Dipna Lim Prasad and Valerie Pereira, both of Nanyang Technological University, pushed each other to within 15 hundredths of a second off Prema Govindan's women's national 200m record of 22.54 seconds set in 1984 at the Institute-Varsity-Polytechnic (IVP) Championships. Dipna edged Valerie by just a hundredth of a second in a time of 24.68 seconds.
After the first day of events, the National University of Singapore (NUS) lead with 134 and 64 points in the men's and women's competitions respectively with Nanyang Technological University (NTU) trailing them in second position in both categories.
After 12 days of competition spread across 18 venues, with the participation of 3600 athletes, and the help of 20,000 volunteers, the curtains had to draw on the inaugural Youth Olympic Games (YOG) in Singapore on the stage that was The Float@Marina Bay.
Kenya's David Rudisha breaks Wilson Kipketer's nearly 13-year-old 800m world record with a time of 1 minute 41.09 seconds at the ISTAF IAAF World Challenge meet in Berlin.
Ranjitha Raja clocked 3 minutes 3.90 seconds to finish fifth in the 1000m "B" Final. The winner of the final was Manal El Behraoui of Morocco in 2:53.87.
Singapore's Clara Wong was the lead-off swimmer for a world team comprising Italian Livio Molinari, Puerto Rican Cristina Betancourt and Zimbabwean Boyd Littleford and they finished 12th out of 15 teams in the mixed team relay. Scott Ang was part of an Asian team that finished in 15th and last position. But results was not all that mattered on the day as friendships were forged within and between the international teams.
Zachary Ryan Devaraj goes 2 minutes 32.27 seconds in the 1000m to set a new personal best by half a second. He placed 16th overall and will compete in the "B" final this Sunday. Liang Wei runs 12.79 seconds in the 100m heats to place 18th overall. The time was off her personal best of 12.58s.
On the first day of athletics competition, Singaporean hurdling duo Goh Wei Ning and Sean Toh posted 16th place finishes in the girls' 100m hurdles and boys' 110m hurdles. Wendy Enn finished 21st in a field of 27 girls in the girls' 400m. They all failed to better their personal bests.