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Randeniya improves 110m hurdles meet record to 14.30:
Sajith breaks 1500m meet record
by Sajeewa Jayakody
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Vidusha Lakshani of Newsted Girls School, Negombo, on her
way to set up a new meet record of 12.31m in the girls
under-19 triple jump event at the All Island Schools Games
held at Sugathadasa Stadium, Colombo yesterday. Pic Susantha
Wijegunasekera
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Pushpadana Vidyalaya, Ambatenne's Sajith Umayanga, who set a
new meet record in the boys under-17 1500m event. Umanayanga
clocked 4:06.85 minutes breaking the previous record of
4:09.20 set by Asela Dahanayake in 1996. Pic Susantha
Wijegunasekera
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Sajith Umayanga shattered a 17-year-old meet record of the boys under
-17 1500m event at the All Island Schools Games held at the Sugathadasa
Stadium, Colombo yesterday. The Pushpadana Vidyalaya, Ambathenna student
clocked 4:06.85 minutes breaking the previous record of 4:09.2 minutes
set by Asela Dahanayake of Dodamwala MV, Muruthalawa in 1996. Supun
Randeniya, who broke Sri Lanka's ace 110m hurdler Mahesh Perera's meet
record previous day, improved his time of 14.50 to win the gold with a
new timing of 14.30 seconds.
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