First Bandaranayake athlete selected

Kavindu Samarasinghe, an Advanced Level student of Bandaranayake College, Gampaha, has been selected to the Sri Lanka Junior National Athletics Pool, targeting the international events to be held this year. Samarasinghe set up a new meet record in the Under-20 400m event with a timing of 48.6 seconds in the National Youth Games last year.

He won the bronze medal in Under-19 400m event at the All-Island Schools Games last year. This is the first time that an athlete from Bandaranayake College has been selected to a national pool.

Sri Lanka will take part in the South Asian Junior Athletic Championship in June in Vietnam and the Asian Junior Athletics Championship this year.