Edwin Chong Ming Xun won a bronze in the men’s pole vault, equalling his personal best of 4.70m to clinch Singapore’s first SEA Games pole vault medal since 1995. (Photo 3 by Nicky Loh/Getty Images for SSC)
Gary Yeo finished second in the men’s 100m final. He clocked a time of 10.46 seconds, but was assisted by a tailwind of 2.1 metres per second. It was Singapore’s first sprint medal at the Games since 2001. (Photo 4 by Nicky Loh/Getty Images for SSC)
Ng Chin Hui at the start of the men’s 400m final. The 17-year-old Raffles Institution student holds the national junior record of 47.97 seconds, and took fourth place in a time of 48.37. (Photo 5 by Matt King/Getty Images)
Muhd Zaki Sapari (bib number 193, right) competing in the men’s 400m hurdles final. He set a new national junior record of 53.51 seconds in the heats, but could not repeat his sterling performance in the final a day later, and finished a full second slower. (Photo 6 by Nicky Loh/Getty Images for SSC)
Gary Yeo (right) starts his 4x100m relay anchor leg with a significant lead after getting the hand off from Lee Cheng Wei (background) but it evaporates over the last 100m. (Photo 7 © Matt King/Getty Images for SSC)
Gary Yeo (right) just loses out to the Indonesian anchor runner. Both teams were timed at 39.91 seconds, but the host country won the gold after the photo-finish revealed that Gary finished 0.004 seconds behind. (Photo 8 © Matt King/Getty Images for SSC)
Singapore’s second 4x400m relay runner Ng Chin Hui at the changeover to Kenneth Khoo. Singapore finished fourth with a time of 3 minutes 18.50 seconds. Both runners also competed in the individual 400m, finishing fourth and eighth respectively. (Photo 9 by Nicky Loh/Getty Images for SSC)
Singapore’s lead-off 4x400m relay runner Nikita Sharda approaches Wendy Enn at the first changeover. Nikita was a replacement for Valerie Pereira, who had injured her hamstring during the 200m heats that same morning. (Photo 10 by Nicky Loh/Getty Images for SSC)
Wendy ran in the individual 400m heats and finished ninth overall to just miss a spot in the final. T Piriyah, seen here preparing to receive the baton from Wendy, also took part in the 400m hurdles, finishing eighth in the final. (Photo by 11 Nicky Loh/Getty Images for SSC)
Piriyah passes the baton to Dipna Prasad Lim at the final changeover. (Photo 12 by Nicky Loh/Getty Images for SSC)
Dipna anchors Singapore to a fifth-placed finish, in a time of 3:54.57. She also ran in the 100m hurdles, but did not qualify for the final after running the ninth-best time in the heats. (Photo 13 by Nicky Loh/Getty Images for SSC)
Stefan Tseng was fifth in the men’s triple jump with a distance of 15.72m. (Photo 14 by Matt King/Getty Images for SSC)
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