{"id":138039,"date":"2023-11-02T16:35:50","date_gmt":"2023-11-02T23:35:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=138039"},"modified":"2023-11-02T16:35:50","modified_gmt":"2023-11-02T23:35:50","slug":"colombo-defence-services-college-student-excels-in-swimming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2023\/11\/02\/colombo-defence-services-college-student-excels-in-swimming\/","title":{"rendered":"Colombo Defence Services College student excels in swimming"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em><strong>Ministry of Defence \u00a0&#8211; Media Centre<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>Buddhima Samadhi Damsarani Senarathne of Defence Services College (DSC), Colombo set a new record clocking 2:45:69 minutes in the under-18 Girls\u2019 200-meter backstroke event at the recently held All Island National School Games Swimming Championships.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She also won silver medals in both 50 m and 100 m (backstroke) event at the championship. Buddhima stole the spotlight with her exceptional performance winning silver medals in the 50 m and 200 m and a bronze in the 100 m selection trials (U-18) for the South Asian age group swimming championships conducted by the Sri Lanka Aquatic Sports Union.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She had also won gold in the 200 m and two silver medals in the 50 m and 100 m (U- 18 back stroke) events at the Western Province Swimming Championships 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Buddhima has collected 24 medals including 10 gold medals for her alma mater at national level competitions since 2014.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ministry of Defence \u00a0&#8211; Media Centre Buddhima Samadhi Damsarani Senarathne of Defence Services College (DSC), Colombo set a new record clocking 2:45:69 minutes in the under-18 Girls\u2019 200-meter backstroke event at the recently held All Island National School Games Swimming Championships. She also won silver medals in both 50 m and 100 m (backstroke) event [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-138039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138039","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=138039"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138039\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}