It may have taken almost 40 years but the Northern region retained its victorious status at the State High Schools athletics carnival on Friday at St Leonards.
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Held for the first time since November 28, 1981, the carnival saw the home region accumulate 967 points across the track and field events, holding off the South (715) and North-West (567).
While the victors were regularly dominant in the field events, they finished the day off with victories in five of the eight 4x100m relays, setting records in the grade seven and grade eight boys.
Overall, 13 athletes broke the records set in the four previous iterations of the carnival with Northern athletes Jackson Wood (200m), Jaxon Stone (shot put), Riley Stone (discus), Rhylee Hodgin-Dickenson (shot put), Taia Lette (high jump) and Isabella Wing (long jump) all breaking one, while Jess Bula had a day out.
Kings Meadows grade seven student Bula broke the 100m, 200m and high jump records for the meet and was also member of the grade seven boys' 4x100m relay team.
Athletics Tasmania's Brian Roe said the carnival was the brainchild of several people around the state.
"I don't think any of them actually knew that there'd been a competition previously, although they weren't surprised that there had been," he said.
"I didn't think we'd have much chance of discovering what had happened in the past but fortunately for some good media reporting at the time, we were able to find all of the results and ascertain that the meet only went for four years in its first iteration but had some really competitive results in it.
"It provided a worthwhile basis for the kids of today to compare what it was like 40 years ago and interestingly so many of the kids had not had the opportunity to do something like this in any sport.
"There were two kids from each team in each event and they were really supportive of their teammates, even though in most cases they came from different schools."
Roe expects Tasmania's athletes won't need to wait another 40 years for the next statewide event, with next year's talks progressing.
"They were talking about doing the same thing in swimming and other sports as well, so I think we might have created a bit of a monster," he said.