Brussels-based International Military Sports Council (Conseil International du Sport Militaire), more widely known as CISM, is to inaugurate its first-ever Sri Lanka’s ‘CISM Day Run’ on Sunday (19) at Colombo Independence Square, commencing at 6.00 a.m. with the participation of 300 tri-service personnel, headed by respective three Commanders.
CISM with its motto, “Friendship through Sport” as one of world’s largest multidisciplinary organizations, dedicated to promote world peace by uniting armed forces through sport, organizes diverse sporting events for the armed forces of 133 member countries world-wide annually.
This is the first time the Army, as the pioneering major organizer for the arrangement, organizes the annual ‘CISM Day Run’ event in Sri Lanka with the support of sister services and the Defence Services Sports Board, chaired currently by Commander of the Army Lieutenant General Jagath Jayasuriya.
One hundred personnel from each service, Army, Navy and Air Force, including 32 military sports women from each wing, led by respective tri-service Commanders, are scheduled to participate in this inaugural ‘CISM Day Run’ marathon that covers a distance of about 4 km in Colombo 7 area.
Both CISM President and Secretary General in Belgium have been invited to witness this maiden ‘CISM Day Run’ in Colombo by the Army Sports Board.
In the year 2010, a 70-member group of tri-service sportsmen and women from Sri Lanka took part in the 5th Military World Games, organized by CISM in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil showcasing and sharing the remarkable spirit of friendship and solidarity for sports.
The CISM annually organizes over 20 Military World Championships for different sports in which all member nations can contribute. To its credit, the CISM holds the most-reputed World Military Games every 4 years, in cooperation with Para Olympic organizations and other international sport organizations. CISM attracts more than one hundred countries as participants in World Military Games, for which the Defence Services personnel from Sri Lanka too had contributed during the last couple of years.
Distribution of certificates to the participants in the ‘CISM Day Run’ on Sunday (19) takes place at the Independence Square soon after the event. Tri-service Commanders will grace the occasion as Chief Guests.
CISM with its motto, “Friendship through Sport” as one of world’s largest multidisciplinary organizations, dedicated to promote world peace by uniting armed forces through sport, organizes diverse sporting events for the armed forces of 133 member countries world-wide annually.
This is the first time the Army, as the pioneering major organizer for the arrangement, organizes the annual ‘CISM Day Run’ event in Sri Lanka with the support of sister services and the Defence Services Sports Board, chaired currently by Commander of the Army Lieutenant General Jagath Jayasuriya.
One hundred personnel from each service, Army, Navy and Air Force, including 32 military sports women from each wing, led by respective tri-service Commanders, are scheduled to participate in this inaugural ‘CISM Day Run’ marathon that covers a distance of about 4 km in Colombo 7 area.
Both CISM President and Secretary General in Belgium have been invited to witness this maiden ‘CISM Day Run’ in Colombo by the Army Sports Board.
In the year 2010, a 70-member group of tri-service sportsmen and women from Sri Lanka took part in the 5th Military World Games, organized by CISM in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil showcasing and sharing the remarkable spirit of friendship and solidarity for sports.
The CISM annually organizes over 20 Military World Championships for different sports in which all member nations can contribute. To its credit, the CISM holds the most-reputed World Military Games every 4 years, in cooperation with Para Olympic organizations and other international sport organizations. CISM attracts more than one hundred countries as participants in World Military Games, for which the Defence Services personnel from Sri Lanka too had contributed during the last couple of years.
Distribution of certificates to the participants in the ‘CISM Day Run’ on Sunday (19) takes place at the Independence Square soon after the event. Tri-service Commanders will grace the occasion as Chief Guests.
(A Press Release Issued by Army Headquarters)
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