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Balfour Beatty London Youth Games Finals Weekend 2008

            
          Kingston Archer in Action                                    The Girls Netball Team with their Bronze Medals

London Youth Games 2008

As five weeks of action featuring 25,000 young Londoners came to a close this weekend, those children selected to represent Team Kingston can hold their heads high having contributed to the boroughs final position of fourteenth out of the thirty-three boroughs competing. The competitors had trained very hard leading up to the finals and looked very smart & colourful with blazing red t-shirts and hooded sweatshirts. Seemingly the Deputy Mayor, Councillor Rohan Yoganathans’ visit inspired the young competitors at Crystal Palace with the netball team pivoting their way to a bronze medal, apparently rubbing off on Duncan Garner as he quickly snapped up the bronze in archery. The highlight of the weekend though was left to Jess Cosson as she coolly saw off the competition to walk away with the top prize of gold in archery. Other notable performances over the five weeks of competition were bronze for Thomas Gibbs in gymnastics, silver for the gymnastic boy’s artistic team, 1 Gold, 1 Silver and 2 Bronze for the Karate Team and 2 gold medals in Disability Athletics to Jonathan Smith. Alan Booth won gold in the Disability Swimming Event.

              
Dominic Turner throwing the Shot Putt.                Deputy Mayor Councillor Rohan Yoganathan & his wife Claire
                                                                                          with Girls the Tag Rugby Team

                   
100m & 200m Wheelchair Racer Jonathan Smith          Disability Swimming Gold medal winner Alan Booth.
on his way to winning gold.

                   
Deputy Mayor Rohan Yoganathan & his wife Claire               Team Kingston Girls Football Team
with the Boys Football Team

Team Kingston was sponsored this year by St George PLC. If you are aged 18 and under and either live or go to school in the borough and would like to be a part of the 2009 Youth Games call The Active Kingston Team on 020 8547 5207 or visit www.kingston.gov.uk/sports

Balfour Beatty London Youth Games Results in full: