At the MAAA international friendly Track & Field meeting at the Marsa yesterday, in which Northern Athletics (UK), Gibraltar and Sicily provided the largest contingents, it was the Junior thrower Daniel Vella, of Allcomers Aloysians, who managed to better his own national record in the Shot Putt, with a throw of 13.12 metres.

The old record, established earlier this year, has now been bettered by more than half a metre to a new distance of 13.66 metres.