Eight meet records on second day

by Upananda Jayasundera - Kandy Sports Special Corr.

Eight meet records were established on the second day at the Kandy District schools meet conducted by the Central Province Athletic Association. Two records were established by the boys while six by the girls athletes.

Among the girls, B.M.H.H. Seriwardena of Girls High School, Kandy was responsible of setting two new meet records in 200 metres and 100 metres Under 15 events.

She clocked 13 seconds beating the existing record of 13.6 seconds by P. Wickramasinghe of Mahamaya Girls College in the year 2007. Other record is for the 200 metres came when she clocked 27.4 seconds to erase the previous record of 27.5 seconds set by the same athlete namely P. Wickramasinghe

Records at the meet:

Boys: S.M.K.B. Dissanayake Chandananda Buddhist School Under-14, 100 metres 12.4 seconds - Previous record B. Premadasa 12.5 in 2005 (Ranabima)

A.M.D.C. Bandara (Dheerananda College) Under-15 High Jump - 1.65 metres - Previous record S.L. Wijesekera of Dheerananda - 1.60 m in 2005

Records by girls: M. Lakmini Kumari - under-12 - 100 metres 14.4 seconds - Previous record Dinithi Jayasekera 14.5 secs in 2003.

Steffna Fernando - under-11 Good Shephered Covent, Kandy - Long jump - 3.66 mts. Previous record 3.25 metres - by D. Amarasekera of Danture MMV in 2007.

J.P.G.T.S. Jayasinghe - Galagedera MMV under-11 - 100 metres - 15.1 secs. Previous record - B. Samarasinghe - Mahamaya BMV - 15.4 secs in 2005.

B.G.W.M. Sriyananda, Kandy - under-15 - discus throw - distance 23.45 metres. Previous record - H.T.L.K. Liyanage of Bandarawela College - distance 22.42 metres.

Finals will be held today at the Bogambara grounds.