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Host school enjoy an individual victory at the annual cross country cup contest
Charlotte Cayton-Smith from host school Newquay Tretherras on her way to victory
NEWQUAY Tretherras School in Cornwall had two big reasons to celebrate on Saturday. For one, it staged a superb 29th English Schools’ Cross Country Cup competition. In addition, the school provided one of the individual winners – Charlotte Cayton-Smith in the junior girls’ race.
Running on home turf, Cayton-Smith led for most of the way. But, in a nail-biting race for the hosts, she was never more than a few metres ahead of the runner-up, Holly Brown, of Queen’s College in Taunton.
Cayton-Smith had featured prominently in preview pieces in the local press and AW before the event, but she handled the pressure with ease, with a mature performance over a muddy, undulating course on a blustery day.
Other individual winners included Susan Shiel-Rankin of Guildford High School, who dominated the inter girls’ race with a strong front-running performance. Peter Chambers, of Trinity School in Croydon, came from fourth to first in the final half mile to take a last-gasp victory.
In the junior boys’ race, Jack Catterall came from even further back – around 30th after the first few hundred metres – to win. Catterall, of Robert Bloomfield School in Bedfordshire, is better known as a swimmer too and is not a member of an athletics club.
This competition, though, was more about the team prizes – and those went to:
* Inter girls – Guildford High School for Girls.
* Inter boys – St Anselm’s College, Merseyside.
* Junior girls – Southend High School for Girls.
* Junior boys – Dr Challoner’s Grammar School, Amersham.
* There will be a 3-page report from Newquay, with photographs and results in this week’s Athletics Weekly, out on Thursday.
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