The
Sri Lanka Aquatic Sports Union (SLASU) will hold its 76th Annual
Mount Lavinia Sea Swim in association with the Mount Lavinia Hotel in a grand
scale on the 2nd and 3rd of March 2012.
The
sea swim will draw over 700 swimmers between the ages of 12 years and 70 years.
The event will be held in a grand scale this year with
many sponsors supporting the event.
The two mile sea swim which is iconic with the Mount
Lavinia Hotel and its location is incidentally one of the oldest open water
swimming competitions in Asia having seen participants passing down the title
from generation to generation. Its rich heritage includes unique records of
history of winners within the same family, father and son combinations, mother
and son combination and repeat victories.
Sri Lanka Aquatic Sports Union is the governing body
of Aquatic Sports in Sri Lanka for the aquatic sports of swimming, diving,
water polo, synchronized swimming and open water swimming.
