Just a few days earlier, the two emerged as champions in their C Division 200-metres finals. The stands at the National Stadium saw a similar show of brilliance as Anglo-Chinese School (Independent)'s Xavier Tan and Singapore Sports School's (SSP) Samantha Ortega found gold yet again at the 60th National Schools Track and Field Championships, this time in the highly anticipated 100m finals.
Ann Lee of Nanyang Girls High School (NYGH) bettered her personal best by one centimetre with a winning jump of 5.11 metres in the Girls’ B Division Long Jump event to clinch gold. But the highlight of the long jump event, according to Ann was not so much her win but the persistent disturbance of a white bird at the track. The white bird would periodically swoop towards some of the long jump participants and even forcing the officials to restart the jump countdown for some of the girls.
To Addeen Idzni, injury always comes at the wrong time. But she made sure to overcome it to reclaim her 800 metre throne in her final A Division girls' event at the National Schools Track and Field Championship.
Elizabeth Liau shrugged off a recent injury to defend her individual title at this year's National Schools Cross Country Championships, helping CHIJ St. Nicholas' Girls School to its first-ever B Division Girls team title.
CHIJ St Theresa's Convent emerged as champions again after overcoming CHIJ St Nicholas Girls' School 2–0, with Dhaaneya D/O Ramasamy (#23) and Alicia Neo (#19) the scorers.
By Lim Yong Teck/Red Sports Diane Hilary Pragasam (#81) [...]
SSP teammates Portia Tan and Nurul Syarah were second and third respectively. Portia crossed the finish line in 12.85s while Syarah took bronze with 12.87s, just 0.02s behind.
Elaine Quah of Raffles Girls' School and Alicia Tung of Crescent Girls' School came in second and third, each with a timing of 11:57.81 and 12:07.45 respectively.
