City Academy Norwich achieved their best ever results at this year’s City Sports competition on Monday 28th June. This followed weeks of practice at the after-school Athletics Club. The overall results for City Academy Norwich are listed below:

U13 (Year 7.) Boys – 2nd place
U13 (Year 7.) Girls – 5th place
U14 (Year 8.) Boys – 5th place
U14 (Year 8.) Girls – 2nd place
U15 (Year 9.) Boys – 4th place
U15 (Year 9.) Girls – 3rd place
U17 (Year 10.) Boys – 3rd place
U17 (Year 10.) Girls – 4th place

Details of notable performances are below:

• Jacob Yallop (7D7) won the U12 (Year 7) Boys 800m race in 2 mins 36s breaking the previous City Sports record by 10 seconds.
• CAN U12 (Year 7) Boys 4 x 100m Relay team of Ryan Haylett (7C7), William Kopita (7L7), Billy Wenn (7D7) and Jacob Yallop (7D7) finished in 2^nd place in 59.97s but still managed to break the previous City Sports record of 61.35s.
• Carina Holmes (7L2) won the U14 (Year 8.) Girls Shot Putt with a distance of 7.10m.
• Jake Ramsbottom (8C1) won the U14 (Year 8.) Boys High Jump with a height of 1.40m.
• Ellie-May Fox (9L5) won the U15 (Year 9) Girls Long Jump with a distance of 4.10m beating her previous PB of 3.84m.
• Tommy Blackwell (10V5) won the U17 (Year 10 & 11) Boys Shot Putt with a distance of 10.04m.