A two-and-a-half hours delay forced by lightning alert failed to derail Tan Tse Teng of Hwa Chong Institution as she leapt 11.25 metres on her final attempt to snatch the A Division girls' triple jump gold.
Raffles Institution (RI) bagged both gold medals in the Boys' and Girls' 200 metre races through Marcus Tan and Grace Shani Anthony.
Wong Rui Yue of Victoria Junior College (VJC) came into the shot put competition aiming for a personal best (PB), but she definitely did not expect to achieve it with only her third throw of the competition. In the other field events that day, Raffles Institution’s (RI) Ryan Ng came out on top in the A Division discus throw event with a final distance of 44.68 metres. The second-year student, however, admitted that he did not do as well as he had hoped.
Nursing a bruise on his heel, Andrew George Medina knew he had to make his first few jumps count -- he was not planning to use up all six of his attempts in the A Division boys' triple jump final. Eventually, he only attempted four -- skipping his fourth and last tries -- and also fouled two of his four jumps. But his job was already done on his second attempt, as the fifth-year Singapore Sports School student leapt 14.58 metres to crack the championship record at the 60th National Schools Track and Field Championships.
RI showed exemplary performance by securing first, second and fourth placings in the A Division boys' javelin event. With a winning throw of 56.52 metres, Joel Low secured gold followed by his teammate Xavier Emmanuel Leung.
Defending champion Lim En Ning of Dunman High School (DHS) defied injuries to deliver a stunning leap of 5.66 metres, edging out her fellow competitors to win the A division girls' long jump event.
Tedd Toh is perhaps fondly remembered for his animated antics, but he was uncharacteristically silent right before his sixth and final attempt in the A Division boys' long jump competition at the 60th National Schools Track and Field Championship. The Hwa Chong Institution fifth-year student knew he had one last chance at catching Victoria Junior College's Kampton Kam, who had recorded 6.81 metres earlier, against a head wind of 1.6 metre/second on his third jump. The loud roar at the end told the whole story.
Coming into the 60th National Schools Track and Field Championships, Deseree Khor of Victoria Junior College (VJC) was upbeat about her chances at gold in the A Division girls' javelin. After all, she was the two-time defending champion in the event's B Division and had also set a then-new C Division record in 2016. Even as she moved up to the heavier 600-gram javelin in the A Division this year, her results remained status quo as she clinched victory in a new personal best of 32.62 metres.
