PHNOM PENH: EAC News sports would like to wish all the Khmer athletic women a happy international women’s day and would like to pay tribute to all the women athletes who compete or have competed on the behalf of Cambodia.

A special Thank you to.

 Hero of female sportswoman Ke Leng, Leng Cambodia’s petanque player, and 4-time gold medalist. She has earned gold medals from international competitions in France in 2013, Thailand in 2015, China in 2017, and Phnom Penh in 2019 – this does not include her other awards and recognitions.

Female athlete Ouk Sreymom, Cambodia’s petanque. The winner of the gold medal of the world champion in 2018

Son Seavey has won Gold medals in the women’s Taekwondo event in 2013, 201, and in 2019 and a bronze in 2011 in the Southeastern Asian Games. 2014 she had won Gold in the Asian Games in South Korea

Jessa Khan, who has a black belt in Jiu-Jitsu, has won two Gold medals and other tournaments. Gold in the Asian Games 2018 and Southeast Asian Games 2019.

Female athlete Chov Sotheara is one of only a handful of Cambodian women who have dared to grapple, fight and elbow their way into a sport little known in this country: Modern freestyle wrestling. She has two bronze medals she brought back from the Southeast Asian Games in 2003 and 2005.