Institute-Varsity-Polytechnic Track & Field 2010

It all boils down to the dip at the line as Gary Yeo (SMU) pips Amirudin Bin Jamal (NUS) to the gold with a time of 10.67sec — just five hundredths of a second faster than the latter. (Photo 3 © Farhanah Ghaffar)

Institute-Varsity-Polytechnic Track & Field 2010

Sharman Bin Abdul Rahman Dustageer of NUS leaves the field in his wake. He goes 15.51sec — 0.28sec faster than his time last year — and earns the gold medal in the men’s 110m hurdles. Sharman had taken the silver last year. (Photo 4 © Farhanah Ghaffar)

Institute-Varsity-Polytechnic Track & Field 2010

With hands thrown back and torso leaning forward, Sharon Yeo of NUS shows how lunging at the line is done. She stopped the clock at 16.13sec (+0.7 m/s wind) to clinch the women’s 100m hurdles gold. (Photo 5 © Farhanah Ghaffar)

Institute-Varsity-Polytechnic Track & Field 2010

Nikita Sharda of NTU takes the women’s 400m victory rather comfortably in a time of 1 minute 00.26 seconds. The runner-up, Melanie Francisca of the NUS, was over two seconds behind in 1:02.87. (Photo 6 © Farhanah Ghaffar)

Institute-Varsity-Polytechnic Track & Field 2010

Together with NTU’s Nikita Sharda, NUS’ Lance Tan was one of the standout performers on the first day of competition. Here, he acknowledges his feats as he takes his second consecutive IVP 400m victory to add to the silver in the triple jump. (Photo 7 © Farhanah Ghaffar)

Institute-Varsity-Polytechnic Track & Field 2010

Girider Swaminathan of NUS crosses the finish line after 25 rounds of the track. He covered the 10,000m distance in 35 minutes 7.72 seconds to take the silver medal behind teammate and fellow medical student Mok Ying Ren. Mok once again broke the championship record, improving on the time of 33:32.90 he set last year with a scintillating 33:12.85. (Photo 8 © Farhanah Ghaffar)