Sri Lanka, Sept. 30 -- Sri Lanka's junior national champion Rushalee Dissanayake produced a brilliant performance at the 11th Asian Aquatics Championship in Ahmedabad, India, by setting a new Sri Lanka junior national record in the girls' 1500m freestyle final on Day 2 yesterday.

Dissanayake, a student of Musaeus College, trains at Rainbow Aquatics under swimming legend Julian Bolling. She clocked 19 minutes 17.77 seconds, finishing among the top seven in Asia.

Her timing erased the previous junior national record of 19:30.22, cutting off a remarkable 13 seconds and bettering her own past record.

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