Soh Rui Yong wins 2023 Pocari Sweat Run men’s race with 2.4km timing of 6min 57sec – Mothership.SG

Singaporean runner Soh Rui Yong has emerged because the winner of the lads’s class for this yr’s Pocari Sweat Run.

Soh clocked a 2.4km timing of underneath seven minutes — six minutes and 57 seconds to be precise.

He beat the runner-up, Shaun Goh by about two seconds.

In a Fb publish, Soh declared himself the “2.4km world champion”.

At this yr’s run, Vanessa Lee got here in first for the ladies’s race at eight minutes and 9 seconds.

Earlier timing

This yr’s timing isn’t Soh’s private greatest although.

In 2021, he clocked an official timing of six minutes and 53 seconds.

He then introduced that he was the primary man in Singapore to run 2.4km underneath seven minutes, and issued a problem to anybody who may do the identical.

Nationwide center distance runner Jeevaneesh Soundararajah subsequently achieved a nationwide better of six minutes and 52 seconds throughout the 2022 Pocari Sweat Run, reported The Straits Instances.

Soh clocked six minutes and 55 seconds, simply behind Gurkha Subas Gurung, who clocked six minutes and 54 seconds.

Prime photograph from Soh Rui Yong’s Fb