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WADA relax rules on recreational drugs

The World Players Association (WPA) said athletes who tested positive for recreational drugs would no longer be left to suffer with their careers in jeopardy following changes to WADA’s list...

IAAF Introduce new rule changes for next year

World Athletics will be introducing a significant change to the way take-off fouls are judged in long and triple jumps, starting on November 1 2021. Currently, a no-jump is called...

Crysbro provides Rs 200 Laks to fund budding athletes

Lack of support for talented young athletes has always been a main area of concern when considering the downfall of athletics in Sri Lanka, where top young athletes tend to...

Sri Lanka Track & Field Athletes Wing formed

Sri Lanka Track & Field Athletes Wing, an a novel concept ,comprise of National Athletes was officially formed yesterday, headed by former sprinter turned thrower, Joy Danushka Perera. The wing...

Sports hostel protocol breached by DSD

Despite strict protocols set by the Department of Sports Development (DSD) under Sports Ministry that only athletes and coaches can occupy the sports hostel, they had permitted a Ministry employee...

Rome Diamond League Golden Gala 202 – Results

Results: 2020 Rome Diamond League Golden Gala – Thursday, September 17. Results Men 100m wind +0.3m/s 1 Akani SIMBINE RSA 9.96 2 Arthur CISSÉ CIV 10.04 3 Filippo TORTU ITA 10.09 4 Lamont...

Ex-head of world athletics Diack given jail sentence for corruption

Lamine Diack, once one of the most powerful people in athletics, was convicted in France on Wednesday of running a clique that covered up Russian doping in return for bribes...

Another Sizzling 10.24 seconds by Yupun in Switzerland

A Week after a record-breaking 10.16 seconds, Yupun Abeykoon returned to another sizzling 100m as he clocked 10.24 seconds in the 2020 Gala Dei Castelli, World athletics bronze level series...

Yupun breaks 100M National record in Germany (Video)

Italy based sprinter Yupun Abeykoon smashed the 100m National Record set by Himasha Eashan of 10.22 with sizzling 10.16 (+0.4 )seconds in International Meeting at Dessau/Germany, where he beats the...

යුපුන්ගෙන් නව දකුණු ආසියානු වාර්තාවක් (Video)

දැනට ඉතාලියේ පුහුණුවීම් සිදුකරන මීටර 100 ධාවන ශුර යුපුන් අබේකෝන් මීටර 100 ශ්‍රී ලංකා වාර්තාව මෙන්ම දකුණු ආසියානු වාර්තාවත් අලුත් කිරීමට සමත්වුනා . ඒ අද (8) දිනයේ ජර්මනියේ පැවති ජාත්‍යන්තර...

Usain Bolt tests positive for Covid19

Usain Bolt has contracted coronavirus just days after his birthday party, according to reports. The retired sprint king, who turned 34 on Friday, is understood to have taken a test...

(FULL RESULTS) Warholm sets new European record at Stockholm Diamond League

(Reuters) – Norwegian sprinter Karsten Warholm broke his own European record in the 400 metres hurdles at Sunday’s Diamond League event in Stockholm, clocking a time of 46.87 seconds that was just 0.09...

Some allegiance switches were akin to human trafficking – Coe

(Reuters) – World Athletics chief Sebastian Coe believes some cases of young athletes switching allegiance between countries before he tightened the rules last year were all but indistinguishable from human...

Int’l sports lawyer Rowena can fill Athletics void in Sports Council

The local athletics community raised their eyebrows yesterday following the appointment of the National Sports Council 2020 because it lacked representation from track and field, the only sport which has...

ෆින්ලන්තයේ හොදම විසි කිරීමේ පුහුණුකරුවෙක් ලංකාවට

2013 දී ආසියානු ශූරතා රිදී පදක්කම් දිනා ගැනීම සඳහා නදීකා ලක්මාලි සහ සචිත් මදුරංග පුහුණු කළ ෆින්ලන්ත විසි කිරීමේ පුහුණුකරු Petteri Piironen, ශ්‍රී ලංකාවට ගෙන්වා ගැනීමට සුදානම් බව ශ්‍රී ලංකා...

Sri Lanka Athletics set to recruit top notch Finnish throwing coach

Finland throwing coach Petteri Piironen, who trained Nadeeka Lakmali and Sachith Maduranga to win Asian Championship Silver medals in 2013, is set to be the latest addition to Sri Lanka’s...

Hiruni gearing up for Olympic Marathon dream- shatters 5000m National record

Hiruni Wijayarathne, the US based Sri Lankan marathoner, marked her return to competition post Covid-19 with a stunning feat, as she shattered yet another National record, this time the 5000m...

Cheptegei breaks world 5000m record -Full Results (Monaco Diamond League)

World 10,000m champion Joshua Cheptegei announced the return of international athletics with a phenomenal world 5000m record of 12:35.36* at the Wanda Diamond League meeting in Monaco on Friday night...

ශ්‍රී ලංකා මලල ක්‍රීඩාවට ඥානම් පදනමෙන් මිලියන 10ක්

ශ්‍රී ලංකා මලල ක්‍රීඩාව ඉහල තලයකට ගෙනයාමට පිටුවහලක් වශයෙන් ලයික මොබයිල් ආයතනයට අනුබද්ධ සමාජ සේවා ආයතනයක් වන ඥානම් පදනම විසින් රුපියල් මිලියන 10ක් ඊයේ පිරිනැමුවා. ශ්‍රී ලංකා මලල ක්‍රීඩා සංගමයේ...

Ten Million Sponsorship for Sri Lanka Athletics

After years without any regular sponsorship, Sri Lanka Athletics finally got the funding they need to take athletics to the next level, with Lyca Mobiles ‘Gnanam Foundation’ coming forward with...

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