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On Sunday we had an amazing team of 29 pupils that raced at the National Schools Biathle Championships a Leweston School in Dorset. Pupils ranged in age from Year 3 to Year 10. A biathle is a continuous run-swim-run event where pupils have to remove their shoes and place them in a box after the first run before jumping into the swimming pool to complete the swim. Then they put their shoes back on again to complete the 2nd run. It was amazing to see so many Sherfield pupils at the event doing so well and enjoying themselves. There were some fantastic results as follows:
Year 3
4th Blake M (Team GOLD)
5th Alessandro U (Team GOLD)
10th Laine L (Team GOLD)
11th Riley A
Year 4
1st Hugh G (Team SILVER)
9th Cressida
11th Vivaan B (Team SILVER)
20th Henley VW (Team SILVER)
Year 5
3rd Luke W (Team GOLD)
5th Declan O’C (Team GOLD)
12th Aabha K (Team 5th)
13th Hudson S (Team GOLD)
13th Mackenzie M (Team 5th)
19th Ava W (Team 5th)
22nd Bethy L (Team 6th)
23rd Taylor M (Team 6th)
26th Isla G (Team 6th)
Year 6
3rd Dylan E (Team GOLD)
10th Luke W (Team GOLD)
12th Alex W (Team GOLD)
Year 7
2nd Caiden G (Team SILVER)
3rd Lachlan H (Team SILVER)
13th Alex D (Team SILVER)
16th Alexander S
Year 8
6th Caspar M
Year 9
1st Travis (Team SILVER)
5th Ethan W (Team SILVER)
10th Rhys E (Team SILVER)
Year 10
2nd Aaron H
There were some big sporting schools in attendance at the event including Millfield, Taunton Prep, Leweston and Hazlegrove. To achieve so many team medals against these very sporty schools was amazing and we are so proud of our pupils. It was great to see 2 Sherfield pupils becoming national champions for 2024 as well as the 2 team national champions too.
Luke W had already completed his Year 5 race and stepped in to make a team in the year 6 boys race – he not only managed a top 10 place individually but helped the team to team gold too!
Rhys E stepped up to race in Year 9 to make a team and was rewarded with a team silver.
Aaron H just missed out on the top of the podium by 1 second!
3 Team silvers was also a fantastic result. A huge congratulations to everyone involved and also to parents for making the trip to Leweston.
Miss Matson
Head of Swimming and Modern Pentathlon