Raffles Institution (RI) bagged both gold medals in the Boys' and Girls' 200 metre races through Marcus Tan and Grace Shani Anthony.
In Secondary One, she finished third in the C Division 200-metres final. In Secondary Two and Three, she improved to finish second. This time, Bernice Liew of Nanyang Girls' High School (NYGH) topped the B Division Girls' 200m final at the 60th National Schools Track and Field Championships with a winning time of 26.02 seconds. Following just a few strides behind is Thaarani D/O Sivakumar of Singapore Sports School and Choo Hui Xin of Cedar Girls' Secondary, who secured a spot on the podium with timings of 26.34 and 26.57 respectively.
Anglo Chinese School (Independent)'s Xavier Tan wins his first ever individual gold medal in the C Division Boys' 200m final, having been injured in the previous season.
Ann Lee of Nanyang Girls High School (NYGH) bettered her personal best by one centimetre with a winning jump of 5.11 metres in the Girls’ B Division Long Jump event to clinch gold. But the highlight of the long jump event, according to Ann was not so much her win but the persistent disturbance of a white bird at the track. The white bird would periodically swoop towards some of the long jump participants and even forcing the officials to restart the jump countdown for some of the girls.
Singapore Sports School's Samantha Theresa Ortega secures an emphatic win in the C Division Girls' 200m final at the 60th National Schools Track and Field Championships.
Wong Rui Yue of Victoria Junior College (VJC) came into the shot put competition aiming for a personal best (PB), but she definitely did not expect to achieve it with only her third throw of the competition. In the other field events that day, Raffles Institution’s (RI) Ryan Ng came out on top in the A Division discus throw event with a final distance of 44.68 metres. The second-year student, however, admitted that he did not do as well as he had hoped.
Four years of training and hard work culminated in the B Division Boys' 200 metres final for Nicholas Teo, and he did not fail to deliver. "I have been preparing for a long time to achieve what I wanted to achieve," said the Singapore Sports School (SSP) Secondary 4 student. "Through the years I have been training hard, getting the best timings, and preparing four years for this day." Stopping the clock at 23.31 seconds, Nicholas rose to the occasion for his last year in the division at the 60th National Schools Track and Field Championships, claiming his first individual gold medal.
Nursing a bruise on his heel, Andrew George Medina knew he had to make his first few jumps count -- he was not planning to use up all six of his attempts in the A Division boys' triple jump final. Eventually, he only attempted four -- skipping his fourth and last tries -- and also fouled two of his four jumps. But his job was already done on his second attempt, as the fifth-year Singapore Sports School student leapt 14.58 metres to crack the championship record at the 60th National Schools Track and Field Championships.
