Over a hundred veteran table tennis players participated at the National Veteran’s Inter-Club Table Tennis Championship – 2024 conducted by the Veteran’s Table Tennis Association of Sri Lanka held recently at S’ Thomas College Indoor Stadium Mt. Lavinia.
The tournament attracted these players from all over the country. This was the 20th year that VTTASL conducted that prestigious championship successfully.
Results:
Men’s ‘A’ Division
Champions: RT Table Tennis Academy: (Rusiru Tharanga, Nirmala Jayasinghe, Samith Prasad, Yohan Deshappriya)
Runners-up: N & D Table Tennis Club: (Nuwan Sampath, Dinesh Deshapriya, Dilshan Seneviratne, Nimal Dhammika)
Men’s ‘B’ Division
Champions: Lions Table Tennis Club, (Amila R Egodage, Chirath Dhanesha, Shantha Karunaratne, Chaminda Wijegunawardana)
Runners-up: NMS Table Tennis Club: (Chandika Priyantha, RGK Eshan, Geethan Deshapriya, Nissanka Thilakananda)
Men’s ‘C’ Division
Champions: Glass Shadows Sports Club (Rohan John, J. Abeysiriwardana, T. Dissanayake, P. Fernando)
Runners-up: Awatt – Jaffna, (C. Rajamanoharan, TR Kingsly, R. Chenthilraj, P. Paranitharan)
Men’s over 60
Champions: Butterfly SC, (Dr. Dietmar Doering, Sarath Ratwatte, Nihal Perera)
Runners-up: Veteran’s ‘A’ team, (MMM Laffeer, Dr. GN Lucas, Rajiva Wijetunge, Sarath Wijesuriya)
Women’s ‘A’ division:
Champions: Lions Table Tennis Club (Saranga de Silva, KW Wasana)
Runners-up: Tibhar Sports Club, (Namal Gunasekara, Shamila Manojika)
Women’s Over 60
Champions: Friendship Table Tennis Club, (Ira Ruwanpathirana, Nilmini Wijetunga)
Runners–up: Moonlight ‘A’: (Premanjani Perera, Vijitha Jayarathne)