Colombo Gymkhana Club 150th anniversary on big scale

The Colombo Gymkhana Club an amalgamation of CH&FC (Ceylon Hockey and Football Club), CCC (Colombo Cricket Club) and the Queens Club (Hockey) will be celebrating their 150th anniversary this year and plans have been made to mark the occasion on a grand scale.

Started as the Colombo Club on the Galle Face Green by the British in the middle of the 19th century, it was subsequently relocated to establish its permanent home in Maitland Crescent, Colombo 7.

Horse Racing, Cricket, Football and Rowing were the earliest sport activities for the members.

Eventually in 1959, the Colombo Cricket Club (CCC), the Colombo Hockey and Football Club (CH&FC) and the Queen’s Tennis Club combined under the name Colombo Gymkhana. Celebrating the glorious past of the Colombo Gymkhana Club where hundreds of members have benefited, the new committee headed by Shiran Anthony (Chairman), comprising Russell Kerkoven (Vice Chairman), Prashantha Wimalasena (Secretary), and Sarath Ganegoda (Treasurer) and a team of efficient Ex-Comembers is set to steer the club into the future with a renewed contemporary agenda and enhance facilities to cater to todays membership that is made up by all communities in the city of Colombo.