Yupun stuns with 10.31 seconds ,Much more left in the tank

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Italian based sprinter Yupun Priyadarshana Abeykoon clocked his personal best of 10.31 seconds to win the 100m beating Shehan Ambepitiya to second place. Yupun who returned to the country just for the trials will be off to Italy for his training again next Friday.

Yupun who is 6 foot 2 inches tall (187 cm ) used his height perfectly in the later part of the race to run away from the rest and it seems he could have done much better if there was either Vinoj Suranjaya de Silva or Himsha Eashan to challenge him .

SAG Gold medalist Himasha Eashan who was beaten by Yupun last year did not competed yesterday as he is suffering from a minor injury and is expected to be back within a few weeks.

Yupun will be now joined with fastest man of SL this year Vinoj Suranjaya de Silva clocked (10.27 seconds) ,Himasha Eashan with personal best of 10.26 seconds to make up the relay team where  former SAG gold medalist Shehan Ambepitiya (10.56 seconds) is the fourth place to make up the relay team but the final combination will be decided after National trials where likes of  Ambepitiya, Mohommad Ashroff, DK Wijerathne , Sumesh Wickramasinghe  will fight to make in to the relay team .

Yupun was not a part of commonwealth Games SL relay team where Sri Lanka clocked 39.08 seconds and finished 6th where addition of Yupun indicates much  faster 4x100m relay team for Sri Lanka in the Asian Games.

Results

E No 141 100m Men Final
Place BIB Athlete Name Affiliate Performance Remarks
1 951 Yupun Abeykoon SL Army 10.31 +0.5
2 953 Shehan Ambepitiya SL Army 10.56
3 86 WPDK Wijerathna SL Army 10.63
4 949 ALM Ashroff SL Army 10.63
5 866 BD Chanuka Sandeepa SL Schools 10.67
6 739 KSL Wickramasinghe SL Army 10.74
7 933 RVTF Udayar SL Army 10.84

 

E No 128 100M Men Heat 1
Place BIB Athlete Name Affiliate Performance Remarks
1 866 BD Chanuka Sandeepa SL Schools 10.62 +0.1
2 953 Shehan Ambepitiya SL Army 10.68
3 933 RVTF Udayar SL Army 10.73
4 767 PGGC Ranaweera SL Schools 10.88
5 589 K Kavinda SLAF 11.01
6 968 GKDS Piyarathna SL Universites 11.12

E No 128 100M Men Heat 2
Place BIB Athlete Name Affiliate Performance Remarks
1 86 WPDK Wijerathna SL Army 10.65 -0.6
2 949 ALM Ashroff SL Army 10.72
3 955 L Padma Nettikumara Matara DAA 10.81
4 585 CHAKV Gunasena * 10.85
5 448 KHMBP Karunarathna Police SC 10.93
6 893 * * 11.02

 

E No 128 100M Men Heat 3
Place BIB Athlete Name Affiliate Performance Remarks
1 951 Yupun Abeykoon SL Army 10.57 -0.2
2 739 KSL Wickramasinghe SL Army 10.69
3 97 HSS Kumara SL Army 10.75
4 954 DMM Dissanayake SL Army 11.08

 

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