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Wednesday, January 17, 1973

HORE STUDENTS TO TAKE PART IN SCHOOL GYMNASTIC COMPETITIONS

More schoolboys and girls will participate in this year's

Inter-School Gymnastic Competitions for secondary and primary schools

throughout Hong Kong.

The annual competitions, to be held in March and April, are

jointly organised by the Education Department and the Hong Kong

and the New Territories Schools Sports Associations.

Forty-six teams from 19 schools have entered this year's

Annual Gymnastic Competition for Secondary Schools.

Events will include floor, horse, horizontalbars, paralledbars,

and rebound tumbling for boys and floor, horse, unevenbars, balance-

beam and rebound tumbling for girls.

events.

There are more than 100 students taking part in individual

The competition will be held on April 4 and 6.

This year's Inter-School gymnastic Competition for primary

schools is to take place on March 22 and 30.

A total of 33 teams including ten girls' teams, have

entered for the competition.

This competition will be divided into three areas

Hong

Kong Island, Kowloon and the New Territories.

The first, second and third teams of each area will be

eligible to participate in the overall championship.

/A spokesman