{"id":13617,"date":"2021-04-11T12:26:52","date_gmt":"2021-04-11T06:56:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/?p=13617"},"modified":"2021-04-11T12:28:30","modified_gmt":"2021-04-11T06:58:30","slug":"swimming-champion-sets-new-asian-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/?p=13617","title":{"rendered":"Swimming champion sets new Asian record"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sri Lanka Air Force Swimming Champion Roshan Abeysundera arrived in Sri Lanka today (11th) at around 07.00 am, setting a new Asian swimming record by swimming a distance of 59.3 km.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He started swimming from the Uruthota jetty to Dhanushkodi at 2.00 am yesterday (10th) and by this morning he returned to the Uruthota jetty earlier than expected.<br \/>Roshan Abeysundera swam from Talaimannar to Dhanushkodi in India and returned to Uruthota Jetty this morning in 28 hours 19 minutes and 43 seconds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Earlier, Anandankumar of India had set the Asian record in that distance in 51 hours and Roshan Abeysundera of the Air Force had intended to reduce it to 35 hours. However, he was able to cover the distance in 28 hours 19 minutes and 43 seconds.<\/p>\n<div class='saic-wrapper saic-default saic-comments-closed saic-border' style='overflow: hidden;'><div class='saic-wrap-link'><a id='saic-link-13617' class='saic-link saic-icon-link saic-icon-link-true auto-load-true' href='?post_id=13617&amp;comments=0&amp;get=30&amp;order=DESC' title='0 Comments'><i class='saico-comment'><\/i><span>0<\/span> Comments<\/a><\/div><!--.saic-wrap-link--><div id='saic-wrap-commnent-13617' class='saic-wrap-comments' style='display:none;'><div id='saic-wrap-form-13617' class='saic-wrap-form saic-clearfix'><div class='saic-form-avatar'><\/div><div id='saic-container-form-13617' class='saic-container-form saic-no-login'><p>Comments are closed<\/p><\/div><!--.saic-container-form--><\/div><!--.saic-wrap-form--><div id='saic-comment-status-13617'  class='saic-comment-status'><\/div><ul id='saic-container-comment-13617' class='saic-container-comments saic-order-DESC ' data-order='DESC'><\/ul><div class='saic-holder-13617 saic-holder'><\/div><\/div><!--.saic-wrap-comments--><\/div><!--.saic-wrapper-->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sri Lanka Air Force Swimming Champion Roshan Abeysundera arrived in Sri Lanka today (11th) at around 07.00 am, setting a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":13618,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[97,113],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-smartphones","category-sport","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13617","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13617"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13617\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}