13. Jannah Wong from RI is the most successful sprint hurdler in her generation after winning her fifth straight 80m/100m hurdles gold medal at the Schools’ (Secondary and JC) meet. She had also won the 80m hurdles at the Primary Schools competition in 2008.
If Jannah comes in first again next year, she will join Ng Chui Fong (shot put, 1983-88), Mona Kunalan (100m, 1986-91), Rahmah Begum (1500m, 1995-2000) and Chan Zhi Xuan (discus, 2007-12) as the only female athletes in the past 30 years with six straight gold medals in the same event.
14. Fiona Ng of Victoria Junior College (VJC) won her third discus gold medal in four years with her 33.10m throw. This meant that the last eight A Girls’ discus golds have been won by both VJC (five) and ACJC (three).
15. Jessica Wei’s win in the A Girls’ shot put was the first by a Hwa Chong Institution athlete in this event since Leong Boon Soo in 1981.
16. With her winning height of 1.58m in the A Girls’ high jump, Carren Teo (RI) has now won five high jump gold medals on the trot, tying Michelle Sng (2000-01, 2003-05) and Sarah Lim (1993-97) for the most titles in this discipline in 30 years.
For good measure, Carren also won three straight high jump titles in the Primary Schools competition, from 2005 to 2007. She did not take part in 2008, her first year in secondary school.
Jannah Wong of RI (#102, centre) on her way to winning her fifth consecutive sprint hurdles final. If she repeats her 100m hurdles victory at next year’s Schools’ meet, she will join four other female athletes with six straight gold medals in the same event. (Red Sports file photo © Les Tan/Red Sports)
17. Carys Hor of Nanyang Girls’ High bagged her third 800m and 1,500m double gold in four years. She now has seven gold medals and a silver in her first four years of competing at the Schools’ meet, emulating Zachary Devaraj’s feat from 2007-2010. Kannan Poobalan, in his first four years from 1996 to 1999, won all eight gold medals in the same two events.
Carys’ 1,500m winning time of 5:21.10 was only the second in 19 years that went over 5:20.
18. Nah Yi Xin is the fourth straight winner from Cedar Girls’ Secondary School in the B Girls’ 3,000m. Before this streak began in 2010, they did not have a winner in this event since its inception in 1984.
19. Yi Xin’s win in the B Girls’ 3,000m marked the 12th consecutive time that the individual B Division Girls’ winner at the National Schools Cross Country championships has failed to win the 3,000m, the longest girls’ track event.
Yi Xin finished third at the Schools’ cross country meet, while the winner, Kathleen Lin of Crescent Girls’ School, did not compete in the 3,000m.
The last runner to win both these events in the Girls’ B Division was Pamela Chia, who completed a treble of wins in the cross country, 1,500m and 3,000m in 2001.
20. Athletes from Cedar Girls’ Secondary won all six of the B Division girls’ field events, namely the discus, shot put, javelin, long jump, high jump and triple jump. This is one better than last year, when they won five of six.
Carys Hor (#365) of Nanyang Girls’ High won the B Div 1,500m final in 5:21.10. It was her fourth 1500m win on the trot, and now has seven gold medals and one silver out of a possible eight total individual medals in her first four years competing at the Schools’ championships. (Red Sports file photo © Les Tan/Red Sports)
21. Sports School’s Ismi Zakiah broke the national under-15 200m record, while coming within 0.08 seconds of the 100m mark, to become the fastest ever Secondary One female in Singapore for both events.
Ismi is only the fourth Secondary One athlete to bag the 100m-200m double at the C Girls’ level in the past 26 years, joining Otelli Edwards (1991), Tan Shieh Li (1994) and Valerie Pereira (2003). In doing so, Ismi also became the ninth Sports School athlete to win the C Girls’ 100m in the last 10 occasions.
22. Arissa Rashid of Nanyang Girls’ High became only the third Secondary One athlete in a span of 26 years to win both the C Girls’ 800m and 1,500m titles. Pauline Koh (1998) and J. Lossini (2004) are the only others to have achieved such a feat.
Arissa’s winning time of 2:35.85s in the 800m is the slowest since 1997.
23. Alicia Tung won Crecent Girls’ School’s first C Division gold medal in over 33 years, when she finished first in the C Girls’ 3,000m in a time of 12:08.17.
24. Vanessa Low of Nanyang Girls’ High won the C Girls’ long jump with a distance of 5.00m, becoming only the fourth ever athlete to clear 5m or more in this event. The other three jumpers are Sakinah Muslimah (5.10m, 2009), You Lan Eng (5.04m, 1971) and Melissa Wu (5.00m, 2007).
25. Five throwers registered a distance beyond 20 metres in the C Girls’ javelin, the first time this has happened since 2008. However, Cedar Girls’ Samantha Chen’s winning distance of 22.12m is the shortest since 1991, when Chen Yuni threw a distance of 21.98m to win.
The runner-up that year was a certain Jean Ng, who went on to be the most capped netball player in Singapore.
Alicia Tung (#139) of Crescent Girls’ School on her way to winning the C Girls’ 3000m final in 12:08.17. It was her school’s first C Division gold medal in over 33 years. (Red Sports file photo © Les Tan/Red Sports)
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