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at h l e t i c s
copenhagen shield
wellington
b oy s
epsom
m a r l b o ro u g h
brighton
s t ow e
. . . . .
261 . . . . . . . 312 . . . . . . . 255 . . . . . . . 261 . . . . . . . . 7 3
girls . . . . .
256 . . . . . . . 233 . . . . . . . 2 45 . . . . . . . 165 . . . . . . . 16 8
The wcac boys team took part in the Lord Burghley
events overall with many boys running in events that they
meeting at Eton on 10th May. College athletes achieved 44
would not normally have chosen—with Ben Gateley [L]
rgs
winning the senior 400m, Deji Olufowose [L] in finishing
Guildford and Pangbourne overall. The seniors, inspired by
first in the senior 200m as well as Ollie Keene [Bn], 4th
Tristan Garton’s [Bn] winning run in the 2000m Steeple
Form, winning the senior High Jump against boys 3 years
Chase (he took 20 seconds off the old College record and
older.
personal bests on the day in beating Radley, St Paul’s,
The senior 4 x 100m squad squeezed out Dean
tvac), produced their
Close by inches to win in their best time of the season and
best team effort in years and beat Eton in finishing 3rd
only 0.2 second off the College record. Not only did this
in the Open competition. What was especially pleasing
win the race but also the senior competition overall by a
was that we were only 2 points behind Tonbridge who
single point—a fine end to an excellent team display.
set an u19 allcomers record at the
beat us by over 100 points last year ! The day ended with
The Inter-House Athletics and Tug of War meeting
Wellington winning the Tug of War competition—much
was held on Rockies, with the re-introduced Tug of War
to the Etonian dismay…
On the same day the
competition drawing the big crowds and loud vocal support
for the teams.
girls’ team again travelled