Sammut sets new 100m backstroke age group mark

Mark Sammut broke the age group D record when clocking 1:01.80 in his 100m backstroke heat at the Youth Olympic Games, currently being held in Singapore. The Maltese swimmer bettered his own mark of 1:02.57, set at the FISEC Games last month. Sammut,...

Mark Sammut broke the age group D record when clocking 1:01.80 in his 100m backstroke heat at the Youth Olympic Games, currently being held in Singapore. The Maltese swimmer bettered his own mark of 1:02.57, set at the FISEC Games last month.

Sammut, who is scheduled to swim in the 200m backstroke on Saturday, finished last in the initial heat of the 100 backstroke, 2.65 seconds behind Belgian Bastien Soret who came in first.

Today, athlete Marija Sciberras will run in heat two of the girls’ 100m hurdles.

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