NEWS PHOTO EMMA BENNETT
Zaynna Wiloughby of Crescent Heights High School competes in javelin at the Medicine Hat Junior High Zones at Rotary Track on Tuesday, May 28, 2019.
Perfect weather meant lots of long-held records falling at the junior high city track meet Tuesday.
At Rotary Track, seven records were broken, including the same one bested by three competitors in the same division.
In juvenile boys discus, Logan Wall’s mark of 36.52 metres set in 2011 was shattered time and time again by brothers Dylan and Aayden Callan, plus Tristan Friesen.
Aayden, from Alexandra school, won and winds up the holder of the new mark with a throw of 44.88 metres. Friesen, from Dr. Roy Wilson, topped out at 40.87 metres. Dylan, also from Alexandra, had a best throw of 39.64 metres.
Dylan did set one new mark of his own, in shot put with a throw of 13.84 metres that beat a 10-year-old record. Friesen got the win in javelin, just a couple metres shy of a record.
Zaynna Willoughby of Crescent Heights ran the 80 metre hurdles in 14 seconds flat for a new bantam girls record. She and Jaivyn Barabe of Alexandra tied for the bantam aggregate title, while Gerhard Knauer Bravo was the bantam boys champion.
Tesema Veurink was beat by one-hundredth of a second in both the boys 100 and 200 metre dashes, but won the 400, set a new record with a 48.22-metre javelin throw and was part of two record-setting relay teams en route to taking the midget boys aggregate title. The Alexandra student teamed with Elias Eisenbarth (who beat him in the 100), Brody Fink and Ryithe Stuber to claim a 4×100 record time of 51.90 seconds. He led off a 4×400 team with Aaron Kruger, Michael Mamona and Devin Marshall that wiped 10 seconds off the old record to finish in 4:01.81.
Audyn Mettauer of Dr. Roy Wilson won the 400, 800 and 1,500-metre midget girls races to claim aggregate gold. In juvenile, Notre Dame’s Abree Toews (first in 80 metre hurdles, long jump and high jump; second in 100 metre; first in 4×100 team relay) and Alexandra’s Aaron Kruger (first in 100, 400 and 800 metre; first in 4×100 and 4×400 relays) were aggregate champs.
The other record-setting result of the day went to Seven Persons high jumper Shae Halladay, who had the gold medal wrapped up after just two attempts but kept raising the bar until he cleared 1.82 metres, 14 centimetres higher than the previous record.
Top finishers advance to next Tuesday’s South Zone meet, also at Rotary Track.
