Doesn’t matter how minor or unimpressive.
I won my school sports day sack race in year 5 and I’m still living off that high.
Best was coming second in a non-competitive 26 mile walk. Worst was the swimming certificate for a width of the local municipal pool whilst clinging to a lump of polystyrene foam. With hindsight the award was probably for not drowning.
I won semi-pro doubles at a table football tournament in Lithuania once. Pretty crazy how serious people take table football (foosball) as a sport, really. Was mad fun though.
Probably making the team for a worlds level ultimate frisbee club, although I never got to play because of COVID 😩
Either that or climbing E1 trad.
As a lad I was pretty good at table tennis but never exceptional.
I won a potato and spoon race in year 2. The instructions they gave said if we dropped the potato we should run to where it was and put it back on the spoon so I flicked the potato to the finish line and ran and collected it and won by an absolute mile.
That is some epic shithousery. Bravo.
I came second in long jump on sports day in year 8. I still think about it sometimes.
Of course, only 2 people competed…
Unlucky! I won in a cross country skiing competition. Two participants, and the other boy took a wrong turn and skied 5 km instead of 2.5 km we were supposed to.
Playing 4th line defense on my high school hockey team, I managed to fall asleep on the bench and no one seemed to notice.
I was the captain of my high school basketball team for five minutes.
All the regular players (ie the actual sporty kids) had clashes with other things so the school team was made up of all the gets-picked-last rejects, including me. Given that university applications were being discussed with increasing vigour by our teachers we decided we’d take it in turns to be captain so we could all legitimately put it on our UCAS forms.
We got utterly humiliated by a team made of what I can only assume were ringers from the NBA (not a man of them was under 8 feet tall or thereabouts). Didn’t matter to us, though, we were living the dream of being athletes.
Once scored an overhead kick during our in-school football tournament. Even got a pat on the back from one of the bigger kids.
I peaked at 9 years old.
Won a medal for most improved player once after I missed three penalties. Not the best player, but the most improved. The coaches definitely weren’t feeling sorry for me that day.
Also saved a shot from a premier league footballer once at school. Obviously wasn’t a premier league footballer at the time though.
I won gold medals for javelin shotput and discus in the Ayrshire championships as a wean. Although my greatest achieement was winning actual cash money at the Arran Highland Games 4k race for coming in 4th. There may only have been 4 people competing, but prize money is prize money, and I was just glad to finish considering I was more hungover than I’d ever been.
How much did you win?
Vast sum of 8 quid!
Not necessarily my greatest but I have a certificate from school for swimming a width. 😂
Time to put BSC after your name!
Ah yes, like the mighty Arnold J Rimmer :D
Next you’ll be telling us you’re an expert at fixing soup vending machines…
Just don’t ask me to fix a drive plate
salutes by swishing hand in the air three times, touching fingers to head, then returning to a downwards position
I got man of the match playing football once and I won a Goofy mug and a Happy Meal.
Discovered at age 12 that I was actually fast as fuck over short distances and won a 200 metre race, leaving the sporty popular kids in my nerdy dust.
My teacher said “you’d have been a lot faster if you hadn’t kept looking behind you”
Coming 2nd in my high schools cross country race. It was VS all other schools in the area. My mate won but he died a few years later to lukemia.
BAGA 3 in gymnastics. I have absolutely no memory of this, but I have a certificate so it must have happened.
