Dayan and Radika - outstanding sportsman and sportswoman

Dayan Ranasinghe - a final year student of the Faculty of Arts, was named Most Outstanding Sportsman of the Year and Radika Jayasundera of the Faculty of Science was picked as the Most Outstanding Sportswoman at the Colours Awards Ceremony of the University of Colombo held at the Sirimavo Bandaranaike Exhibition Centre recently.

The event was colourful and it was held outside the premises of the University after more than two decades.

Around 250 sportsmen and sportswomen received colours from the University of Colombo. Dayan Ranasinghe was the vice-captain of the senior national waterpolo squad which participated at the Asia Pacific Waterpolo Championships in Hong Kong in 2005 and he is also a member of the University of Ceylon swimming and rugby football teams.

Radika Jayasundera represented Sri Lanka in swimming at the World University Games in Turkey in 2005.

She is the captain of the women's team at the Colombo University and she holds the Sri Lanka University record in the 200 metres freestyle event.

Then award for the best all-round cricketer was Ruwan Herath of the Faculty of Science together with S. A. Harsha of the Faculty of Arts while D. G. O. Chathurangi of the Institute of Indigenous Medicine received most number of colours awards.