Sir John Tarbet Athletic Meet:

Rathnayake CC boys’ overall Champions

Yasaratne Gamage - Reporting from Diyagama

Ratnapura A Rathnayake Central College emerged overall boys champions in the 82nd Sri John Tarbet Senior Schools Athletic Meet when they collected 128 points to beat Joseph Vaz College, Wennappuwa who became runners up by securing 96 points at the Mahinda Rajapakse International Sports Complex, Diyagama yesterday.

The overall senior girls championship was won by Sumana Balika MV who secured 174 points ahead of A Ratnayayake Central College who emerged runner-ups with 173 points. Joseph Vaz won the outstation boys championship with 99 points while Thakshila Central College , Horana were awarded the runners up trophy when the collected 53 points.

A Ratnayake CC lasses also bagged the outstation girls’ championship with 173 points while Kuliyapitiya CC came behind with 77 points on the board.

W K M Udayakumara of Prince College, Ratnapura who finished boys 100metres in 14.45 seconds emerged the Best Boys’ Athlete in the event. S R J Pabasara Senanayake of St Josephs’ College, Kegalle grabbed the Best Girl Athlete award when she clocked 12.32 seconds in the girls 100 metres finals.

The 82 episode of the event concluded in three days with 17 new meet records. The energetic athletes shattered four records on the first day and on the second day saw nine new meet records being set up. The final day concluded with four new meet records registered in the book.

R Wickckramarante of Maristella College set up a new meet record in boys’ under 16 tripple jump when he leapt a distance of 13.67 metres. The other record of the final day came from W M R Udaya Kumara of Prince College, Ratnapura in the under 18 boys’ 110 metres hurdles when he finished the event in 14.45 seconds. K A P Jayawardena who represented Ananda National School, Chilaw threw his discus a distance of 45.90 metres to enter his name in the new meet record list on the same day. The only record on the final day in the girls’ category came from H M M K Senaviratne of Sri Rahula National School, Katugastota where she proved her excellence in under 20 girls’ 1500 metres by finishing the event in 4.45: 77 seconds.

Results

Boys’ championships

Under 16

1. Maristella College, Negambo, 2. Ananda College, Colombo, 3. Kuliyapitiya Central College

Under 18

1. Maristella College, 2. Joseph Vaz College, 3. Trinity College, Kandy

Under 20

1. A Ratnayake College, 2. Joseph Vaz College, 3. S Peters’ College, Bambalapitiya

girls’ championships

Under 16

1. St Joseph’s College, Kegalle, 2. Kuliyapitiya MMV, 3. Lyceum College, Wattala

Under 18

1. A Rathnayake College, 2. Sumana Balika MV, 3. St Brideget’s convent

Under 20

1. Sumana Balika MV, 2. A Rathnayake College, 3. St Joseph’s College, Kegalle

Overall boys field championship

1. Maristella College, 2. Joseph Vaz College

Overall boys track championship

1. A Rathnayake College, 2. St Peter’s College, Bambalaptitya

Boys relay championship

1. Joseph Vaz College, 2. Ananda College, Colombo, 3. Maristella College

Girsl field championship

1. St Bridgets’ Convent, . Sumana Balika MV,

Girls track champioship

1. A Rathnayake MV, 2. Sumana Balika MV/ St Joseph’s College, Kegalle

Girls relay championship

1. Sumana Balika MV, 2. A Ratnayake MV, 3. St Joseph Balika MV, Kegalle

Trophy for the best performance in boys high jump

T Karuanratne , Royal College, Colombo 2.10 metres

Long jump trophy

A D A Fernando , Joseph Vaz College 7.33 metres

Best performance in the 400 metres relay

K H A D S Kumarasinghe , A Rathnayake MMV, 48.82 seconds.