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South Norfolk SNSSP Aquathlon Competition

Friday March 23rd saw Wymondham Leisure Cente host the Level 2 South Norfolk School Games Aquathlon (Swim and Run) competition. The competition saw a change of format from previous years to the new ‘RELAY’ format which is currently used in the International Junior Olympics with a similar event being introduced into the 2016 Olympics.

Each High School had the opportunity to enter a year 7 & 8 (U13) team of 2 girls and 2 boys and a year 9 & 10 (U15) team of 2 girls and 2 boys. Five schools entered from the partnership Framingham Earl, Diss, Long Stratton Wymondham College and Wymondham High and it really was a competitive, tough and exciting morning.

Simon Edwards and his team from tri-a-sport who are experts at running similiar events set up the competition and course and hosted a well organised competition - please see below final results:

Under 13's (Years 7/8) - 150 metre swim and 1500 metre run x 4

1st - Framingham Earl - Swim 7:42/ Run 24:54 - Total 32:36

2nd - Wymondham College - Swim 9:35/ Run 23:44 - Total 33:19

3rd - Wymondham High A -Swim 9:54/ Run 26:32 - Total 36:26

4th - Wymondham High B - Swim 10:48/ Run 25:54 - Total 36:42

5th - Diss High - Swim 11:06/ Run 27:43 - Total 38:49

6th - Long Stratton High - Swim 11:43/ Run 30:49 - Total 42:32

Under 15's (Years 9/10) - 200 metre swim and 2000 metre run x 4

1st - Wymondham College - Swim 10:52/ Run 32:10 - Total 43:02

2nd - Wymondham High A -Swim 11:06/ Run 33:19 - Total 44:25

3rd - Wymondham High B - Swim 13:47/ Run 35:03 - Total 48:50

4th - Long Stratton High - Swim 13:23/ Run 37:06 - Total 50:29

5th - Framingham Earl - Swim 17:44/ Run 34:10 - Total 51:54

6th - Diss High - Swim 15:21/ Run 37:00 - Total 52:21

As the results show this was a close competition with some teams excelling in the swim others in the run and some a combination of both!

Congratulations to Framingham Earl and Wymondham College who will now go on to represent South Norfolk at the Norfolk School Games finals in June.

Vanessa Boon

South Norfolk School Games Organiser

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