Swimmers open floodgates at Gateway

Swimmers of Gateway College nudged the sport's administrators and followers in the country by creating eight new meet records at the International Schools swimming championship held at the Sugathadasa Pool Complex.

In establishing the records Gateway's swimmers won four age group championship titles.

The swimmers who made it possible for Gateway were Pesath Wijesundara who was the Under-10 boys champion, Araliya Gunasekara the Under-14 girls champion (meet record), Hiruni de Soyza and Sharon Perera who were the Over-16 girls joint champions.

Alvin Arulmaran and Stephan Perera excelled by establishing two new meet records each while Vihanga Perera and Rukshala Wijesingha established one new meet record each.

Vinuka Fernando, Amrith Perera and Kavindi Sumathiratne were also among the gold medalists.

Gateway finally ended up as runners up with a total score of 974 points raising their standard further.

The Championship was organised by the Asian International School with the participation of 21 reputed International Schools from across the country. Several Gateway swimmers performed exceptionally well over the year in many national level meets. Among them was Stephan Perera, a key achiever who won five gold medals at the Junior National Short Course championship, three golds at the Senior and Junior National Long Course championship 2015 and a gold in the National School Games 2015.

At the Junior National Short Course championship 2015, Vihanga Perera and Stephan Perera also won a gold medal each.

At the National Age group championship 2015, Stephan Perera (two golds), Alvin Arulmaran (two golds), Sharon Perera (one gold) and Araliya Gunasekara (one gold) performed creditably.

Stephan Perera and Alvin Arulmaran also took home a gold medal each at the Penthathlon championships.