Lyceum International School, Wattala and St. Joseph's College, Colombo won the Overall Championships in the Girls and Boys categories respectively at the Pentathlon Swimming Championship 2017 concluded at the Sugathadasa Swimming Complex on Saturday (5).
Fifty events were worked off in three days duration at this year's edition in Under 11, 13, 15 ,18 and 18 and over categories where ninety six schools were represented by 3480 swimmers in all five categories.
St. Joseph's College with 34 points won the Boys championship while Lyceum International School, Wattala with 32 points secured the Girls Championship.
In the Boys section Lyceum International School and Nalanda College, Colombo clinched the second place with 23 points each.
Sirimavo Bandaranaike Balika Vidyalaya occupied the first runner-up spot with 27 points and Visakha Vidyalaya followed closely with 25 points in the Girls section.
In the show piece event, Vinoli Kaluarachchi of Sirimavo Balika came up with a repeat performance when she hogged the limelight by winning the 400 Individual Medley event in the Girls Under 18 event with a time of 7:39.40mts.
She finished the Butterfly stroke in 1:11.48mts, Backstroke in 1:10.91mts, Breaststroke in 1:34.60mts and Freestyle in 1:02.78mts in grand style to win the event.
Living up to his Alma-mater Gavin Karunanayake of Brilliant Stars International College won the Under 18 Boys 400 Individual Medley event with a timing of 6:44.39mts.
Karunaratne timed 1:00.38mts in the Butterfly, 1:07.23 in the Backstroke, 1:16.62mts in the Breaststroke and 58.06mts in the Freestyle to be the winner.
Overall Winners:
Under-11
Girls: S. Jayasinghe (Lyceum International Wattala) - 6:06. 94mts
Boys: U.H. Ramitha Perera (Dharmaraja College, Kandy) - 5:43.78mts
Under-13
Girls: Nabhashie Perera (Sirimavo BV) - 5:10.70mts
Boys: Chris Pavithra (Lyceum International, Nugegoda) - 4:54.13mts.
Under-15
Girls: Ganga Senevirathna (Visaka Vidyalaya) - 7:55.03mts
Boys: A. Hassan (Lyceun International Wattala) 7:07.48mts
Under-18
Girls: Vinoli Kaluarachchi (Sirimavo BV) - 7:39.40mts
Boys: Gavin Karunanayake (Brilliant Stars International) 6:44.39mts
18 and Over
Girls: Dilekha Goonewardene (Otters Aquatic Club) 11:20.29mts
Boys: B. Dilanka Shehan (Nalanda College, Colombo) - 9:37.81mts.
Customs have detected 228 mobile phones and tabs valued at over Rs 30 million left behind in the duty free shopping complex at the Banaranaike International Airport today, Customs officials said.
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