SriLankan Airlines ‘A’ regain Travel Trade Sports Club Archery C’ships title

SriLankan Airlines ‘A’ regained the Travel Trade Sports Club Archery Championships 2017 title, at the competition’s third edition which concluded at the Colombo Archery Centre at Longden Place on 26 May.

The second event of the TTSC multi-sports events calendar, which saw the participation of 28 teams, was sponsored by Yenesha Travels Ltd., Seeduwa for the third successive year. 

In the preliminary round all 28 teams, consisting of three archers, shot four arrows each at four targets, aiming at a maximum team score of 120 points.

Upon completion of the preliminary round, the 10 teams that came on top were SriLankan Airlines ‘A’ (105 points), Serendib Leisure Hotels ‘A’ (105), Aitken Spence Travels ‘A’ (103), Emirates ‘B’ (89), Serendib Leisure Hotels ‘B’ (78), Aitken Spence Travels ‘C’ (74), Walkers Tours ‘B’ (73) Green Holiday Centre ‘A’ (72), Green Holiday Centre ‘B’ (70) and Aitken Spence Aviation ‘A’ (70)

The five top archers were Sashan Randeniya from SriLankan Airlines ‘A’ (39), Malshan Dissanayake from Serendib Leisure Hotels ‘A’ (39) and Lalin Sumanasinghe from Aitken Spence Travels ‘A’ (38), Savinda de Silva from Emirates ‘B’ (35) and Dineth Perera from Aitken Spence Travels ‘B’ (34).

In the tie-breaker to select the Best Male Archer, Sashan Randeniya from SriLankan Airlines ‘A’ beat Malshan Dissanayake from Serendib Leisure Hotels ‘A’ (three arrows each). The top-scoring eight teams advanced to the quarterfinals.

First QF: SriLankan Airlines ‘A’ beat Green Holiday Centre ‘A’ 

Second QF: Aitken Spence Travels ‘A’ beat Aitken Spence Travels ‘C’ 

Third QF: Emirates ‘B’ beat Serendib Leisure ‘B’  

Fourth QF: Serendib Leisure Hotels ‘A’ beat Walkers Tours ‘B’

First SF – SriLankan Airlines ‘A’ beat Aitken Spence Travels ‘A’; second SF – Serendib Leisure Hotels ‘A’ beat Emirates ‘B’.

Playoff for third place: Aitken Spence Travels ‘A’ consisting of Sameera Gunatillake, Lalin Sumanasinghe and Goshan Maduranga beat Emirates ‘B’

Final: SriLankan Airlines ‘A’ consisting of Senaka Randeniya, Sashan Randeniya and Rasika Seneviratne beat Serendib Leisure Hotels ‘A’ consisting of Malshan Dissanayake, Hussain Habeeb and Shanaka Perera.

Natali Joseph from Aitken Spence Aviation ‘A’ was picked the Best Female Archer. 

The Committee Members of the Travel Trade Sports Club gave away the awards: Prabath Harshakumar (President), Bonita Odayar (Senior VP), Chinthaka Daluwatte (Treasurer), Shan Perera (Tournament Coordinator), Janaka Hewavitharana, Asiri Wickramasuriya and Adrian Jansz.