Orléans-area athletes braved unseasonably chilly weather this week to post a significant number of top three finishes at the National Capital high school track and field championships.

All told, east end athletes won 20 individual event titles and five relay finals. All five relays were won by teams from École secondaire publique Louis-Riel in Blackburn Hamlet, including a clean sweep of the girls 4x100 relays.

Béatrice-Desloges hurdler Tasei Tan leaps ove a barrier on his way to winning the senior boys 110 metre hurdles at the National Capital high school track and field championships on Thursday. FRED SHERWIN/PHOTO

Among the individuals who stood out was Louis-Riel middle distance runner Zachary Jeggo who won both the senior boys 400 metres and the 400-metre hurdles, and was part of the winning team in the Open Boys 4x400 relay along with Daniel Cova, Ayoub Shangai and Gabriel Schafer.

Jeggo won the 400 metres in a record time of 47.50 seconds, beating his own record he set last year as a first year senior.

The top six competitors in each event qualified to take part in the OFSAA East Regional championships which are taken place this week in Ottawa.

A grand total of 97 athletes from 11 different high schools in the far east end made the standard. Louis-Riel lead the way with 20 of its athletes qualifying for East Regionals, 15 qualified from Colonel By Secondary School, including Laila Lebel who won the junior girls 3,000 metres and finished second in both the 1500 and 800. Six athletes each qualified from Gloucester High School, Sir Wilfrid Laurier Secondary School and École secondaire Béatrice-Desloges. Five qualified from St. Peter High School, four from École secondaire Gisèle-Lalonde, three from École secondaire Garneau, two from St. Matthew High School and one each from Cairine Wilson Secondary School,
and Collège catholique Mer-Bleue.

Besides Zachary Jeggo, two other east end athletes were double event winners. Fellow Louis-Riel Rebelle Mallea McMullin won the junior girls javelin event by more than seven metres and set a new meet record in the process. She also won the junior girls discus, while Gisèle-Lalonde’s Thalia Aird won both the junior girls 100-metre hurdles and the long jump.

Both girls are favoured to win the same events at regionals and then move on to the OFSAA provincial championships where they will try to add junior gold to the novice titles they won last year – McMullin in the javelin and Aird in the long jump.

Jeggo is likely to win both the senior boys 400 metres and the 400-metre hurdles at regionals and then move on to provincials where he will defend the two gold medals he won last year.

Other athletes who will be competing at the East Regionals as city champions are Laurina Nganzeu from Gloucester High School in the novice girls javelin, Chloe Martineau from Louis-Riel in the junior girls 100 metres, J’air Leslie from Gloucester in the novice boys 100 metres, Elijah Assouan, from Gisèle-Lalonde in the novice boys 200 metres and Roy Leroy from St. Peter in the novice boys 1500 metres.

Still other city champions from the east end include Jakob Batson from Gloucester in the novice boys triple jump, Aurel Wi Tatsitsa Zofou from Louis-Riel in the novice boys shot put, Colens Desardouin from Collège Mer-Bleue in the junior boys shot put, Jacob Fauteux from Béatrice-Desloges in the junior boys discus, Daniel Cova from Louis-Riel in the senior boys 1500 metres, Tasei Tan from Béatrice-Desloges in the senior boys 110-metre hurdles, Abd-El Aleem Khaida from Colonel By in the senior boys long jump and Timeo Atonfo from Gisèle-Lalonde in the senior boys triple jump..

Here is a complete list of area athletes who qualified for OFSAA East Regionals taking place at the Terry Fox Athletic Facility on May 29 and 30...

Novice Girls
200 metres 6th Keeshia Chivaza, Louis-Riel 28:37
400 metres 3rd, Sara-Eve Genier, Louis-Riel 1:03.77
1500 metres 5th Kira Coldrey, Colonel By 5:20.89
3000 metres 4th Kira Coldrey, Colonel By 11:38.78
100-metre hurdles 5th, Maya Wehbe, Gisèle-Lalonde 15.27
Long Jump 2nd, Sara-Eve Genier, Louis-Riel 4:45m
Long Jump 3rd, Cassidy Sookocheff, Louis-Riel 4:37m
Triple Jump 2nd, Sara-Eve Genier, Louis-Riel 9:15m
Triple Jump 3rd, Matilda Edwards, Louis-Riel 9:05m
High Jump 2nd Keeshia Chivaza, Louis-Riel 1:30m
High Jump 6th Madison Forbes, SWL 1:25m
Shot Put 2nd Laurina Nganzeu, Gloucester 9.18m
Discus 5th Laurina Nganzeu, Gloucester 20.46m
Javelin 1st Laurina Nganzeu, Gloucester 26.23m
Javelin 4th Payton Worrell, SWL 20.66m
4x100 metre relay 1st Louis-Riel 53.10

