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New Asian record for Sri Lanka’s Tharushi Karunarathna Source : newswire Sri Lankan athletes Tharushi Karunarathna and Kalinga Hewa Kumarage have secured top spots in the 2024 Reunión Internacional Villa de Bilbao – World Athletics Continental Tour underway in Spain. Participating in the 600M sprint event for women, Asian Games medallist Tharushi Karunarathna emerged second clocking a timing of 1:24.84. With her performance, Tharushi Karunarathna set a new Asian record and erased the continental record of 600 metres held by Ayano Shiomi of Japan. Meanwhile, Sri Lanka’s Kalinga Hewa Kumarage was placed third in the men’s 400-metre event with a timing of 45.91. The performances of both Sri Lankan athletes will boost their Olympic aspirations. (Newswire)   Click here to receive your free copy of the eLanka Newsletter twice a week delivered directly to your inbox! ...

Jun 20, 2024 Posted by In Articles Tagged , , , ,
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Six Sri Lankan athletes to feature in the Asian Athetics C’ship tomorrow-by Susil Premalal Source:Dailymirror Six Sri Lankan athletes are scheduled to participate in the finals and preliminary rounds of the 25th Asian Senior Athletics Championship 2023 tomorrow. Sri Lanka are represented by 13 athletes (eight women and five men) in this tournament conducted by the Asian Athletic Association from July 12-16 in Bangkok, Thailand.   Gayanthika Aberathna (1,500m women), Dilhani Lekamge (Javelin Throw women), Randi Cooray (Triple jump women) are scheduled to participate in the finals Thursday. ...

Jul 13, 2023 Posted by In Articles Tagged , , ,
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Three more Lankan athletes go missing in Europe amid currency crisis Source:Island ECONOMYNEXT –Three more Lankan athletes – this time, wrestlers attending the Under 23 World Wrestling Championship in Spain – have gone missing, sports officials said.Two members of the all-male six-member team had disappeared on October 22, followed by the third sportsman the next day, an official for Sri Lanka Wrestling Federation said, requesting anonymity. This is the latest in a series of disappearing acts pulled by Sri Lankan athletes in Europe. Previously, nine athletes and one official went missing during the Commonwealth Games 2022 in early August.In an interesting twist, however, this time, the Spanish authorities appeared largely unconcerned about the missing Sri Lankans, according to the wrestling official. ...

Oct 31, 2022 Posted by In Articles Tagged ,
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