S. Thomas’ reign supreme in T500 sprints

The victorious S. Thomas’ A Coxed Fours team. - Pic by Ranjith Perera

S. Thomas’ ‘A’ flew over the placid waters of the Beira Lake in the final of the Boys Coxed Fours event to win first place from Royal College ‘A’ easily. S. Thomas’ returned a time of 1 minute 48 seconds yesterday at the T500 Sprint Championships organized by S. Thomas’ College, Mt. Lavinia.
T500 is a 500 meter sprint event held for the first time this year. Seven schools took part in the Boys category with 6 schools participating in the girls events. This event was tipped to change the traditional face of rowing and it lived up to its billing with some hard fought, thrilling races which resulted in Ladies College walking away with the Thomian Challenge Cup for Girls and the Boys from S.Thomas’ College picking up the Thomian Challenge Trophy for Boys.

Boys
Single Scull
1st place : STC ‘A’ Sajeev De SilvaTime 2:00
2nd place : RC ’A’ Chirath Karunanayake Time 2.03
3rd place : RC ‘B’ Radika WeerasingheTime 2.11
Double Scull
1st place: STC ‘A’. Ruven Weerasinghe(B) Dhanushka Jayanetti(S) Time 1:58
2nd place : STC B. Eshan Goonawardene (B) Sajeev De Silva (S) Time : 2:02
3rd place RC A : Radikha Weerasekera (B) Chirath Karunanayake (S) Time 2:01
Coxed Fours
1st place : STC ‘A’ Eshan Goonawardena (B) Sajeev De Silva (2) Dhanushka Jayanetti (3) Ruven Weerasinghe (S) Amrick Varia (Cox) Time : 1:48
2nd place : RC ‘A’ Sanjiva Jayasuriya (B) Ajmal Sideek (2) Sahan Warnasuriya (3) Thivanka Jayatilake (S) Pasan Ranaweera (Cox) Time : 1:55
3rd place : AIS ‘A’ Thariq Iqbal (B) Joshua Obeysekara (2) Rodric V. Francis (3) Naveendran Rajendran (S) Ryan Ramanayake (Cox) Time : 2:14
Girls
Single Scull
1st place : BC ’B’ Anushki Sumanapala Time 2:34
2nd place : BC ‘A’ Dimithri Thilakasundaram Time 2:35
3rd place : LC ’A’ Amani Tissera Time 2:29
Double Scull
1st place : LC ‘A’ Sarani Jayawardena (B) Amaya Jayasuriya (S) Time 2:17
2nd place : LC ‘B’ Amayi Mandawala (B) Yanithra Hallock (S) Time 2:23
3rd place : BC ’A’ Anushki Sumanapala (B) Ashanthi Sumanapala (S) Time 2:25
Coxed Fours
1st place : LC ‘A’ Tashya Lenaduwa (B) Anjali Mandawala (2) Amayi Mandawala (3) Yanithra Hallock (S) Khayati Wikramanayake (Cox) Time 2:12
2nd place : LC ‘B’ Sarani Jayawardena (B) Shiyanka De Zylva (2) Sanchia Supramanium (3) Amaya Jayasuriya (S) Shiloni Sumathiran (Cox) Time 2:16
3rd place : BC ‘A’ Thushini Ranasinghe (B) Sonja Candappa (2) Mariam Omar (3) Amashi De Mel (S) Janveeka Gunaratne (Cox) Time 2:23