With all prior triathlons cancelled over the summer, Hever did a magnificent job staging this event which has always been the biggest youth triathlon in the UK and worldwide. The event saw strict social distancing rules applied, with the first discipline, the swim, having triathletes start out ten seconds apart.

Conditions over the two days were cold and windy, which meant the water temperature was only 13 degrees. This forced the swim part of the event to be reduced by 50%. WGEL had no fewer than seven triathletes competing over the two days.

On Saturday 26th September, WGEL Young Athletes hosted their second track and field competition of the summer, catering for WGEL athletes, school years 3-9 (U11s-U15s).

The event, thanks to the hard work of WGEL club officials, took place under UKA Licensed competition rules. This provided athletes with official recorded times and distances, and for many helped established their athletics CV’s on the UKA “Power of Ten” results database.

Power of 10 Results

Athletes selected up to three events from the licensed schedule including hurdles, 75m, 150m, and 600m, Long Jump, Shot Put and Javelin (howlers). Over 100 WGEL athletes entered. The organising team seeded races on school year groups. This ensured athletes had good levels of competition, whilst having fun with age group teammates.

Autumn Le Chevalier-Jones impresses in the U11 600m