Salisbury & District Primary School Athletics Championships
Monday, June 29, 2009
34 Schools took part. The Leehurst Swan pupils all performed extremely well resulting in the school gaining 3rd place in the large schools category.
The individual triumph of the afternoon was that Isabel Rutledge who easily won her heat for the Year 6 girl 80 metres sprint and who then stormed home to win the actual final.
The Year 6 Boys, Ben Quigley, Eliott Sherwood Clark, Zac King and Rufus Daniel came 3rd in the final of the Year 6 Boys circular relay.
Other notable performers were Year 6 girls, Sophie Waddington, Isabel Rutledge, Olivia Beale and Romilly Lacey who came 4th in the final of the Year 6 girls circular relay.
Sophie Waddington came 4th in the Y6 Long Jump as did Zac King in the boys event.
Ben Quigley came 4th in the final of the Yr5/6 boys 800m and Pippa Shakerley came 6th in the Yr 5/6 girls 800m with a personal best of 3.09 minutes.
James Baggueley came 6th in the Yr 5/6 Boys high jump with a personal best of 1.20 metres.
The Year 5 boys shuttle relay team of Oliver Battersby, Jake O’Gorman, Alex Larson and Bradley Commons got through to the final of this event.
Very well done to all those pupils who represented Leehurst Swan at the preliminaries and at the main event.