On 3 June, the district finals of the Youth Training for the Olympics athletics competition were held in Nordhorn. A total of 14 teams competed. The Georgianum finished in a very respectable second place with 5360 points, making it the district runner-up.
In competition class IV (2012-2015), our mixed team was only beaten by the team from Marianum in Meppen (5626 points).
Our sprinters were in very good form and won the 4x50m relay. In 27.87 seconds, Heino S., Naomi A., Eva R. and Lennard M. left all the other relay teams behind. Our second relay team, consisting of Ole T., Philomena S., Jonas L. and Merle B., sprinted to 13th place (31.37 seconds) out of 26 participating relay teams.
With a time of 7.20 seconds, Lennard M. set the fastest time of the day for boys over 50 metres, leaving 27 students behind him. Jonas L. came seventh in 7.73 seconds. Among the girls, Eva R. in 7.82 seconds and Naomi A. (7.94 seconds) took sixth and ninth place in a field of 27 starters.
Carlotta S. was in particularly good form, clearing 1.44 m in the high jump. She set a new personal best and won this competition for us. Carlotta was also unbeatable in the 800 m. With a time of 2:37.96, she left the female competition far behind. Overall, only two male students were faster. In the ball throw, Carlotta's 39.50 metres was enough for third place and thus also for the podium. In this competition, Jule E. was delighted to take fifth place with a distance of 37 metres. Among the boys, Luca Z. impressed with a distance of 40 metres, securing ninth place.
Heino S. made things exciting in the boys' high jump: he just managed to clear 1.32 metres on his third attempt. After that, things went better: in the end, clearing 1.44 metres meant third place for the boys. In the boys' long jump, Lennard M. took an excellent second place with 4.78 metres. Merle B. impressed in the 800 metres, finishing fifth with a time of 2:50.78. The final 800-metre race for the boys also went well for our team: Heino S. finished fifth in 2:41.28 minutes and Josef K. ninth in 2:47.19 minutes.
Team results at a glance:
| 1. | Marianum Grammar School, Meppen | 5,626 |
| 2 | Georgianum Secondary School, Lingen | 5,360 |
| 3 | Papenburg Grammar School | 5,109 |
| 4 | Bad Zwischenahn Grammar School | 4,988 |
| 5 | Cooperative Comprehensive School | 4,984 |
| 6 | Evangelical Grammar School Nordhorn | 4,852 |
| 7 | Wildeshausen Secondary School | 4,740 |
| 8 | Nordhorn Grammar School | 4,634 |
| 9 | Bohmte Secondary School | 4,516 |
| 10 | In der Wüste Grammar School | 4,498 |
| 11 | Maiengymnasium Papenburg | 4,408 |
| 12 | RSB Bad Bentheim | 4,045 |
| 13 | St. Ludgeri Secondary School | 4,016 |
| 14 | Herrmann Freye Comprehensive School | 4,009 |
You can use these two links to view the individual results of all pupils in the participating teams:
https://ladv.de/ergebnisse/90877/JtfO-Bezirksentscheid-WKIV-Ergebnisliste-Nordhorn-2025.htm
Text and photo: Henning Bach