AN 18-year-old record was broken at the Yorkshire Track & Field Championships when City of York Athletic Club starlet George Davies won the under-17s hammer competition.

His throw of 66.61 metres beat the previous record, set in 1996 by Scarborough Ryedale athlete Dave Parker, by 65 centimetres as he scooped the gold medal.

Four pupils from Tadcaster Grammar School also tasted medal success at the championships in Cudworth.

Year 9 student Megan Sanders, representing Leeds City Athletics Club, claimed two gold medals, winning the shot put with a distance of 10.89 metres and the javelin with 38.34m.

She also bagged silver medals in the long jump, with a distance of 5.36m, and the 75m hurdles, in 11.99 seconds.

Sanders, currently placed fourth in the UK for javelin, has achieved English Schools’ Athletics Association (ESAA) standards in all of her events except hurdles.

Fellow Leeds City member Oliver Kitchingman, 12, scooped a gold medal in the shot put with a best of 9.61m before collecting a silver medal for 100m with a time of 13.79 seconds.

The Year 7 student is currently ranked fourth in England in the U13 shot put.

Multi-eventer Rachel White, competing in the U17 women age, won two bronze medals, for the long jump (5.10m) and 300m (42.96 seconds), knocking a full two seconds off her previous best time.

White also competed in the shot put and her personal best of 9.47m put her in fifth place, while in the javelin a throw of 21.94m earned her seventh place.

The Year 10 student competes for City of York Athletic Club and will represent North Yorkshire in the regional round of the Combined Events Championships in June.

Fellow City of York member George Condon won silver in the U15 1,500m with a time of four minutes 28.97 seconds and a bronze in the U15 800m in two minutes 14.75 seconds.

Meanwhile, St Olave’s School pupil Andy Hanson is the new U13s Yorkshire long jump champion - at the age of 11.

Hanson won the long jump with a best of 4.59 metres, a new personal best by 18cm.