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Kavindu Udayanga outstanding weightlifter and powerlifter-Upananda Jayasundera Kavindu Udayanga Ranasinghe Source:Dailynews Kavindu Udayanga Ranasinghe of Vijaya College,Matale is an outstanding Weightlifter and Powerlifter who has done extremely well to be adjudged Best Sportsman at the age of 17 years. He started Weightlifting at the tender age of 14 years under the coaching of Veteran Weight lifter,Indrajith Fernando in the year 2017. In his first contest itself he got the second place at the Sri Lanka Powerlifting Contest participating in the 44 Kg. weight class in the Under 16 age group in the year 2017 and lifted a total of 206 Kgs. In the following year he secured the third place lifting a total of 141 Kgs.at the Junior National Meet contesting in the Under 17 age group and he took a step forward in the same year to win the 50 Kg. weight class at the All Island Power Lifting ...