Twenty oarsmen and oarswomen will take wing on Monday, October 15 to participate in the prestigious Boat Race which will be conducted by the Universiti Teknologi of Malaysia for the third successive year. This year the Colombo University crews will be participating in this event for the third year.  In their debut year in 2010, [...]

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Colombo undergrads for UTM

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Twenty oarsmen and oarswomen will take wing on Monday, October 15 to participate in the prestigious Boat Race which will be conducted by the Universiti Teknologi of Malaysia for the third successive year. This year the Colombo University crews will be participating in this event for the third year. 

In their debut year in 2010, the women won the Coxless Fours to take gold and the individual gold team bronze in the Women’s Indoor Rowing.
In the same year, the men made the finals in the Coxed Eights and rowed into 5th place out of 18 and were placed 6th out of 19 in the Coxless Fours.

Last year, the crews made a vast improvement where they rowed into 8th place out of 35 universities. The men took 8th place in the Coxless Fours, in the finals of the Coxed Eights, they rowed into 6th place and in the took 8th place out of 35 in the Double Fours.

In the women’s segment, the local undergraduates came in to 7th place Coxed Eights, 5th in the Double Sculls and 4th and 5th in the Indoor Rowing.
This year too, a total of 35 from the host country plus almost another 25 odd international universities are expected to contest the meet.

Under the able guidance of that doyen of coaches, Lloyd Sirimanne both crews have been hard at practice and are determined to bring back more laurels this year. A feature of the crews have been the dedication and discipline shown by both crews at practices. (BM)

The teams – Men

Prabath Perera, Kanishka Keragala, Duminde Prasad, Randimal Perera, Praveen Liyanage, Uveen Jayasinghe, Shehan Dayaratne, Ashan Wettasinghe, Hemaka Priyantha and Sampath Jayasinghe.

Women
Maryam Noordeen, Indu Dissanayake,Pemli Santhiyagu, Gayasha Liyanage, Pavithra Amarasinghe, Dimanthi Dias, Rashni Anandawansha, Manasha Weeratane, Chandula Walgama and Madhavi Andradi

Pix by Amila Gamage




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