The first event for the NZCT AIMS games went off on Sunday with at least 300 cross country competitors racing for a top spot in their division at Waipuna Park, Welcome Bay.

The course took Year 7 and 8 runners 3km around Waipuna Park, across flat and elevated terrain.

Year 8 Tauranga Intermediate cross country runners Justin Mitchell and Alex Revington race for the finish.

The results for the individual race events are as follows:

Y7 girls

Rebekah McCafferty - Kaimai School

Zia MacDermid - Monrad Intermediate

Nicole Kearnry - Auckland Normal Intermediate

Y7 boys

Isaiah Priddey - Peachgrove Hamilton

Bradley Christison - Tutira School

Coby Miln – Pongakawa School

Y8 girls

Paige Satchell - John Paul College

Hannah Skelton - Aquinas College

Dana Welton - Aquinas College

Y8 boys

Dan Hoy - Northcross Intermediate

Justin Mitchell - Tauranga Intermediate

Alex Revington - Tauranga Intermediate

TEAMS:
Y7 Girls

Tauranga Intermediate

Otumoetai Intermediate

Ilminster Intermediate

Y8 Girls

Aquinas College

Tauranga Intermediate

Cobham Intermediate

Y7 boys

Tauranga Intermediate

Peachgrove Intermediate

Otumoetai Intermediate

Y8 Boys

Tauranga Intermediate

Illminster Intermediate

Otumoetai Intermediate

12km Team Relay

Tauranga Intermediate

Illminster Intermediate

Otumoetai Intermediate.