Larry Achike

Today at school we had a visit from Larry Achike.

Larry is a triple jumper who has won gold medals at the World Junior Games and the Commonwealth Games. He was helped by Todd Bennett, the former world record holder and olympic silver medalist.

We were given 4 different exercises to do, we also had our phiotos taken with Larry.

Children who have been sponsored for our exercise session this morning will raise money not only for our school, but for promising young athletes who Team Superschools help to fund.

Following this Larry talked to the school, he measured out how long his longest jump of 17.30 meters is.

To our amazement it was longer than our school hall - even from corner to corner. He then answered some of our questions.

Larry then demonstrated just how far he can hop and step and jump.