Story by REDintern Lynn Chia. Photos by Rebekah Abbott/Red Sports
Kon Pei Ying (#374) of Nanyang Girls’ cleared a height of 1.53m to be crowned the girls’ B division high jump champion. (Photo 1 © Rebekah Abbott/Red Sports)
Choa Chu Kang Stadium, Friday, April 4, 2014 — Kon Pei Ying of Nanyang Girls’ High won the girls’ B Division high jump with a leap of 1.53m at the 55th National Inter-School Track and Field Championships.
Pei Ying was two centimetres off her personal best of 1.55m set in February 2014 at the Singapore Athletic Association Series 2 meet. That clearance of 1.55m had qualified her for the Southeast Asia Youth Championships in Myanmar at the end of this month.
She was the first runner-up in the girls’ C Division high jump event in 2012 and finished third a year later when she made her debut in the B Division.
Cheryl Lim of Nanyang Girls’ attained second placing with a height of 1.43m, while Tiffany Chan of CHIJ St. Nicholas Girls’ claimed third place with 1.40m.
Cheryl’s silver-medal winning height was the lowest in this division since 1991.
One of the favourites to take this competition by storm was Low Seow Ting of Cedar Girls’ Secondary, but she did not compete this year as she is nursing an injury. A two-time defending C Division champion, she set the current championship record of 1.60m last year, having equaled the previous one in her first year of competition at the Schools’ meet in 2012. Seow Ting is also the co-national under-15 record holder.
The B Division record is 1.64m and was set by Michelle Sng Suat Li, then of Singapore Chinese Girls’ School, in 2003. Michelle holds the current national record of 1.80m.
B Division (Girls) High Jump Results
1st Kon Pei Ying (#374, Nanyang Girls’ High School) – 1.53m
2nd Cheryl Lim Jia Hui 358 (#358, Nanyang Girls’ High School) – 1.43m
3rd Chan Sin Teng, Tiffany (#25, CHIJ St. Nicholas Girls’ School) – 1.40m
4th Liew Jing Hui (#33, CHIJ St. Nicholas Girls’ School) – 1.35m
5th Rachel Lim Fang Yu (#174, Cedar Girls’ Secondary), Hannah Esther Tan Shu-En (#156, Cedar Girls’ Secondary), Ang Wei Lu (#90, Singapore Sports School) – 1.35m
8th Shen May Kuan Nicole (#176, Cedar Girls’ Secondary) – 1.35m
9th Shona Yap Woon Hwee (#44, CHIJ St. Nicholas Girls’ School) – 1.30m
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