Marlon Attard has just missed out on a place in the skeet final at the Mediterranean Games in Oran, Algeria, on Wednesday.

The Maltese shooter produced a solid showing throughout the two-day competition and was seen as an outsider for a place on the podium in the prestigious competition.

In fact, Attard had started the day leading the competition on 74 clays alongside French shooter Emmanuel Stephane Petit and Charalampos Chalkiadakis, of Greece.

On Wednesday morning, the 18 participating shooters were due to shoot the remaining 50 clays with the top eight shooters progressing to the competition’s semi-finals stage.

Here Attard missed just two clays to complete the first phase of the competition with 122 clays from 125.

That left him third in the standings alongside Chalkiadakis and Frenchman Eric Allain Delaunay.

Continue reading this article on SportsDesk, the sports website of the Times of Malta