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Alexander Kolesnikoff
Alexander Kolesnikoff (13Ho) continued his fine form after winning the Gold medal the Commonwealth Youth Games in the Bahamas in July 2017. He has now qualified for the World Junior Track and Field Championships held in Tampere Finland in July, 2018 in the Shot Put and the Discus. Alexander’s list of achievements are as follows for the 2018/19 season;
> Australian All Schools Champion Discus, Hammer throw and Shot Put
> Member of the successful National Schools Senior team (Gold medallists)
> NSW State Champion Under 20’s – Shot Put and Discus
> National Opens Track and Field Championships and Commonwealth Games Trials – 5th place in the Shot Put
> Competed at the World Junior Track and Field Championships in Finland.
> Selected to Harvard to start in August 2019
Rohan Browning
Rohan Browning (Class of 2015) has qualified to compete for Australia at the upcoming World Athletics Championships, in Doha in the 100m. In 2019, Rohan ran the quickest time by an Australian on Australian soil and now is ranked the 3rd fastest Australian over the 100m. His time of 10.08s was the quickest by an Australian in 12 years and on his selection to Doha, Rohan will now become the first Australian man since then to run in the individual 100m at a World Championships or Olympics after his time qualified him for the World Championships in Doha later this year.
ISF World School Athletics Championships
Trinity secured its spot in the World Championships having won the Intermediate Boys Division at the National Schools Knockout in Adelaide in 2018.
The School sent a team of six students (Connor Murphy, Year 12; Jonathan Titmarsh, year 11; Ethan Brouw, Year 11; Ethan Bateman, Year 11; Theo Kidd, Year 10; and Laud Codjoe, Year 10), to represent Australia and compete at the ISF World Schools Athletics Championships.
The six boys competed in a maximum of two individual events and a medley relay, with the aim to score as many points as possible based on times or distances. Nine individual events and the relay all counted towards the final point score.
With a total score of 832, The boys from Trinity Grammar School set the highest point score in their division in competition’s 46-year history and were crowned World Schools Champions.
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