Colombo, October 17, 2025 – In a significant milestone for the sports journalism community in Sri Lanka, Minister of Sports Sunil Kumara Gamage officially launched the website of the Sri Lanka Sports Journalists Association (SLSJA) during a ceremony held at the Ministry of Sports Auditorium. This initiative aims to enhance the visibility of sports journalism, […]
Sri Lanka’s national gymnastics team departed for Indonesia today to compete at the 53rd World Artistic Gymnastics Championships, to be held in Jakarta, with a senior-category lineup of one female and two male athletes, coached by Ranjana Tharanga. The Sri Lankan delegation features: Coach Ranjana Tharanga leads the trio with aspirations to showcase Sri Lanka’s
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Sri Lanka men’s and women’s teams off to a winning start at the 28th ITTF – ATTU Asian Table Tennis Team Championship which is now in progress in Bhubaneswar, India. At the men’s team event Sri Lanka beat Kyrgyzstan 3-1 in their group 1 first game while Sri Lanka girls’ team defeated Mongolia 3-0 in
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Sri Lankan bodybuilder Jagath Gunasekara achieved 3rd place in the Senior Open category (35+) at the Olympia Amateur Las Vegas 2025, the world’s premier bodybuilding competition, held on 10 August at the Nevada Hotel World Resort in Las Vegas USA. The competition featured top bodybuilding champions from 28 nations, highlighting the global level of talent.
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The national team representing Sri Lanka at the upcoming 28th ITTF-ATTU Asian Table Tennis Team Championships 2025 met with the Sports Deputy Minister Sugath Thilakaratne, last Thursday (9) at the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports. The Championship, which is scheduled to be held in Bhubaneswar, India, from 11-15 October, is an important qualifying tournament for the 2026 World
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Sri Lanka’s youngest international racer, 15-year-old Hesali Peiris, closed out her fourth Indian round with a performance that once again turned heads and won hearts. Racing under the TVS Racing One-Make Championship, Hesali took on some of India’s finest riders with years of experience, factory support, and home-track advantage – yet she held her own with
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Austria’s Athletes of the Year were honoured at the ‘Lotterien Sporthilfe Gala’ at the Wiener Stadthalle on Wednesday evening. Among the men, ski jumper Daniel Tschofenig, winner of the Four Hills Tournament, won ahead of golfer Sepp Straka; among the women, alpine ski world champion Stephanie Venier triumphed over Sofia Polcanova (table tennis). The team
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Youth Affairs and Sports Minister Sunil Kumara Gamage says that identifying individuals based on their physical deformities is an injustice and hence he urged the media to replace the term ‘disabled’ with an alternative name. He made this request while addressing a media briefing held at Taj Samudra Hotel in Colombo on Wednesday (1) to
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Olympic silver medallist Laura Muir has said she has put a “difficult chapter firmly behind” her after her former coach Andrew Young was banned for three years for “serious misconduct”. A UK Athletics disciplinary panel found that Young – who Scotland’s Muir stopped working with in 2023 – “ignored medical advice” and “used manipulative and
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Last Sunday (28) marked the silver jubilee (25th anniversary) of retired sprint-queen Susanthika Jayasinghe’s historic achievement of winning the silver medal in the 200m final at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Australia. In the Women’s 200m final held on 28 September, 2000 at the Sydney Olympics, Jayasinghe originally finished behind Marion Jones of the US
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