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36 oarsmen picked for SA Games pool By Leslie Fernando The Amateur Rowing Association of Sri Lanka has selected 36 oarsmen for the national rowing squad in preparation for the South Asian Games to be held in Colombo next year. The oarsmen were selected on their performances at the 68th Madras-Colombo Regatta held in Colombo, Josephian Sculling Regatta, University of Colombo and University of Moratuwa Dual Regatta and the recently concluded 22nd Rowing National Championships, said a senior official of the ARASL. The squad will train under the national coach Ratmal Wickremage and he will be assisted by several other schools, clubs and institutional coaches. The ARASL official added that the national rowing squad will remain 'open' to any oarsman who can achieve the set criteria to be in the national rowing squad. Several other young oarsmen who excel at the forthcoming 33rd Royal-Thomian Regatta 2005 to be held on the Beira Waters on October 29 will get the opportunity to be included into the national squad. The official further said that the oarsmen will train on the Beira lake in two sessions, morning and evening. The rowers then will train on weekends at the Bolgoda Lake, the venue for the rowing events of the 2006 South Asian Games. It will be a straight 2000-metre course at Bolgoda Lake. The distance is the international standard limit for rowing events, whereas races held up to now in Sri Lanka have been held for a distance of 100 metres or one-mile on the Beira Lake. Our oarsmen fared prominently at the last South Asian Federation Games rowing events held for the first time in Islamabad, Pakistan winning five silvers and two bronze medals. The ARASL official said that they hope to set gold at the 2006 South Asian Games. The national rowing squad: Devaka Seneviratne, Dejan de Doysa, Udesh Hettiarachchi, Kushal Abeyratne, Sharen Kannangara, Padma Priyan, Sanjeewa de Silva, Shehan Wanigasekera, Gayajith Dassanayake, Chamara Kottehewa, Gayan Kaushalya, Mevan Gunawardena, Isuru Perera, Heshan Henry, Chrisan de Silva, M. Gamage, Chanaka Tapahewa, Niranjan Nandasa, Laksitha, Weerasinghe, Mahangu Weerasinghe, K. A. R. Eranda. K. Manayattora, D. K. I. Udgamsooriya, N. Samarasekera, Devanka Aluvihare, Prajith Perera, Shannon de Silva, Hissan Hassan, S. P. D. P. S. Fonseka, K. A. K. Chandana, Aqil Sulaiman, Ali Fatharally, Gishan Karunanayake, D. Perera, Dineshka Aluwihare, V. Wickremasinghe. |
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