Multi-skill athletes
Last updated 19:44, Thursday, 03 July 2008
CUMBRIA’S schools junior boys pentathlon team beat the best of Manchester, Liverpool and the rest of the North West at the weekend to qualify for the national finals.
The four-strong team won the Sainsbury’s English Schools’ North West championships held at Bebington, Merseyside, for a second year running.
Competing over five events (80m hurdles, shot, long jump, high jump and 800m) the team, picked following a Cumbria schools championships earlier in the year, were up against top athletes from Cheshire, Cumbria, Greater Manchester, Lancashire, Shropshire and Staffordshire.
Luke Scott, from Stainburn School, Workington, was placed third individually, closely followed by Robbie Nixon, Trinity School, Carlisle, Oliver Blackburn from Queen Elizabeth School, Kirkby Lonsdale, and Marcus Bell from Windermere St Anne’s.
The team now go through to the national finals to be held at the Alexandra Stadium, Birmingham, in September.
Also competing at Bebington were four other Stainburn School pupils.
Matthew Parker, who is the intermediate boys Cumbrian champion, came ninth in the octathlon.
Also in the same event were Stainburn’s Kieran Little, who came eighth, and Ryan Maughan, son of ex-Town player Kevin Maughan, who came 12th.
Stainburn’s Carmen Friel competed in the junior girls penathlon and came 15th.
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