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Kandy lads and lasses show their prowess
National Pentathlon Swimming Championships
By Bilal Yusuf
The lads and lasses from the hill capital showed their skills in the water as Trinity College Kandy (TCK) and Mahamaya College Kandy (MCK) emerged overall champions at the National Pentathlon Swimming Championships ended at the Sugathadasa Indoor Stadium, yesterday.

Migara Hulangamuwa and Heshan Unamboowa of Trinity won the under 10 under 14 age group categories while Ayeshika Jaywardene and Sunethra Wijewardena of Mahamaya won the under 10 and 12 age group in the girls categories.

The other age groups saw Kanith Munasinghe of Royal winning the Under 12 boys championship, Michael Abesysinghe taking the Under 16 (Rainbow Academy) and Milinda Wickramasinghe (St. Joseph's) under 19 category .

In the Girls' events, besides Mahamaya the other winners were Milruwani Samarakoon and Preba Darmadasa of Asian International in theUnder 14 and 16 category and the under 19 age group was won by Chathuri Abeykoon of Ladies College.

Migara Hulangamuwa broke the individual medley record when he clocked 3 minutes and 14.61 seconds in the under 10 category while Heshan Unamboowa broke the under 14 record in the backstroke when he timed 1 minute and 9.73 seconds.

Results
Boys: 1 - Trinity College; 2 - Royal College; 3 - St. Joseph's College.
Girls: 1. Mahamaya College; 2. Hillwood College; 3. - Ladies College.

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