2003 News & Results

Conditions were cold with a strong wind during the boys comp on Saturday and the girls comp on Sunday. Luckily the wind was a southerly, making for a tailwind in the PV event - at the Surrey Park track there seemed to be no facility for reversing the direction of the runway. Due to the strong wind two assistants were employed with the lifters to hold the bar on during vaults! The official in charge was responsible for making the judgement call in each case as to whether an attempt was made to push the pole back, as in almost every case the wind would take it crashing into the bar. Another interesting feature of the setup at Invercargill is that the PV runway is in lane 6 of the track, so that in some cases there were delays while 800m or 300m races were run on the track.

Boys - Sat 6th December
1  4.00 Assan Mohammed          Lincoln High School
2  4.00 Johan Smalberger        Rangitoto College
3  3.70 Verne Van Loggerenberg  Rangitoto College
4  3.30 Liam O'Connell          Ellesmere College
=5 3.20 Taylor Green            Kristin School
=5 3.20 Mark von Roy            Kirstin School
7  3.00 Jamie Hawton            Wanganui College
8  2.80 Sam Wilkinson           Otago Boys High School
9  2.60 Joshua Kauika           Wanganui High
10 2.40 Daniel Milne            Howick College
11 2.20 David Cornthwaite       Auckland Grammar School

Girls - Sun 7th December
1  3.00 Julia Brown             Rangiora High School
2  2.60 Hannah Thomas           Ellesmere College
3  2.40 Michelle Hamilton       Mt Anglem College
4  2.40 Katy Annals             Wellington East Girls College
5  2.40 Michelle Free           Wanganui Collegiate
6  2.20 Rachel Kemp             Wellington High School
7  2.20 Louise Thayer           Columba College
8  2.20 Nellie Oakley           Wanganui College
9  1.80 Tylee Reddy             Wellington East Girls College

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Results from 2002 are here