Sysco LABS Swimmers Sweep Seven Medals at the Mercantile Swimming Championship 2025

Sysco LABS delivered an outstanding performance at the President’s Challenge Trophy – Mercantile Swimming Championship 2025, held recently at the Thurstan College Swimming Pool Complex, securing a total of seven medals – four Gold, one Silver, and two Bronze. Competing against 31 organizations, Sysco LABS placed 10th overall and ranked 1st among IT companies, a remarkable achievement for the team.

Top performers included Charya Dharmadasa, who won three Gold medals in the 25m Backstroke, Breaststroke, and Freestyle (Championship events); Isuru Walpita Gamage, who claimed Gold in the 25m Butterfly (Novices); Chathura Lakmal Thalapalage, who earned Silver in the 25m Freestyle and Bronze in the 25m Breaststroke (Novices); and Upeksha Fernando, who secured Bronze in the 100m Individual Medley (Novices).

01 Image - Members of the Sysco LABS Swimming Team who represented the company at this year’s Mercantile Swimming Championship

About Sysco LABS: 

Sysco LABS is the Global In-House Center of Sysco Corporation (NYSE: SYY), the world’s largest foodservice company. Sysco ranks 56th in the Fortune 500 list and is the global leader in the trillion-dollar foodservice industry.  

Sysco employs over 75,000 associates, has 337 smart distribution facilities worldwide and over 14,000 IoT-enabled trucks serving 730,000 customer locations. For fiscal year 2025 that ended June 29, 2025, the company generated sales of more than $81.4 billion.  

Sysco LABS Sri Lanka delivers the technology that powers Sysco’s end-to-end operations.    

Sysco LABS’ enterprise technology is present in the end-to-end foodservice journey, enabling the sourcing of food products, merchandising, storage and warehouse operations, order placement and pricing algorithms, the delivery of food and supplies to Sysco’s global network and the in-restaurant dining experience of the end-customer.