Elizabeth ran 12.41 seconds, clocked with a tailwind of 0.1 metre/second to break Lim Joo Lee's C division hand-timed 12.6s record that was set in 1993. Teammate Bernice Liew claimed the silver in a personal best 12.72s. Both girls later combined to help Nanyang Girls' High School to gold in the 4 by 100 metres relay.
Nanyang Girls' all-star C Division relay teams were anchored by 80m hurdles-100m double gold medallist Elizabeth-Ann Tan and 800m-1500m champion Wu Shu Han. The girls clocked 50.04 seconds in the 400m relay -- their best this season -- and 4 minutes 15.68 seconds in the 1600m relay to claim two gold medals to add to the five individual ones the school earned previously.
In crossing the line first in a time of 5 minutes 11.85 seconds, Vera also denied Elizabeth Liau of CHIJ St Nicholas Girls' School a hat-trick of distance titles. Elizabeth, the national schools cross country champion who had also earlier won the 3000m, finished third in the 1500m in a time of 5:20.75. Nan Hua High School's Clarice Lau claimed the silver with 5:16.67.
Shu Han's 2 minutes 29.33 seconds was a cool five seconds faster than second-placed Kylie Tan, the 3000 metres and cross country champion from Cedar Girls' Secondary School. Harieharan came in a time of 2:09.74, emerging victorious after a titanic battle with Arian after both of them had pulled away from the leading pack.
Elizabeth clocked a personal best timing of 11:22.70 for gold.
Three seconds were all that separated Raffles Institution's Sean Tay and Nan Hua High School's Lim Yu Zhe at the cross country nationals a month ago. The gap came down to 0.06 second between the two boys in the C division 3000m race at the 58th National Schools Track and Field Championships.
History was made in the 58th National Inter-School Cross Country Championships when unfancied Nan Hua High School clinched the B Division Girls’ team title and brought home its first ever cross country championship.
Cedar Girls' Secondary were second in 4:19.78 while Nanyang Girls' High finished third in 4:20.14.
