Records tumbled at the Otago secondary schools athletics event, held at the Caledonian Ground in Dunedin on Friday and Saturday.
A couple of pole vault records fell. Otago Boys’ Cole Gibbons jumped 3.30m in the under-16 boys event and Amaya Leslie (Columba) got over the bar at 2.30m in the under-19 girls section.
In the under-15 boys 5kg shot put, Jacob Waide of Otago Boys threw 13.21m, while St Hilda’s Renee Willis biffed the 3kg shot put 13.20m to set a new mark in the under-15 girls competition as well.
Kaikorai Valley’s Nirvana Hepi-Breen was too powerful in the under-16 girls 3kg hammer. She came up with a record toss of 44.56m.
In the triple jump, Tyler Clarke of Otago Boys jumped 11.46m in the under-14 boys event.
Manaia Lesa of Otago Boys got into the record books as well with a 5.53m leap in the under-14 boys long jump. He also collected a record in the under-14 boys 100m, scorching the distance in 11.99sec.
Jorja Gibbons of Queen’s High School jumped 5m in the under-14 girls long jump to set a record.
In the senior girls 100m final, Celia Ward of Dunstan High won in a record time of 12.30sec. She also took the senior record in the 200m with a time of 25.66sec.
But in the under-16 girls 200m, Mt Aspiring’s Abby Fisher clocked a faster time of 25.40sec and is one to watch.
St Hilda’s Zara Geddes won the under-16 girls 3000m in a record time of 10min 35.69sec, while Hannah Prosser (Mt Aspiring) nabbed the under-16 girls title in a record 10min 14.66sec.
Cameron Moffitt (Otago Boys) won the under-19 boys 300m hurdles in 39.55sec.
The Mt Aspiring College 4x100m relay team of Estelle Gellatly, Abby Fisher, Georgie Bruce and Niamh Townsend broke the record with a time of 50.76sec.
