Kanitha and Ishani set up new records

Thushan Jayasuriya

Kanitha Munasinghe of Royal College Colombo and Ishani Erandika Senanayake from Sirimavo Bandaranaike Vidyalaya estbalished new meet records as eight new meet records were established on day two of the ongoing 40th Milo Sri Lanka Schools Swimming Championship at Sugathadasa Indoor Stadium yesterday.

Munasinghe clocked 55.68 seconds in the boys’ under-19, 100 metres Freestyle event to erase the previous record of 56.76 seconds set by C.B.Wickramasinghe in 2007. Senanayake shattered the girls under-19 100 metres free style previous record of 1:07.47 secs established by Musaeite Methma Jayawardena when she completed the event in 1:03.59secs.

The other new meet records established on day two are, Under-19 boys’ 200m Individual Medley by Trinitian Shehan de Silva (2:24.30secs), under-19 boys’100m Backstroke by Royalist Shehan Kaushalya (1:03.6secs) and under 15 boys’100m Backstroke by Imesh Chathuranga of D.S.Senanayake College (1:04.82secs).

Hiruni De Zoysa of Gateway College established two new meet records in under-15 girls’ 200 metres Individual Medley (2:42.15secs) and under-15 girls’ 100 metres Butterfly stroke (1:11.60secs). Machiko Raheem from AIS set a new meet record in under-17 girls’ 100m Freestyle by clocking 1:03.34secs.

The championship will be continued from 8.00 a.m. today.