Gateway swimmers establish 8 new meet records and win 4 age group c’ships

Gateway swimmers

The swimmers of Gateway College achieved great success at the recently concluded International Schools Swimming Championship held at the Sugathadasa Swimming Pool Complex. Gateway swimmers established eight new meet records and won four age group championships.

The Swimming Championships organised by the Asian International School saw the participation of twenty one reputed International Schools from across the Country. The top swimmers for Gateway were Pesath Wijesundara who was the Under 10 Boys Champion, Araliya Gunasekara who was the Under 14 Girls Champion (with 1 new meet record), Hiruni De Soyza and Sharon Perera who were the Over 16 Girls Joint Champions. Alvin Arulmaran and Stephan Perera excelled by establishing 2 new meet records each while Vihanga Perera and Rukshala Wijesingha established one new meet record each. Vinuka Fernando, Amrith Perera and Kavindi Sumathiratne were also among the gold medalists. Gateway finally ended up as runners up with a total score of 974 points raising their standard further this year. Several Gateway swimmers performed exceptionally well over the year in many national level meets. Among them, Stephan Perera has been a key achiever. He won five gold medals in the Junior National Short Course championship, three golds at the Senior & Junior National Long Course championship 2015 and a gold in the National School Games 2015. At the Junior National Short Course championship 2015, Vihanga Perera and Stephan Perera won a gold medal each. At the National Age group championship 2015, Stephan Perera (2 golds), Alvin Arulmaran (2 golds), Sharon Perera (1 gold) and Araliya Gunasekara (1 gold) performed creditably. At the Penthathlon Swimming championship, Stephan Perera and Alvin Arulmaran won a gold medal each.