President's Trophy for Mercantile Swimming champs

by Sajeewa JAYAKODY

SWIMMING: The Sixth Annual Mercantile Swimming Championship for the President's Challenge Trophy, organized by the Thurstan College Aquatic Club in association with the Sri Lanka Aquatic Sports Union will be worked off on October 21 (Sunday) at the Thurstan College Swimming Pool Complex, Colombo.

Forty companies are vying for this year's championship with 14 new companies. Approximately 500 swimmers are likely to participate.

The pool is a donation by Graetian Gunawardena a former Thurstanite.

It came into being in 2000. President Mahinda Rajapaksa, as a distinguished old boy of Thurstan College, donated the coveted President's Challenge Trophy in 2007 for the inaugural Mercantile Championship.

Entries close on October 15 with Maj Gen Dr Dudley Perera,

Organizing Committee Chairman on 0777-550-842.