ASA participate in San Marino Swimming Meet

Gavin Muscat

In preparation for the upcoming Games of the Small States of Europe (GSSE) to be held between the 29th May and 3rd June 2017 in Serravalle, San Marino, and to provide International exposure to the swimmers who have qualified or are likely to qualify for these games, the ASA of Malta participated in the 15° Meeting Del Titano Long Course Swimming Meet in Serravalle, San Marino between the 24th and 25th February 2017. The team was led by National Swimming Coach Artem Goncharenko, President Joe Caruana Curran and Physio Rebecca Causon.

The competition format featured Heats in the morning and Finals in the afternoons. The following is a brief report of the 2 Days of competition and the results achieved.

Swimming Groups:

Women:

• Open – born 2002 and before
• Junior – born 2003/2004

Men:

• Open – born 2000 and before
• Junior – born 2001/2002/2003

Heats and Finals     

The fastest 16 junior and 16 open swimmers from morning heats will progress to the A and B Finals in the afternoon.

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Day 1 – Friday 24th February 2017

Our swimmers obtained the following results:-

The result below is a new National Record:

50 Breast         Amy Micallef              Broke her own record of 34.07 set in Berlin in Dec 2016

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The following swimmers made it to the Finals with their morning times and achieved the results indicated:

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The final event of the day was the 4 x 100m Free Relay in which the Maltese Squad took part with 4 teams.

Men

Buhagiar Kyle, Stafrace Michael, Wareing Thomas, Dimech Gabriel             3:42.69

Zammit Matthew, Bugeja Jeremy, Umnov Mikhail, Galea Matthew                3:35.97

Women

Valletta Martina, Friggieri Andria, Tanti Leah, Ceccarelli Charis                     4:19.66

Falzon Young Francesca, Fino Kristina, Micallef Amy, Azzopardi Mya          4:06.01

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Day 2 – Saturday 25th February 2017

The following swimmers made it to the Finals with their morning times and achieved the results indicated:

The highlighted results are new Records as follows:

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The final event of the competition was the 4 x 100m Medley Relay in which the Maltese Squad took part with 2 teams.  The teams were made up as follows:-

Men

Galea Matthew, Umnov Mikhail, Stafrace Michael, Zammit Matthew                       3:59.63

Women

Azzopardi Mya, Ceccarelli Charis, Micallef Amy, Falzon Young Francesca              4:29.96

With the above time, the Women Team set a new National Record for the 4 x 100m Medley Relay which was previously set at a time of 4:33.29 since April 2016 and was achieved by Francesca Falzon Young, Charis Ceccarelli, Amy Micallef and Nicola Muscat.

The ASA of Malta is very satisfied with the results obtained.