Published on: 6 September 2013



Harrison Bartley (Year 5) is arguably the fastest boy at Christ Church this week after winning the annual CCGS Gift. The CCGS Gift is an 80m-handicapped sprint race modelled on the Stawell Gift – Australia’s oldest and richest short distance running race.

The lunchtime event pits the fastest boys from Years 5 to 12 against each other using handicaps derived from their House Athletics results over 100m. The winner is, hypothetically, the runner who can ‘best rise to the occasion’ and perform better than their previous form.

Head of Physical Education and Health Luke Farmer, who introduced the event six years ago, said the CCGS Gift was a fun way to kick-off the athletics season and to allow the fastest boys in the School to compete in a unique race.

The results were:

    Start point
1st Harrison Bartley (Year 5) 19 metres
2nd Riki Wylie (Year 7) 13 metres
3rd Aidan Walsh (Year 11) 5 metres
4th Brodie Wilks (Year 6) 16 metres
5th Zac Speed (Year 12) off scratch
6th Lewis Henry (Year 8) 12 metres
7th David Doig (Year 9) 7 metres
8th Caiden Curtin (Year 10) off scratch