Manjula Kumara Wijesekara

Manjula Kumara Wijeseakra is the best High Jumper Sri Lanka ever produced with personal best of 2.27m which is the National record of Sri Lanka . Wijesekara had been representing Sri Lanka since 2001 trough out 17 years and had won many International medals for the country including two Asian Championship Gold medals.

Wijesekara represented Sri Lanka in the 2004 Olympic Games and 2005 World Championships which are his highest achievements. Recently in 2016  Manjula won the Gold medal of South Asian Games and  renewed National indoor record with 2.24m leap to win the bronze medal . He started 2017 with Gold medal in the Philippine open Athletics Championship and cleared 2.25m at the first National Trials

International honours

Year	Competition	Venue	Position	Notes
Representing  Sri Lanka
2001	World Youth Championships	Debrecen, Hungary	8th	2.10 m
2002	World Junior Championships	Kingston, Jamaica	9th	2.14 m
	Asian Championships	Colombo, Sri Lanka	5th	2.15 m
	Asian Games	Busan, South Korea	8th	2.10 m
	Asian Junior Championships	Bangkok, Thailand	5th	2.15 m
2003	Asian Championships	Manila, Philippines	11th	2.10 m
2004	South Asian Games	Islamabad, Pakistan	1st	2.20 m (NR)
	Olympic Games	Athens, Greece	20th (q)	2.20 m
2005	World Championships	Helsinki, Finland	23rd (q)	2.15 m
	Asian Championships	Incheon, South Korea	1st	2.27 m (NR)
2006	South Asian Games	Colombo, Sri Lanka	1st	2.19 m
	Asian Games	Doha, Qatar	7th	2.15 m
2009	Asian Championships	Guangzhou, China	1st	2.23 m
2010	Commonwealth Games	Delhi, India	9th	2.15 m
	Asian Games	Guangzhou, China	6th	2.19 m
2013	Asian Championships	Pune, India	8th	2.18 m
2014	Asian Games	Incheon, South Korea	12th	2.15 m
2015	Asian Championships	Wuhan, China	6th	2.20 m
2016	South Asian Games	Guwahati, India	1st	2.17 m
	Asian Indoor Championships	Doha, Qatar	3rd	2.24 m