35th National Sports Festival:
Western Province emerge champs
Anushka Withanage reporting from Polonnaruwa
Western Province emerged champions for the 34th time by bagging 77
golds at the 35th National Sports Festival which concluded at the
Polonnaruwa National Stadium yesterday. Central Province ended up in
second position with 45 golds.
J.A.N.K. Appuhamy of Uva Province was adjudged the best men’s athlete
while Pramila Priyadarshani of Western Province was picked as the best
women’s athlete.
R.A.K. Priyangika Madumanthi from North Central Province (High Jump)
produced a fine performance to establish a new meet record and R.P.M.S.
Wijeratne of Sabaragamuwa Province established a Sri Lanka record on the
final day of the National Sports Festival which concluded here today.
Medals Table |
G S B
Western Province 77 55 50
Central Province 45 37 45
North Western Province 33 23 22
Sabaragamuwa Province 14 19 19
North Central Province 10 15 33
Southern Province 08 27 35
Uva Province 07 11 18
Eastern Province 04 04 03
North Province 00 01 01 |
Priyangika Madumanthi in fact improved on her own performance in the
women’s High Jump final by clearing a height of 1.78 metres. She
bettered her previous best effort of 1.77 metres which was set up in
2007.
The closing ceremony of the National Sports Festival took on a
festive air with two thousand five hundred and sixty five athletes in
attendance under the patronage of Prime Minster Ratnasiri Wickramanayake,
Minister of Mahaweli Development Maithripala Sirisena and Minister of
Sports and Public Recreation Gamini Lokuge.
The results of other events:
Men’s 5000m (Chaminda Wijekon of Uva Province - 15.15.08 sec),
Women’s Triple Jump (J.A.N.K Appuhamy of Uva Province -15.61m), Women’s
10,000 m (M.A Chandrawathi of North Central Province - 39.28.63 sec),
Women’s Shot Putt (M.N.D. Muthunayake of North Western Province -
13.89m), Women’s 400m (E.W.E. Rathnakumari of Central Province - 57.87
sec), Men’s 400m (Rohan Pradeep Kumara of Eastern Province - 48.84 sec),
Women’s 1,500m (N.M.C Dilrukshi of North Western Province - 4.45.15
sec), Men’s 110m (K.W. Salinda Randima of Western Province - 15.37 sec),
Women’s 100m (D.A.H. Wijesinghe of Sabaragamuwa Province - 14.82 sec),
Men’s 1,500m (Chaminda Wijekoon of Uva Province - 3.55.68 sec), Women’s
100m (P. Priyadarshani of Western Province - 12.27 sec), Men’s Javelin
Throw (R.P. Waruna Lakshan - 64.21m), Men’s 100m (J.N. Fernando of North
Western Province - 11.11 sec), Women’ Triple Jump (Ruwani Rubasinghe of
South Province - 12.56m). Cricket (Men’s) Champions - North Central
Province and Karate (women’s) Champions - Western Province. |