Perfect Conditions for Tailrace Park
On Saturday 1st May, Launceston turned on some truly lovely autumn weather for Newstead Athletics’ first School Series run for the season at Tailrace Park. Club runners ran in a sealed handicap for combined schools series races and normal handicap for the 5km Division 1 race.
Alexander Wood ran a speedy 17.34 in the 5km event to outclass our other runners on the day. Second was Ben Adams (again) with Jonathon Death third. In the sealed handicap 3km race, Caleb Pool ran a great race to be first with Abigail Rigney second and Josiah Pool third. For the 1.5km sealed handicap it was Rohan Crawford first with Kade Barwick second (again) and Dale Kean third.
Fastest club runners for the day in each event were Kade Barwick, Savannah McKenzie, Sophie Marshall, Lochlan Bussey, Alexander Wood and Jennifer Tait in their respective races.
For the school series events we had over 170 runners in a series that was unfortunately not run in 2020 due to Covid-19. A big” Welcome” to new runners and “Welcome back” to previous runners in this event. Thank you so much to club volunteers who stepped up on an extremely busy day to ensure we had a very successful and smoothly run event.
School Series results: Full results are now on our website (see 2021 Cross Country page). First in the U7 Boys 1.5 event was Noah Van der Vlist (HFPS) in 8:44. Kate Horsman from SOC was first in the U7 Girls in 7.53. The 1.5 Under 9 event winners were Leo French LCGS (6.45) and Laura Cunha (7.04). In the Under 11 event, Kade Barwick from Summerdale Primary was first for the boys (5.56) and Chloe Hassell from SOC first for the girls event. (6.33). Success in the under 13 event for Lachlan Preece (TPS) in 5.32 and Annabelle Cook (WLPS) 5.42. In the Secondary division 3km events, for the Under 15 congratulations go to Riley Howard of Kings Meadows High (11.39) and Sophie Marshall of SOC (10.45). In the Under 17 it was Jai Eccles from Queechy in 9.53 and Ruby Williams also from Queechy in 18.17. In the Under 20 event congratulations to Thomas Wickam (LCGS) in 10.56 and Erin giles (St Pats) in 13.07.
Next week we will be at Scotch Oakburn Park for the second round of the school series and our club event number 5.
Detailed results on the web site
https://www.newsteadathletics.org.au/2021-cross-country/2021-season/
