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| Sunday, 17 July 2005 |
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Age group meet final trial for selection into SA Games pool by Leslie Fernando The three-day National Age Group Swimming Championships to be staged on July 28,29,30 will be the final trial to pick swimmers for the South Asian Games training pool. The SA Games will be held in Colombo April 2006. According to a Sri Lanka Aquatic Sports Union (SLASU) official, the National Age Group Swimming and Diving Championships will also serve as a trial for the 5th Asian Age Group Swimming and Diving Championships to be held in Hong Kong in September. The official added that all leading swimmers and divers will vie for honours at the three-day meet to be held at the Sugathadasa Stadium Swimming Pool. In 2004, St. Joseph's College emerged boys champions while Mahamaya College, Kandy retained the girls overall championships. Royal College retained the boy's overall diving championships and Bishop's College became overall girls diving championships. The age categories for swimming for both boys and girls are under-10, under-12, under-14, under-16, under-19, and over 19. Altogether 136 events are on the card. All events will be swum as timed finals except for the 50 metres freestyle event. There will be qualifying times set to enter for all 136 events. The normal events are 50, 100, 200, 400, 800, 1500 metres freestyle, 50, 100, 200 metres breaststroke, 50, 100, 200 metres backstroke, 50, 100, 200 metres butterflystroke, 200 and 400 metres individual medley. The meet will begin at 8.30 a.m. and the afternoon session from 2.30 p.m. each day. The diving championships will take place on same days as swimming but the events will start from 11.00 a.m. each day. The age groups are -Group 'C' age 13 years and below, Group 'B'-14 to 15 years, Group 'A'-16, 17, 18 years and group 'D'-open age 19 years and above. The events are one-metre and three-metres spring board and platform diving. The age group champions will be selected among the boys and girls and challenge trophies will be presented by SLASU. The swimmers failing to equal or improve on the qualifying times will not score points. The age group and overall team championships will be decided on points and if there is a tie, performances will be compared with the record and decision made by SLASU. The points will be awarded as follows for the first 8 places_first place (10 points), second (7), third (6), fourth (5), fifth (4), sixth (3), seventh (2) and eighth (1). |
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