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Diyagama, Sri Lanka [14] 5.16 m Sachin Eranga Sanith: 30 March 2023 58th National Army Championships Diyagama, Sri Lanka [15] 5.17 Arunthavarasa Puvitharan: 31 March 2024 59th Army Championships Diyagama, Sri Lanka [16] Long jump: 8.15 m NWI: W. P. Amila Jayasiri: 16 August 2016 Defense Service Championships Diyagama, Sri Lanka [17] Triple jump
The term "iron man" as it pertains to sports longevity has origins in Major League Baseball pitcher Joe McGinnity, who was known for pitching in back-to-back doubleheaders and leading his league in innings pitched four times in five seasons from 1900 to 1904.
Ironman 70.3 Budapest, 2014. An Ironman Triathlon is one of a series of long-distance triathlon races organized by the World Triathlon Corporation (WTC), consisting of a 2.4-mile (3.9 km) swim, a 112-mile (180.2 km) bicycle ride and a marathon 26.22-mile (42.2 km) run completed in that order, a total of 140.6 miles (226.3 km). It is widely ...
She enlisted in the Sri Lanka Army Volunteer Force to pursue her athletic career, and was attached to the 3rd Battalion, Sri Lanka Army Women's Corps (SLAWC) as a Private. In 1994, she competed in the All Island Athletic Championship from a team from the SLAWC and won the best player trophy.
Chamika Karunaratne – played cricket for Sri Lanka national cricket team and Sri Lanka national badminton team. [91] [92] Michael Kasprowicz – played Australian Schoolboys rugby union, and considered a switch back to professional rugby during his career. Ray Lindwall – played 31 rugby league games for the St George Dragons. [93]
On 27 February 2021, Mathews was appointed as Sri Lanka's stand-in captain for the T20I series in the West Indies as the appointed captain Dasun Shanaka, delay in obtaining a US transit visa and travel with the team at the time. [104] Under Mathews captaincy, Sri Lanka managed to win only the second T20I, where West Indies won the series 2–1.
Sri Lanka is one of over one-hundred countries which have submitted films for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film. [nb 1] The Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film is handed out annually by the United States Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to a feature-length motion picture produced outside the United States that contains primarily non-English dialogue.
Commandos on Independence day parade. In 1977 Lt. General Denis Perera issued a call to combating terrorism in Sri Lanka, a decision was made by the Army HQ to raise a special counter-terrorist unit. Maj. Sunil Peris from 1st Gemunu Watch, Capt. Sarath Handapangoda from 1st Sinha Regiment and three other ranks were selected as a Core Group and training commenced in the Ella Camp, Army Training ...