Tan Yeow Chung wins SAFRA Quadthlon in dramatic finish
Singaporean Tan Yeow Chung finished first in a dramatic end to the SAFRA Keppel & Marine Quadthlon after Pedro Robeiro lost his bearings from dehydration 500m from the finish line.
Singaporean Tan Yeow Chung finished first in a dramatic end to the SAFRA Keppel & Marine Quadthlon after Pedro Robeiro lost his bearings from dehydration 500m from the finish line.
Madankumar Balakrishnan of NUS won the 1500m gold in 4 minutes 10.85 seconds over defending champion Muhammad Feroz Shah of NTU.
After the first round of events at the Institute-Varsity-Polytechnic (IVP) Championships, the competition standings have taken shape with the National University of Singapore (NUS) leading the men's and women's categories with 118 points and 69 points respectively.
A total of five records were broken in the men's and women's triple jump, women's shot put, men's javelin throw and men's 10,000 metres on day one of competition at the Institute-Varsity-Polytechnic (IVP) Championships.
The race route this year starts and ends at the F1 Pit Building and will take runners along Nicoll Highway and all the way out to the Singapore Indoor Stadium, the 5km mark.
Devathas Satianathan, 21, a law undergraduate at the Singapore Management University (SMU), shares his insights as he prepares for his first 10,000m race on the track this Sunday at the Institute-Varsity-Polytechnic (IVP) Championships.
25-year-old Muhammad Shah Feroz will face keen competition to retain his 1500m men's title at the Institute-Varsity-Polytechnic (IVP) Track-and-Field Championships against Nanyang Technological University (NTU) team-mate Colin Tung, the National University of Singapore's (NUS) Madankumar Balakrishnan - the 2008 runner-up - and Chua Ee Ghim and Singapore Polytechnic's Ravin Muthu Kumar.
All 500 extra slots for the Nike+ Human Race 10K were snapped up when Nike released them to the public exclusively at the Nike flagship store at Wisma Atria.