Some of Tasmania's brightest athletes have been put to the test with two of the state's biggest junior sporting events coinciding on Tuesday.
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More than 3000 athletes piled through Kings Meadows High School and Symmons Plains for the NHSSA inter-high cross-country and the Tasmanian primary all-schools cross-country competitions.
Riverside High School lived up to their lofty expectations at the Northern event, winning the inter-high division one carnival once again.
Reigning division two premiers Deloraine were victorious once again ahead of St Marys, with other schools not providing enough students in every division to remain eligible.
While the North's elder students were running laps around Kings Meadows, the future of Tasmanian athletics were giving the muddy terrain of Symmons Plains their best shot.
With more than 2500 students from 155 schools around Tasmania participating in the annual all-schools event, Athletics Tasmania executive officer Gabby Steele stressed how important Tuesday's event is to the state's sporting calendar.
"It's a participation event and is open to all schools and children of all abilities, whether they came first at their school sports event or they came within the mix," Steele said.
"This is about children coming together with their friends and having fun and schools coming together and supporting an event where children are physically engaged in sport.
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