SL men’s 4x100m national record bettered at Commonwealth Games 2018

April 15, 2018 Leonard Ratnayake COMMONWEALTH GAMES, INTERNATIONAL, NATIONAL 0
Rank;Bib;Lane;LastName;FirstName;Nat;Time;React.Time; 1;9108;6;England;;ENG;38.13; 0.151; 2;9127;5;South Africa;;RSA;38.24; 0.149; 3;9117;3;Jamaica;;JAM;38.35; 0.156; 4;9102;4;Australia;;AUS;38.58; 0.133; 5;9105;1;Barbados;;BAR;39.04; 0.125; 6;9131;8;Sri Lanka;;SRI;39.08; 0.149; 7;9121;2;Malaysia;;MAS;39.37; 0.162;

Sri Lankan Men’s 4X100m relay team bettered the national record at  to finish sixth at the final of the 21st Commonwealth Games on Saturday (14th) in Gold Coast with a time of 39.08secs.

Sri Lankan runners Himasha Eshan, Shehan Ambeypitiya, Ashraff Ladeef and Vinoj Suranjaya  were in their full force to stamp a mark at the games in short distance running where Sri Lanka represented 4×100 event after a lapse of 68 years.

The team finished thirdd in the semi-final with a time of 39.47.

The previous record of 39.38 secs was run by the same team at the 2015 Asian Championships in Wuhan, China.

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