Contributed by Mark Tan

Bishan Stadium, Saturday, June 20, 2009 - Mustapa Md Elfi led a Wings Athletics Club sweep of the men’s 100m event at the 5th All-Comers Track-and-Field meet with a time of 10.86s.

He was trailed closely in second and third places by clubmates Jamal Amirudin and Abdul Hakeem, national 110m hurdles record-holder, in times of 10.88s and 10.93s respectively.

The three of them were running their second 100m races of the day at the meet in a new format introduced by race organisers, the Singapore Athletics Association (SAA). They were ranked after their first races and subsequently, for the second races, put into heats against competitors of the same calibre.

After the first 100m races, Wings Athletics Club had seven of the top-eight runners with national record-holder U.K. Shyam leading the way with a time of 10.93s.

Hopes of seeing Shyam stamping his authority once again, going head-to-head with the rest of the top-eight centurions were dashed though when he felt trouble in his hamstring before the commencement of the second races and he pulled out.

Nevertheless, despite Shyam’s withdrawal, Wings still had six of seven athletes in the top section of the second races. The odd athlete not from the club was Shammer Ayub of Swift Athletes Association who split the Wings Athletics Club’s group of six into two groups with a 11.01s effort and a fourth-place finish.

Some of the Wings athletes who ran the two 100m races also competed in the 200m namely Kenneth Khoo, Mustapa Md Elfi and Lance Tan. It was 400m specialist Kenneth Khoo who shone as he emerged fastest with a time of 22.02s.

In the women’s 100m, Wings Athletics Club’s Asmah Hanim was twice kept out of the top-three by Amanda Choo, national 100m record-holder and Ann Siao Mei (both Nanyang Technological University) and Fiona Ng (Raffles Institution) respectively.

Amanda Choo clocked 12.60s and 12.59s respectively for the two races. Ann Siao Mei clocked identical 12.70s for both races and Fiona Ng improved by one-tenth of a second on her first race’s 12.80s in the second race.

Wings also showed their prowess on the field too with their athletes topping both the men’s and women’s discus throw.

In the men’s division, James Wong, the national discus record-holder, threw a 51.19m to claim top-spot with fellow clubmates Scott Wong and Koh Hor Yee rounding off the top-three with efforts of 43.91m and 41.74m respectively.

Wan Lay Chi, though representing Nanyang Polytechnic, did Wings proud when she comfortably out-threw her only rival in the competition with a 48.47m effort, almost 15m further than Kelly of Anglo-Chinese Junior College.

Ronnie Cai capped off a good day for Wings, placing second in the men's high jump with a clearance of 2.00m.