Optimistic about athletics

Paul Grech praises Maltese athletes in this article written for the International Association of Athletics Federations:

2003 was always going to be a hard act to follow after Malta scaled new heights with a record medal haul secured at the Games for the Small States of Europe, and Tanya Blake becoming the first ever Maltese athlete to achieve the minimum qualification time to qualify for the Olympic Games. And so it proved to be in 2004!

From the administrative point of view, the most significant result was the successful staging of the European Winter Throwing Challenge. It was perhaps the biggest athletics event ever held in Malta and the end result was more than satisfying with a good number of top European athletes who specialise in the throwing disciplines coming to Malta to take part.

Malta Olympic Committee - Games for the small states of Europe.