National pole vaulter Chan Sheng Yao clinched his first ever IVP gold medal and set a new men’s pole vault record at 4.71m to complete a strong comeback after failing to clear any height in last year's competition.
National hurdler Kerstin Ong stood tall and finished strong on the opening day of the 2018 Institute-Varsity-Polytechnic track and field competition, winning the women’s 100 meter hurdles crown, spurred on by the outpouring of support from her peers.
NTU defeated NUS behind Russel Loh's (NTU #32) game-high 31-point performance to defend their title.
Despite a game-high 16 points from Bernice Yeo (NUS #4), NTU's defensive efforts and balanced scoring gave them their ninth title in a row.
Shermaine See (NTU #5), Amanda Lim (NTU #9) and Au Zi Yi (NT #18) scored game-high 17 points each to propel NTU past SIM and secure a spot in the final.
Despite game-high 16 points from Bryan Gregory Kor (SIM #11), a balanced scoring from NTU gave NTU the victory.
Yuan Yuan's (NTU #5) goal in the 81st minute helped Nanyang Technological University (NTU) regain its Singapore University Games (SUniG) Football Championship title which they lost to National University of Singapore (NUS) last year.
With five players on their roster who recently helped Singapore beat Malaysia to the Asian Youth Netball Championships title in Korea, NUS asserted their dominance early on. They raced to a 10-goal lead by the end of the first quarter and stretched their lead to more than 30 at one point in the fourth.
