Marshall Hall (Taieri) continued his dramatic return to top athletics on Saturday by re-capturing New Zealand's top spot for the season in the discus.
Hall (20), a psychology and commerce student at the University of Otago, threw the discus a personal best 46.25m during the interclub athletics meeting at the Caledonian Ground.
Hall, who is coached by New Zealand Olympic athletics manager Raylene Bates, claimed the top spot when he threw 45.96m in Auckland in November.
But he was relegated to second best by veteran Aucklander Pat Hellier (37), who threw 45.97m nine days ago.
Hall took the top ranking back in style on Saturday with a consistent set of throws: 44.88m, foul, 46.11m, foul, 44.61m, 46.25m.
"I'm pretty happy," Hall admitted.
"But I'm still a bit off course and am bowling the discus instead of throwing it. I've still got a bit to work on."
Hall has set tough targets for himself this season and wants to win the New Zealand senior and the Australian under-23 titles.
He finished fourth in an Australia Cup event at Brisbane earlier this month and knows that to win the title in Australia he must throw 50m.
Bates was watching on the bank on Saturday and urged Hall to drive through the circle from the back.
Hall, who grew up in Invercargill before starting his studies in Dunedin, won the New Zealand junior title two years ago but missed last season after a spinal operation.
The other highlight in the discus came from national schoolboys' champion Matthew Aitken (Hill City) who won the athletes with disabilities (AWD) event with a throw of 21.89m.
He also won the men's 17-19 100m in 15.43sec.
Todd Bates (Taieri), a medallist at the New Zealand College Games, won the boys aged 14 and under hammer throw with a distance of 35.92m.
Fiona Hely (Hill City) was dominant in the women's sprints and convincingly won the 100m (12.74sec) and 200m (25.68sec) double.
National schoolboy medallist Toby Flett (Hill City) was the top male sprinter and won the 100m in 11.17sec and the 200m in 22.95sec.
Pacific Schools Games champion Rebekah Greene (Hill City) demonstrated her class when she won the women's aged 15 and 16 400m in a personal best 60.95sec and the 1500m in 4min 48.64sec.
Training partner Anna-Lisa Uttley (Ariki) ran a personal best 4min 53.28sec when finishing second in the 1500m.
Daniel Balchin (Caversham) put his foot down with 650m left to win the men's 1500m in a personal best time of 4min 05.26sec.
Julie Wilson (Ariki) broke her own Otago Masters aged 50 to 54 record when she finished runner-up to Sue Cuthbert (Leith) in the Masters women's over-35 1500m in 5min 07.06sec.
She also holds the 800m and 3000m records in her age group.
Glen Ferguson (Leith) demonstrated the value of the Lydiard training methods when he broke an 18-year-old Otago Men's masters aged 40 to 44 record in the 5000m.
He lowered the record that Allan Davis (Ariki) set in 1991 by 25 seconds with his time of 15min 42sec.
Ferguson also claimed the Otago 3000m record when he ran 9min 05.1sec at Christchurch earlier in the month.
