Remembering Dr. Geoffery Marks- Ceylon's First Olympic Swimmer
Dr. Geoffery Marks who was today in 1932, was Ceylon's First Olympic Swimmer while being an undergraduate at the University of Colombo.
Today's fact of the day is about Ceylon's first ever Olympic representation in Swimming- Dr. Geoffery Marks, a man made for the Water and the Sea but his true calling came in Forests and Trees!
Born on this day in 1932, he was the son of a school headmaster (who went by the 'Sinhalanized' name of Monaragala as a comment by his nephew of the same name) and the eldest sibling who were all swimmers from a young age. Having initially gained his education at Ananda and Royal Colleges, he went on to become an undergraduate at the Faculty of Science at the University of Colombo.
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