A Div 100m: RI’s Tanisha Moghe seals second straight century sprint gold
Tanisha clocked 12.67s against a headwind of 1.6m/s, with Sports School's Ismi Zakiah (12.72s) and RI teammate Amirah Aljunied (12.96s) in second and third respectively.
Tanisha clocked 12.67s against a headwind of 1.6m/s, with Sports School's Ismi Zakiah (12.72s) and RI teammate Amirah Aljunied (12.96s) in second and third respectively.
Samuel claimed Anglo-Chinese School (Independent)'s first gold medal at this year's track nationals with a personal best 24.45 seconds, while Singapore Chinese Girls' School's Emily posted 26.54s to wrap up a 200-400 sprint double.
Celeste clocked 1:05.49 in the heats and lowered it to 1:05.35 in the final. The previous electronically-timed (ET) championship record was 1:06.42, set by Miriam Lee of NJC in 2002, while the long-standing hand-timed (HT) record stood at 1:05.80, set by Norishidah Mohd Ali of Siglap Secondary back in 1984.
Fatehah edged out pre-race favourite Amanda Ashley Woo of Nanyang Girls' by two-hundredths of a second, claiming the gold in only her third hurdles race ever.
Ismi stopped the clock at 26.09s to win gold, 0.09s off her personal best.
Reuben dominated the field, scoring a relative straightforward win in 22.41 seconds, though still some way off ex-national sprinter Poh Seng Song's divisional record at 21.88s that was set in 1999. Grace earned RGS its first gold medal of this year's championships, after she outran Reuben's schoolmate Diane Pragasam.
Zulkhairi won his second National Schools 800m gold, while teammate Brandon Norton finished second in 2:03.24. Tay Kai Bin of North Vista Secondary came in third in 2:04.89.
Tia clocked a timing of 15.05s, while Tan Jing Wei of HCI and Clenyce Tan of RI finished second and third respectively.