Shelinda erased 32 year old record of Taniya Van Heer
|Gateway Sprinter Shelinda Jansen clocked 24.98 seconds to set new meet record in the girls under 18 200m record of 24.8 (25.04 seconds ) set by Tania Van Heer 32 years ago in 1986 in the junior National Athletics championship continue for the day two at Sugathadasa stadium Colombo .
competing from 5th lane , the 17 year old sprinter beat Madara Weerasooriya of St.Joseph’s BV Kegalle and her school mate Sadeepa Henderson in her record run before burst in to tears .