Durham Primary Schools Athletics Championships
June 8th, 2011
Maiden Castle was the venue for Durham City's largest ever Primary Athletics competition. Over 350 pupils took part with 27 school teams competing for the honour of being crowned the City Champions. Children were able to try one track event from :- 60m Sprint, 60m Hurdles, 80m Sprint and 800m. They could also compete in one field event:- Standing Triple Jump, Long Jump, Shot Putt and Turbo Javelin. The day was then finished off with the 4 x 100m relay race.
After some really close finals on the track and a short rain break (!) St Margaret's Primary School was declared the winning team on 70 points, in second place were Pittington B team on 42 points and in third place were Blue Coat with 34 points. The top two athletes in each of the events have now been selected to represent Durham City and will compete in the County Athletics Finals on Friday 1st July at Shildon Athletics Track - we wish the team the best of luck!!
For the full Girls Field event results click HERE For the full Boys Field event results click HERE
For the full Girls Track event results click HERE For the fullBoys Track event results click HERE
Click HERE for the School Totals
In total three City Records were broken this year. Congratulations go to :-
Katie Popay from Pittington who won the 60m sprint in 9.40 seconds
Eleanor Norton from St Margaret’s who won the Shot Putt with a throw of 9.52m
Christopher Blakey from St Godric’s who won the Standing Triple Jump in 6.10m.