Sports Day 2016 ‘one of
the closest in a long time’
The world’s
best athletes will go head-to-head in Rio de Janeiro next month, but while
there may not be an Olympic title at stake on school sports day, the
competition was just as high as students looked to claim both individual and
team glory. In fact, Mr Barlow said that it was the closest sports day, in
terms of points between form groups, for a long time.
The first
part of the morning saw the field events take place with students participating
in high jump, long jump, discus, javelin and shot put. After the conclusion of
the field events, the whole school made their way onto the field to support
their friends and colleagues. The opening events on the track were won by Josie
Robertson (year 8) and Ruby Spencer (year 9) in the girls 800m, while Spencer
Sheard (year 7) and Matt Owen (year 8) triumphed in the boys’ event.
Although the
rain did hold off for the day, the events took place in difficult conditions;
with rain in previous days leading to soft and damp conditions underfoot. The
conditions didn’t, however, stop school records being broken. Year 7 students Joe Ayre and Fin Stratford set
new records in the 200m and 1500m respectively. Joe beat Elliott Darman’s 2013
time by 1.03 seconds, while Finn set a new 1500m record in a time of 5 minutes,
20 seconds, beating Jack Farrall’s record from last year by 9 seconds.
1500m
The one
event that only a small minority want to compete in is the 1500m, the dreaded
three and three quarter laps around the track. Harper Whitehead, however, made
the event his own in the year 9 race. Harper is used to difficult conditions
having represented Cheshire in the English Schools’ Cross-Country Championships
earlier this year and he ran a strong 1500m. The field was bunched crossing the
finish line for the first time, but Harper soon increased the tempo and was
unchallenged as he pulled out an advantage over the rest of the field.
100m and
200m
The 100m is
the most prestigious and shortest running event on the schedule and saw Meera
Shanati (year 9), George Johnson (year10) and Lydia Eardley (year 10) all
record convincing victories. In the 200m, Lexi Harrison won by some margin in
the year 9 girls race, while Daniel Sturridge’s 200m year 9 school record still
stands despite a strong performance by Lewis Eaton.
Megan Sheard
changed disciplines this year, but still managed to win just as emphatically.
The year 10 student has previously run the 1500m and still holds the year 7
school record for the event, but she opted to switch from endurance to sprint
this year. She won the year 10 girls 200m convincingly proving her ability as a
strong all round athlete. In the year 10 boys 200m, there was an unconventional
technique on show as one student ran the event backwards! I wonder whether we
will be seeing any athletes running backwards in Rio?
Overall
standings
Heading into
the relay events the tutor standings were very close with just a couple of
points separating the top few tutor groups in each year. However, with relays
worth double points, that could still have all changed.
After the
relays had been run and all results had been verified, the moment everybody was
wanting for arrived...the final results.
There were
just two points separating the top-five tutor groups, with 7ZGr beating 7HV and
7CT by one point to claim the year 7 title with 130 points. Year 8 was not as
close, however, with 8KJE’s total of 136 points beating 8CE by six points. Year
9 was much more convincing with 9SDR taking the year 9 title by a 20 point margin,
while 10JC were the victorious tutor group in year 10 once again.
Written by Adam Bailey
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