Elfi is unsuccessful, however, in his quest. He only managed third position with newly-crowned IVP men’s 100m champion, Gary Yeo (#1726) of SMU, completing a sprint double. Gary won the 200m in a time of 21.64 seconds. Gary’s time was just slightly over two tenths of a second off Poh Seng Song’s championship record of 21.40 seconds set in 2004. (Photo 3 © Farhanah Ghaffar)
Lance Tan (#1328) of NUS finishes top in the first of two sections of the 400m hurdles finals but was only good enough for bronze with two others trumping him in the other section. With the bronze in the 400m hurdles, he completes a full set of individual medals with silver and gold in the triple jump and 400m respectively. (Photo 4 © Farhanah Ghaffar)
Defending IVP Championships 400m hurdles men’s champion Sharman Abdul Rahman (left, #1339) improved on his winning time from last year. He clocked 56.69 seconds but that was insufficient to prevent Muhammad Zaki of Republic Polytechnic from beating him to the gold in 56.09 seconds. (Photo 5 © Farhanah Ghaffar)
Mok Ying Ren (NUS) fights the rain as he notches yet another win in the men’s 5000m race. He clocked 15:34.33. (Photo 6 © Farhanah Ghaffar)
Lossini of Singapore Polytechnic (left foreground) leads the women’s 1500m race. She won the event in 5:13.59. Sumiko Tan (NTU, centre) held off a fast-closing Ang Siew Min (NUS, right) to take the silver in 5:19.41. Siew Min clocked 5:19.66 for the bronze. (Photo 7 © Farhanah Ghaffar)
Fabian Lim (NTU) scored a major upset in the men’s high jump, beating championship record holder, Cai Yaoqin of Singapore Institute of Management (SIM). Fabian posted a clearance of 1.93m while Yaoqin, better known as “Ronnie” in the track and field circle, could only manage 1.90m for joint-second position with Daryl Lee of Nanyang Polytechnic. (Photo 8 © Farhanah Ghaffar)
Great story! Good luck to both girls at their next challenges.