18 | AUTUMN 2016 | LIVING in Havering
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The London Youth Games finals weekend at Crystal Palace National Sports Centre (NSC) saw a notably young Havering Hurricanes team, sponsored by Everyone Active, finish in 8th place out of 33 boroughs, up from 10th last year. Among the team that travelled to the NSC was seven year-old Samuel Gulvin from Towers Infants School, who joined a five-strong Archery team, in which Oliver Olison established a new London Youth Games points record for his category over distances of 20, 30 and 40 yards. Promising athlete Alexandra Adenji completed a remarkable hat-trick when she returned to Havering with gold, silver and bronze medals. The Emerson Park Academy pupil raced from the field events, where she was runner-up in the shot putt, to join Havering’s indoor rowing team, adding an individual gold medal and a bronze in the relay team event to her medal tally. Havering’s improvement was strengthened with entries into eight events in which the borough had not previously been able to field teams, including angling male and female hockey, handball and volleyball. Team manager Elysia Barrick said:
The finals weekend is the culmination of nine months of trials and qualifying competition. It is an event in which we are always looking to the future. More information www.havering.gov.uk/LYG