Outstanding results at NI champs

The North Island secondary schools track and field championships at the Manawatū Community Athletics Track brings the season to an end.

There was no better way to celebrate this than through the victory by the Manawatū team in the under-16 girls 4x400m relay, one of the final events on the programme.

The team of Millane Stassen, Emma Verry, Tayler Trow and Hana Symes were outstanding, crossing the line in 4m 05.23s, 4 seconds clear of the Auckland team.

All these girls had outstanding results. Symes won the junior grade 300m, was second in the 200m and fifth in the long jump.

Trow was second in the 300m hurdles and the long jump, and third in the high jump.

Verry was fourth in the 400m.

Our girls 4x100m relay teams both took third placings.

Stassen and Symes were joined by Emma Hutson and Georgia McNicol in junior relay, while in the intermediate race Verry and Trow were joined by Terina Larsen and Athena Fovakis.

We also had success in the boys’ relays, with the junior boys 4x100m team of Will Hogan, Cooper Bramwell, Jacob Hassan and Yusuf Sufuil finishing second.

The intermediate team finished third in both the 4x100m and 4x400m.

William Rolfe, Soren Kururangi, James Savage and Cadyn Pardey were in the 4x100m team and Rolfe, Kururangi, Reuben Rose and Chance Walker the 4x400m team.

Perhaps the most successful Manawatū athlete was Jessica Yates in the T20 para grade, winning the 200m, 400m, long jump and high jump, with her long jump best a meeting record.

Courtney Fitzgibbon won the senior girls 2000m steeplechase, with Olivia Norris-Spring second in the intermediate girls high jump and Zahara Slatter second in the intermediate triple jump.

Slatter also placed fourth in the long jump.

Third place getters were Rapenii Raviyawa in the senior boys javelin, Ari Bennett in the 3000m walk and Queenie Morgan in the senior girls long jump.

Olivia McDowell represented Wellington at the championships and was second in both the junior girls 1500m and 3000m races.

Juliet McKinlay was part of the Whanganui team and placed third in the intermediate girls 100m hurdles and long jump.

In a special 100m, Addira Collete recorded a time of 11.69s, which was just under the world under-20 championships performance standard of 11.70s.

PHOTOS: WARWICK SMITH/STUFF Maya Tebbutt of Waikato-Bay of Plenty, centre, wins the girls 100m junior final at the North Island secondary schools athletics championships in Palmerston North on Saturday.

Scarlett Robb of Auckland, centre, leads the girls intermediate 3000m final, which she won.

Leonardo Kirkland from East Coast North Island during the boys intermediate triple jump competition.

Waikato-Bay of Plenty runners Kaitlyn Black, left, and Milla Taylor are neck and neck in the girls 100m senior final, with Black winning.

Right, Wellington’s Luke Jarvis, right, wins the boys intermediate 100m final.

Auckland’s Noah Retford, right, on his way to winning the boys 300m senior hurdles.