Otago school relay teams have featured prominently on the national stage over the weekend.
Seven teams from the region claimed medals at the national secondary schools athletics championships in Hastings.
They went with the 21 individual medals won by Otago athletes.
King’s High School’s junior 4x100m team was the most impressive. Alongside claiming gold, it ran a time of 44.54sec to eclipse the meeting record set by Otago Boys’ High School a decade ago.
It was similarly impressive in the junior 4x400m, claiming gold in 3min 35.77sec.
Not to be outdone, Otago Boys’ High School won gold in both the senior boys 4x100m and 4x400m in 42.98sec and 3min 29.97sec respectively. It also took bronze in the junior boys 4x100m, running 45.01sec.
Dunstan High School took gold in the senior girls 4x100m, running 50.17sec, while St Hilda’s Collegiate managed bronze in the same event.
Cameron Moffitt (Otago Boys’), Alex Brown (King’s) and Tegan Chapman (Dunstan) won Otago’s three individual golds.
Moffitt ran 13.48sec to win the junior boys 100m hurdles, Chapman won the junior girls triple jump with 11.19m and Brown won the boys 2000m race walk in 15min 43.74sec.
Taieri College’s Tara McNally took silver in both the junior girls 80m hurdles and 200m hurdles, in 12.17sec and 47.23sec respectively.
Fellow Taieri College pupil Zharna Beattie also took two medals. She won silver and bronze in the junior girls discus and shot put respectively, with distances of 35.68m and 12.76m.
Flynn Murdoch was the other double medallist, taking bronze in the junior boys 100m and 200m in 11.22sec and 22.57sec respectively.
Other Otago silver medallists were Jack East, Sarah Langsbury, Mikairi Beauchamp-Moore, Ethan Walker, Cameron Miller and Anton Schroeder.
Emma McKay, Jackson Toms, Hamish Mears, Zoe Smith, Josh Hou, and Sam Gouverneur all took bronze medals.
Ellie Duncan, Sammy Burke, Brigid Corson and Duncan Trevithick were not far off the medals and recorded fourth placings.
Results from the road races were not available.
