Record-breaker Hantonne the star at Foote’s Lane

Monday 16th June 2008, 2:29PM BST.

Chelsea Torode wins the Year 6 hurdles event at Foote’s Lane. (Picture by Adrian Miller, 0587668)

CAMERON HANTONNE, a pupil at St Martin’s School, stole the show at the junior schools’ individual athletics championships.

On day one he broke Dale Garland’s 15-year-old record in the Year 5 hurdles. His time of 9.71sec. was fractionally ahead of Garland’s mark of 9.78sec.

Hantonne, whose style and appearance bear an uncanny resemblance to a young Garland, then went on to win the sprint final convincingly.

He followed that up with a record-breaking long jump of 4.02m, just one centimetre ahead of Eben Marsh’s record. Among the girls’ highlights were the performances of Year 5 pupil Bernadette Binstead who ran superbly to win both hurdles and sprints.