Tharushi Karunarathna , the jewel in Sri Lanka’s Crown – BY TREVINE RODRIGO IN MELBOURNE (Elanka Sports Editor) Source : newsradio Sri Lanka’s Tharushi Karunarathna dispelled all the myth around size and muscle mass as she burned a trail to beat off a formidable field to win Gold at the recently concluded Asian Games in Hangzhou, China. The lithe and diminutive Sri Lankan flyer paced her 800 meter run to perfection saving the final burst from around 100 metres to sprint past China’s Wang Chunyu as a stunned stadium watched her blitz the field. The slightly built 18 year old became the jewel in the country’s crown winning Sri Lanka’s solitary Gold medal and then added to her glory anchoring the women’s relay team that won Bronze. India’s Harmilan Bains snuck past a tiring Wang Chunyu to take Silver. Sri Lanka have not won Gold at the Asian Games for 21 ...
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Tharushi should target Olympic medal in 2028, not in Paris 2024: SLA Secretary Source:Dailymirror Sri Lanka Athletic (SLA) General Secretary Saman Kumara Gunawardena says that an Olympic medal should be expected from Asian ‘Golden Girl’ Tharushi Karunarathna in Sri Lankan athletics, not in the 2024 Paris Olympics but in the 2028 Los Angeles Games. “As Tharushi, who is currently 18 years old, should give priority to her education in the future, apart from 2024 Paris Olympics Games participation, no medal is expected from her,” Gunawardena, SLA and South Asia’s Athletic Statistics Veteran and Director of Sports, University of Kelaniya for more than three decades, told ‘Daily Mirror’. Meanwhile, the Sri Lankan team, including Hangzhou Asian Games 800m Golden Girl Tharushi, is scheduled to arrive in Colombo from China Tuesday (October 10). ...
Tharushi wins Gold in 800m Source:Dailynews 18-year-old Tharushi Karunarathna has won the gold medal in the women’s 800m at the 2023 Asian Games in Hangzhou. She won the race with a timing of 2:03:20. Karunarathna broke from the pack with about 140m to go and dashed to the finish line ahead of India’ Bains Harmilan and China’s Chunyu Wang. Gayanthika Aberathna finished race in eighth with a timing of 2:05.87. This is the first gold medal for Sri Lanka at this year’s Asian games. This is also the first athletic gold medal for Sri Lanka at the Asian Games after the gold medals won by Susanthika Jayasinghe in 100m and Damayanthi Dharsha in 400m at the 2002 Busan Games. Sri Lanka has won one gold medal and two silver medals so far at the Hangzhou Games. ...
