MORE than 100 young people were involved in the fourth Water Sports Festival at Roadford Lakes on Friday. This is the fourth year running that Callington School Sports Partnership and South West Lakes Trust have organised this exciting event.

The festival kicked off at 1.30pm with competitions in sailing, surf skis, kyaking, raft building, climbing and this year for the first time mountain biking. Prior to the event South West Lakes Trust staff at Siblyback and Roadford had been training the young people in sailing. All competitors in sailing must have achieved a star one award prior to the event.

In the sailing and kyaking events the youngsters were put through their paces under the watchful eye of the staff from South West Lakes Trust. They were set a number of challenges in which they had to demonstrate their skills. Looe Community School were awarded first place in the kyaking with Callington Community College coming a close second.

In sailing the winning team were Launceston College with Saltash.net second. Callington were first in the Surf skis event as their team battled it out against Looe who came second. In the climbing, particpants were given a variety of activities to do on a mobile climbing wall. Launceston College climbed to victory with Liskeard School gaining second place. The raft building was an interesting event as many of the rafts that had been built did not last long once in the water. The event turned into an open swim with Launceston College taking first place and Liskeard School gaining second place.

Mountain biking was a popular event all participants were given a course to complete as well as a course into a wooded area. The event, won by Liskeard first and Looe second, in an event entertaining to watch.

Thanks must go to the South West Lakes Team at Roadford who worked hard to make the day such a success.