Army set to maintain dominance
Over 350 competitors are set to participate in the 32nd National Rowing Championships which will be worked off from September 21 to 23 at the Diyawanna Rowing Centre in Battaramulla.
The Championships will be organised by the Amateur Rowing Association of Sri Lanka (ARASL) and would consist of over 26 races.
The event will be held in keeping with international standards and will comprise four lanes and will be rowed over a distance of two kilometres.
The event will be categorised as the Men’s and Women’s Open, Over18 and Under-18 and will include singles, pairs, double sculls, coxless, coxed fours, schoolboy sculler and schoolgirl sculler as well as an exhibition eights race.
Competitors from 17 institutions representing the armed forces, leading universities, public, private and international schools are set to participate in the championships.
The winners of the Open category will be considered as National Champions while the defending National Champions in the Men’s and Women’s Open category – Sri Lanka Army will look to maintain their dominance this year too.
The Men’s Over-18 and the Women’s Over-18 events were won by Sri Lanka Navy while Royal College, Colombo and Musaeus College, Colombo took home the Men’s and Women’s Under18 categories respectively.
Further details could be obtained from Sithira Wickramasekera (0777723130) the representative of the Organising Committee of the National Rowing Championships or the ARASL, Diyawanna Rowing Centre, Kalapaluwawa, Koswatta Road, Thalangama North.