Junior Girls
100 metres 1st Chloe Martineau, Louis-Riel 12.51
200 metres 2nd Chloe Martineau, Louis-Riel 26.42
200 metres 6th Ketsia Nsoga, Louis-Riel 27.84
400 metres 3rd Vivian Messam, St. Matthew 1:02.47
400 metres 4th Ketsia Nsoga, Louis-Riel 1:04.01
400 metres 6th Brooklyn Siba-Maheu, St. Matthew 1:02.47
800 metres 2nd Laila Lebel, Colonel By 2:32.22
1500 metres 2nd Laila Lebel, Colonel By 5:03.81
3000 metres 1st Laila Lebel, Colonel By 11:02.18
100-metre hurdles 1st Thalia Aird, Gisèle-Lalonde 13.01
300-metre hurdles 5th Danika Smith, Louis-Riel 51.58
Long Jump 1st Thalia Aird, Gisèle-Lalonde 4.93m
Long Jump 4th Kristine Vuong, St. Peter 4.43m
High Jump 4th Danika Smith, Louis-Riel 1.30m
Shot Put 4th Mya Grabowiec, SWL 8.61m
Shot Put 5th Widny Orlane Henry, Louis-Riel 8.51m
Discus 1st Mallea McMullin, Louis-Riel 26:12
Javelin 1st Mallea McMullin, Louis-Riel 39:44!
4x100 relay 1st Louis Riel 51.36

Senior Girls
100 metres 2nd Jorai Ma Oppong-Nketiah, Louis-Riel 26.42
100 metres 5th Mackenzie Lalonde, Louis-Riel 13.17
100 metres 6th Lycie Glory Boli, Louis-Riel 13.44
200 metres 4th Mackenzie Lalonde, Louis-Riel 26.92
200 metres 5th Lycie Glory Boli, Louis-Riel 27.12
400 metres 6th Camille Bolduc, Béatrice-Desloges 1:03.51
100-metre hurdles 3rd Ella Robertson, Colonel By 17.80
100-metre hurdles 5th Julia Green, Colonel By 18.33
400-metre hurdles 6th Charlize Pyka, Colonel By 1:15.20
Triple Jump 2nd Amilie Kelly, Béatrice-Desloges 10.02m
Triple Jump 6th Katherine MacDonald, Colonel By 9.65m
High Jump 3rd Aly Lawrence, Garneau 1.45m
Discus 6th Izabella Salioski, Gloucester 23.31m
4x100 relay 1st Louis Riel 50.72
4x400 relay 3rd Louis Riel 4:17.71

Novice Boys
100 metres 1st Ja'ir Leslie, Gloucester 11.98
100 metres 2nd Sameul Pemale, St. Peter 12:15
100 metres 3rd Elijah Assouan, Gisèle-Lalonde 12.18
100 metres 5th Trenton Murdock, St. Peter 12.35
200 metres 1st Elijah Assouan, Gisèle-Lalonde 24.23
200 metres 2nd Samuel Pemale, St. Peter 24.45
200 metres 4th Ja'ir Leslie, Gloucester 24.53
200 metres 6th Trenton Murdock, St. Peter 25.36
1500 metres 1st Roy Leroy, St. Peter 4:35.11
1500 metres 4th Lucas Seshadri, Colonel By 4:51.06
100-metre hurdles 2nd Lincoln MacLean, Louis-Riel 18.02
300-metre hurdles 2nd Grant Wilson, Colonel By 49.19
300-metre hurdles 4th Olge Anyia, Colonel By 49.42
300-metre hurdles 5th Lincoln MacLean, Louis-Riel 50.63
Long Jump 2nd Samuel Pemale, St. Peter 5.52m
Long Jump 3rd Kelly Prince, Garneau 5.28m
Triple Jump 1st Jakob Batson, Gloucester 11.63m
Triple Jump 6th Roben Eustache, Béatrice-Desloges 10.94mm
Discus 2nd Maxime Carriere, Bétraice-Desloges 31.31
Shot Put 1st Aurel Wi Tatsitsa Zofou, Louis-Riel 11.03m
Shot Put 6th Alex Sawyer, Gloucester 10.37m
Javelin 3rd Maxime Carriere, Bétraice-Desloges 33.81
Javelin 4th Ryan Fomuso, Gloucester 33.77
Javelin 6th Finley Librach, Colonel By 33.400
4x100 relay 2nd Gloucester 48.10
4x100 relay 4th St. Peter 49.33

