Two records each for Rubi Perano and Ruby Westrupp

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RUBI Perano and Ruby Westrupp were the golden girls of a record-breaking Lytton High School athletics championships.

Perano and Westrupp set two records apiece, and three other records also fell.

Westrupp set a new best time for the senior girls’ 400 metres — 1 minute 8.51 seconds — and set a record of 5.14 metres in the long jump.

Perano, competing in the intermediate girls’ age group, set records for the 1500m and long jump (4.79m).

Ocean Braithwaite was in sensational form in the long jump. Her leap of 5m was 49 centimetres further than the record set by Kayla Peters in 2009.

Tharin Cox-Peratiaki set a new mark of 6.05m in the senior boys’ long jump and his 100m time of 11.84 seconds was just 0.18 of a second off the record.

Darius Waititi-Leach jumped 5.69m to break the intermediate boys’ long jump record.

The overall champions were — Kyle McVey (junior boys), Braithwaite (junior girls), Chirac Ngatai (intermediate boys), Perano (intermediate girls), Cox-Peratiaki (senior boys) and Westrupp (senior girls).

n Maddie Wilson broke her own record on the way to winning the intermediate girls’ overall title at Gisborne Girls’ High School’s athletics championships.

Wilson’s 1.66 metres added 1 centimetre to the high jump record she set last year.

One other record fell on the day — Marama Walker-Jones’s 55.1m effort broke the previous junior girls’ cricket ball throw record of 53.6m.

The overall champions were Christy Tate (senior), Wilson (intermediate) and Jessie Kapene (junior).