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...

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. ...

Early on 28 November 2021 keen athletes gathered from across the city, most taking the first ferry across to Koh Dach (Silk Island), some having traveled from farther and others staying over to adjust to the local conditions since the eve of the race. With some wind but cooler and dryer conditions than recently, athletes had warmed up and braved the 5:30 am pre-race briefing and were ready at the line just before dawn. The course comprised three loops - a first 5.8 km loop on the east side up the island’s main road and a second 9.5 km loop around the bottom of the island and up to Wat Ampor Pal on the west of the island and back, before repeating the first loop to complete the half marathon distance and finishing exactly where the race started. The race set off under the dawn half-light just after the scheduled 5:40 am start and within a few minutes the road ahead was clearly visible. Runners at the head of the race set o...