Swimmer Andrew Chetcuti will be the first Team Malta member to be in action at the London 2012 Olympics. This morning, at the Acquatics Centre, 19-year old Chetcuti takes part in Heat 3, one of eight, in the men’s 100 metres freestyle.

Chetcuti will swim in lane five with his qualifying time of 51.98 sec.

His opponents are Koloyan Mikayel (Armenia), Avila Soto Kevin (Guam), LeGrand Jemal (Aruba), Hoxha Sidni (Albania), Mohammad Bidaryan (Iran), Rutherfurd Andrew (Bolivia), Christopher Duenas (Gambia). The heats start at 11am (loca time).

In the meantime both Andrew Chetcuti and Nikki Muscat, Diane Borg and Rachid Chouhal continued with their training programme with their respective coaches Andy Colburn and Mario Bonello. Both swimming and athletics venues are within walking distance from the Athletes’ Village.

Training for William Chetcuti together with his coach Jimmy Bugeja was held at the Royal Artillary Barracks which is about half an hour drive from the Athletes’ Village. Chetcuti will be in action in the double-trap on Thursday, with the competition starting at 10am (local time).