Seven sports completed their competition schedule on the last day of the UK School Games in Coventry. Athletics, badminton, fencing, gymnastics, judo, table tennis and volleyball awarded their final medals of the tournament. The standard was as high as ever with some memorable performances all round.

Athletics
Aled Davies threw a world junior record in the men’s ambulant shot put on day two of the athletics at Warwick University.
 
The Welshman, whose 11.27m effort was easily enough to take gold said: “I’ve been trying all year for the world record so I’m delighted to finally get it.
 
“It’s been a great week here: great team, great support staff and a great event.”
 
Other winners in the athletics included Yorkshire & Humberside’s Abdirisak Ahmed, who was hugely impressive in the men’s 3000m and the West Midland’s Ashlee Nelson who defended her 100m crown in 11.66, despite pulling up on the finish line with a leg strain.

The South East finished at the top of the overall team standings with the East as runners-up and the South West in third.

Badminton
The boy's doubles badminton competition finished in dramatic style as the all-England final went into a third game.

Chris Coles and Matthew Nottingham emerged victorious with a deciding game score of 21-15 over Philip Aspinall and Joshua Green to take the UK School Games title.

The pair had to work hard to pull the score level after lost their first game 16-21, but were in the driving seat after that.

Coles said: "After winning the second game we had a lot of confidence and they started to loose theirs so we were delighted to come away with the UK School Games title," added Chris.

The boys and girls singles competition, mixed doubles and girl's doubles are still being played.

Northern Ireland won their first medal of the badminton competition with Tony Stephenson securing gold in a two games to nil win over Scotland's Andrew Gilliland.

"I'm so delighted with my result at the UK School Games, this is the biggest title I've won," said Stephenson.

England continued their winning streak as Sarah Milne beat Wales' Sarah Thomas in a thrilling three set final to secure the girls singles gold medal.

In the mixed doubles, Peter Briggs and Hayley Rogers triumphed over fellow England team-mates Philip Aspinall and Jess Fletcher.

The badminton competition concluded with another all-England final with Jess Fletcher and Sarah Milne adding to their medal tallies as they defeated Hayley Rogers and Helena Lewczynska.

Fencing
At the Ricoh Arena, Wales claimed their first ever UK School Games fencing gold medal with victory in the men’s foil team competition, upsetting strong favourites England in the process.

Led by an inspirational Rhys Melia and backed by a partisan crowd, the whole Welsh team performed spectacularly to deny an English come back and edge a nail biting clash 45 - 40.
 
Melia said: "We weren't expecting to be so far in the lead at the beginning but we wanted to win so much and felt we could do it. We were disappointed not to keep the lead but it is amazing to triumph in an event like this one."
 
The Welsh dragon roared ferociously all day, in fact, with their teams in the women’s sabre and men’s epee also running the English agonisingly close in the finals, a determined Sophie Williams holding off the Welsh fightback in the former while Wales' Gareth Thomas-led comeback in the latter was ultimately foiled at the last.
 
In the other disciplines, Corrinna Lawrence wrapped up her second gold medal in two days  with the rest of the experienced English girls team in the women’s epee competition, whilst England also eased to victory in the women’s foil event.

The men’s sabre category was dominated by England who strolled to victory over a tired Scottish side, suffering from their exploits from an exhilarating 45 - 42 semi-final win over Northern Ireland.

England took the overall team title in fencing with a repeat of the 11 out of 12 gold medals from 2006.

Gymnastics
Ten gold medals were up for grabs in the individual apparatus finals at the Skydome Arena and England dominated the show once again winning seven of them.

In the women’s competition England’s Jennifer Pinches was the star of the show for the second day running. The all-around champion and team gold medallist won the asymmetric bars, beam and floor titles plus a silver medal in the vault.

Pinches said: “It’s nice to know that all the hard work you put into training finally pays off in the competition.

“It’s been exciting, great fun and a great experience to be here at the UK School Games.”
 
