First-ever relay championship a staggering success

Iréne-Mari van der Walt The chairperson of the Namibia School Sports Union (NSSU), national coordinator Solly Duiker, counts the first-ever national under-17 relay championships as a roaring success. “I think this event is a very huge success and I think that Athletics Namibia and the NSSU partnership has shown that if we work together, we can achieve a lot,” he said. After more than a year of planning, representatives from 13 regions of the country took part in hopes of taking home the gold. However, the stakes were higher than a gold medal. Participants competed to become the first ever Namibian under-17 relay record holders. “Since this is the first competition of its kind in Namibia, all the first-place winners automatically become record holders. Next year we will see what records are broken,” Duiker said. Windhoek Gymnasium very proudly emerged as the overall winner at the competition, with a combined score of 42 points.Second place overall winner, Kuisebmond Secondary School, was able to secure half the points of the champions, but still amassed three more than third place’s Tsau //Kheib Secondary School, who earned 18 points.According to Duiker, all running times were converted by use of the International Association of Athletics Federations scoring table.

First-ever relay championship a staggering success

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Namibian Sun 2025-07-04

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