Lake House athletes excel at Nationalised Services meet

ATHLETICS: Lake House won several events at the Nationalized Services Athletic Festival which was worked off at the Sugathadasa Stadium, recently. The overall champions were Ceylon Transport Board while People's Bank and Lake House clinched the second and third places respectively. National Water Supply and Drainage Board finished joint third with Lake House.

Pubudu Kithsiri of Lake House put up a good effort to clinch the Triple Jump and he went on to win 200 metres second place and gave a good start to win the third place in the 4x400 metres relay.

K.M.I.S. Bandara, Chaminda Peiris M.K. Wickramsinghe of Lake House put up a good team effort to win the 3rd place in 4x100 along with Pubudu Kithsiri. Another victory for Lake House was brought by Kasun Jayasooriya who won the third place in the High Jump.

In over 40- 400m A. Subasinghe won the second place and Shayam Kumara won the 1500 meters second place. In over 50- 100 metres Bandara Vidurasinghe won the second place and the victory for Lake House came from 4x400 m when they finished third. The Lake House team was coached by Suresh Denipitiya.

Assistant General Manager Bank of Ceylon and President, Nationalized Services Board of Sri Lanka W.A. Sarath Wimalaratne was the chief guest while President Low Lying areas Development Board Somaweera Chandrasiri was the special guest at this special occasion.