England’s Nadia Hansell took the title in the girls vault to add to her team gold from Saturday.

While the youngest competitor of the whole UK School Games, 10-year-old Venus Romaeo from Wales got a fantastic reception when she won a silver medal in the beam and a bronze in the floor.

Double gold medallist from the all-around and team competition Richard Mochrie from England claimed another title in the pommel with a silver medal in the rings.

England’s Matthew Firth won gold in the vault and parallel bars to add to his team gold and all-around bronze medals.

While Nathan Mullet put in an exceptional performance for Wales securing three gold medals in the men’s floor, rings and high bar.

Judo
Samuel Hill grabbed the headlines on the final day of the judo competition at UK School Games.
 
The highly-rated 16 year old from Bridgend didn’t disappoint beating Nathan Lockey in the boys plus 90kg final.
 
Hill won an entertaining contest and believes that the experience of competing at the UK School Games has been wonderful.
 
He said: “It’s been fantastic, I really enjoyed the opening ceremony and the food in the athletes village has been really good. I’ve been to the Youth Olympics before and the atmosphere is just as good here”.
 
Craig Stewart won an all-Scotland clash to take the gold medal in the boys under 81kg beating Daniel Patrick.
 
Samantha Clarke was also a Scottish champion at UK School Games with victory over England’s Sonya Clarke in the girls under 57kg category.
 
In the final session of the tournament, England delivered a clean sweep of gold medals.
 
Alex Paske beat Scott Davis in the under 66 kg category, Colleen Kerr was victorious over Victoria Pang in the under 63kg event while in the boys under 60 kg Kane Charig beat Dale Findlay to the gold.

Table Tennis
It was a day of surprises in the table tennis competition, as a series of upsets left the path clear for David Meads to triumph over Darius Knight in the individual boy’s event, taking a close final 3 - 2.
 
Knight's progress to the final was untroubled but he came up against the better player on the day and was unable to halt Meads' march to victory.

The shock of the tournament was an unexpected defeat for an off-colour Paul Drinkhall, who succumbed to Scotsman Craig Howieson in the quarter finals.

Emma Vickers made up for her semi final exit last year by taking gold in a keenly contested girls competition. Vickers battled past Melanie Farquhar in a titanic semi final match and then eased past Sarra Wang in a straightforward final, 3 - 0.

Vickers said: " It has been an amazing finish to a really great weekend, the whole event has had such a great atmosphere with a unique opportunity to mix will athletes from other sports, but my lasting memory will be winning my gold medal.”

The disability competition was a big attraction at the Ricoh Arena, with Andrew Harper winning gold following a fantastic battle with Krysten Coombs in the disabled standing event.
Jack Hunter Spivey, who took bronze in the wheelchair discipline, spoke for all the competitors as he confirmed that the event had been a great success.

12-year-old Spivey said: "This has been unbelievable, it was amazing to compete on such a stage and in a fantastic venue, all the teams have really helped us feel at home."
England South East picked up the overall team trophy.
 

Volleyball
Pre-tournament favourites England Midlands have been crowned champions of the boys under-17 volleyball competition at the UK School Games.
 
After taking the first set in the final against England South by 25 points to 15, they improved even further in the second set to take it 25-14.
 
England Midlands captain Sam Allen said “We have improved every day, with every game, as a team. The whole UK School Games experience has built our team spirit and togetherness. It has been brilliant in every way. I hope some of us get to do this in 2012.”
 
In a tremendously entertaining under-16 girl’s final, England North triumphed over England South by two sets to nil: 25-19 and 25-23.
 
A packed crowd stayed behind after the match to pay tribute to both teams who had given their all and performed heroically over three days of competition.
 
Captain of the victorious England North team Laura Larkin said “We had beaten England South in the group games so we were confident, but not complacent, of winning in the final. Their team played brilliantly though and we were really tested.”

England South, with representatives in both boys and girls finals, won the overall Regional Team trophy based on their performances over the three days of competition.