Four new records were established on the third day of the National and Junior National Swimming Championship 2018 at the Sugathadasa Swimming Complex yesterday. Akithmi Wasalathanthri lowered the record set by Ganga Seneviratne of Vishaka Vidyalaya, with a time of 1:12.99mts last year in the Girls Under 15 100metre Back Stroke event with a new [...]

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Four new records on day-three

National and Junior National Swimming Championship 2018
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Four new records were established on the third day of the National and Junior National Swimming Championship 2018 at the Sugathadasa Swimming Complex yesterday.

Akithmi Wasalathanthri lowered the record set by Ganga Seneviratne of Vishaka Vidyalaya, with a time of 1:12.99mts last year in the Girls Under 15 100metre Back Stroke event with a new time of 1:12.64mts. The second record of the day was by M.K.P. Adithya Perera of De Mazenod College in the Boys Under 15 100m Backstroke event timing 1:04.11mts. The previous record was held by Shevinda Silva of St. Joseph’s College (1:05.57mts).

Lyceum International School, Wattala set up a new record in the Girls Under 15 400m Freestyle Relay event with a time of 4:35.13mts and the second new record in a relay events was set by Vishaka Vidyalaya in the Girls 200m Freestyle Relay with a time of 1:56.62mts.

Lyceum International School, Wattala with 130 points heads the Under 15 Girls Team Scores closely followed by Sirimavo BV with 120 points and St. Bridget’s Convent lies in the third position with 84 points.

Nalanda College, Colombo with 132 points lead in the Under 15 Boys Team, followed by St. Joseph’s College (96.50) and St. Peter’s College, Bambalapitiya (82 points)

Vishaka Vidyalaya heads the Girls Team Scores with 132 points over Mahamaya GS, Kandy (104 points) and Lyceum International School, Wattala (77 points). In the Boys Team Scores Killer Whale Aquatics leads with 185 points with Ananda College, Colombo and Gateway College, Colombo in second and third places with 103 and 88 points respectively.

Results of Finals

Girls Under-15 50m Butterfly: Nabhashie Perera (Sirimavo BV 31.31secs.), Poojani Dinethsa (Viharamahadevi BV 31.66secs), Oneli Yahampath (Lyceum Intl’, Nugegoda 32.70secs)
Boys Under-15 50m Butterfly: Kaveesha Gimhan Silva (Nalanda College, Colombo 27.22secs), M.K.P. Adithya Perera (De Mazenod College 28.40secs), Banuka Jayathilaka (Royal College 28.52secs)
Girls 50m Butterfly: Aniqah Gaffoor (Unattached 30.35secs), Sandu Savindi (Vishaka Vidyalaya, Colombo 30.66secs), Maheshika Hewage (Mahamaya College, Kandy 31.16secs)
Boys 50m Butterfly: Dimuth Akalanka Peiris (St. Peter’s College 25.16secs), Sandev Senarathne (Ananda College 26.32secs), Dhinal Weerasinghe (Colombo Intl’ School 26.36secs)
Girls Under-15 100m Freestyle: Gayathmi Wijeratne (St. Bridget’s Convent 1:04.43mts), Hiruki De Silva (Gateway College, Dehiwala 1:05.32mts), Shakya Liyanage (Vishaka Vidyalaya 1:05.46mts)
Boys Under-15 100m Freestyle: Kaveesha Gimhan Silva (Nalanda College, Colombo 56.95secs), Chris Pavithra (St. Peter’s College 57.87secs), Oveen Niraj Ovitigala (Nalanda College, Colombo 1:00.78mts)
Girls 100m Freestyle: Sandu Savindi (Vishaka Vidyalaya, Colombo 1:00.82mts), Ganga Senevirathne (Vishaka Vidyalaya 1:02.06mts), Ramudi Samarakoon (Vishaka Vidyalaya 1:03.12mts)
Boys 100m Freestyle: Kyle Abeysinghe (Killer Whale Aquatics 51.86secs), Kavindra Nugawela (Killer Whale Aquatics 53.13secs), Stephen Perera (Gateway College, Colombo 53.74secs)
Girls Under-15 100m Backstroke: Akithmi Wasalathanthri (Lyceum Intl’, Wattala 1:12.64), Minagi Rupesinghe (St. Bridget’s Convent 1:14.23mts), Kimuthu De Silva (Mahamaya GS, Kandy 1:18.59mts)
Boys Under-15 Backstroke: M.K.P. Adithya Perera (De Mazenod College 1:04.11mts), P.V. Amodya Dulshan (Nalanda College, Colombo 1:05.63mts), Vanuja Kannangara (St. Joseph’s College 1:08.41mts)
Boys 100m Backstroke: Dimuth Akalanka Peiris (St. Peter’s College, Colombo 58.05secs), Mahishan Mallawathanthri (Ananda College, Colombo 1:01.52mts), Harsha Thiwanka (St. Peter’s College, Colombo 1:04.19mts)
Girls Under-15 200m Freestyle Relay: Sirimavo Bandaranaike BV 2:04.88mts, Lyceum Intl’ School, Wattala 2:06.42mts, Vishaka Vidyalaya, Colombo 2:07.59mts
Boys Under-15 200m Freestyle Relay: Nalanda College, Colombo 1:50.46mts, St. Peter’s College, Colombo 1:51.57mts, Ananda College, Colombo 1:53.84mts
Boys 400m Freestyle Relay: Killer Whale Aquatics 3:43.36mts, Gateway College, Colombo 3:45.77mts, Ananda College, Colombo 3:47.23mts.

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