Four records at Weightlifting Nationals
By Upananda Jayasundara - Kandy Sports Corr.
Four national records were established at the 47th Weightlifting
Championships held at the YMCA ,Kandy.
The record breakers were in the women's category are: 49 kgs Dinuda
Abeysekera of Polonnaruwa WLC set a new record in the clean and jerk
category lifting 76 kgs. The previous being 75 kgs. In the 69 kgs
category Samanga Kumarasinghe of Sri Lanka Air Force set a new record in
the snatch category lifting 70 kgs. The previous being 68 kgs set by
Vinodha
Dharmasena of Sri Lanka Air Force. In the 75 kgs Dammika harischandra
of the Sri Lanka Air Force set two records in the clean and jerk
category 9t kgs and a total of 172 kgs. Dammika broke her own rec
ord which was 96 kgs and 171 kgs. In the men's 85 kgs category Romesh
Samarasekera of Air Force lifted 165 kgs in the clean and jerk category
. The previous record was 164 kgs by Romesh himself.
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