Lyceum Wattala champs for third year running
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Champ receives award... Under 19 boys champion Viyath
Anthony receives award from Minister of Economic Development
Basil Rajapaksa while on his right is Mohan Lal Grero -
Managing Director of Lyceum International School, Wattala
and Mrs. Kumari Grero - Co-ordinating Principal of Lyceum
Group of Schools.
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ATHLETICS: Lyceum International School, Wattala once again turned up
trumps at the Inter-International Schools Athletic Championships (ISAC)
getting 994 points while Gateway scored 834 points, in third place was
LIS Nugegoda with 535 points.
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The champ in action... Sarah Karunapala who won the under 15
girls javelin throw event in action. |
The Lyceum Wattala athletes grabbed 17 challenge trophies and the
athletes established 12 new meet records. They have been champions in
2007, 2009, 2010 and 2011.
The trophies won by Lyceum athletes were: Gateway International
School Challenge Trophy for becoming the Overall Champions of the meet,
additional trophy donated by Edexcel for the Overall Champions,
Cambridge Challenge Trophy for relays, Nirm Sandarathne won trophy for
her fine performance in the 200 metres event for girls under 17 where
she established a meet record timing of 25.91 seconds. She also won the
Ritzbury Challenge Cup for being the Best Female Athlete and the Optimum
Q Trophy as the Best Performance of the Meet.
The Overall Championships won by the Wattala Lyceum athletes: Under
9, 11, 13, 15 and 17.
Individual Championships won by Lyceum athletes: Under 9 girls: Salma
Badri, under 11 boys: Vihanga Wijesinghe, under 13 boys: Shehan
Wisanperuma, Under 15 girls: Amasha Polkotuwa, Under 17 girls: Nirma
Sandarathna, Under 18 boys: M. Aadil Farried/Shehan Rodrigo, under 19
boys: Viyath Anthony.
New meet records were established by: Girls under 15: Long Jump:
Amasha Polkotuwa, High Jump: Sarah Karunapala, under 17 girls: 200
metres - Nirma Sandarathne, Triple Jump - Chathuri Fernando, High Jump -
Divya Amunugama.
Boys under 13: High Jump - Waruna Attanayake, Long Jump - Waruna
Attanayake. Boys under 17: Triple Jump - Shihan Rodrigo, 400 metres: M.
Aadil Farried, under 19: 400 metres - Viyath Anthony, 4 x 100 metres,
under 13, 4 x 100 metres under 17.
The Chief Guest at the meet was Minister of Economic Development
Basil Rajapaksa.
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The individual champions with the trophies... Back row
(standing from left): Withanage Wijesinghe, Shehan
Wisanperuma, Nirma Sandarathna, Aadil Farried, Viyath
Anthony, Shehan Rodrigo, Amasha Polkotuwa and Salma Badri.
Seated (from left): Ruwanthi Silva (Asst. Sports Co-ordinator),
Puthra Abdeen (Asst. Director Sports), Mrs. Dilmi Ratnayake
(Directress), Chitra de Silva (Principal), Mr. Kalinga
Wimalananda (Teacher-in-Charge). |
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