By TBHS | Posted: Tuesday July 2, 2019
The 46th edition of this massive event came to Timaru over the weekend of 15-16 June.
Ashbury Park was the venue, with over 800 competitors from 136 different secondary schools competing, including one team from a San Francisco school. Timaru Boys’ entered athletes in the three age groups and achieved the following places:
Baxter Mason (44th), Malachy Cleland (95th), Matthew Gonzales (98th) and Ryan Caldwell (105th).
William Talbot (103rd) and Sam Wilson (107th)
George Guerin (58th), Josh Earnshaw (124th), Peter Rawlins (140th), Bailey Lissington (157th) and Harry Black (187th)
In the team event, our Year 9 three person team finished 12th with our Senior team 18th. Unfortunately, we were unable to enter a team of six.
In the Provincial Relays on Sunday, Baxter Mason was part of the Aoraki Year 9 team that placed 10th and Peter Rawlins and Bailey Lissington were part of the Aoraki Senior Team that placed 17th.
Thanks must also go to Old Boys, Bruce Leadley and Jeff Elston who opened the Memorial Library on the Friday morning of the Cross Country event for numerous visiting schools, and prepared a wonderful display of Lovelock memorabilia as well as providing some wonderful insight and discussion on the life of Jack Lovelock. This added to what was a very special weekend.
