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PPAC-90 Youth Championship Round 2 - 3km and monthly 5km Road Race

Round 2 of the Phnom Penh Athletics Club 2022 Youth Championship took place this Sunday morning, following an early warm up with our regular 4-weekly 5km road race event, all held on a newly designed off-road course.

5km Road Race
First up nine athletes and eight finishers tested the new course at Chbar Ampouv, running three laps of equal distance on the super smooth tarmac surface, with only pedestrian and canine traffic to negotiate. A fast and open course where the wind may play a factor saw Jack dropping 4.1s from his previous best for a new PB performance of 19:06.

The top three scored over 500 points and top-two finishers Andarge and Jack scored the only sub-1.00 consistency ratings.

Youth Championship Round 2 - 3km Road Race
For round two of the Youth Championship we had twenty-eight finishers out of twenty-nine starters. The 3km road race is the longest of the five events making up this championship, better suiting middle and long distance runners than sprinters. With a mass start for all participants this is the only event where all athletes can race each other at the same time, which is exactly what happened with the leading U16 and U19 boys racing together all the way to the finish and a very close finish between the top two female U16 runners. There were great efforts all round with many of the young athletes pushing themselves very hard and six runners with previously recorded 3km times also scored PBs.

3km Race results by category

After two rounds and three events here are the overall points standings with still much to play for to secure the top three places in every category. So far the competition has attracted 42 young athletes and 20 have completed all three events. With only the third (and final) round remaining, which will be a double sprint affair with 200m and 400m on the grass track, only athletes taking part in all five races will be eligible to win the overall competition. Good luck to all the competitors in the final round!

Youth Championship points table after Round 2

Full results and analysis for the race, in order of finishing time for all athletes are in the table below.

Special thanks to our volunteer officials, assistants and photographers on the morning, Lorinda, Sanket, Muyngim, Andarge, Seavleang, Kimkheang and Mon Mey as well as all who supported the event by accompanying the athletes or helping in any other way.

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