St Peter’s College and A. Rathnayake MMV Walala clinched the Boys’ and Girls’ overall titles respectively in the All-Island School Games Athletics Championships which concluded at the Sugathadasa Sports Complex yesterday.
St Peters collected a total of 165 points and edged-out the defending champions Maris Stella College who had to be content with the runners-up place with 88 points to their credit. Rathnayake MMV was placed third with a total of 76 points.
Meanwhile, A. Rathnayake MMV retained the Senior Girls’ overall title with a massive total of 187 points to their credit. Sumana Balika MV Ratnapura(80) and Gateway College Rajagiriya(53) were placed second and third
In the Junior Boys’ overall championship, Royal College Colombo emerged champions with 37 points followed by Vidyawardene MV Ambalagoda (20 points) and St. Joseph Vaz College (18 points).
Musaeus College took the Junior Girls’ overall title with a total of 26 points while pushing Lycuem International Nugegoda (20 points) into second place while Vijeyakatupotha MV Chilaw and Holy Family Convent Colombo were joint third (17 points each)
Pasindu Kodikara of Maliyadeva College Kurunegala was named as the Best Athlete in the Boys’ Championship. He won the Under-20, Boys’ 400 metres with a time of 47.54 seconds. Randi Coorey of Gateway College Colombo was selected as the Best Athlete in the Girls’ Championship.
She won the Girls’ Under-20 triple jump with an effort of 12.74m.
Meanwhile, Western Province retained the overall championship by collecting a huge 1440 points. Central Province with 505 points were placed runners-up while North Western Province with 376 points were placed third.
President Maithripala Sirisena graced the closing ceremony and gave away the trophies to the winners. Apart from the closing ceremony the President also spent some time with individual winners and took a group photograph with the winning athletes.
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