ATHLETICS

By Dhammika Ratnaweera Minister of Sports Harin Fernando that he wants to soon implement a new sports law which would be aimed at ironing out the ongoing internal politics and corruptions within the sports associations […]

Adventure marathoner Hassan Esufally has gone down in history books as the first Sri Lankan in history to run a marathon on all of the seven continents by completing the arduous the Antarctic Ice Marathon […]

By Dhammika Ratnaweera Sri Lanka’s newly appointed sports minister Harin Fernando set out his plans for the new year 2019 affirming that he would do his best to iron our many of the boiling issues […]

By Dhammika Ratnaweera The Sri Lanka Anti-Doping Agency (SLADA) imposed a temporary ban on Sri Lankan 400m  athlete Kalinga Kumarage for alleged use of prohibited drugs. Director General of the SLADA Seewali Jayawickrema said that […]

By Dhammika Ratnaweera Foundation of Goodness (FoG) signed a memorandum with the National Olympic Committee (NOC) to harness and enhance the training and development facilities for the rural talent in sports. The special agreement was […]

The National Olympic Committee of Sri Lanka (NOCSL) Women’s Committee has called for nominations from Sri Lankans for the IOC Women and Sports Awards 2019 which is awarded to promote the advancement of gender equality […]

Manjula Ranaweera who is attached to the Navy is looking forward to a new Guiness record by completing 500 kilometres of race walking that commenced on Thursday at 12.30 a.m. from opposite Giritale Maha Vidyalaya […]

 By Dhammika Ratnaweera The Sri Lanka Anti Doping Agency (SLADA) is expected to introduce what is called Athletic Biological Passport (ABP) a new system for athletes to prevent doping according to its chairman Professor Arjuna […]

By Dhammika Ratnaweera Sri Lanka Electrical and Mechanical Engineers emerged overall champions to take the Challenge Trophy for Champion Regiment obtaining 294 points at the 55th Army Athletic Championship concluded at Sugathadasa Stadium on last […]