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| Sunday, 8 February 2004 |
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Ransilu Jayatilleke six National Records in five days by S. M. JIFFREY ABDEEN - Kandy Sports Corr. This fine feat of setting six national records in power lifting and Weight Lifting by 17-year-old Kingswood College schoolboy Ransilu Jayatilleke within a space of five days will be hard to emulate and could find a place in the Guiness Book of Records. Ransilu Jayatilleke coached and nurtured by his father the triple international D. U. M. Jayatilleke, who has represented the country in weight lifting, power Lifting, bodybuilding and very lately strength building has been very much in the news since of late with prodigal feats which has been unmatched in the iron sport which requires rigorous training and fitness. Being second year student in the G.C.E. Advanced Level class has found the time to combine sports with studies. Back to his record breaking feats on 24th January, 2004, Ransilu Jayatilleke broke three Sri Lanka national records in weight lifting at the SAF Games trials held at the University Gymnasium Peradeniya. Competing in the 105 kg plus category, he snatched 122.5 kgs and later clean & jerked 163 kgs to total 285 kgs which is the highest ever aggregate by a Sri Lankan lifter the previous highest being 280 kgs. The two lifts were also two separate national records. Ransilu Jayatilleke's thirst for records being not over five days later on 30th January, 2004, he participated at the Open Power Lifting Championships conducted by the Sri Lanka Power Lifting Association and held at the Town Hall, Negombo, and added three more national records to his credit. Lifting in the 100 kgs category, Ransilu Jayatilleke with a fine show of strength recorded squat 250 kgs and hoisted 262 kgs, in the dead lift and 110 kgs in the bench press to record a total of a massive 622.5 kgs. His dead lift of 262.5 kgs is the highest for this segment by a Sri Lankan. He is also the national record holder for the squat segment when he lifted 270 kgs earlier in the 170 kgs category. He is also the first teenager to hoist over 600 kgs in power lifting in Sri Lanka and this is also a national record. Ransilu Jayatilleke on his way to record breaking feats crushed his father Mohottilal Jayatilleke's national records of Squat 226 kgs. and dead lift 240 kgs. and the total of 590 kgs. Seventeen year old Ransilu Jayatilleke's record at International in both weight lifting and power lifting is unmatched as he has won 17 medals at the Asian and World championships. This youngster needs to be encouraged and sponsored and if he could achieve these record breaking feats at 17, greater things are in store for Sri Lanka in a few years time. |
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