Dunstan High School pupil Mac Denniston won gold in the para senior boys shot put (multi class) with his throw of 6.86m.
The F34 classified athlete also secured silver and set national records in the para senior boys discus (multi class) with his throw of 16.75m and the para senior boys javelin (multi class) with his throw of 13.53m.
Fellow Dunstan pupil Kohen Bryant-Saunders also placed in the top 10 for his throws.
Cromwell College athletes Riley Clearwater, Ashton Robertson and Clay Dawson competed, Clay placing sixth in the high jump with a personal best of 1.85m.
Alexandra-based Waitaki Girls’ High School pupil Jess Lake competed in the hammer throw, javelin and shot put. Jess was awarded the Caltex Fair Sport award at the meeting.
Mac’s mother Maree Denniston said Mac had been training with Raylene Bates, of Dunedin, before the competition as well as with Alan "Bones" Hamilton, in Alexandra.
Bates was Mac’s main coach.
She is from Dunedin and a NZ para-throwing coach who is training Mac to compete at the New Zealand national athletics competitions in March.
Bates would be taking NZ Para athletes to next year’s Paralympic Games, in France.
Mac had been reclassified the day before the event as an S34 seated thrower, Mrs Denniston said.
He worked with physiotherapists to assess his balance and co-ordination.
Following a mountainbike accident when he was in year 9, Mac had switched from sprinting to throwing events.
