The IVP Track-and-Field Championships concluded with a second day of competition that saw exciting contests in the men's 200m and men's 800m which Mustapa Muhammad Elfi and Subaish won respectively as NUS wins both the men's and women's team titles.
Madankumar Balakrishnan of NUS won the 1500m gold in 4 minutes 10.85 seconds over defending champion Muhammad Feroz Shah of NTU.
After the first round of events at the Institute-Varsity-Polytechnic (IVP) Championships, the competition standings have taken shape with the National University of Singapore (NUS) leading the men's and women's categories with 118 points and 69 points respectively.
A total of five records were broken in the men's and women's triple jump, women's shot put, men's javelin throw and men's 10,000 metres on day one of competition at the Institute-Varsity-Polytechnic (IVP) Championships.
The National University of Singapore (NUS) 'A' beat the Nanyang Technological University (NTU) 'A' team 26-14 to capture the 2009 Singapore University Games (SUniG) rugby 7s championship title.
25-year-old Muhammad Shah Feroz will face keen competition to retain his 1500m men's title at the Institute-Varsity-Polytechnic (IVP) Track-and-Field Championships against Nanyang Technological University (NTU) team-mate Colin Tung, the National University of Singapore's (NUS) Madankumar Balakrishnan - the 2008 runner-up - and Chua Ee Ghim and Singapore Polytechnic's Ravin Muthu Kumar.
Nanyang Technological University won in almost every event, taking home more than two medals in 5 out of 8 events.
Two groups of medical students from the NUS Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine will take time away from their undergraduate studies on August 29 to do their bit for charity.