Collective effort from the runners of Nan Hua High School and Raffles Institution (RI) secured their schools’ victories in the Under-17 Girls' and Boys' team championships respectively, despite the individual champions coming from Cedar Girls’ School and Hwa Chong Institution (HCI).
Kylie won the B girls' race in 5:05.08, while Jiacheng finished first among the B boys with a time of 4:23.39.
Nanyang Girls' Bernice Liew stopped the clock at 12.37 seconds, winning the gold and bettering Singapore Sports School alumna Eugenia Tan's 2012 record by 0.02 seconds. Elizabeth-Ann Tan followed closely behind to clinch silver in 12.40s, a new personal best.
Hu Tianqi of Nanyang Girls’ High School (NYG) cleared a height of 1.52m to break her personal best and secure the gold medal for the B Division Girls’ High Jump final during the 59th National Track and Field Championships. It capped off a strong outing for Nanyang Girls who also won the C Division high jump title through Jade Chew, who rewrote the championship record with a height of 1.61m earlier last week.
After tasting silver at the National Schools Cross Country Championships just three weeks ago, Giselle Dianna Enlund fought hard to do one better and clinched her first gold in the 1500m C Division girls’ event.
Nanyang Girls' High School's hard work and hustle throughout helped them to fight off a comeback attempt by Cedar Girls' Secondary, beating them in straight sets to clinch third place in the National B Division Volleyball Championship.
Presbyterian subdue Cedar Girls' in 2-0 victory to advance to finals
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.
