Kids' event at Marsa tomorrow

Athletics Malta will be staging another Kids' Athletics event tomorrow at the Matthew Micallef St John Athletic Track, Marsa, starting at 1.30 p.m.

This is an enjoyable team festival for children based on the IAAF Kids' Athletics programme.

"This relatively new concept in Athletics is tailored for the developmental needs of children between the ages of 5-13 especially," Athletics Malta said in a statement.

"Yet, these new events and the innovative organisation are suitable for all children, enabling them to discover the basic athletic activities of sprinting, endurance running, jumping and throwing/putting, preparing them for the official athletic events they will enjoy later on in life, as they so might choose."

Kids' Athletics adopts a mixed team principle for which kids aged 5 and 6, 7 and 8, 9 and 10 and 11 to 13 are placed in different teams, with every boy and girl taking part in all the events while rotating from one event to another.

The structure and scoring of the event is easy to follow with the points allocated according to the scoring of each team member. The total scores of each team for each event are calculated and a rank order is established.