Horton Park notched a rare sporting success in the South Bradford Primary Schools' Euro 2004 tournament.

Representing Switzer-land, in an event organised by the South Brad-ford Sports Co-ordinator (SSco) scheme, they defeated a gallant Bow-ling Park (Spain) 1-0 in the final at the Univer-sity of Bradford's artificial grass pitches.

The wet weather failed to dampen spirits, and losing semi-finalists were Fearnville (to Hor-ton Park) and Wibsey (to Bowling Park).

Each of the 25 competing schools were allocated a country to represent in the championships.

And, along with playing for their country, each school made national flags and a banner with the message 'To-gether Everybody Achie-ves More' - the South Bradford Partnership's logo - written in their country's native language.

The idea, apart from bringing more colour to the day, was also to create a better understanding of who the students are competing for.

Organiser Josh Baker said: "Copthorne Primary did a fantastic job with the Irish flag with messages in Gaelic, but the trouble was that many schools couldn't even get their banners out because of the weather. They just turned to mush."

The championships ran the same way as the current Euro 2004 event with four groups playing a round-robin phase, with the top two in each group moving into the knockout phase.

Bradford Council's b active campaign helped by supplying T-shirts for the winners and for the officials.

Next event for the South Bradford Partner-ship is a rounders tournament on July 14, which will involve 20 schools.