AWD 1.5km
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| Isiah Kouka-Albert (Heretaunga College) crossed the line first in the AWD race, after outsmarting the dog |
Results
This event is the last of 3 annual races aimed at high
school age runners. The first two were
cross country while today’s event, the last, is nominally a road race.
There
should actually be 4 events, but the road relay champs scheduled for 2 August
was cancelled because of low entries.
The course for the road champs is pretty basic and takes
runners around the sealed path that goes around the perimeter of the main park
area.
The start and finish areas are next to the Trentham United clubrooms.
Distances were 3km, 4km and 6km. AWD competitors did 1.5km.
The closest race of the day was between the Junior Girls
(Year 9 and under). A large leading group
mostly stuck together for two of the three laps but on the last lap this had whittled
down to two.
So over the last 1km the battle was between Jessica Hughes
(Wellington East College) and Katelyn Sceats (Chilton St James College).
A betting person may have picked Hughes to win
but it was the diminutive Sceats who came through to win by 1 second.
So if you have never heard of Katelyn Sceats then you have
now.
In the other grades the winners are well known with a good
record of successes at both a local and national level.
Junior Girls 3km
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| Katelyn Sceats (Chilton St James School) winner of Junior Girls race |
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| Happy Tawa College 1 |
Junior Boys 3km
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| Will Anthony (Scots College) easily won the Junior Boys race |
Intermediate Girls 3km
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| Happy Tawa College 2 |
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| Esther Kozyniak (St Catherine's College) on the right finished 16 seconds ahead of Lucy Hegan (Wellington Girls College) |
Intermediate Boys 4km
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| Finn Seeds (Hutt International Boys School) dominated the field to win |
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| Man on bike making GoPro doco |
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| Probably needs a 3 axis gimbal |
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| The tailenders have the benefit of taking in the scenery |
Senior Girls 4km
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| Following the leader |
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Senior Boys 6km
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| Toby Gualter (Tawa College) ran out for roughly two of the four 1,5km laps. |
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| The danger men |
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| Seamus Kane (Onslow College) makes his break on the last lap |
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| Dylan Lynch (left) picked up 2nd place with Jack Marshall 3rd. Both Wellington College |
