Tao Li is top earner from SEA Games under SNOC awards scheme
Swimmer Tao Li earned herself S$41,250 from the recent 26th Southeast Asian (SEA) Games in Indonesia.
Swimmer Tao Li earned herself S$41,250 from the recent 26th Southeast Asian (SEA) Games in Indonesia.
The Institute-Varsity-Polytechnic (IVP) men's pole vault record was broken on the first of two days of comepetition. Singapore Management University (SMU)'s Dominic Chan vaulted a height of 4.31m to inch past the previous record of 4.30m set by Solomon Tan in 2006.
A few elite local runners found themselves left out of the top ranks of the Men's Closed category at the Army Half Marathon over the weekend.
Clocking 2 hours 27 minutes 5 seconds to finish 13th at the Gold Coast Marathon, top Singaporean distance-runner Mok Ying Ren came up short in his bid to break the marathon national record of 2:24:22 for the second time in a month.
Singapore's ASEAN Schools track athletes delivered medals in every event (except the girls' 400m and girls' 3000m walk) on the first day of competition. The haul from the track was one silver and four bronzes. There were two gold medals garnered from the field competition.
A week after running a 5000m national record in Japan (pending ratification by the Singapore Athletics Association), Mok Ying Ren runs a marathon personal best of 2 hours 26 minutes 33 seconds in winning the Christchurch Marathon, coming just outside two minutes of the marathon national record.
Lee Ming Hui, Koh Kai Ming, Soh Rui Yong, Jeffrey Ng, Chua Ee Ghim? Just who was the most dominant schoolboy cross country runner of the last decade?
Catholic High's Heng Yu Jie posted a time of 14 minutes 14.22 seconds on the 4.2 kilometres Bedok Reservoir course to win the Under-17 category at the Wings Cross Country Championships.