The first from a series of summer tournaments, organised by the Malta Wrestling Federation, was held recently at the Naxxar Secondary School with the parti-cipation of wrestlers from the cadet and schoolboys divisions in five different weight categories.

Mark Galea (Naxxar), winner of the Cadet 69kg, caught the eye after going all out to beat team-mate Sebastian Zammit in a decisive encounter. Definitely this was the best bout of the day.

As expected, Gary Giordimaina (Naxxar), showed he was the best wrestler in the 45kg class for schoolboys.

He is improving with each tournament and ideally groomed for the future.

Other category winners were Gary Genovese (Qawra, 32kg schoolboys), Andrew Grech (Naxxar, 32kg) and Isac Frendo (Naxxar, 69kg schoolboys).

In an exhibition match, Shaun Caruana (Qawra) beat team-mate Genovese.

Meanwhile, the federation said they had reached an agreement with their Italian counterparts for wrestlers David Zammit and Adam Vella to travel to Rome next month for a training camp with the Italian national team.

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