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She was born on 24 September 1994 in Piliyandala, Colombo, Sri Lanka as the eldest child in a family. [7] Her father Kapila Susira Kumara is a male nurse at Apeksha Cancer Hospital , Maharagama . Her mother Indrani Arugamage was a housewife, who died in 2014 from a lung infection. [ 8 ]
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.
She won the Sri Lanka national championships in 1997 to 2003 and regained the title back in 2005. [2] In 2004, she won one silver and three bronze medals at the 2004 South Asian Games. At the 2005 Nepal Satellite she clinched the women's singles and mixed doubles event, and at the same year, she reached the women's doubles quarterfinals at the ...
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]
Sachini D. Ranasinghe (born 1994), also known as S.D. Ranasinghe, is a Sri Lankan chess player who holds the title of Woman International Master (WIM, 2011). She is the first Sri Lankan player to get awarded the title of Woman International Master and only Sri Lankan player to win Asian zonal 3.2 chess championship and participate at the World chess Cup in 2012.
In January 2022, she was named in Sri Lanka's team for the 2022 Commonwealth Games Cricket Qualifier tournament in Malaysia. [8] She was part of the Sri Lankan team for the cricket tournament at the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham, England. [9] She was named in the Sri Lanka squad for the 2024 ICC Women's T20 World Cup. [10]
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.
Anarkali Akarsha (Sinhala: අනර්කලී ආකර්ෂා;born 12 July 1987 as Anarkali Janina Jayatilaka) is a Sri Lankan actress, model, former politician and beauty pageant titleholder. [1] She was crowned Miss Sri Lanka 2004 and represented Sri Lanka at the Miss World 2004 beauty pageant.