Sasha Gatt signs for Sliema ASC BMIT Technologies

Sasha Gatt has officially signed for Sliema ASC BMIT Technologies in view of the upcoming 2022-23 Swimming season.

This comes shortly after Sliema ASC further dominated another Swimming national championship, winning its third one in a row under the guidance of head coach Francesca Paollela.

Gatt, who competed in the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo Japan in the 400m and 1,500m freestyle, as well as setting a new landmark in local swimming by placing seventh overall in the 1,500m freestyle at the European Junior Swimming Championships in Rome 2021, officially signed the contract in the presence of Andrew Galea, the club treasurer, Head coach Paollela, and Jeffrey Galea the Associate Head coach of Sliema ASC, at Sliema Pitch last week.

Paolella, said she was very pleased to see that Sliema ASC BMIT Technologies is able to attract and recruit such a high ranked, talented and hard working athlete, as this will not only bolster the clubs performance in local and international meets, but also motivate and educate the clubs junior athletes to keep striving for greatness in the sports.

As the swimming season comes to a successful conclusion, Sliema ASC BMIT Technologies are now looking ahead and planning to further strengthen the junior squads, whilst further developing the national team swimmers, in view of the short course FINA world championships coming up in December 2022 in Melbourne Australia, and the world aquatics championships in Japan in July 2023 as a final stop on the road to the Olympics in Paris the following year.