Sri Lanka Army athlete Kaushalya Perera lowered the women’s national pole vault record with a feat of 3.65 metres on day one of the Sri Lanka Athletics conducted 1st Selection Trial at the Sugathadasa Stadium on Thursday. Perera improved on her own record which she established at the same venue in November. A former gymnast, […]
The 57th Army Athletics Championships concluded at the Sugathadasa Stadium on Friday. The five-day event witnessed several record breaking performances by leading national athletes. Here are some action pictures from day five of the championships. (Pix by Kamal Wanniarachchi)
by Rex Clementine Sri Lanka’s Test captain Dimuth Karunaratne has hit a purple patch this year and the 147 he scored against West Indies in the first Test in Galle this week was his fourth hundred in 2021. The 33-year-old came up with an equally solid 83 in the second essay as Sri Lanka won […]
57th Army Athletics Championships by Reemus Fernando Sprinter Amasha de Silva smashed Olympian Susanthika Jayasinghe’s longstanding Army Athletics Championship 100 metres record and Roshan Dhammika Ranatunga came almost close to breaking his national record in the 110 metres hurdles as they blazed the track on the final day of the Army Athletics Championships […]