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34At Triathlon Club we train in 3 sports %u2013 swimming, cycling and running %u2013 and we take part in local and national competitions both as teams and as individuals. Our ethos is to have fun whilst improving fitness and learning to be responsible, caring, supportive and aware.What a great year we have had%u2026.. %u2022 Year 5 won the Schools Biathlon Championships, coming 1st in the country.%u2022 One of our Year 5 competitors won at Hatch End Triathlon in the Tri Stars 1 category with another Year 5 pupil coming 2nd in the Tri Stars 2.%u2022 Team silver for Years 5/6 at the Royal Masonic School for Girls Cross Country and bronze for Years 3/4 at the same event.%u2022 Clean sweep 1st, 2nd, 3rd for Year 5 at the Royal Masonic School for Girls inaugural biathlon competition.%u2022 Win for one of our Year 4 competitors at the Davenies duathlon, with her older sister in Year 6 taking 2nd place in her age category.%u2022 2nd place for one of our Year 4 competitors at the AVSC Biathlon, Radley College with a Year 6 pupil taking 3rd place in her age category.%u2022 Top 10 finishes for three High March girls at the IAPS National Triathlon Championships, Monkton Prep, Bath.Each year around 30 High March girls take part in the British Schools Biathlon Championships, a swimming and running event involving a 50m pool swim and an 800m track run (25m swim and 400m run for year 4). Qualification takes place towards the end of the Autumn Term, with the finals taking place in March of the following year. We are immensely proud of our Year 5 team, who put in amazing performances, winning gold medals in the team competition. This is a big event on our sporting calendar and High March has won medals at the National Finals in each of the last 4 years.In May, Monkton Prep, Bath, hosted the IAPS National Triathlon Championships. The event is run to strict British Triathlon rules and comprises a 200m swim (150m for Year 5), 4k cycle (2k for Year 5) and 1800m run (1200m for Year 5). This is a tough competition and High March girls have always performed well. Our results this year were the best so far with top 10 national placings for four of our competitors. Thanks to our first ever Triathlon Club Captains, for all their help and congratulations to the winner of the Triathlon Cup for her results, commitment, dedication and general attitude; she has shone at every event in 2023/24 and has gone from strength to strength. A fabulous year and thank you to everyone who took part and made the year so much fun and so successful.TRIATHLON