PRISONER CHOSEN
(N.Z.P.A.-Reuter— Copyright) COLOMBO A man serving a 15year prison sentence has been selected to box for Ceylon in the Asian Games at Bangkok in December. The man is V. P. Piyadasha. aged 23, and he has already completed six years of his sentence. Slightly built, Piyadasha will box in the feather-weight class at the Asian Games. He gained his place by beating G. A. S. Gunasinge, the Asian Games champion and competitor at the recent Commonwealth Games in Jamaica.
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Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31187, 11 October 1966, Page 19
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