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. ...

Read More →

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. ...

Read More →