KEY POINTS:
Westlake Boys' High's junior sprinter Frazer Wickes has run faster than the seniors at the national schools athletics championships.
Wickes, 15, set a junior boys 400m record in Wanganui at the weekend, in a time quicker than the senior boys' record.
He clocked 47.79sec, slicing off 1.21sec from Richard Goldstone's 1974 record.
The time was faster than Sam Higgie's 1999 senior record, 47.86sec.
Matthew Robinson, of Southland Boys' High, won the senior boys' 400m in a record 48.74sec at the weekend.
- NZPA