Gambin, Sammut set more records

After their record-breaking stints throughout last week when competing in overseas meetings, Ryan Gambin and Mark Sammut were again the protagonists in Sunday's eighth Age-Group Time Trials at Tal-Qroqq Swimming Pool after setting three more records.

Gambin, the Maltese-Australian, established a new limit of 2:00.09 in the 200 metres freestyle, thus erasing the name of Kyle Scerri, who set the previous mark of 2:01.19 in April 2006.

The ever-improving Iasis swimmer Sammut broke two age-group (C) records in the 50 and 100 metres backstroke with times of 31.18 in the one-lap race, an improvement of 0.08 on his previous mark set in Luxembourg last week, and 1:05.67 in the 100 metres race. This time removed the 17-year old Group C record of 1:06.53 held by Christian Gialanze.

Sammut will now be engaged in the FISEC Games in Malta next month, while Gambin flew to Malaga yesterday to join the Spanish national team on a 10-day training camp, courtesy of the Olympic Solidarity Scholarship through the initiative of the MOC.

Gambin then hopes to go to Bath on another training camp, before he proceeds to Beijing where he will be representing Malta in the Olympic Games.