Eastleigh & Winchester strongman Harpal Chana is not your average 15-year-old.

The strapping youngster already stands a formidable 6ft 4in tall with broad shoulders to match.

In fact, he so well built that the sports staff at Thornden School in Chandler's Ford have trouble convincing teachers from rival schools that he is still only in Year 10!

At Southampton Sports Centre on Saturday, Chana, pictured, was head and shoulders above his rivals in the intermediate boys' discus.

His winning throw of 40.47 metres was inside the qualifying standard for the English Schools' Championships at Gateshead on July 7/8 and left his nearest county rival trailing some 14 metres in his wake.

Chana, coached by Bill Bushell, finished fourth in the junior boys' discus at last year's English Schools event and looks set to make his mark as a first-year intermediate.

He revealed: "My personal best this year is 41.88, but I've done 45 metres in training."

Another in-form thrower is Callum Woon of Mayfield Middle School on the Isle of Wight.

Over the years the Island has been a hotbed of top-class hammer throwers and Woon looks set to follow in the giant footsteps of former Hampshire Schools' champion Andy Frost, now the British number one.

Woon's winning junior boys' throw of 52.21 metres convincingly smashed the previous championship best of 48.72 set by fellow Islander Lawrence Harwood in 1999, earning the youngster the Simon Rodhouse Trophy for the best throws performance of the day.

l Shirley girl Louise Webb lived up to her favourite' billing in the intermediate girls' 800m, finishing five seconds ahead of her nearest rival in 2.21.3.

Webb will be gracing her local Southampton track again this Saturday when Hampshire host a junior and intermediate Schools' Inter County Track & Field Meet against Surrey, Sussex, Kent and Buckinghamshire.

It will be the last chance for youngsters to post qualifying times for the English Schools' Championships in Gateshead (July 7/8).