12:00pm Thursday 18th June 2009
By Rachel O'Connor
It was double top and also top marks for three of Craven’s most prominent young athletes at last Saturday’s North Yorkshire Schools’ Athletic Championship finals at York.
The triumphant trio of Rebecca Lambson and fellow Skipton Girls High School pupil Fiona Jordan along with South Craven’s Ayrton Aldridge certainly made their mark.
In winning two endurance events amidst the searing heat, the stadium temperature hovering into the 90s, Lambson gave a particularly meritorious overall effort.
She won the senior girls’ 3,000 metres in a speedy 10mins 28.1 secs to achieve her first ever county title. She later added the 1,500 metres title in 5:01:2.
Flying high amid the more explosive events Jordan defended her intermediate girls’ 300 metres hurdles title in fine style as she scorched home in 48.5 seconds.
She then won with daylight to spare in the 300 metres flat in 44.5 to claim her second title of the day.
Aldridge awas also in cracking form and he finished strongly to win the junior boys’ 100 metres title in 11.99 seconds and then displayed his versatility by winning the long jump with a best of 5.56 metres.
All three, together with Giggleswick’s Jonathan Beaumont, who was runner-up in the junior boys’ triple jump with 10.98, were due to represent the county schools’ team against Humberside at Hull on Saturday.
There are however doubts about Jordan, doing her Duke of Edinburgh’s Award, and Aldridge, who has a long arranged educational exercise elsewhere. However, both should hopefully have displayed sufficient form at York and at major championships elsewhere, to have cemented places in the North Yorkshire team to contest the English Schools’ Championships in July in Sheffield.
Lambson will compete at Hull at the expense of contesting the fourth round of six in the English Junior Fell Championships at Ambleside.
With two rounds remaining after this Lambson still has the chance to claim England team honours for the end-of-season Home Five Nations.
In the Craven Schools’ Championship Giggleswick’s Matthew Hill caught the eye with a winning throw in the Year 9 boys’ javelin in excess of 40 metres. This would have won him a junior boys’ county schools’ title by some distance but he was unable to compete at York.
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