CHIJ St. Nicholas Girls' School's Laura Wong emerges victorious in C Division Girls' 400m Final, finishing over a second ahead of her next competitor, Ho Zhi Ling of Nanyang Girls' High School.
Jade Chew marginally falls short of Michelle Sng's 16-year-old B Division girls' high jump record of 1.64m, but attained a new personal best of 1.62m to improve on the 1.61m C Division mark she had set last year.
Traditional powerhouses Cedar Girls' Secondary and Nanyang Girls' High School (NYGH) began their title charge for the overall B Division girls' championship on the front foot with Cedar's Daakshayani Negi and Ann Lee of NYGH winning the javelin and triple jump respectively at the 60th National Schools Track and Field Championships.
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).
Anglo-Chinese School (Independent) secured their first 4x100m relay golds in eight years after triumphing among the C and A Division boys. The two wins were among four golds that ACS(I) garnered on the final day of competition, adding to their 4x400m victories in the same divisions. Usual relay suspects Singapore Sports School also won four golds, while Nanyang Girls' High were dominant in their B Division races.
Anna Yap of Cedar Girls' Secondary breaks the meet record with a 12.75m effort on her third throw to claim gold in the B Division Girls' Shot Put final.
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.
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.
