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National Schools A Div Cross Country: HCI make clean sweep of Boys’ and Girls’ team and individual titlesDominating both the Boys' and Girls' A Division races, HCI successfully defended their double team victory in addition to picking up the individual gold medal in both categories, a feat they failed to accomplish last year. HCI won the A Division Boys’ team championship with 19 points (1st, 2nd, 3rd, 13th) and the Girls’ one with 12 points (1st, 2nd, 4th, 5th), led by team captains Ethan Yan and Vera Wah who both clinched their first ever individual victories in their final year of competing for the school.

C Div 3000m: Team spirit spurs HCI’s Jacob Tan and Dai Hexuan to 1-2 finish"It doesn't matter who finished first or second. One-two finish is the best result for the team, and we will do anything to get it." In saying that, it is without a doubt that Hwa Chong Institution (HCI)'s Dai Hexuan held nothing but confidence as he and teammate Jacob Tan finished only four seconds apart during the C Division boys' 3000 metres final at the 60th National Schools Track and Field Championships. While the duo were taking turns throughout the race to lead the pack, Jacob concluded the race first in a winning timing of 10 minutes and 29.47 seconds. Following close behind were Hexuan and Raffles Institution (RI)'s Jonathan Tan, with timings of 10:33.62 and 10:35.66 respectively.

Wings Cross Country: Hwa Chong dominate U20 category to stay on track for National Schools A Division sweepHwa Chong Institution dominated both the A Division Boys' and Girls' races in pre-National Schools meet.

Cross Country (B & C divs)

Cross Country race is run by 6 runners from each team, with the fastest 4 runners’ positions added together. The team with the smallest total wins.

Last year, our Cross Country team won the C-division Championship title, while our B-boys tied in points (34 points) with ACS(I) after the race, only to lose on countback with their 4^th runner coming in faster than ours. As such, we were second in the B-division last year! It was already the best results so far in our history, considering we even tied in points with the eventual winner! The last time we had won a B-division title remains to be in 2003!

After that close lost, the team move on stronger and more focused to launch another concerted effort towards another breakthrough. On the morning of our Founder’s Day, our B-division team, not only reclaimed the title last won in 2003, together with our C-division team, achieved for the first time in our history the Double Championship Titles in Cross Country!

To add to that, our A-division Boys and Girls teams clinched the Double Championship titles as well! This certainly has to go down as a historic moment winning the quadruple titles in Cross Country for the first time!

C-boys (out of 367 boys)

5^th – Yu Zhenning 2I3

9^th – Low Jit Yong Ernest 2I2

17^th – Dai Hexuan 1I1

19^th – Soo Wee Han, Henry 2A2

27^th – Tristan Ng Chong Xu 2O3

B-boys (out of 390 boys)

2^nd – Joshua Rajendran 4S2

6^th – Chew Yue Bin 3B1

8^th – Aeron Young Liren 3A3

12^th – Yeo Zhi Yan 4O1

Well done Cross Country Team!