Alvin Craig has shown his pedigree with a stunning second place in the junior boys sprint at the Australian schools championships on Monday.
Alvin, just 12 and still in primary school at Newcastle, was up against students aged 14 and 15 but showed the benefits of six years of orienteering in Sweden to zip around the 2.5km course in 10m29s, just 22 seconds off the winning time at Palm Beach Currumbin High School.
"I made a few tiny mistakes and probably dropped about 15 seconds but otherwise it was a good clean run," said Alvin, pictured left with his medal.
The map was one of the tiniest ever seen at a major event, and the navigation was a tad easier than at Griffith Uni on Saturday.
Duncan Currie was fifth in the senior boys, just 12 seconds off third. Our best result in the senior girls was Georgia Jones (11th) and sister Sophie 16th in the junior girls.
In the public races on the same courses, Nicola Blatchford (Newcastle) won the 2.5km senior girls course while clubmate Rob Bennett was second in the senior boys over 2.8km, and Jamie Woolford (Bush n Beach) won the easy course.
