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Athlete’s Profile: Mario Bonello

Malta Independent Thursday, 27 April 2006, 00:00 Last update: about 11 years ago

Age: 32 yrs

Sport: Athletics

Discipline: 60m, 100m, 200m, 400m

Club: La Salle AC

Started: De La Salle Collage aged 8yrs

Job: Graduated as an Architect and Civil Engineer in 1997 and works at the Works Division in the Ministry of Resources and Infrastructure.

Personal Bests:

Indoors: 60m 6.90, 200m 22.32

Outdoors: 100m 10.64, 200 21.46, 400m 48.78, octatlon 4,597pts

Relays: 4x100m 40.63, 4x400m 3min 18.25sec

Held national records:

60m, 200m indoors Open;

100m, 200m, 400m, triple jump, 4x100m outdoors Junior;

100m, 200m, Octatlon, 4x100m, 4x400m outdoors Open

Achievements:

Sportsman of the Year 1999,

MAAA athlete of the year 4 times

100m & 200m Gold medals, La Sallian Games 1993

100m Gold Medal, Tunisia International 1999

Gold and Bronze Award, MOC 2005

14 medals at the Games of the Small States of Europe namely: Bronze 4x100m, Bronze 4x400m, Malta 1993; Silver 200m, Bronze 4x100m, Iceland 1997; Bronze 200m, Bronze 4x400m, Liechtenstein 1999; Silver 200m, Silver 4x100m, Bronze 4x400m, San Marino 2001; Bronze 4x100, Bronze 4x400m, Malta 2003; Gold 4x100m, Silver 4x400m, Bronze 200m, Andorra 2005.

Others

Olympic Games, Atlanta 1996, Sydney 2000

World Athletics Championships, Stuttgart 1993, Athens 1997

European Championships, Helsinki 1994, Budapest 1998

World and European Indoor Championships, Paris 1997, Valencia1998

FISEC Games Liverpool 1989, Soria 1991

European Youth Olympic Games, Brussels 1991

University Games, Buffalo 1993, Fukuoka 1995, Sicily 1997

Mediterranean Games, Bari 1997, Almeria 2005

European Cup 1994, 1996, 1998, 2000-2005

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