Parktown Girls High School fares well in interschool kayak champs
PARKVIEW - The South African interprovincial interschool competition, known as the SA Schools Sprints, took place on recently.
Pupils from schools throughout South Africa compete in 200m, 500m and 1 000m sprint kayak races.
This year, the competition also hosted long distance sprints of 2 000m for 12-year-olds and under, and 5 000m races for older juniors at Roodeplaat Dam in Pretoria.
The races for the kayak category per age group in sprint lanes included single kayak races (K1) for all ages from U8 to U18, while the U14 to U18 age groups also got to compete in kayak doubles (K2s) and in the K4 (group of four) Olympic discipline.
The SA School Sprint Championships was also an opportunity for South African Sprint selection to the Junior World Sprint Championships, to be held from 23 to 26 July this year.
A number of girls from Parktown Girls High School participatedin the U14 to U18 categories, accumulating points towards their top school position.
Points accumulate for each race in each discipline towards the school’s overall total.
The Parktown girls clinched a good second place in the K4 discipline.
The accumulated points earned by the various girls representing Parktown Girls High School added up to 76.5 over the weekend throughout the races, giving them 5th position in the Senior Girls High School Division.
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