Ajith Premakumara

Ajith Premakumara
Full name	Ajith Premakumara Millagaha Gedara
nation	Sri Lanka
birthday	12th October 1991 (age 28)
place of birth	Sri Lanka
size	168 cm
Weight	77 kg
Career
discipline	sprint
status	active
Medal table
Asian Championships 0 × 1 × 0 ×
Asian Championships silver Bhubaneswar 2017 4 × 400 m
last change: May 5, 2019

Ajith Premakumara Millagaha Gedara (born October 12, 1991 ) is a Sri Lankan sprinter .

Athletic career

Ajith Premakumara gained his first international experience at the 2015 Military World Games in Mungyeon , South Korea , where he finished fifth in the Sri Lankan 4 x 400 meter relay in 3: 08.65 minutes. In 2016 he was sixth in the 400-meter run at the South Asian Games in Guwahati and won the silver medal in the relay in 3: 07.59 minutes. The following year he was eighth in the Asian Championships in Bhubaneswar in 47.35 seconds and won the silver medal behind the team from India in 3: 04.80 minutes in the men's relay. In 2018 he took part in the Asian Games in Jakarta with the Sri Lankan relay and finished fourth in 3: 02.74 minutes. The following year he reached the semi-finals at the Asian Championships in Doha , in which he was eliminated with 47.07 s.

Personal best

• 200 meters: 21.22 s, September 13, 2018 in Colombo
• 400 meters: 46.36 s, July 6, 2017 in Bhubaneswar

Web links

Commons : Ajith Premakumara  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Ajith Premakumara in the database of World Athletics (English)