Ritchie’s medal haul

Bo Ritchie wins the 1500m. Gary Nesbit of Nesport Photography

Cambridge’s Boh Ritchie picked up two golds, a silver and the award for the top performing female athlete at the New Zealand Secondary Schools track, field and road championships in Christchurch.

The St Peter’s School student won the 800m 2m14.11s, the 1500m senior girls title 4m 30.59 and with Eva Jeffries, Georgie-Rose Boyd and Milla Taylor, the 4 x 100m senior girls’ relay.

Ritchie’s success in the South Island earlier this month came a year after winning the junior girls 1500m and 3000m titles in Inglewood.

Te Awamutu College’s Daniel Kitts won the T37 category of the 800m para athlete event.

35 athletes and supporters from St Peter’s

St Peter’s 35 strong team of athletes competed across sprints, middle distance, throws, jumps, hurdles, relays and road races with fantastic results achieved.

With more than 40 personal best performances across multiple rounds of qualifying, the team were able to transfer their training, event plans and resilience in a range of weather conditions over the three days.

Mixed 4 x 400m relay. Gary Nesbit of Nesport Photography

Other gold medal winners from the school were Jeffries (300m junior girls’ hurdles), the 4 x 400m mixed relay team of Jeffries, Chelsea Lea, Jake Lomas and James Lowther, the year nine junior girls’ road race six-person team of Machaela Lawson, Sophia Gavrilova, Maia Graham, Katie Hepi, Phoebe Buckley and Zara Herring and the year nine junior girls road race three person team of Lawson, Gavrilova and Graham.

Lowther won silver medals in the junior boys 100m and 200m while Lloyd Crerar, Tito Hay, Julian Syben, Taane Wetere, Ardan Murphy, Toby Lane were second in the junior boys’ road race six person team event.

Eva Jeffries – 300m junior girls hurdles champion

Boh Ritchie 1500m winner on the podium. Photo: Gary Nesbit of Nesport Photography.