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PPAC-85 3km Youth & 5km Senior Road Race

The final 3km and 5km road races of 2021 took place this Sunday morning, with youth athletes racing for medals in the 3km race and seniors aiming to end the year on a high with a strong 5k in the favourable cool conditions.

3km Youth Road Race

Sixteen young athletes aged 18 or under lined up for one of PPAC's biggest and most competitive youth races of the year. We welcomed seven new athletes, among whom Soboros claimed first place in 13:45 ahead of Mongkul (14:21) and Laykia (15:15) in the male youth category. In the female youth category, Sreyleap, Nikko and Sokung took the podium places, with all three scoring impressive PBs - Sreyleap improving by 36s to win in 14:44, just ahead of Nikko who scored a PB by one minute to finish in 14:55. Third place Sokung scored the biggest PB of the race improving by 1:48 for a finish time of 17:35.

There were PBs for fifteen participants, including for six with previously recorded 3km times. There were also points PBs for four athletes, indicating all time best performances across all standard PPAC events, with Sreyleap the top points scorer on the morning with 248, extending her previous best by 30 points.

Congratulations to all participants in the final youth race of the 2021 event calendar!

5km Senior Road Race

In our final 5km race of the year we were joined by six first timers with all athletes finishing within 35 minutes. The senior men's race had three finishers under twenty minutes with Andarge first over the line in 17:51, and a further three finishing under 21 minutes.
Lorinda scored the only PB for a returning 5k athlete, improving by 20s as first female finisher in 25:16 while also scoring a narrow one point PB, beating the previous mark set in the 3km.

Guanghui was the most consistent performer while four athletes, including the top two male finishers, recorded negative splits and there was a best Sokha lap effort for Ping Nam, improving on a mark set in a previous 3km race.

Special thanks to our volunteer officials and assistants Haruka, Seavmey, Barang, Sivmuyleng, Chin Paul, Matt and race director Meyjou as well as those who shared their photos of the event.

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