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Asoka Amarasena is the new President of the Ceylonese Track and Field Club (CT & FC) while Asoka Mendis is the new General Secretary of the club. Both were unanimously elected for the two posts at the annual general meeting held at the AASL headquarters.

Messrs Bandula Athukorala, Lal Wijewickrema and Yasarohana de Silva were elected as the treasurer, assistant secretary and athletic secretary respectively.

The newly elected President Asoka Amarasena has been a vice-president and a committee member of the club for more than a decade, at present is the Acting Director Physical Education at the University of Sri Jayawardenapura.

Amarasena is one of the outstanding athletes produced by Richmond College Galle. He excelled at schools and national level and held number of college and zonal records. He is an IAAF level one athletic coach and a technical official and a member of the executive committee of the AA of Sri Lanka. He is also a member of the International Council for Physical Education and Sports, a member of the Association of Commonwealth Universities, a member of the Athletic Coaches Society in England and a member of the International University Sports Federation.

Asoka Mendis is a senior committee member of the club and IAAF qualified technical official, a former Public Schools and national level athlete and government services record holder.

Mendis was an athletic coach, prefect of games and deputy principal of Richmond College and an executive committee member of the Sri Lanka Schools Athletic Association for many years.

He had the distinction of been acting as the Organising Secretary of the SLS Junior Championship Meet in the centenary year of the association. He has rendered a yeoman service for the promotion of sports in the country by serving as an administrator in several sports bodies also other than athletics. (L.F.)

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