English School Athletic Association, Combined Events Finals

Boston Lincolnshire, 20/21 September 2014

Having qualified for the finals via the South of England championship AJ Bennetts represented Middlesex in the Intermediate (under 17) Octathlon. The competition holds eight athletic events which is carried out over two days with athletes competing in four per day. Each day consisted of roughly 7 hours of event competition. The high jump itself took one and a half hours to complete however fortunately for AJ, as one of the better jumpers, he only needed to be involved in the last 20 minutes. The athletes battled through two days of competition with cold conditions and AJ kept up with the best as the youngest competitor.

Finishing up with 7 Octathlon personal bests he finished 10th out of 41 competitors with a total points score of 4551. This outstanding result in his second season of multi-event competition now ranks him 11th in the UK for 2014.

Well done AJ!