Nadeera Jayasekera clinches Gold with a record breaking swim

Nadeera Jayasekera of Visakha Vidyalaya won the gold medal in the 100 metres Breast Stroke event under 14 category breaking a 23 year old record held by the swimming legend Deepika Chanmugam at the recently concluded National Age Group Aquatic Championships.

Nadeera clocked 1 mt. 23.59 secs. setting a new record in this event beating 1 mt. 24.61 secs. which was established in 1985 by Deepika Chanmugam. Nadeera was closely followed by Andrea Jelenik of British School who also did well to swim better than the record. Nadeera also broke tbe 50 metres Breast Stroke under 14 record by clocking 39.11 sec.

to beat the record at 39.20 which was established by Gihara Amarasinghe last year but had to settle for the silver medal with Lihini Tashia Dias of Andiambalama Safety Swimming Club winning the Gold medal with a time of 39.06 secs.