Rare Feat

Not a hair's breadth, nor a split second, divided three competitors in the senior 200m championship at the Girls High School Sports on March 21. A thrilling finish saw the three girls cross the line together, thus creating a triple dead-heat, an event of a very rare nature in the sporting annals of the school.

Other sterling finishes were provided by

The three unique runners are, from left, Vicki Hughes, Elizabeth Bayer and Kay Robb.

Elizabeth Bayer, also winning the 100m senior championship

Hilita Tuiono taking the junior non-champ 100m hurdles

Donna Vanderbyl winning the intermediate non-champ 100m hurdles

Carolyn Candy racing away with the intermediate non-champ 200 metres.

Jenny Spence (second from right) takes the senior non-champ 100m from a strong field.

It was a day of dead-heats all right, as is shown in this picture of Tracy Cook (left) and Anne Hume approaching the tape together at the finish of the junior non-champ 200m.

Pauline Robinson, winner of the 200m championship.

A colourful innovation at this year's sports was the establishmentof three houses only, namely Lysnar, Duff and Williams, and the exhortations by representatives of these houses for competitors to do their utmost. The scheme obviously worked!

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The Gisborne Photo News

No 250 : April 23, 1975

Rare Feat