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Weightlifter Dilanka clinches Silver Medal in Uzbekistan-by Upananda Jayasundera Dilanka Isuru Kumara in action at a weightlifting Meet. (Picture by Upananda Jayasundera-Kandy Sports Spl. Corr Source:Dailynews Twenty five year old, Dilanka Isuru Kumara, a weightlifter attached to the Sri Lanka Army as a Lance Corporal of the Panagoda Camp won a Silver Medal for clean & Jerk lifting 137 Kg. and won a Bronze Medal lifting a full total of 241 Kg. in the 55 Kg. weight class at the Asian Weightlifting Championship held from 16th to 25th of April, 2021 at Tashkent, Uzbekistan. He is an old boy of Gettumana Maha Vidyalaya, Kurunegala from Grade One to Eleven and joined the John Kothalawala National School to do higher studies. After leaving school he joined Sri Lanka Army in 2016 and now he is stationed at Panagoda Army Camp. ...