KATHARINE Streatfield and Robert Tobin lived up to expectations by striking gold at the English Schools' Track & Field Championships at Exeter.

Streatfield, the Peter Symonds College triple jumper, weaved her magic with a fifth-round leap of 12.05 metres, while Tobin - the newly-crowned AAA Under-20 400m champion from Alton College - romped home in a trouble-free 48.05 seconds.

With Lord Wandworth's Christina Carding successfully defending her junior girls' discus title with 35.77m and Sandown's Paul Farley savouring a 59.50m intermediate boys' hammer triumph, Hampshire pulled off one of their biggest medal hauls of recent years.

There were eight silver medallists backing up the golden quartet, three of whom are intermediates and will be honoured, along with Farley, with England vests at this weekend's home international in Dublin - Lord Wandworth's Nd Monye (shot), Portsmouth Grammar's Simon Cooke (discus) and Yateley's Callum McKay (400m hurdles).

Harrow Way's Vicki Burgess, a member of the Southampton City club, also struck silver in the junior girls' 200m (25.28), along with Robert Mays' Jonathan Hiorns (junior boys' 400m), Brookfield's Ben Harding (junior boys' 800m), Farnborough VI's Chris Tye-Walker (senior boys' 110m hurdles) and Curtis Osano of Oak Farm who leapt 12.63 in the junior boys' triple jump.

Hampshire added four bronze medals to take their haul to 16 overall thanks to Brockenhurst College's Ceri Mitchell (senior girls' 800m), Lord Wandworth's Marimba Odundo-Mendez (junior boys' 200m), Alton College's Grant Sprigings (senior boys' shot) and the senior boys' 4x100m relay quartet of Tye-Walker, Tobin, Chris Hall and Ugo Monye.