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Rachel equals 45 year record

The Durham County schools track and field championships were held at Jarrow on Saturday 13th June, when Rachel Bennett added the county title to her collection, equaling a record set in 1970 in the process.

Rachel recorded 12.50s for her 100m heat to equal the previous best time for Durham county schools junior girls’ 100m. Rachel went on to win the final in 12.7.

Maddison Wells (200m), Lewis Marley (100m), Georgia Hirst (TJ) and Lizzie Cramb (800m) also added county titles to their portfolios.

Runners up and county representation honours go to Courtnie Mills (200m) and Georgia Hirst (400m) who will join the county champions at the Inter County Schools Championships on Saturday 20th June at Gateshead’s International Stadium.

A 4th place finish and pb for Kyle Walton (100m) on his return from a 6 week lay-off and 7th place in the junior boys 800m completed Shildon’s contingent on the day.

Gateshead minors meeting took place on Sunday 14th June.

In the yr 3 girls Tia, Hirst claimed gold with excellent performances in the 50m sprint (9.01) and standing LJ (1.82), while placing 4th in the howler (10.63 pb) and 4th over 400m (1.30).

Yr 5 girl Cody Hall ran 11.78 in the 75m, threw 13.13pb in the howler and in the SLJ soared out to 1.66m.

Yr 4 boys were represented by Aidan Barrass and Sam Tall. Aidan claimed double gold with 1.11 over 400m and 12.07s in the 75m. He went on to claim bronze in the SLJ (1.75) and threw 17.78m in the howler.

Sam recorded 13.39s over 75m, 1 min 24s over 400m, 1.67m in the SLJ and threw 19.65m in the howler.

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