Maris Stella College’s High Jumper Ushan Thiwanka became the Best Boy’s Athlete and Dharmasoka College’s Triple Jump champion Ridma Nishadi won the Best Girl’s Athlete Award.

One Sri Lanka record and three new meet records were established on the final day.

The three-day meet saw 11 new meet records including the Sri Lanka record being broken.

The Sri Lanka record was set up in the Girls Under-20 Pole Vault final. J Anitha of Mahajana College, Thelippalai leaped 3.35 metres to win the gold medal.

The final day’s first meet record was set up by Prasadi Lakshani of Holy Cross College, Gampaha in the Girls Under-16 Triple Jump final with a record distance of 11.53 metres to win the gold medal.

Adeesha Anjana of Lumbini College, Colombo established a new meet record in the Boys Under-16 400m final winning the gold medal. Anjana clocked 50.0 secs erasing the previous record 50.65 secs set by KP Niku of Maliyadeva College, Kurunegala in 2014.

The third meet record was established by Ridma Nishadi of Dharmasoka College, Ambalangoda in the Girls Under-18 Long Jump final. Nishadi’s record distance was 6.02 metres, which erased the previous record of 5.67 metres set by Sarangi Silva of Sumangala Balika Vidyalaya, Panadura.

On behalf of the Kalutara Balika Vidyalaya 75th anniversary Kalutara Balika Vidyalaya swimming committee organized the meet under the guidance of the school principal G K Gunaratne and more than 250 competitors participated under the 9, 11, 13, 15, 17 and 19 age categories. For almost 120 swimming events from 20 invitational schools they gathered from all part of the Kalutara District.

Result of Final:

Kalutara Balika Vidyalaya obtained 345 points and emerged overall champions in the girls event and C W W Kannangara Vidyalaya, Matugama was placed 2nd with 105 points and St Mary’s College, Matugama third with 25 points.

In the boys event Kalutara Vidyalaya team emerged champions with 250 points and the C W W Kannangara Vidyalaya, Matugama was placed 2nd with 175 points and St Mary’s College, Matugama ended up in third place with 162 points.

Boys Best Swimmers:

Under 15 V D V Akash Swaris – Holy Cross College, Kalutara

Under 17 Denuka Kithsara – St Mary’s College, Matugama

Under 19 W Shehan Madusanka, Kalutara Vidyalaya, Kalutara

Girls Best Swimmers:

Under 15 K Sadunthara Athukorala, Kalutara Balika Vidyalaya

Under 17 P D P Poornima Ranaweera, Kalutara Balika Vidyalaya

Under 19 G S M Dilagi Fernando, Kalutara Balika Vidyalaya, Kalutara