TEENAGER Harry Wakefield outran more than 50 competitors to win the Whitworth Sports Festival Treacle Challenge.
The Year 10 student at Whitworth Community High School has previously competed in the Whitworth Fell Race, but tested his skills at a shorter distance, finishing the 440m course in one minute three seconds.
The 15-year-old said: “I won a plaque for being the fastest from Year 10 and Year 11 and a commemorative plate for being the fastest overall.”
The Treacle Challenge has been held for four years on a flat track alongside Cowm Reservoir.
It is named after a nationally famous Victorian runner from Whitworth, a blacksmith called James ‘Treacle’ Sanderson, who created for himself a 440-yard track which he used to train on. The runners are set off at 30-second intervals.
Harry received his award from former Whitworth teacher at WhitworthCommunity High School Joe Furtado, a member of the Whitworth Sports Council and main organiser of the Sports Festival.
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