Karunawansa waltzes to new record
bt Sajeewa Jayakody
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The gold medalist of the Men’s triple jump SS Jayasinghe
from the Army competes in the final. Jayasinghe recorded a
distance of 16m. Pic by Susantha Wijegunasekera
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Anoma Karunawansa, who established a new Sri Lanka record,
competes in the women’s Pole Vault final yesterday. |
National title holder in the Pole Vault Anoma Karunawansa from the
Navy smashed a Sri Lanka record in the women’s final on the second day
of the 93rd National Athletic Championship worked off at the Diyagama
Sports Complex, Homagama yesterday.
Karunawansa, who has been the national record holder, erased her
previous record of 3.32m set up in Colombo last year with a height of
3.33m winning the gold medal in the SLT sponsored three-day national
meet.
However, Karunawansa, the winner of the Sri Lanka Athletic
Association Challenge Trophy, failed to surpass the qualification
standard of next year’s Beijing IAAF meet, which is 4.50m according to
the IAAF qualification standard.
Meanwhile, Sri Lanka’s women’s National record holder in the triple
jump, Vidusha Lakshani established a new meet record a distance of
13.30m winning the gold medal in the final.
However, Lakshani, who won the Upasriya Samaratunga Challenge Trophy
presented, was unable to go beyond her Sri Lanka record of 13.49m set up
at the 26th National Sports Festival held in Beliatta in 2008.
Newstead Girls College girl Vidusha Lakshani broke a 13-year-old meet
record erasing the previous meet record of 13.00m set up by Anusha
Ekneligoda in 2002.
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