The annual Aranui Interschool Cross Country is proving a fertile breeding ground for future top-flight Whanganui track and field athletes.
And the 29th running of the event in Castlecliff went true to form, with Hamish Cranstone winning the Senior Boys - 10 Years and Over race last Thursday.
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29th Annual Aranui Primary Interschool Cross Country results
Cranstone, who has just turned 11, will go down in history as winning in three consecutive years - once as junior and again as a senior for Fordell School and last week as a senior for Huntley School in Marton.
Event organiser and Aranui Primary School administration manager Sue Redmond said others had won back-to-back titles over the many years the event has been run and most had gone on to better and bigger things in athletics.