Junior National Athletics Championships 2023
By Reemus Fernando
For the second consecutive day an Asian Youth Championship medallist topped track event performances as meet records continued to fall at the Junior National Athletics Championships continued at Diyagama on Monday.
Commonwealth Youth Games hopeful Ayomal Akalanka of Ambagamuwa Central took 26 miliseconds off the meet record held by an alumni of his school, Dhanuka Dharshana to win the Under 18 boys’ 400 metres hurdles in a time of 52.66 seconds. That was the second hurdles record to suffer a beating by an athlete trained by veteran coach Anura Bandara. S. Himashani of the same school bettered the previous record in the Under 16 girls’ 300 metres hurdles. However, the new record (46.44) in that event was written against the name of Sasvi Seneviratne of Mahamaya Girls’ School, Kandy who piped Himashani to win the gold .
