St. Peter’s outshine the rest

St. Peter’s College Colombo outshine the Royal College and Athletics powerhouse St. Benedict’s College as they emerge the overall boys champion of the Colombo zonal schools’ athletics championship concluded at Sugathadasa stadium .

Petes collected 158 points while Royal finished second with 96 points. It was ironic that it’s been only an year since former St. Benedict’s head coach ID Premasiri joined with St.Peters’ where Benedict’s who even won number of all island school title finished third behind Peter’s and Royal in a zonal championship while Peter’s emerged as powerful school athletics powerhouse.
Meanwhile Musaeus College Colombo won the overall girls championship with 78 points narrowly beating Gateway College Colombo by 2 points as Gateway finished runner up with 76 points.
Hurdler Shehan Kariyawasam was adjudged under 20 best athlete for his performance of 14 .4 in the 110m hurdle while Gateway triple jumper Randi cooray won the under 20 female best athlete award for her performance of 11.82m .
Age group champions
Girls
Under 12: – Ushini Kodikara (St. Lorance Convent) Long jump 4.20m
Under 14: Dulmi Weerakkody (holly Family convent Long jump 4.20m,
Under 16: RG Wijethunga (Ananda BV) 400m 60.5 sec
Under 18: Sadeepa Henderson (Gateway College Colombo) 200m 25.5 sec
Under 20: 1 Randi Cooray (Gateway College) Triple Jump 11.82m
Boys
Under 12: Pramesh Mudalige (St.Joseph’s College) Long Jump 4.40,
Under 14: Venura de Silva (Gateway College) long jump 5.66m
Under 16: Hirusha Mendis (St.Peter’s College ) long jump 6.70m
Under 18: ST Amarasinghe (Royal College) High Jump 1.95m , Sadeep Dilshan (St. Benedict’s College Colombo) 110m hurdle 14.9 sec
Under 20: Shehan Kariyawasam (St.Joseph’s College ) 14.4 seconds