Boland’s best
2009-04-02
BOLAND ATHLETICS have concluded their most successful season in history with the 2009 SA Youth and Junior Championships in Pretoria over the past weekend. The team of 65 athletes from Boland Athletics won a total of 31 medals, including ten gold, thirteen silver and eight bronze medals. In the process, Boland athlete Willem le Roux broke one SA Junior Record in one of the most gruelling of all sporting events - the Decathlon. The Decathlon takes place over two days and the athletes have to participate in ten events over these two days. The events are 100m, Long Jump, Shot Put, Hammer Throw, 400m, 110m Hurdles, Discus Throw, Pole Vault, Javelin Throw and 1500m. Five Boland records were also broken during the championships. Shaun de Jager, Gerald Lakey, Dean Swart and Cornel Fredericks broke the junior men 4x400m relay record, Shaun de Jager broke the 16-year-old 400m boys 19 record, Maryke Brits broke the 19-year-old record in the Long Jump (girls 15), Nicola Offner broke the Heptahlon girls 19 record and the Boland junior women 4x400m relay team (consisting of Narusta van der Colff, Melissa Hewitt, Elene Lourens and Ilse Liebenberg), set a new record. The Boland Athletes who won medals at the 2009 SA Youth and Junior Championships were: Gold Cornel Fredericks (400mH; boys 19; 50,64); Boland boys u.19 4x100m relay Team (41,00); Boland 4x400m relay Team (3:11,93); Willem le Roux (Decathlon boys 19); 6623 points); Melissa Hewitt (100m girls 19; 11,89); Elene Lourens (5000m girls 19; 18:15,4); Ané Nieuwoudt (PV girls 19; 3,30m); Lionel Abrahams (LJ boys 19; 7,42m); Cornel Fredericks (110mH boys 19; 13,91m); Carli Gey van Pittius (100mH girls 19; 15,36). Silver Shaun de Jager (400m boys19; 47,37); Luvo Manyonga (TJ boys 19; 15,35m and LJ boys 19; 7,04m); Rushwahl Samaai (LJ boys 19; 6,83m); Melissa Hewitt (200m girls 19; 24,68); Mzwandile Quashani (200m boys 17; 21,30); Dominique Scott (1500m girls 17; 4:36,63); Christian Norman (PV boys 19; 4,70m); Maryke Brits (LJ girls 17; 5,81m); Gary Morris (110mH boys 19; 14,18); Taahirah Kozain (PV girls 17, 3,0m), Inge Kotze (5000mW girls 17; 27:44,0); 1000m medley relay (boys 17; 1:56,4). Bronze Dean Swart (200m boys 19; 21,98); Jean-Marie Senekal (400mH girls 17; 61,78); Ruan van Wyk (PV boys 19; 4,60m); Maryke Brits (100mH girls 17; 14,50); Kulthoom Gaidien (PV girls 17; 2,90m); Melissa Hewitt (200m girls 19; 24,68), Ciani Loubser (TJ girls 17; 11,50m), Nicola Offner (Heptathlon girls 19; 4035 points).
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