REHOBOTH – The Hardap Schools Sports Region hosted the Hardap Athletics Championships at the Dr Lemmer High School in Rehoboth on Saturday with athletes competing in track and field events during an action-packed day.
About 550 athletes from all schools in the region took part in the event which saw Louise-Marie Louw and Wilhelm Klein selected as junior victrix and junior victor ludorum, while the senior victrix and victor ludorum went to Ashandy Swartz and Deevan Mathys.
Louw won the girls under-13 100-metre and 200-metre sprints as well as the 75m and 200m hurdles and collected a total of 3 023 points, while Klein won the boys u15 javelin and 200 and 400m sprints.
Swartz came out victorious in the 100m and 200m sprints and triple jump in the girls u17 category, while Mathys won the 400m hurdles and high jump for boys u19.
A highlight of the day was the 100m and 200m sprints where Manfred ||Garoeb won the 100, 200 and 400m sprints in the u17 category, while in the u19 boys category Ruwaydo De Koe won the 200m sprint.
Other athletes that caught the eye were Simon Afrikaner from Aranos, who ran an impressive 19 minutes and 29 seconds in the boys u19 category over 5 000m, while Robert Kooper also impressed in the boys’ u17 3 000m with a time of nine minutes and 55 seconds.
The top three athletes in all the track and field items will take part in the sub-national championships for schools set for 7 March in Windhoek.
Speaking to Nampa after the event, HSSR chairperson Nomin Lucas said due to financial constraints the athletics meeting was held over the course of one day only.
“We would like to have it over two days to make sure to get the best from the athletes. Last year we had about 480 athletes that took part in this event.
Lucas said this year the over 550 athletes, 100 officials including team managers and teachers put on a spectacular display of courage, hard work, skill and brilliance during the sports meeting.
“The HSSR strives for mass participation in all its sport activities to ensure that the mandate of the Namibia Schools Sport Union is fulfilled in terms of development, promoting and coordinating of its programmes,” he concluded. – Nampa
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