Darrel Mousbé and Selwyn Beauchamp were the two main attractions during the track and field meet organised by the Seychelles Amateur Athletic Federation (SAAF)  Saturday at Stad Popiler, breaking a record each in their respective categories.

Mousbé took 2 minutes 04.15 seconds in the youth 800m to shave 3.50 seconds off  his old time of 2 minutes 07.55 seconds which he set in the 25th annual  inter-school athletic championship on June 29 this year.

The second record of the day came from young Beauchamp, he rewrote the record books by beating the junior discus record. His performance of 42.19 metres was enough to erase his own mark of 42.14 established in April this year.

'' The wind condition was favourable and as I have been training hard, I was expecting an excellent performance today,'' said Beauchamp.

Another attraction on Saturday was talented Ronny Marie from the ARSU club who won the 3000m race in a time of 8 minutes 26.71 seconds. Second in the race was Marie's rival Simon Labiche from Patriot with a time of 8 minutes 34.11 seconds. Third was another youngster, Kevin Monnaie, he crossed the finishing line in a time of 9 minutes 38.85 seconds.

Diguois Natacha Bibi took 2 minutes 24.78 seconds to finish the women's 800m  in the first position and in the second place was young and promising athlete Janet Croisée, with a time of 2 minutes 35.71 seconds.

On the field all eyes were on Antoine Barbe, winner of two gold medals in the long and triple jumps at the southern region championship in Zimbabwe last week.

In the long jump Barbe could only manage 6.99m. Even though this was a poor performance from Barbe he still finished in  first place.

Tony Hoareau was second with 6.75m and third was Evans Flore with 6.54m.