YOUNGSTERS showed Olympic levels of endurance by taking part in a cross-country run.
More than 30 ten and 11-year-olds got their running shoes on for the third annual Torch Run of seven miles between six Brighton schools.
Participants included pupils from Downs View special school, some in all terrain wheelchairs borrowed from the Brighton and Hove City Council's seafront office.
The third Torch Run was held to coincide with the Rio Olympics having first been held in 2012 to mark the London Olympics and then again in 2014 to celebrate Commonwealth Games.
As part of the day Downs View, Woodingdean Primary, Rudyard Kipling, Our Lady of Lourdes, St Margaret's and Saltdean school pupils each donned a different colours from the Olympic flag for a ceremony which saw thousands of pupils do laps of a field and creating a running circle of colour.
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