Training for a marathon in Singapore? Read Steven Quek’s book
How do you train for a marathon in Singapore's climate? Is all the training advice online relevant to our hot, humid weather? Steven Quek's latest book addresses this challenge.
How do you train for a marathon in Singapore's climate? Is all the training advice online relevant to our hot, humid weather? Steven Quek's latest book addresses this challenge.
Wings Athletic Club becomes the first non-academic athletic club to win a team category in the Singapore Athletics Inter-Club Championships since the event was reinstated in 2015.
NUS and Wings Athletic Club top the team standings after Day 1 of the Singapore Athletics Inter-Club Championships.
By a tiny margin of eight-hundredths of a second, Nanyang Girls' High School (NYGH) fell short of breaking the B Division girls' 4 by 100 metres relay championship record. Nonetheless, that failed to dampen their mood as the school continued their dominance in the relay events in recent years, garnering three out of four golds in the girls' B and C divisions.
Singapore Sports School make clean sweep of the C and B Division boys' relay races, while HCI and RI battle it out for gold in the A Division boys' relay finals at the 60th National Schools Track and Field Championships.
In a matter of two days, Elizabeth-Ann Tan of Nanyang Girls' High School wiped out two championship records under National Stadium floodlights, clinching golds in both the 100-metre hurdles and 100m sprint finals. She hurdled to a new B Division benchmark of 14.59 seconds on Thursday, March 28, before tearing down the track a day later in the blue riband event in a swift 12.25s.
In his first year competing in the century sprint, Zeen Chia of Hwa Chong Institution (HCI) came out tops in the B Division boys' 100 metres final to emerge the surprise victor. The Secondary 4 student -- whose pet event is the long jump -- was previously also a racewalker during his time in the C Division, and only started doing specific sprints training five months ago.
Ruben Loganathan of ASRJC defends his A Division Boys' 3000m steeplechase title in 10:24.85. The race had to be run twice owing to a technical mistake during the first final at Choa Chu Kang Stadium.