Karthic Harish of SUTD emerged victorious in a tactical 1500m final at the IVP Track and Field Championships, finishing in 4:26.37. Meanwhile, Nabin Parajuli of SIM adds a second gold to his IVP outing this year by winning the 10,000m, as Lok Xin Ying of NUS won the women's race.
After posting a strong 44.61m at the Asian University Games last November, Brian See of National University of Singapore dominated the Institute-Varsity-Polytechnic men’s discus throw event to win gold with 43.95m.
Chan Zhe Ying of National University of Singapore clinched the gold medal in the Institute-Varsity-Polytechnic men’s triple jump event with a distance of 14.40 metres, beating his school teammate Joseph Zhao by 0.29 metres.
The margin of victory was only 0.43s and 0.1s respectively as RP's Qabeel Khan and NUS's Celeste Goh secured close victories in the men's and women's 400m finals of the IVP Track and Field Championships.
Nabin Parajuli put in a steady run to strike gold in the IVP Men's 5000m event with a timing of 16:01.26.
Temasek Polytechnic (TP) duo Haanee Hamkah and Clara Goh sprinted to a 1-2 finish in the IVP women's 100m final, finishing in 12.66s and 12.75s respectively. In the men's final, NTU's Khairyll Amri came out tops in a race of high quality, with the top four all dipping below the 11-second barrier and all eight finalists finishing under 11.3s.
The 11-medal haul is the best tally for a Singapore athletics team at the biennial ASEAN University Games since the 2010 edition in Thailand, where our athletes clinched one gold, two silvers and nine bronzes.
Nanyang Polytechnic defended their Polytechnic–Institute of Technical Education Games track and field overall title with an emphatic 361 points with Singapore Polytechnic coming in second with a distant 288 points.
