Newly-wed Soh Rui Yong breaks two Singapore records at Valencia Half Marathon

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Three days after getting married on Sept 12, national marathoner Soh Rui Yong embarked on a trip to Saint Moritz. But, instead of a honeymoon at a posh ski resort with his wife June Zhang, Soh was in Switzerland for an intensive training camp to prepare for the Oct 22...

Three days after getting married on Sept 12, national marathoner Soh Rui Yong embarked on a trip to Saint Moritz.

His official time of 66min 45sec, which placed him 60th out of 221 competitors, was a second faster than his previous mark set in 2019.SEA Games 2023: Soh Rui Yong wins silver in 10,000m The only other Singaporean in the field, Shaun Goh, 26, came in a respectable 117th in Valencia in 69:35Soh, who reads law at University College London, said: “It was a very stressful last seven kilometres and if, I wasn’t so close to the record, I wouldn’t have been as stressed.

He said: “That was a bit of an annoyance for me and I wanted to channel this frustration into training for something big. And I was like all right, you know what, Valencia Half Marathon.”

 

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