Oxfordshire's athletes starred with two team triumphs at the Midland round of the English Schools’ Combined Events Championship at Hors-path Road, Oxford.

The boys team of Peter Barnshaw, Edward O’Hara and Marcus Woodington ruled supreme in the intermediate octathlon with 12,231 points – despite all being in their first year at the age group.

And not to be outdone the girls team of Emily Carstairs, Sian Huxtable and Louise Brown won the intermediate heptathlon with 10,986 points.

Barnshaw captured individual silver to lead Oxon to victory in the octathlon.

The 15-year-old from Abingdon School recorded a personal best 4,282 points to finish runner-up to Bucks’ Harry Dalton, who struck gold with 4,369.

Barnshaw recorded three personal bests with 27.92m in the discus, 26.61m in the javelin and 4mins 33.3secs in the closing 1500m, running from the front in searing heat to slash 15 seconds off his old mark and lift himself up to second spot.

O’Hara (Larkmead, Abingdon) finished just outside the medals in fourth place with a personal best points tally of 4,058.

He also posted a hat-trick of personal bests with 54.4secs in the 400m, 15.2 in the 100m hurdles and 4.47.5 in the 1500m.

Woodington (Wheatley Park) completed Oxon’s triumphant team, finishing fifth with a personal best 3,891 points.

He racked up five personal bests with 5.23m in the long jump, 20.76m in the discus, 55.7 in the 400m, 1.63m in the high jump and 5.05.1 in the 1500m.

The highlight for the Oxon boys was a superb 100m hurdles which saw them take nearly 500 points from the Bucks team, turning a 200-point deficit into a 300-point lead.

Oxfordshire’s girls led from the start to grab the glory in the heptathlon.

Carstairs (Lord Williams’s, Thame) showed tremendous determination to finish fourth with a personal best 3,764 points after falling and breaking a finger in the opening 80m hurdles.

She recorded personal bests of 26.6 in the 200m, 16.58m in the javelin and 2.34.0 in the 800m.

Huxtable (Gillotts, Henley) finished fifth with 3,643 points, which included personal bests of 12.9 in the 80m hurdles, 9.61m in the shot and 25.44m in the javelin.

Brown (Marlborough, Woodstock) was seventh with a personal best 3,579 points to complete Oxon’s winning team.

She also had a hat-trick of personal bests with 6.34m in the shot, 18.72m in the javelin and 2.41.1 in the 800m.

Gold went to Warwickshire’s Imogen Green with 4,106 points.

Competing in her first junior girls pentathlon, Maike Chapel (Cherwell, Oxford) recorded personal bests in the 75m hurdles (13.1) and shot (6.56), but then had to withdraw after suffering an injury in the high jump.