2nd competition today

The Malta Weightlifting Association will be organising the 2nd local competition of the year at the Cottonera sport complex today. The event will start at 9am. Both the women’s and men’s events promise to be an exciting race between Malta’s top athletes, in particular the men’s group where national team athletes Vlad Baldacchino, Rodmar Pulis and Matthew Camilleri have all been pushing their personal best lifts during their training.

Baldacchino is currently the leading male athlete and is also part of the team who will be representing Malta at the European Small Nations tournament in Iceland in a few weeks. However, this is not the end goal for Baldacchino as he has another aspiration - to qualify for the Mediterranean Games set to take place this June in Tarragona (Spain).

Another athlete aspiring to make it to the Mediterranean Games, Elisia Scicluna, will also be competing today along with Yazmin Zammit Stevens. The meet will be the last for Zammit Stevens before she leaves for the Commonwealth Games in the Gold Coast, Australia.