Cebu Daily News’ Grace Morallas smiles as she reaches the finish line first to top the 3K division. (CDN PHOTO/ JUNJIE MENDOZA)
GRACE Morallas of Cebu Daily News (CDN) won her second straight women’s 3-kilometer title in the Press Freedom Run yesterday at the Cebu Business Park.
It was actually the fifth straight year that CDN won the women’s 3k title of this running event exclusive to media practitioners and part of the week-long celebration of the Cebu Press Freedom Week.
From 2011 to 2013, Corra Mae Aliste won the women’s 3k title for CDN while Morallas topped last year’s race and defended her title yesterday.
Aside from Morallas, also winning for CDN was Jenus Benting, who topped the men’s 5k category.
Benting ended the streak of ultra marathoner Bayani Alvarez of ABS-CBN, who was seeking his fifth straight title in the same category.
Alvarez settled for second this time around while Chito Fuentes of Sun Star Daily rounded off the top three.
Runners up in the women’s 3k were Kristine Grace Cebriano of Sun Star Daily and Flor Mata.
Hanz Llerin of Sun Star Daily also made it five in a row after dominating the 5k women’s race anew, followed by Donna Lavarez of ABS-CBN.
Julius Panerio of The Freeman topped the 3k men’s race while CDN’s Calvin Cordova and Jay Cris Gunogo completed the top three in the division.