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World Indoor ends with an epic World Record

A surprise world indoor record* for Poland, a third world indoor title for Renaud Lavillenie and a hometown hero taking gold were among the final highlights of the IAAF World...

World Indoor: Drama at 400m; How and What happend ?

Emerging from the ashes of an emotional 400m contest, Pavel Maslak became the first three-time winner of the event at these championships. Spaniard Oscar Husillos was first across the line...

World Indoor: Three C’ship records, Day 3 ends dramatically

Three championship records, two other world leads and drama aplenty: just another night at the IAAF World Indoor Championships Birmingham 2018. GOLD AT LAST FOR MORRIS A third-time clearance in...

Asian Junior: Qualification Standards for SL Athletes released

Athletics athletic Association of Sri Lanka has released qualification standards for the upcoming Asian junior Athletic Championship which is which is scheduled to take place in Japan.

Dibaba strikes again, Russians take high jumps at world indoors

Ethiopia’s serial record holder Genzebe Dibaba won a fourth consecutive worldindoor title when she romped to victory in the 3,000m in Birmingham on Thursday. In a memorable opening night of...

උස පනින මංජුලට ඉන්දියාවෙන් අභියෝගයක්

දකුණු ආසියානු කලාපයේ උස පැනීමේ ශූරයා වන මංජුල කුමාරට අභියෝගයක් වීමට ඉන්දියානු ක්‍රීඩකයෙකු සමත්ව සිටියි. මෙවනවිට ඇමරිකාවේ වෙසනෙ තේජාස්වින් ශන්කර් (Tejaswin Shankar) මෙම වසරේ ජනවාරි මස ගෘහස්ත තරගාවලියක දී, මීටර් 2.19...

India’s javelin thrower Davinder Singh banned

India’s javelin thrower Davinder Singh Kang on Wednesday(28) been suspended provisionally by the world athletics governing body after he returned positive for a steroid in an out-of-competition test last week....

Lyceum –Wattala tops medal tally at ISAC 2018

Lyceum International School topped the medal tally with 39 Gold medals, while Gateway International School Rajagiriya ended up with 22 Gold medals in the International School Athletics championship concluded at...

Hiruni renews Sri Lanka record of half marathon

Hiruni Wijeyratne renewed her personal best in Half Marathon at the MESA – PHX Marathon in Arizona by over 3 mins. Hiruni managed to cross the tap with a performance...

Blacky and Nilani win despite Ridiculous Bureaucracy by Sports Officials

Two Gold medallists from last week’s Indonesian Asian Games Test event, Samantha Pushpakumara (Blacky) and Nilani Ratnayake, replied to the injustice meted out to them by winning the men’s and...

Sri Lanka ends Asian Games – Invitation campaign with 18 Medals [ One SL record ]

Women’s Javelin Throw – Gold – Nadeesha Dilhani Lekamge (55.13m) Men’s 100m – Gold – Vinoj Suranjaya de Silva (10.28sec PB & 10.30sec) Men’s 400m – Gold – Tharusha Dhananjaya...

Nilani set NEW Sri Lanka record to win 3000m st.ch – RMS won the GOLD in Mens

Nilani Rathnayake set a new Sri Lanka record finishing her 3000m st.chase pet event within 10-minute mark at the Asian Games 2018 – Invitation Tournament held in Indonesia. Nilani is...

AASL to take stern action against Himasha

South Asian record holder in the 100m, Himasha Eashan has withdrawn from the relay team citing injury concerns at the ‘Road to Asian Games 2018’ invitational test event which is...

Nilani seals Silver with personal best ,Janaka wins bronze , Ajith suffered from bad 100m

Middle distance runner Nilani Ratnayake clocked a personal best in the 1500m to finish second at the “Road to Asian Games 2018” Invitational test event continued at Jakarta yesterday. Nilani...

Vinoj , Tharusha shines with wins in Jakarta

Young sprinter Vinoj Suranjaya de Silva and 20 years old quatermiler Tharusha Dhananjaya excelled during the day as they won their respective events 100m and 400m at the Road to...

How SL international Athletics hero became a taxi driver in UAE

When I flagged down a cab in the mad morning rush to keep a medical appointment, little did I know it would be a journey into the plebeian life of...

SL Athletes ready to compete tomorrow at Jakartha

Team of 24 athletes took wing to Indonesia on Thursday night (8th) to compete in the test event ahead of Asian Games, “Road to 18th Asian Games 2018”. Team includes...

Hectic schedule ahead for SL athletes in 2018

SL athletes will have a hectic year in 2018 with back to back local and international events to fill the calendar, which includes both Commonwealth and Asian Games, together with...

Arunasiri finished 10th with PB at Asian Marathon – Rajasekara goes to 11th from 5

Marathoner Pradeep Arunasiri excelled in his first International outing as he finished in 10th place with personal best at the Asian Marathon Championship concluded at Dongguan,China. Arunasiri, trained under Veteran...

New mixed gender athletics team event confirmed to feature at second European Games

An innovative new athletics team competition billed as the future of the sport has been unveiled here today to feature at the second European Games in Minsk in 2019. The...

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