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A hearty congratulations to the athletes who performed strongly at the national Secondary School track & field championships in Wanganui last weekend.
On the winners’ podium were Kane Russell, who took out the junior boys’ javelin with a throw of 48.39 metres; William Scorgie, who won the junior boys’ 3,000 metres track race in a time of 9 minutes, 3 seconds; and the junior boys’ 4 x 100 metre relay team of Todd Johnston, Toby Flett, Dillon Todd and Kane Russell with a winning run of 45.10 seconds. The relay team’s time of 44.62 seconds in the heats bettered the national record of 44.73 seconds set by the 2000 Otago Boys’ team.
Otago Boys’ was omnipresent in the junior sprint finals with Todd Johnston finishing second in both the junior boys’ 100 and 200 metre sprints; Kane Russell filling fourth spot in the junior boys’ 100 metres, and Toby Flett finishing fifth in the junior boys’ 100 metres and fourth in the junior boys 200 metres. Dillon Todd was seventh in the junior boys’ 400 metre final.
