South West Schools Track & Field Championships
Exeter Arena 18th June 2011
Despite strong swirling winds and many heavy short showers the Cornish athletes competing at the South West Schools Athletic Championships at Exeter on Saturday did themselves proud.
Of the 44 athletes, there were 22 athletic performances that had Cornish athletes on the medal podium of top three places.
Matt adds a massive 3.50 metres to the Discus record he had already smashed at last week's County Championships |
Star athlete was Matt Halton (Bodmin) in his final year of senior boys winning both the shot & discus. His discus win added 3.50m to his County record. Sam Harry (Truro Coll) was second in the 800m. Senior girls not wishing to be out done both produced County records, Philippa Brett (St.Austell Coll) being second in the 400m hurdles and Lamorna Newman (Truro Coll) winning the triple jump.
Lamorna -in her first year as a Senior -equals the 15-year-old county record in Triple Jump |
Junior girl athletes Molly Long (Wadebridge) won the 800m win a strong run leading throughout the race. Charlotte Cayton-Smith (Tretherras) won a tactical 1500m race with a perfectly timed sprint in the home straight. Yvonne Chart (Truro) won the B 1500m race.
Charlotte - 1500m endurance win |
Molly - delight after winning 800m | > |
Yvonne - 1500m endurance win |
In the Inter girls it was field event athletes who excelled. Kiani Pay (Truro) was third in the shot and Jordanna Morrish (Truro High) was second in both the high jump & long jump.
Kiani threw 10.52 metres - an entry standard which won her a place in the National Championships
Despite the strong winds there were fine middle distance performances for the Inter boys races. Andrew Worden (Helston) was just outkicked for second place in the 800m. In the 1500m good team work lead to Hobie Martin (Tretherras) taking second place and Callum Jones (Helston) in third place. Tom Rawet (Helston) lead from start to finish to win the 1500m Steeplechase.
Tom achieved a convincing win by more than 12 sec over his second-place rival in 1500 Steeplechase | > | 
Callum and Hobie receieve their medals and certificates for 3rd & 2nd place in 1500 metres | > |
Liam held out against Gloucestershire by 6/10ths sec to gain entry standard | > | 
Kieran - 2nd place junior Shot Putt | > | 
Paddy only just missed out on his Avon rival by 39cm to gain 2nd place in Discus | > |
But, it was the new junior boy athletes who performed way beyond expectations. Liam Prynn (Penryn) ran a strong race to take second place in the 100m. Kieran Westlake (Truro) was second in the shot adding half a metre to last weekend's distance. In the discus Patrick Swan (Camborne) improved by 3.50m for second place and was well supported by Daniel Head (Redruth) who achieved a national entry standard in fifth place. A superb last round jump gave Oliver Clark (R.Lander) not only first place in the triple jump but also yet another County record.
Oliver jumped 12.14 metres to win the junior boys' Triple Jump |
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| A confident exchange of baton in the junior boys' 4x100 metre relay race - Cornwall came 3rd, only 1/2 second behind Somerset and Dorset | ||
A team of 19 athletes have been selected to compete in the All England Athletic Championships at Gateshead in July.
Top three places:
Junior Girls
800.1. Molly Long 2.19.68. 1500m A 1. C.Cayton-Smith 4.48.23 ne. 1500mB 1. Yvonne Chart 5.06.11. Relay 3. 52.17.
Inter Girls
High jump 2. Jordanna Morrish 1.68ne. Ljump 2. Jordanna Morrish 5.17. Shot 3. Kiani Pay 10.20ne. P.Vault 6. C.Lowe (Bodmin) 2.85ne.
Senior Girls
400M Hurd 2. Philippa Brett 66.94 cr. Tjump 1. Lamorna Newman 11.23ne/cr.
Junior Boys
100. 2. Liam Prynn 11.75ne. Relay 3rd 48.57. Shot 2. Kieran Westlake 12.83ne. Discus 2. Patrick Swan 38.41ne 5. Daniel Head 35.05ne. Tjump 1. Oliver Clark 12.14 ne/cr.
Inter Boys
800M 2. Andrew Worden 2.04.17. 1500m 2. Hobie Martin 4.05.36ne 3. Callum Jones 4.11.03. 1500m SChase 1. Tom Rawet 4.36.01. Discus 2. Jake Banevicius 40.95.
Senior Boys
800M 2. Sam Harry 1.59.03. Shot 1. Matt Halton 14.98 ne/ns. Discus 1. Matt Halton 44.81 ne/ns/cr.
ne national entry ns national standard cr county record.