Junior Boys
100 metres 2nd Stephen Blais Jr., St. Peter 11.76
100-metres 6th Alfred Kanging, Garneau 11.95
200 metres 5th Stephen Blais Jr., St. Peter 23.99
200 metres 6th Alfred Kanging, Garneau 24.23
400 metres 4th Allan Bordovsky, Colonel By 54.95
3000 metres 5th Will Saikaly, Colonel By 10:48.56
100-metre hurdles, 6th Maxime Chartrand, Louis-Riel 16:68
300-metre hurdles 5th Maxime Chartrand, Louis-Riel 45.36
300-metre hurdles 6th Ali Al-Bahadli, St. Peter 45.60
Long Jump 6th Allan Bordovsky, Colonel By 5:30m
High Jump 6th Nathan Welsness, SWL 1.65m
Shot Put 1st Colens Desardouin, Collège Mer-Bleue 15.01m
Discus 1st Jacob Fauteux, Béatrice-Desloges 43.12
Discus 5th William Blacker, SWL 32.88
Javelin 2nd William Blacker, SWL 44.08m
4x100 relay 4th Gisèle-Lalonde 47.50
4x100 relay 5th Colonel By 47.54

Senior Boys
100 metres 6th Jesse Costanza, Cairine Wilson 11.76
200 metres 3rd Ayoub Shangai, Louis-Riel 22.87
200 metres 5th Abd-El Aleem Khaida, Colonel By 23.29
400 metres 1st Zachary Jeggo, Louis-Riel 47.50!
400 metres 4th Kyle London, SWL 49:955
400 metres 5th Ayoub Shangai, Louis-Riel 50.72
400 metres 6th Taisei Tan, Béatrice-Desloges 51.49
800 metres Olivier Young, Louis-Riel 2:04.93
1500 metre 1st Daniel Cova, Louis-Riel 4:01.14
110-metre hurdles 1st Taisei Tan, Béatrice-Desloges 15.00
110-metre hurdles 5th Mason Brennan, Colonel By 16.21
110-metre hurdles 6th Augustine Uche, St. Peter 17.03
400-metre hurdles 1st Zachary Jeggo, Louis-Riel 54.69
400-metre hurdles 2nd Kyle London, SWL 55.72
400-metre hurdles 3rd Tasei Tan, Béatrice-Desloges 57.37
400-metre hurdles 4th Jesse Costanzo, Cairine Wilson 1:10.66
Long Jump 1st Abd-El Aleem Khaida, Colonel By 6.46m
Long Jump 2nd Timeo Atonfo, Gisèle-Lalonde 6.28m
Triple Jump 1st Timeo Atonfo, Gisèle-Lalonde 13.21m
Triple Jump 2nd Abd-El Aleem Khaida, Colonel By 12.57m
Triple Jump 6th Mathieu Richer, Louis-Riel 11.49m
High Jump 2nd Mason Brennan, Colonel By 1.90m
Discus 5th Mason Brennan, Colonel By 34.22m
Shot Put 4th Kyle London, SWL 12.73
2000-metre Open Steeplechase 2nd Owen Siderius, Colonel By 6:21.74
2000-metre Open Steeplechase 3rd Mikel Fortier, Louis-Riel 6:26.46
2000-metre Open Steeplechase 5th Olivier Young, Louis-Riel 6:40.40
4x100 relay 1st Louis-Riel 43.76
4x100 relay 3rd Colonel By 44.90
4x100 relay 6th St. Peter 45.69
4x 400 relay 1st Louis Riel (Daniel Cova, Zachary Jeggo, Ayoub Shanghai, Gabriel Schafer) 3:28.94