Eranda leaps to new SL record

One Sri Lanka record and four meet records took a beating on day two at the 90th Athletic National Championships held at the Sugathadasa Stadium yesterday. In the men’s triple jump event Army’s Eranda Dinesh Fernando broke a six year old record with a new mark of 16.37 metres bettering the previous 16.26 metres set by S.D. Weerasinghe in 2006.

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Sri Lanka takes series’ winning lead:

Rain-hit 4th ODI at Sooriyawewa

New Zealand who were put into bat, had scored 131 for 8 wickets off 32 overs in their rain-hit fourth One Day International, at Sooriyawewa Mahinda Rajapaksa Stadium, Hambantota yesterday.

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Hambantota - Asian Youth Games host city

Sri Lanka signed the agreement with Olympic Council of Asia on the 8th November in Macao during the General Assembly of Olympic Council of Asia to host the Asian Youth Games in 2017. Following the submission and acceptance of Hambantota proposal to host the Games in 2017, Sri Lankan delegation led by National Olympic Committee President Hemasiri Fernando,

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AIS swimmers set up three new meet records

Three new meet records were set up by Asian International School swimmers at the 18th edition of the Inter-International School Swimming Meet held at the Sugathadasa Stadium Swimming Pool yesterday. Asian International School’s Matthew Abeysinghe established a new meet record in the 50m Butterfly event clocking 27.14. AIS’ Ali Isphahani finished the 50m Breakstroke in 32.29 seconds.

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