Wellington College Yearbook 2008/2009 | Page 66

66 ? ? ? ? ? ?? ? ?? ? ? ? ? ? ?? ? ? ? ?? ? ? ? ? ? 67 ? ? ? ? ? ?? ? ?? ? ? ? ? ? ?? ? ? ? ?? ? ? ? ? ? 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