Sammut sets new 100m backstroke age group mark
Photo: Paul Zammit Cutajar
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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franklin debono
Aug 17th 2010, 15:48
Well done Mark! But here I ask again, did Malta send the best swimmer to YOG where he placed last in this 100m backstroke race? When all the other three nominated swimmers would have done surely much better with their present time even if they didn't improve a single split