Wednesday, April 27, 2011

Latest News: Nat Sch Track and Field Championships 2011

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By Rameshon
Bsc (Hons) Degree in Physical Education, Loughborough University (1992-1994)

Masters in Education (University of Western Australia, 2005-2008)

Final Day Report

Hwa Chong Institution clinches A, B, C Division Boys Titles, while in the girls' section Raffles, Sports School and Cedar Girls clinched A, B and C Division Champion Team, respectively.

Hwa Chong wins all three titles for Boys

A Division means Under 20
B Division means Under 17
C Division means Under 14

In the Divisional Ranking for Boys, 'A', 'B' and 'C' Division, Hwa Chong Institution came in as the champions. In the 'A' Division ranking, the second position went to RI while the third position went to ACS (I). In 'B' Division Boys, Singapore Sports School came 2nd and ACS (I) came in 3rd, making it to the top 3 in the team event.  In 'C' Division Sports School came in 2nd while Raffles Institution emerged 3rd position.

In 'A' Division Girls, Raffles Institution came in first while Hwa Chong Institution came in second. In the B division Girls, Singapore Sports School emerged as the champions while Cedar girls took the second position. Third went to CHIJ St Nicholas. In the 'C' Division Girls, Cedar Girls came in as the champions.

In the 'B' Division Girls, Ranjeeta from Juying Secondary was trailed by Wendy Enn of Sports School. Wendy lost to Ranjeeta by a mere 1min 01sec. Ranjeeta did 2min 22.02sec, while Wendy Enn did 2min 23.03sec. Nabila Bte Abdul Latiff did a time of 2min 25.53sec to clinch the bronze. All the timing of the top three girls were sub-2min 30sec.

In the A Division Girls, it was a one, two, three for the RI girls Berenice Lian did 2min 31sec while Natalie Wee and Clara Poon did 2min 33sec and 2min 34sec, respectively.

The dramatic fight came in the 1500m when Nan Tian from Hwa Chong beat Tineshwaran from Bendemeer Secondary School and Shohib from Raffles Institution to the tape. Nan Tian's time was 4min 41.55sec while Tineshwaran and Shohib's time was 4min 41.59sec and 4min 41.65sec. The fight was the closest that was ever seen by me where three of them were contenders for the first position.

Credible timing was done in the 1500m in the B Division Boys. Justin John Surin did a time of 4min 20. 98sec to win the mostly leading Heng Yu Jie from Catholic High School. Heng Yu Jie did 4min 21.66sec and clinched the second position while Benjamin Tang of HCI clinched the third position.

Picture 1 - S. Jeevanesh was happy with a time of 4min 16sec in 1500m.
















In the A Division 1500m finals, Zackary from ACS(I) came in first while National School's Cross Country Champion and record holder, and 5000m champion for National Schools' Track and Field Championships 2011, S. Jeevanesh came in second. Zackary was about to break Nigel Fu's 4min 06.40sec which he missed. Zackary managed 4min 07.13sec while Jeevanesh did 4min 16.28sec, achieving his lifetime best time. When contacted on this, Mr Soundararajah, Jeevanesh's father told that he was he happy that the son has done a personal best time. The hand-timed record of A. Saravanan's from Ang Mo Kio Secondary School's record of 4min 00. 30sec is intact, safe and sound for the moment.

Picture 2 - Zackary in ACS (I) vest, the athlete second from left of the photo.




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By Narayanan

Rameshon has taught in Hwa Chong Institution, plus several schools, and Republic Polytechnic as well. He has won many accolades and he was awarded Merit Award for 1991 marathon performance in breaking the national record of Singapore, at that time. He has made 22 male athletes do a marathon in sub-3hrs. He has made 7 female runners do sub-4 hours for the marathon, as well. He was inducted to the ‘Roll of Honour’  by the then College of Physical Education, organised by Singapore Olympic Academy, in 1998, for breaking the National record repeatedly 4 times, till he did 2hr 24min 22sec).


He also has a Coaching group and he trains them on Tuesdays and Thursdays, 7pm at Botanic Gardens. Those interested can call him at 91004369 for coaching assistance, to improve performance. There is also personal training that he does for many in a week. You can e-mail him at swift.rameshon@gmail.com.