Malta
Malta ( , , ), officially the Republic of Malta ( mt, Repubblika ta' Malta ), is an island country in the Mediterranean Sea. It consists of an archipelago, between Italy and Libya, and is often considered a part of Southern Europe. It lies ...
competed at the
2008 Summer Olympics in
Beijing
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, China from 8 to 24 August 2008. The country's participation at Beijing marked its fourteenth appearance at a Summer Olympics since its début at the
1928 Summer Olympics. The delegation sent by the
Malta Olympic Committee
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consisted of six athletes: sprinters
Nikolai Portelli and
Charlene Attard, light-middleweight judoka
Marcon Bezzina, double trap shooter
William Chetcuti and short-distance swimmers
Ryan Gambin and
Madeleine Scerri.
Five of the six athletes qualified for the Games by using
wildcards while Gambin was the only person to attain qualification for his sport by setting a time that met the necessary requirements at the
2008 European Aquatics Championships. All six competitors failed to progress any farther than the first round of their respective events though Chetcuti pushed his qualification stage into a four-man shoot-out which he lost.
Background
Malta participated in fourteen Olympic Games between its début at the
1928 Summer Olympics in
Amsterdam
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, Netherlands and the 2008 Beijing Olympics,
with the exception of the 1932, 1952, 1956, 1964 and 1976 Games. The highest number of athletes sent by Malta to a summer games is eleven to the
1936 Olympics 1936 Olympics may refer to:
*The 1936 Winter Olympics, which were held in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany
*The 1936 Summer Olympics, which were held in Berlin, Germany
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