Orléans-area athletes ran and jumped their way to nine medals at the recent Ontario Secondary School Track and Field Championships in Toronto. Of the nine medals, five were gold, two were silver and two were bronze.

Two athletes from École secondaire publique Louis-Riel won individual gold medals. They were Mallea McMullin in the junior girls javelin and Zachary Jeggo who defended his title in the senior boys 400-metre hurdles. Unfortunately, he could not do the same in the straight 400 metres, but managed to walk away with the silver.

Zachary Jeggo from École secondaire publique Louis-Riel won three medals at the recent OFSAA provincial track and field championships in Toronto. He won a gold medal in the senior boys 400-metre hurdles, a silver medal in the 400-metre sprint and a second gold medal in the 4x400 metre relay along with teammates Zachary Jeggo, Ayoub Shanghai and Gabriel Schafer. OTTAWA LIONS PHOTO

In order to capture the gold medal in the 400-metre hurdles, Jeggo had to run a personal best time of 51.76 seconds, in the final, narrowly edging out Brayden Labonte from Belle River by three one-hundredths of a second at the finish line.

Jeggo also won a gold medal in the senior boys 4x400 metre relay along with teammates Daniel Cova, Ayoub Shanghai, and Casey Sheftel.

His three medals combined with the double gold he won last year and the two gold medals he won as a Grade 10 junior in in the 400 metres and the 300-metre hurdles in 2023 make him the most decorated Orléans-area track and field athlete ever.

The third individual gold medal won by an Orléans-area athlete was in the novice high jump. Maxime Cazabon from École secondaire catholique Garneau cleared his first eight attempts without knocking the bar off a single time. He actually won the event on his fifth clearance of 1.86 metres and then proceeded to clear 1.89 and 1.92 metres on each of his next two attempts. His only misses came when he attempted to break the existing provincial high school record of 1.95 metres set in 2007.

Maxime Cazabon from École secondaire catholique Garneau won a gold medal in the novice boya high jump with a leap of 1.92 metres. OTTAWA LIONS PHOTO

The east end’s second silver medal was won by Louis-Riel sprinter Jorai Ma Oppong-Nketiah in the senior girls 100 metres.

After qualifying for the provincials as the East Regional champion, Oppong-Nketiah matched her personal best of 11.88 in the 100-metre final in Toronto, which was just three one-hundredths of a second behind Elizabeth Tannis from Loretto Abby Secondary School in North York.

Fellow Rebelles, Mallea McMullin, capped a record breaking high school season with another impressive performance in the junior girls javelin, winning the event with a throw of 39.31 metres, then two metres further than her nearest competition.

Mallea McMullin from École secondaire publique Louis-Riel won her second provincial high school javelin title in as many years on Friday with a win in the junior girls event at the OFSAA championships in Toronto. McMullin won the novice girls championship last year. FILE PHOTO

Coming into provincials, McMullin had set meet records in each of the East Conference, National Capital and East Regional championships. She won the latter event with a throw of 42.61 metres, beating her previous personal best by over 2.5 metres.

The east end’s two bronze medals were won by Louis-Riel’s Daniel Cova in the senior boys 1500 and 3,000 metres.

Other notable results were posted by Kyle London from Sir Wilfrid Laurier Secondary School who finished 4th in the senior boys 400-metre hurdles and Owen Siderius from Colonel By who placed fourth in the open boys 2000 metre steeplechase. And last but by no means least, Loui-Riel’s junior girls 4x100 relay team also placed fourth.

Here is a complete list of trhe results for Orléans area atletes at the OFSAA provincial track and field championships...

Novice Girls
200 metres 4th Keeshia Chivaza, Louis-Riel 27:20
High Jump 12th Keeshia Chivaza, Louis-Riel 1:45m
Shot Put 14th Laurina Nganzeu, Gloucester 9.51m
4x100 metre relay 23rd Louis-Riel (Keeshia Chivaza, Sara-Eve Genier, Cassidy Sookocheff and Mikaela Le Bi) 54.25

Junior Girls
100 metres 10th Chloe Martineau, Louis-Riel 12.69
200 metres 20th Chloe Martineau, Louis-Riel 26.42
1500 metres 15th Laila Lebel, Colonel By 4:51.50
3000 metres 8th Laila Lebel, Colonel By 10:32.08
80-metre hurdles 5th Thalia Aird, Gisèle-Lalonde 12.13
Long Jump 15th Thalia Aird, Gisèle-Lalonde 4.81m
High Jump 7th Danika Smith, Louis-Riel 1.50m
Discus 22nd Mallea McMullin, Louis-Riel 22:89
Javelin 1st Mallea McMullin, Louis-Riel 39:31
4x100 relay 4th Louis Riel (Danika Smith, Atiya Mutombo,Tenin Konate and Chloe Martineau) 50.24

Senior Girls
100 metres 2nd Jorai Ma Oppong-Nketiah, Louis-Riel 11.88
4x100 relay 5th Louis Riel (Jorai Ma Oppong-Nketiah, Lycie Glory Boli, 48.60

Novice Boys
100 metres 14th Elijah Assouan, Gisèle-Lalonde 11.91
100 metres 17th Ja'ir Leslie, Gloucester 12.00
100 metres 18th Sameul Pemale, St. Peter 12:01
200 metres 10th Elijah Assouan, Gisèle-Lalonde 23.66
200 metres 13th Samuel Pemale, St. Peter 23.81
1500 metres 20th Roy Leroy, St. Peter 4:30.17
Long Jump 13th Samuel Pemale, St. Peter 5.80m
Triple Jump 8th Jakob Batson, Gloucester 11.86m
High Jump 1st Maxine Cazabon, Garneau 1.92m
High Jump 10th Roben Eustache, Béatrice-Desloges 1.65m
High Jump 13th Kelly Prince, Garneau 1.60m
4x100 relay 17th St. Peter 47.22

Junior Boys
High Jump 13th Nathan Melsness, SWL 1.70m
Shot Put 14th Colens Desardouin, Collège Mer-Bleue 13.79m
Discus 20th Jacob Fauteux, Béatrice-Desloges 39.43

Senior Boys
400 metres 2nd Zachary Jeggo, Louis-Riel 47.26
400 metres 9th Ayoub Shangai, Louis-Riel 48.70
1500 metre 3rd Daniel Cova, Louis-Riel 3:47.95
3000 metre 3rd Daniel Cova, Louis-Riel 8:22.54
110-metre hurdles 15th Taisei Tan, Béatrice-Desloges 14.97
400-metre hurdles 1st Zachary Jeggo, Louis-Riel 51.76
400-metre hurdles 4th Kyle London, SWL 53.35
400-metre hurdles 20th Tasei Tan, Béatrice-Desloges 1:01.41
Long Jump 5th Abd-El Aleem Khaida, Colonel By 6.77m
Triple Jump 9th Timeo Atonfo, Gisèle-Lalonde 13.74m
Triple Jump 14th Abd-El Aleem Khaida, Colonel By 13.27m
High Jump 10th Mason Brennan, Colonel By 1.85m
2000-metre Open Steeplechase 4th Owen Siderius, Colonel By 6:02.26
2000-metre Open Steeplechase 13th Mikel Fortier, Louis-Riel 6:17.36
4x100 relay 12th Louis-Riel (Ayoub Shangai, Isiah Wallace, Casey Sheftel and Zachary Jeggo) 43.20
4x 400 relay 1st Louis Riel (Daniel Cova, Zachary Jeggo, Ayoub Shanghai, Gabriel Schafer) 3:23.29