Kingston’s best placing at the London Youth Games for 10 years was four years in the making.

The borough’s young sports stars collected 10 gold, 11 silver and six bronze medals to claim 11th in the overall Jubilee Trophy standings on Sunday after finals weekend at Crystal Palace.

Team Kingston collected 988 points to finish only two points above 12th placed Redbridge, but a whopping 228 adrift of champions Wandsworth, who claimed the title for a third successive year.

Liz Joannides (100m and shot Para Games) and Souleyman Bah (100m & 200m Para Games) led the way with four individual golds between them.

There were further individual title triumphs for Harry Prosser (Judo), Magnus Handley (Sailing), Coco Barrett (Sailing), Issei Kuzuki (Swimming 50m backstroke) and Duncan Cassley-Sharon (200m Para Games), to add to boys Para Football gold.

But it was the newly formed cycling squad that made the difference with Tobias Dahihaus taking boys’ road race and ITT silver and Kate Shelton stealing girls’ road race bronze as Kingston claimed a team bronze in the event for the first time.

The Kingston Junior Cycle Club, based at the YMCA Hawker Centre, was set up in 2011 thanks to funding from London Youth Games sponsor Balfour Beatty, Kingston Council and the Kingston School Sports Partnership.

And cycling team manager Liz Foster believes the club can only go from strength to strength.

“I’m a bit surprised,” she said.

“In 2011 we started Kingston Junior Cycling Club because of a grant from Balfour Beatty and it’s nice to see the fruition of what is a small grass-track racing club.

“It was a big step up to win bronze.

“Some of our team have another two years left in the age group, so there’s more to come.”

Eight months of competition between more than 100,000 athletes representing 33 boroughs in 31 sports, reached its climax at Crystal Palace.

British women’s 100m record holder Dina Asher-Smith and rugby World Cup winner Maggie Alphonsi were on hand to light the flame at last Thursday’s opening ceremony.

And Alphonsi believes the event is a breeding ground for future world and Olympic stars.

“The London Youth Games is an amazing event, I am so happy to have been here today and to be a patron of the Games,” she said.

“I took part in 1999 and it’s really inspiring to see the next generation who are coming through, some of which will be hoping to represent their country at an Olympic Games and world championships.”