Indunil Herath

Indunil Herath
Indunil Herath in Bhubaneswar 2017
Full name	Ekanayake Mudiyaselage Idame Gedara Indunil Madushan Herath
nation	Sri Lanka
birthday	27th March 1993 (age 27)
place of birth	Mahiyangana , Sri Lanka
size	170 cm
Weight	68 kg
Career
discipline	800 meter run
Best performance	1: 47.13 min
Trainer	W Rathnakumara
status	active
Medal table
Asian Indoor & Martial Arts Games 0 × 1 × 0 × South Asian Games 2 × 0 × 0 × U20 Asian Championships 0 × 0 × 1 ×
Asian Indoor & Martial Arts Games silver Ashgabat 2017 800 m South Asian Games gold Guwahati 2016 800 m gold Kathmandu 2019 800 m Junior Asian Championships bronze Colombo 2012 4 × 400 m
last change: December 10, 2019

Ekanayake Mudiyaselage Idame Gedara Indunil Madushan Herath (born March 27, 1993 in Mahiyangana ) is a Sri Lankan middle-distance runner who specializes in the 800-meter run .

Athletic career

Indunil Herath gained his first international experience at the Asian Youth Games in Singapore in 2009 , where he won the bronze medal over 800 meters in 1: 56.33 minutes. In the following year he took part in the youth Olympic Games, which were held there for the first time , and took third place in the B final. Two years later he was seventh over 400 meters and fifth over 800 meters at the Junior Asian Championships in Colombo . In addition, he won the bronze medal in the Sri Lankan 4 x 400 meter relay in 3: 11.79 minutes. In 2014 he was fourth at the Jogos da Lusofonia in Goa over 800 meters and with the relay. The following year he took part in the Asian Championships in Wuhan , where he finished fifth in 1: 51.51 minutes. In 2016 he won the South Asian Games in Guwahati and was eliminated from the Indoor Asian Championships in Doha in 1: 57.26 minutes in advance. In the following year he again took part in the Asian Championships in Bhubaneswar , where he finished fifth in 1: 50.57 minutes. At the beginning of September he won the silver medal behind the Katari Jamal Hairane at the Asian Indoor & Martial Arts Games in Ashgabat in 1: 49.45 min .

In 2018 he took part in the Asian Games in Jakarta for the first time and finished eighth there in 1: 51.36 minutes in the final. The following year he won the South Asian Games in Kathmandu in 1: 50.52 minutes and thus successfully defended his title.

In 2013 and 2015, as well as in 2016 and 2019, Herath was the Sri Lankan champion in the 800-meter run.

Personal best

• 400 meters: 47.37 s on June 22, 2018 in Nairobi
• 800 meters: 1: 47.13 min, June 16, 2018 in Nairobi ( Sri Lankan record )
  • 800 meters (hall): 1: 49.45 min, September 20, 2017 in Ashgabat ( Sri Lankan record )

Web links

• Indunil Herath in the database of World Athletics (English)