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Poornima Gunarathne clears 1.80m

High Jumper Poornima Gunarathne set a new record clearing 1.80m in the girls under 23 high jump. Doing so she recorded her personal best and erased the record of 1.78m set by Priyangika Madhumanthi 2007.

Peterite Janidu emerge victories in Joe-Pete hurdle battle

It was another Joe-Pete encounter in the high hurdles as Joses Shehan Kariyawasam was the favorite to take 110m hurdle title in the under 20 finals while Pete Janidu Lukavijaya...

Peterites set two new records

St. Peter’s College athletes excelled with two new meet records as Hirusha Hashen leap 7.09m in the long jump for under-16 boys while also clocking an impressive time in the...

Anitha vaults for New Sri Lanka record

Jaffna’s vaulting queen Anitha Jagatheshwaran stole the limelight in the very first meet of the newly laid Sugathadasa track leaping over 3.55m in the pole vault to set a new...

It’s Sampath’s chance to shine

Being in the shadows of someone else even after continuous and consistent performing could be frustrating and disappointing. Javelin Thrower Sampath Ranasinghe knows it more than anyone. The 29-year-old, father...

Janaka eyes podium finish at Gold Coast

Long jumper Janaka Prasad Wimalasiri who took the long jump crown in 2013-2014 to qualify for the Asian Games had quit the event as he was overwhelmed with injuries and...

Veteran Sports journalist Sunil Abeywardane passes away

Veteran sports journalist Sunil Abeywardane (69) passed away yesterday after a brief illness. Abeywardane, who had a 30-year career in the field of Media, was working for the Rangiri FM...

Emma sets a new SL record in Discus Throw – 48.02m

US based Sri Lankan thrower Emma De silva established a new mark in women discus throw with 48.02m throw which shattered 12 year old Sri Lanka record set by PadmaNandani...

වාර්තා 13 ක් සමගින් යුද හමුදා ස්වේච්ඡා තරගාවලිය අවසන් වෙයි.

නව තරගාවලි වාර්තා 13 ක් සමගින් ශ්‍රී ලංකා යුද හමුදා ස්වේච්ඡා බලකායේ අන්තර් රෙජිමේන්තු මලල ක්‍රීඩා ශූරතාවලිය අවසන් විය. ශ්‍රී ලංකා විදුලි හා යාන්ත්‍රික ඉංජිනේරු රෙජිමේන්තුව මෙවර ලකුණු 284 ක්...

AASL to take stern action against Himasha

South Asian record holder in the 100m, Himasha Eashan has withdrawn from the relay team citing injury concerns at the ‘Road to Asian Games 2018’ invitational test event which is...

Arunasiri finished 10th with PB at Asian Marathon – Rajasekara goes to 11th from 5

Marathoner Pradeep Arunasiri excelled in his first International outing as he finished in 10th place with personal best at the Asian Marathon Championship concluded at Dongguan,China. Arunasiri, trained under Veteran...

Barshim, Thiam, named athletes of the year

Qatari high jumper Mutaz Essa Barshim and Belgium’s heptathlon champion Nafissatou Thiam were named the IAAF’s men’s and women’s athlete of the year on Friday. World champion Barshim succeeds retired...

සුගතදාස ධාවන පථය එළීම කල් යෑමෙන්, පොදුරාජ්‍ය මණ්ඩලයීය සැලසුම් කොට උඩ

සුගතදාස ක්‍රීඩාංගණයේ ධාවන පථය නැවත එළීම පසුගිය දා, (සැප්තැම්බර් 14) උත්සවශ්‍රීයෙන් ආරම්භ කළ ද, මාර්තු මාසය තෙක් එම කටයුතු අවසන් නොවනු ඇතැයි වාර්තාවේ. ඒ අනුව ලබන වසරේ අප්‍රේල් මස ඔස්ට්‍රේලියාවේ දී පැවැත්වෙන පොදුරාජ්‍ය...

Nesta Carter appealing disqualification over Doping

Jamaican sprinter Nesta Carter is at the Court of Arbitration for Sport to appeal against disqualification from the 2008 Olympics in a doping case that cost Usain Bolt a 4×100-meter relay gold medal. Carter shielded his...

Waruna off to Finland for a training targeting commonwealth Games

Javelin Thrower Waruna Lakshan Dayarathne will be off to Finland on Sunday for a training of three months targeting forthcoming Commonwealth Games 2018 . WAruna’s cleared 80m mark twice earlier...

Nuwara Eliya main athletic venue in despicable state

Nuwara Eliya Municipal stadium is Sri Lanka’s main venue for high altitude training which is frequented by athletes during November-December months for off season training and throughout the year mainly...

Junior Tarbet 2017- Full Results and Awards List

48th SIR JOHN TARBAT JUNIOR ATHLETIC CHAMPIONSHIP – 2017 AGE GROUP SHIELDS UNDER 12 GIRLS 3 RD PLACE GOOD SHEPHERED CON – PANADURA 15 RUNNER UP SIRIMAVO B.ANDARANAYAKE VID –...

Sir John Tarbet Junior Athletics Championship-Day 02 Results

E:No. 207 80M Hurdles Under 14 Girls Final 16.0 Sec Place BIB Athlete Name School Performance Remarks 1 609 S.D. Kahangama Sumana Balika Vidyalaya – Rathnapura 12.7 * NMR 2...

AASL eyeing for first Commonwealth medal in 20 years

Athletics Association of Sri Lanka (AASL) has finalized qualifying standards for the forthcoming Commonwealth Games 2018 to be held from 4-15 April in Gold Coast, Australia. AASL has based their...

400m runners Aruna and Pasindu to Jamaica

Two young 400m runners, Aruna Darshan and Pasindu Kodikara, will be sent to Jamaica for special training from December to April, AASL confirmed. The two athletes will be huge favourites...

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