Gail Chia from Raffles Junior College wins long jump gold

Photos by Ng Cheng Cong. Update by Lai Jun Wei/Red Sports.

Gail Chia from RJC leapt a distance of 5.12m. (Photo 1 © Ng Cheng Cong/Red Sports)

Choa Chu Kang Stadium, Thursday, July 3, 2008 – Gail Chia (#75) from Raffles Junior College won the gold medal for the A Division Girls Long Jump event at the 49th Inter-school Track & Field Championships. The first-year RJC student came in with a jump distance of 5.12m, beating Hwa Chong Institution’s Ang Shi Ting and Hsien Li Jie. A former student of the Singapore Sports School, Gail came in second in last year’s B Division Girls Long Jump event where she had a jump distance of 5.02m.

Ang Shi Ting (#164) from Hwa Chong Institution won the silver medal when she had a jump distance of 4.96m. This was better than her jump distance of 4.70m last year where she came in third for the same event.

Fellow team mate Hsien Li Jie (#173) also leapt a distance of 4.96m but had to settle for the bronze after the count back. Li Jie had previously out-leapt Shi Ting at last year’s long jump event when she came in second with a jump distance of 4.87m.

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Ang Shi Ting, also from HCI, had the same jump distance of 4.96m as fellow teammate Hsien Li Jie. (Photo 2 © Ng Cheng Cong/Red Sports)

Hsien Li Jie from HCI leapt a distance of 4.96m. (Photo 3 © Ng Cheng Cong/Red Sports)

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