ATHLETICS: The best 400 athletes from Darling Downs schools will be at Hamilton Oval in Warwick this week for the annual Darling Downs Regional Track and Field Championships for 13-19 years.

All the track action will be Thursday from 100m to 5000m distances.

Field events will be on Friday and Warwick State High School student Justyn Rogers is ranked No1 in 17-19 years high jump. Spectators welcome.

Rogers jumped 1.90m to win the Warwick All Schools event this season before clearing what would have been a record height of 1.97m only to clip the bar with his ankle.

The Darling Downs record was set at 1.97m by Rodney Franks in 1987.

The only events not in Warwick are the hammer throw which was held late yesterday at O'Quinn St Oval in Toowoomba.

Darling Downs regional school sports officer Wayne Beeston said hammer was held separately to the main 13-19 years carnival for safety reasons.

Medals

THE regional 10-12 years championships were on Tuesday in Toowoomba with Texas student Braithen Scott the champion boy of the carnival with five wins and two thirds.

Sixteen students from the Southern Downs and Granite Belt have qualified for the 10-12 years state championships with Darling Downs placings on Tuesday.

Students in the nine years age group are not eligible for regional selection with Bailey Harm (1st and 3rd), Patrick Denny (2nd and 3rd), Harry Wren (3rd) Alex Waterworth (1st) and Jacob Kent (1st) all winning medals and strong chances for Downs selection in 2018.

State qualifiers: Lucy Bourke (2 1st, 1 2nd), Emily Phelan (3rd), Olivia Macdonald (3rd), Reagan McMillan (1st), Denika Murray (2 1st, 3rd), Katie Jansink (2nd), Morgan O'Leary (3rd), Caitlyn Springborg (3rd), Noah Mackenzie (1st, 2nd), Jackson Pitstock (1st, 4th), Hamish Gartery (1st, 2nd), Cooper Harm (1st), Samuel Wainwright (2nd), Darcy Pitstock (3rd), Arie VanKerkwyk (2 2nd), Braithen Scott (5 1st, 2 3rd).