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She also made her Asian Games debut in the same year representing Sri Lanka and competed in the women's long jump event. Anoma competed at her maiden World Athletics Championships in 2001. [6] She also featured in Sri Lankan squads for the 2002 Asian Games and 2002 Asian Athletics Championships.
She represented Sri Lanka at the 2016 South Asian Games which was held in Guwahati and claimed gold medal in 800m event with a timing of 2: 09.40 minutes. [15] [16] She was also part of the Sri Lankan 4 × 400 meter relay which clinched silver medal after finishing with 3: 38.89 minutes. She set the then national record in women's 800m event in ...
At the 400 meter event, she finished the race with a timing of 52.61 seconds and won gold. Ramanayake also became the eighth Sri Lankan to win an Asian Championships individual gold medal. [5] At the 47th Sri Lankan National Sports Games held in August 2023, she won gold for both 200m and 400m and also bagged the best women athlete award. [6]
She also represented Sri Lanka at the 2019 Military World Games and claimed fourth position in the women's long jump event. [15] She was included as one of the members of the Sri Lankan contingent for the 2020 Asian Indoor Athletics Championships, but the tournament was cancelled due to the threat of the COVID-19 pandemic.
On 9 April 2021, she clinched the national title for women's 800m and broke the Sri Lankan national record for women's 800m by finishing with record timing of 2:02.52 seconds during the National Athletics Trial 2021 (national qualifiers) which was held at the Sugathadasa Stadium in Colombo.
Lekamge was born in 1987 in the town of Eheliyagoda on Sri Lanka. It was there that she was educated at the Mahinda School. [4] She enlisted as a private in the Sri Lankan army. [5] Lekamge is at present a corporal in the Sri Lanka Army Women's Corps. [6] She won a silver medal at the 2017 Asian Championships [3] with a throw of 58.11m.
Nilani Ratnayake (born 8 August 1990), also spelt as Nilani Rathnayake or Nilani Rathnayaka, is a Sri Lankan steeplechaser. [1] She is the first and only Sri Lankan female steeplechase runner ever in history to have completed running the 3000 meters steeplechase in less than under 10 minutes. [2] She is currently attached with the Sri Lanka Army.
She also represented Sri Lanka at the 2019 South Asian Games and claimed two medals in the multi-sport event including a gold in the women's 4 × 400 m relay team event (along with Omaya Udayangani, Gayanthika Abeyratne, and Dilshi Kumarasinghe) and a silver in the women's 400m hurdles. [9] She achieved her personal best of 58.16 seconds in 2019.