Shelinda Jansen stretched out after injury ruin her day

Youth Olympic star Shelinda Jansen was brought low by an unfortunate hamstring injury during the 100m heats. The 18-year old Gateway student who won both the nationals trials earlier this year made a good start and looked good for the first 20-30m, but suddenly faltered and slowed down before falling off to the ground in obvious pain. She had to be carried off from the stadium by the medical staff, her agony as much mental as it was physical.

Jansen ad high hopes about South Asian Games , but the injury during it’s final selection trials had hit back at those hope which will no doubt is a big blow for Sri Lanka Athletics team unless they decide to conduct separate trails at least to finalize relay teams.

Meanwhile, defending South Asian gold medalist Rumeshika Rathnayaka and Asian Junior silver medalist Amasha de Silva finished first and second in the other heat and advanced to today’s 100m finals’ but neither of them looked to be at their best, both failing to clock at least a sub-12 seconds time.