Croydon hammer thrower and team captain Andrew Jordan led from the front at the weekend as 10 athletes from the borough won medals to significantly help the victorious Surrey cause at the English Schools Championships at Sheffield.

The Trinity School student’s 62.87m winning throw topped the impressive list of Croydon achievements which netted seven of the counties nineteen medals.

Four athletes won individual silvers while three shared similar glory in the relays while two others won bronze medals.

Riddlesdown triple jumper Julian Allwood comfortably won the intermediate triple jump with a UK topping but nonetheless significantly wind assisted 14.70m effort.

Proven senior sprinter Twinelle Hopeson, an Archbishop Tenison’s student, added to her string of ESAA successes with a fine fighting second in the 200m in 24.55sec, a personal best.

Senior pole-vaulter Ned Quiney cleared a near best of 4.70m. Croydon Harrier Quiney, a student at Wilson’s School in Sutton, only missed gold because he succeeded at his second attempt.

Short of winning Loulou Rowlands did everything right in a torrid senior 800m chase.

Always a threat to the leader the South London Harrier from Caterham hung in with great tenacity for her silver medal and a first class 2.08.52 minutes club age group record.

The already well established junior Omari Carr-Miller ran superbly for his personal best in the 400m in 50.20sec, only finding a huge Manchester boy setting an astonishing 48.90sec record ahead of him.

Trinity boy Carr-Miller also made a major contribution with David Pratt in the 4x100m relay in which runners-up Surrey clocked a sharp 44.80sec.

Another Trinity boy Ben Parkin displayed exciting raw talent when he stormed home second in the intermediate boy’s 400m hurdles in an exciting 54.55sec.

St Joseph’s boy Faraz Rafi shone in the junior discus, winning silver in a keenly contested competition. Leader at one time he had to settle for second with a first class throw of 42.43m which was over 5m better than the next boy achieved.

Exuding raw talent, Intermediate Trinity School long jumper long jumper Elliott Safo produced a highly competitive final leap of 6.79m to win his bronze by a centimetre.

Junior sprinter Josh Atille, a Beacon School pupil and Croydon Harrier, was disqualified in the County 100m but showed his resilience by bouncing back with a 200m bronze in 22.86.

Intermediate sprinter Cleo-Patrice Barbour played her part in the Surrey 4x100m bronze medal success with a powerful leg two run. Earlier she had placed seventh in the 100m final in 12.50m.

Other Croydon connected finalists were:

- 100m Junior David Pratt (Shirley High) who finished fourth in 11.43sec.

- 1500m Junior Peter Chambers (Trinity), fourth in 4.10.71 minutes.

- Discus Senior Lawrence Okoye (Whitgift), fourth with 50.70m.

- 100m Intermediate Andre Gibbs, fifth in 11.13.

- Discus Senior Kariym Irving (John Fisher/Croydon Harriers), sixth with 46.91m.

- 200m Intermediate Joshua Street(St Josephs), seventh in 22.63.

- 200m Intermediate Jahisha Harrison (Archbishop Lanfranc), eighth in 25.90.