Story by Clara Yuan/Red Sports. Photos by Lim Yong Teck and Clara Yuan/Red Sports
HCI’s Ow Yeong Wei Bin (#548, left) clinched the boys’ B Division 400m gold medal with a timing of 51.76 seconds. (Photo 1 © Lim Yong Teck/Red Sports)
Choa Chu Kang Stadium, Friday, April 11, 2014 — Ow Yeong Wei Bin of Hwa Chong Institution clocked 51.76 seconds to take home the boys’ B Division 400m gold medal at the 55th National Inter-School Track & Field Championships.
Emani Satya of Victoria School finished second in 52.25 seconds, while Hariharan Elavarsu of Seng Kang Secondary came in third in 52.55 seconds.
Wei Bin commented, “I feel very happy and excited. Based on the semi-final results, the timings for the top four positions were very close, so I did not think I would come in first. I want to thank my teachers, my coaches, my parents, and everybody who has been supporting me the whole year.”
It was a new personal best for Wei Bin, who also won the 400m hurdles a day before on Thursday, April 10th. He is the first athlete since Tan Chay Chun in 1998 to do the 400-400 hurdles double in the B Division.
The B Division 400m record is 49.75s and was set by Singapore Sports School alumnus, Jamie Ross Coates, in 2008.
Wei Bin won the race from lane five. It was only the second time in ten years that this race was not clinched by a runner starting in lane four.
B Div 400m (Boys) Results
1st Ow Yeong Wei Bin (#548, Hwa Chong Institution) – 51.76s
2nd Emani Satya Venkata Vishal (#470, Victoria School) – 52.25s
3rd Hariharan Elavarsu (#105, Seng Kang Secondary School) – 52.55s
4th Kisen Subash (#135, Woodlands Secondary School) – 52.87s
5th Muhammad Shahrieza B Norzaha (#126, Singapore Sports School) – 52.96s
6th Ringo Han Jia Ming (#300, Raffles Institution) – 53.47s
7th Ryan Koh Zhong Qi (#553, Hwa Chong Institution) – 54.09s
8th Koh Tze Hao Alex Rodney (#432, Singapore Sports School) – 55.89s
Video © SAA. Used with permission.
More photos next page
[…] “The atmosphere was very intense, because I knew that there was always somebody behind me, like RI’s Mark,” said the 17-year-old, who was the victor of the B Division boys’ 400m event in last year’s National Inter-Scho…. […]