YSGOL Gyfun Gwynllyw’s Remi Adebiyi made the podium at the SIAB Track & Field International in Ireland, delivering one of the best displays by a Gwent school pupil to win 1500m bronze.

Adebiyi was part of a 72-strong Welsh team taking part in the schools event at Morton Stadium in Santry, a suburb to the north of Dublin.

England’s youngsters proved too hot for the Welsh, Scots and Irish to handle, finishing with more points than the rest in the boys’ and girls’ competitions – Wales were third in both behind Ireland.

While Adebiyi claimed a medal, Islwyn High School’s Caitlyn Mapps leapt to a huge lifetime best of 5.66m in the long jump to take fourth place.

Mapps set a new Welsh Schools record of 5.49m a fortnight earlier and then twice jumped one centimetre short of that before heading to Ireland.

England’s Oreoluwa Adamson and Irish duo Ruby Millet and Sophie Meredith took the medals in Santry but Mapps, an under-15 athlete competing with under-17s, flew out to 5.66m.

The distance puts Mapps second in the UK in her age group and, top of the all-time rankings in Wales, beating the previous best of 5.57m set in 1972.

However, there is some debate as to whether or not she was helped by a wind that was over the legal limit.

Ysgol Gyfun Cwm Rhymni’s Emily Thomas was behind Mapps in eighth, while another Islwyn High pupil, Phoebe Brown, threw 38.29m in the javelin for fifth with Gwynllyw’s Carys Morgan eighth.

In the shot put, Caldicot School’s Caitlin Arnold and Caerleon Comprehensive’s Gwen Lewis were sixth and eighth.

Emilie Davies (Gwynllyw), Isabel Breeden (Tredegar Comprehensive) and Abigail Fisher (Crickhowell High) finished eighth, third and fifth in the 80m hurdles, 300m hurdles and 3000m.

There were fourth and sixth places for Armani Williams (St Joseph’s RC High) and Gabrielle Fakande (Crickhowell) in the 300m and Caldicot’s Macey Morris ran 25.28secs to come fifth in the 200m.

Mapps was part of the 4x100m relay team that came third and Williams, Fakande and Morris helped Wales take second in the 4x300m relay.

Adebiyi was the only one of the Welsh team’s Gwent contingent to bag a medal in the boys’ events.

Finley Richards (St Joseph’s) and Harvey Reynolds (Caldicot) were both seventh in the 800m and 400m hurdles respectively, while James Penrose (Wycliff School) was eighth in the 1500m.

Fourth and fifth in the 300m went to Cwm Rhymni’s Morgan James and Rougemont School’s Jackson Mountford.

Thomas Britt (Blackwood Comprehensive) finished eighth in the long jump, Basseleg School’s Henry Gauntlett was fifth in the javelin and Reynolds ran in the 4x400m as Wales came home fourth.