Swimming: Lyceum Wattala win overall champship at Inter-International Schools

Lyceum International School, Wattala with 1262 points emerged Overall Champions at the 21st Inter International Schools Swimming Championships concluded at the Sugathadasa International Swimming Complex pool on Saturday (7).   The champions Lyceum, Wattala had a clear lead over runner-up Gateway Colombo (974) and the second runner-up Lyceum Nugegoda (588 points).   Twenty one International Schools took part in this championship, well organised by the Asian International School Colombo where 106 events were worked-off on Friday and Saturday.   Twenty six individual meet records and two new relay meet records were established at this year’s meet with Rakshith Karunanayake of British School stole the lime light to set up two meet records in Boys Under 14-15 200 Metre Free Style event and in Boys Under 14-15 100 Metre Butterfly event while Lyceum Wattala dominating the relay events to win 12 out of 20 relays.   Individual Records: Diluk Jayatilleke (Lyceum Wattala) 32.76 secs in the Boys Under 14-15 50 LC Metre Breast Stroke; Araliya Gunasekera (Gateway Colombo) 1:19.85 in the Girls 12-13 100 LC Metre Backstroke; Vihanga Perera (Gateway Colombo) 1:05.84 and Danidu De Costa (Lyceum Nugegoda) 1:06.96 in the Boys Under 14-15 100 LC Metre Backstroke; Stephen Perera (Gateway Colombo) 57.06 and Rakitha De Silva (Lyceum Wattala) 58.31 in the Boys Under 14-15 100 LC Metre Freestyle; Radush Sathasivam (Lyceum Wattala) 27.60 in the Boys 14-15 50 LC Metre Butterfly; Ushan Gunaratne (Lyceum Ratnapura) 26.73 in the Boys 16 and over 50 LC Metre Butterfly; Trevindie Methlini (Lyceum Wattala) 43.98 and Rukshala Wijesinghe (Gateway Colombo) 44.28 in the Girls Under 9 50 LC Metre Backstroke; Alwin Arulmaran (Gateway Colombo) 32.83 in the Boys 12-13 50 LC Metre Backstroke; Azquiya Usuph (British School) 34.34 in the Girls 14-15 50 LC Metre Backstroke; Danidu De Costa (Lyceum Nugegoda) 29.13 in the Boys 14-15 50 LC Metre Backstroke; Thimali Bandara (Lyceum Wattala) 2:26.65 in the Girls 12-13 200 LC Metre Freestyle; Deekshi Gunasekera (Lyceum Wattala) 2:26.26 in the Girls 14-15 200 LC Metre Freestyle; Rakshith Karunanayake (British School) 2:07.38, Joshua Jesuthasan (CIS Colombo) 2:08.67 and Rakitha De Silva (Lyceum Wattala) 2:08.80 in the Boys 14-15 200 LC Metre Freestyle; Kavin Weerasinghe (CIS Colombo) 2:06.85 in the Boys 16 and over 200 LC Metre Freestyle; Dilruk Jayatilleke (Lyceum Wattala) 1:12.83 in the Boys 14-15 100 LC Metre Breaststroke; Rakshith Karunanayake (British school) 1:02.30 Radush Sathasivam (Lyceum Wattala) 1:03.11 in the Boys 14-15 100 LC Butterfly; Ushan Gunaratne (Lyceum Ratnapura) 59.60 in the Boys 16 and over 100 LC Metre Butterfly; Senu Perera (Lyceum Panadura) 27.43 in the Boys 12-13 50 LC Metre Freestyle; Radush Sathasivam (Lyceum Wattala) 25.72 and Stephen Perera (Gateway Colombo 25.86 in the Boys 14-15 50 LC Metre Freestyle;   Relay: Lyceum Wattala 2:29.55 in the Girls 12-13 50 LC Metre Medley; Lyceum Wattala 2:00.58 in the Boys 14-15 50 LC Metre Medley.