Track double stunning

Michael Eggleton from St Paul's Collegiate underlined his potential as a middle distance athlete with a brilliant double in last Saturday's Waikato-Bay of Plenty secondary schools athletics competition at Tauranga.

Eggleton won the senior boys' 1500 metre final in 4min 9.59s, comfortably heading off school-mate Andrew Milne by 7.4s. For his efforts, Eggleton won the trophy bearing the shoes that former New Zealand running great John Walker wore when he broke the world record for the mile in Sweden in 1975.

Eggleton also ran a stunning 1min 53.58s in the senior boys' 800m event, breaking the record which has stood since 1980.

More than 400 athletes from 71 schools competed at the champs and St Paul's had another record breaker at the meet, with Blake Gordon setting new times for the junior boys' 100m and 200m events. He won the 100m final after earlier clocking 11.63s in his heat, and in the 200m final he clocked 23.57s, eclipsing the records that had stood since 1988.

Waikato Diocesan's Tarryn Davey also produced a record-breaking performance, when she won the junior girls' 300m final in 41.97s.

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