Saleemdeen of Trinity keeps improving
by Upananda JAYASUNDERA - Kandy Sports Special Corr.
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A champ keeps improving ... M.M. Saleemdeen of Trinity College
who won the 400 metres hurdles event at the National Sports
Festival in Kandy.
Picture by upananda Jayasundera -
Kandy Sports corr.
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ATHLETICS: Trinity College's M.H. Saleemdeen is a boy who is
improving in athletics with each passing meet. He has now won the 400
metres hurdles event at the National Sports Festival with a timing of
53.69 seconds.
At the Sports Festival, Saleemdeen beat the more fancied Yasasiri
Ajith and G.C. Nithyakumara, both of North Western Province into second
and third places. For his outstanding performance, he was awarded a
special prize-Up and Coming Athlete of the Year. Earlier at the Junior
Meet, he clocked 54.06 seconds and that performance earned him the
coveted Trinity 'Lion' awarded by the Trinity College Principal
Brigadier Udaya Ariyaratne. Then earlier at the Sri Lanka Schools
Athletic Meet, Saleemdeen 'clocked' 53.09 seconds in winning over the
same distance.
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