IVP Track and Field: NUS hold off NTU to retain overall title but surrender women's crown

NTU’s Lee Cheng Wei edges the men’s 200m final over national 4x100m relay teammate and SEA Games 100m silver medalist Gary Yeo of SMU. (Photo 2 © Farhanah Ghaffar)

Nikita Sharda (#1015) of NTU manages to win the women’s 200m, even with an achilles injury, in 26.17sec. Teammate Valerie Pereira, also carrying a hamstring injury of her own, earns the silver in 26.44sec — a far cry from the 24.69sec she ran at the previous IVP Championships to earn the silver behind Dipna Lim Prasad. (Photo 3 © Farhanah Ghaffar)

The women’s 3000m field await the start of their race. (Photo 4 © Farhanah Ghaffar)

It came down to a duel between Tan Lui Hua (#1205) of TP and Colin Tung (#1047) of NTU for the men’s 5000m title. (Photo 5 © Farhanah Ghaffar)

NTU’s Calvin Kang (second from right) hands the baton off to anchor runner Lee Cheng Wei (right) in the second of two timed finals in the 4x400m relay. The two Republic Polytechnic runners in green, seen here, work to eventually place the team third behind NUS, who ran in the first of two timed finals. (Photo 6 © Farhanah Ghaffar)

Lee Cheng Wei wins the 4x400m relay for NTU in 3 minutes 29.62 seconds. (Photo 7 © Farhanah Ghaffar)

The women’s 800m and 1500m champion, Yvonne Lin of NTU, sets off on the second leg of what proved to be a victorious 4x400m relay effort. Nikita Sharda, the women’s 200m champion, had led off the team, comprising also of Valerie Pereira and Dipna Lim Prasad. (Photo 8 © Farhanah Ghaffar)

From left to right: Goh Zhi Xi (TP), Look Xin Qi (NUS), and Chong Yi Mei (SMU), all penultimate-leg runners in the second of two timed finals of the women’s 4x400m relay, wait for their teammates to reach them. (Photo 9 © Farhanah Ghaffar)

Cheryl Ann Lee of NUS threw the javelin a distance of 28.37m to place second. (Photo 10 © Farhanah Ghaffar)

Cheryl’s teammate, Teo Hui Juen, won the women’s javelin throw with an effort of 39.00m. (Photo 11 © Farhanah Ghaffar)

Nurul Jannah of NTU adds a win in the long jump to her triple jump win from the first day of competition. She edged the long jump by a centimetre over Gail Chia of SMU. (Photo 12 © Farhanah Ghaffar)

Dominic Chan of SMU, the new men’s pole vault champion and IVP record holder, tries out the long jump. His best effort of 5.46m was only good enough for 11th position in the field of 17 competitors. (Photo 13 © Farhanah Ghaffar)

IVP record holder, Ronnie Cai of SIM, cleared a height of 1.95m to take the gold in the high jump. It was 9cm short of his record set in 2009. (Photo 14 © Farhanah Ghaffar)