Two teams went under 42 seconds in the men’s 4x100m relay as NTU’s Calvin Quek, Praharsh Ryan, Muhammad Zulkhair and Xander Ho (in white) pipped title holders NUS by 0.09s to take the gold in 41.67s. NTU’s gold-winning time was just two hundredths of a second outside the 41.65s IVP meet record, set in 2010 by the then-NUS team.
Patience paid off for the National University of Singapore's (NUS) Levyn Wong and Chew Xiu Zheng in their respective Institute-Varsity-Polytechnic (IVP) 800-metre races, with both employing the strategy of trailing for the first half of the two-lap race and kicking forward in the second half.
Kerstin Ong clinched her second Institute-Varsity-Polytechnic women’s hurdles titles in three years for Singapore Management University while Singapore Institute of Technology’s Terence Tang grabbed the gold for the men’s hurdles title in a straight final.
Four goals from Darvina Halini (SUSS #11) was just enough to help Singapore University of Social Sciences (SUSS) come from behind and edge out Singapore Institute of Technology (SIT) 4-3 to seal IVP qualification.
NTU edged out NUS by two points to claim their first Men’s team victory since 2011, even as NUS retained the Women’s title and both individual victories.
Overcoming first game jitters, SIT managed to hold their ground and overcome SIM for their SUniG debut. Choong Si Ying Sara (SIT #11) led all scorers with 15 points.
Favourites NTU dominated the IVP Women's Basketball Championship final with a 61-34 victory against first-time finalists SIT, while SP edged out TP 60-50 to clinch bronze.
A last quarter comeback saw the Singapore Institute of Technology (SIT) edge out Temasek Polytechnic (TP) 55-53 to move on to the IVP Basketball Championship final; while powerhouses Nanyang Technological University (NTU) brushed past Singapore Polytechnic (SP) in the other semi-final.
