11-8).

Shamakh was unbeaten all competition, though he had to clinch his match against Csongor Halmai 15-13 in the fifth in the group stage fixture against Mahacsi Torna Egylet from Hungary. Wen was defeated only once, in the same match in four games by Erik Palos.

In the girls’ competition, Serene Rahmani-Walentynska and Bethany Yang teamed up to win all their matches.

Their nearest rivals were a combined Romania-Serbia team, and Rahmani-Walentynska had a close match before defeating Kriszta Orolya Ungvari 3-2 (6-11, 11-3, 14-12, 7-11, 11-7). Yang made it 2-0 by seeing off Nina Crnkovity 3-0 (11-9, 11-8, 11-5), and the doubles was a 3-1 (11-7, 8-11, 11-4, 11-2) scoreline in England’s favour.

Rahmani-Walentynska remained unbeaten throughout the competition, while Yang lost only once.

In the Under-15 Boys’ Team, Oscar Nikolli was unbeaten throughout, as was Rishaan Sawant, while Pablo Ramirez Rioja lost only once as England won all six matches against teams from Hungary, Israel, San Marino and Romania.

Nikolli clinched the key match with a 3-2 (4-11, 11-8, 11-6, 13-15, 11-4) win against Zsombor Vary to seal a 3-1 victory over Budaorsi SC/BVSC Zuglo from Hungary, the silver medallists.

In the Under-15 Girls’ Team, Soraya Rahmani-Walentynska teamed up with Scotland’s Kiishi Adekola and finished fourth with two wins and three defeats. The competition was won by a Chinese team.

In the individual events, English athletes won one silver and three bronze medals.

The silver was for Wen in the Under-13 Boys’ competition and both Wen and Shamakh won their groups, although Wen was stretched by Marcell Marton of Hungary, winning 3-2 (11-7, 8-11, 11-6, 10-12, 12-10).

Those were the only games he dropped until the final, which he lost 3-1 (11-4, 12-10, 8-11, 11-3) to Balint Gilicz of Hungary.

Shamakh went out in the quarter-finals to Haolin Yang of China 3-0 (13-11, 13-11, 11-9) – the first games he had dropped.

In the Under-13 Girls’ Singles, Serene Rahmani-Walentynska won a bronze medal, losing out in the semi-finals to eventual champion Qianyu Liu of China 3-0 (11-9, 11-6, 11-4).

Yang went out in the quarter-finals to the eventual silver medallist from the host nation, Sara Szondy, by a 3-1 (11-3, 9-11, 11-5, 11-4) scoreline.

Yang had won her group, while Rahmani-Welentynska was second to Dorina Laczko of Hungary but won a crucial match against Eden Badinter of Israel 3-2 (11-5, 11-7, 9-11, 10-12, 11-9).

Ramirez Rioja took bronze in the Under-15 Boys’ Singles, losing to eventual champion Simon Zsigmond from Hungary 3-1 (11-7, 11-7, 8-11, 11-9).

Nikolli went out in the quarter-finals to eventual silver medallist Adam Tokai, also from Hungary in a close match that ended 3-2 (7-11, 18-16, 5-11, 11-9, 11-5) to Tokai.

Both Ramirez Rioja and Nikolli won their groups, while Wen finished second in his with three wins and one loss – he beat Haolin Yang 3-2 (5-11, 11-8, 11-4, 12-14, 11-9) in a key match. Wen was defeated in the round of 16.

Sawant finished third in his group having won two and lost two, the key match a 3-2 (6-11, 11-9, 8-11, 11-5, 11-6) defeat to Balint Gilicz.

Shamakh also finished third in his group, despite a good 3-2 (11-4, 5-11, 11-7, 9-11, 12-10) win over Tomer Frenkel of Israel.

The was a bronze for Soraya Rahmani-Walentynska in the Under-15 Girls’ Singles, losing in the semi-finals 3-0 (12-10, 11-5, 11-9) to champion Qianyu Liu of China. Qianyu had beaten Serene Rahmani-Walentynska 3-0 in the quarter-finals.

Adekola went out in the round of 16, 3-2 to Emma Varadi while Yang finished third in her group, which was won by Qianyu.