PHNOM PENH ATHLETICS CLUB

Youth athletes were put through their paces with sprinting practice and drills this week before testing out newly learned skills in a 400m race held in five heats The session started with a 10 minute jog followed by some ground contact exercises and strides. Athletes then practiced the crouch start for sprints before a final section working on full sprinting form. Youth girls (plus one senior) went in the first two heats with Sokry and Sokung winning respectively. Sokung's 1:24 also scored her a big new points PB while Sreypov ran a point scoring performance for the first time. In the third heat, Mon Mey scored a big points PB with his winning time of 1:13, scoring points for the first time and finishing three seconds ahead of Paul with the two youth athletes further back. In the penultimate heat, four U12 boys raced the 400m for th...

The club's first 3km road race of the year continued a great start to the 2022 calendar with youth runners outnumbering seniors and a total of 32 finishers. We had three new youth athletes and thirteen taking part in their first 3km race with everyone finishing under 26 minutes. Well done to this week's first place female finishers Meyjou and Sreyleap in the senior and youth categories respectively, and Viro and Soboros in the equivalent male categories. Main results below are ranked by PPAC points, which gives us a great idea of performance level across the male and female categories. We had an amazing fourteen PBs for athletes with previously recorded 3km times, with new bests for eleven youth athletes including big improvements of more than 10% for Sreymien, Senglim, Soboros and Ma Mon. It's great to see so many youth athletes all making good progress. There were eight points PBs, including first points scores for Senghon...

The club's first event of the year was our regular four-weekly 5km race, held in great early January conditions and a super way to get the 2022 calendar up and running with a great turnout and mix of youth and senior athletes. This year's 5km events will be part of a 2022 5km road race series where every finish gets a score and competition points are awarded based on finishing position. We will also be tracking a number of other statistics including races completed, PBs, best laps and consistency over the course of the year so make sure you join often and chart your progress with PPAC! We had four first timers and nine athletes taking part in their first 5km race with everyone finishing within 45 minutes. Well done to this week's first place category finishers Andarge and Soboros in the senior and youth men's respectively, and Muyngim and Sreyleap in the equivalent female categories. Results below are ran...