Golden boy Greatrex grabs the headlines

Greatrex struck gold while Hollie Williamson, from Sundorne School Shrewsbury, Bridgnorth Endowed School's Niall Price and Felix Tighe, from Ellesmere College, all returned with bronze medals.

The county's 25-strong team also enjoyed plenty of top 10 placings and claimed 12 English Schools National Standards.

The championships include every county in England taking their strongest athletes of secondary school age with each squad graded in three categories based on school population size.

Shropshire, being the smallest in England, were in Group C where they finished eighth out of 16.

Greatrex grabbed the headlines as he came home to win the Intermediate Boys' 400m.

The Year 10 student won his first round heat in 49.52 seconds, then led home the field in his semi-final in 49.08 which equalled his personal best and put him third in the British rankings.

He took the spoils in the final in 49.33 ahead of second-placed Psalm Roberts-Nash.

Williamson collected a bronze in the Intermediate Girls' 80m hurdles.

She ran a personal best time of 11.41 while winning the first round heats, and won her semi-final with a wind assisted 11.18 before crossing the line third in the final in 11.50, behind winner Isabel Wakefield (Devon).

Francesca Scott (Corbet School) was in the same event and ran a personal best and national standard time of 11.58 in reaching the semi-finals.

Price (Bridgnorth Endowed School) won a bronze medal in the Junior Boys' 100m.

He was second in his first round heat in 11.51, then went quicker in the final with a PB of 11.36.

Tighe was the third Shropshire bronze medallist in the Senior Boys' 400m.

He ran a personal best 48.11 in the heats then clocked 48.22 in the final.

Jack Finn (Thomas Telford School) ran well to finish fifth in the Junior Boys' 300m, to help the Shropshire team finish second in their Group age group.

Finn was third in his heat in 36.92 and then went even quicker with a new personal best of 36.55 in the final.

Jack Lambert, Lacon Childe School, Cleobury Mortimer, was fifth in the Junior Boys' hammer with 46.69m.

Emily Ball, the girls team captain from The Marches School, Oswestry, claimed fifth in the Senior Girls' shot with 12.24m.

Thomas Telford School's Ellie Vernon threw the Junior Girls' javelin 37.26m to finish a very creditable sixth in the final.

Another sixth place for Shropshire came from Stan Willis (William Brookes School) in the Intermediate Boys' 3000m (8.46.63).

Adcote School's Danni Langdale recorded a season's best height in the Senior Girls' pole vault as she cleared 3.35m to finish eighth in the final.

Katie Lambert (Lacon Childe School) was disappointed to finish ninth in the final of the Intermediate Girls' hammer.

She threw a new English Schools Championship best 58.42m in the first round, which was still below her season's best of over 60m, but in the final she could only manage 51.61m.

Other Shropshire performances were: Fran Garrott (Burton Borough) 11th Intermediate Girls' javelin, 35.57m; Jess Humphreys (Shrewsbury High) 10th, heats Junior Girls' 1500m, 4.18.14 PB; Lucy Asson (Wrekin College) 5th, heats Intermediate Girls' 100m, 12.95; Klara Albrink (Wrekin College) 19th Intermediate Girls' long jump, 4.92m; Georgie Perris-Redding (Wrekin College) 5th, heats Senior Girls' 100m, 12.93; Amy Bowen (New College) 6th, heats Senior Girls' 200m, 26.29; Keiran Clarke (Bridgnorth Endowed) 4th, heats Junior Boys' 800m, 2.05.27; Oliver Carvell (Bridgnorth Endowed) 7th, heats Junior Boys' 800m, 2.06.34; Rio Mitcham (Idsall) 6th, heats Intermediate Boys' 100m, 11.63; Adrian Lloyd-Davies (Idsall) 4th, heats Intermediate Boys' 800m, 1.58.05; Krystof Danek, HLC, 13th Intermediate Boys' long jump final, 6.05m; Leo Read (Wrekin College) 7th, heats Senior Boys' 100m, 12.19; Alex Burrows (William Brookes) 8th, heats Senior Boys' 800m, 1.56.86.