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Welsh Athletics Cup & Plate Finals - Wednesday 10th July

On Wednesday our U14 & U16 Boys Athletics teams competed in the Welsh Athletics Cup & Plate Finals in Brecon.

We’re incredibly proud of how well they performed in a National Final against schools from across Wales, they smashed it and were an absolute credit to themselves and the school! The standards of performance, effort, conduct and teamwork that they all showed on the day was nothing short of exemplary!

Our U14 Team finished 5th overall in the Welsh Plate, no mean feat with 4 of the team from the year below. Please see overall results and individual results below:

 

Morgan Evans-Jones - 2nd Discus 24.26m pb

Tyler Mitchell - 2nd Jav 29.42m

Konrad Sznajder - 2nd Hurdles 13.19s

Shane Jones - 4th Triple Jump 7.88

Alex Riordan - 4th Shot Put 8.60m

Charlie Hardman - 4th 200m 27.86sec pb

Harry Do - 5th 100m 13.35sec

Elijah Morgan - 6th 300m 47.26sec pb

James Pengelly-Leach - 6th 800m 2.40min, 6th Long Jump 4.06m pb

Logan Grant - 6th 1500m 6.03 pb

Henry Rowlands - 6th High Jump 1.20m

4x100m Relay (Konrad, Harry, Shane, James) - 6th 56.68ec pb

 

Our U16 Team finished 6th in the Welsh Cup with lots of fantastic performances, they certainly punched above their weight with 6 of the other schools having between 1200-1800 pupils on roll! Please see overall and individual results below:

 

Kieron Watson - 2nd High Jump 1.65m, 3rd 100m 11.82sec

Oscar Davies - 2nd 300m 39.86sec

James Riordan - 3rd Discus 30.43m pb

4x100m Relay (Dean, Haydn, Oscar, Kieron) - 4th 47.81sec pb

Corbin Vowles - 5th 1500m 5.10min pb

George Farrington - 5th Javelin 28.57m

Shay Paul - 6th Triple Jump 10.35m

Haydn Jones - 7th 200m 24.88sec pb

Dean Voreinakis - 7th Hurdles 14.49sec pb

Vincent Evans - 8th 800m 2.29min

Fyfe Davies - 8th Long Jump 4.77m

Liam Edwards - 8th Shot 8.36m


What a finish to a very busy year of school sport, our pupils make us incredibly proud in so many fantastic ways! Da iawn pawb!