Manjula Kumara

Manjula Kumara
Full name	Manjula Kumara Wijesekara
nation	Sri Lanka
birthday	30th January 1984 (age 36)
place of birth	Morawaka , Sri Lanka
Career
discipline	high jump
Best performance	2.27 m
status	active
Medal table
Asian Indoor & Martial Arts Games 0 × 0 × 1 × South Asian Games 3 × 0 × 0 ×
Asian Indoor & Martial Arts Games bronze Ashgabat 2017 2.20 m Asian Championships gold Incheon 2005 2.27 m gold Guangzhou 2009 2.23 m Indoor Asian Championships bronze Doha 2016 2.24 m South Asian Games gold Islamabad 2004 2.20 m gold Colombo 2006 2.19 m gold Guwahati 2016 2.17 m
last change: August 4, 2020

Manjula Kumara Wijesekara (born January 30, 1984 in Morawaka ) is a Sri Lankan high jumper who occasionally competes in the triple jump .

Athletic career

Manjula Kumara gained his first international experience in 2001 when he finished eighth at the Youth World Championships in Debrecen with a skipped 2.10 m. The following year he reached at the Junior World Championships in Kingston with a height of 2.14 m rank ninth and was then at the Asian Championships in Colombo with 2.15 m fifth. Then he took part in the Asian Games in Busan for the first time , where he finished eighth with 2.10 m and fifth at the Asian Junior Championships in Bangkok with 2.15 m. In 2003 he finished eleventh at the Asian Championships in Manila with 2.10 m. The following year, he won with a new national record of 2.20 meters at the South Asian Games in Islamabad and then improved the record to 2.27 m, which he for the Olympic Games in Athens but not qualified, where he m with 2.20 reached the final .

In 2005 he started at the World Championships in Helsinki and was eliminated there with 2.15 m in qualification. He then won the Asian Championships in Incheon , where he equalized his national record of 2.27 m. The following year he defended at the South Asian Games in Colombo with 2.19 m and then finished seventh at the Asian Games in Doha with 2.15 m skipped. In the same year he set a new indoor record in the United States in the triple jump of 15.25 m. In 2009 he won again at the Asian Championships in Guangzhou with a height of 2.23 m and in 2010 he reached ninth place at the Commonwealth Games in New Delhi with 2.15 m and was at the Asian Games in Guangzhou with 2.19 m Sixth.

In 2013 he finished eighth at the Asian Championships in Pune with 2.18 m. In the following year he reached twelfth place at the Asian Games in Incheon with 2.15 m and in 2015 he finished sixth at the Asian Championships in Wuhan with 2.20 m, before taking the same place with 2.20 m at the Military World Games in Mungyeon, South Korea . In 2016 he won the South Asian Games in Guwahati again with a skipped 2.17 m and then won the bronze medal at the Asian Indoor Championships in Doha with 2.24 m behind Katari Mutaz Essa Barshim and Majd Eddin Ghazal from Syria. In the following year he finished sixth at the Asian Championships in Bhubaneswar with 2.20 m and then won the bronze medal at the Asian Indoor & Martial Arts Games in Ashgabat with 2.21 m behind the Syrian Ghazal and Keyvan Ghanbarzadeh from Iran. In 2018 he again took part in the Commonwealth Games in the Australian Gold Coast and made it to the finals there, but did not make a valid attempt there.

In 2002, 2004 and 2005, 2012 and 2013, as well as 2015 and 2016, Kumara became the Sri Lankan high jump champion.

Personal best

• High jump (open air): 2.27 m, July 23, 2004 in Colombo ( Sri Lankan record )
  • High jump (hall): 2.24 m, February 19, 2016 in Doha ( Sri Lankan record )
• Triple jump: 15.69 m, May 17, 2009 in Eugene
  • Triple jump (indoor): 15.25 m, January 21, 2006 in Albuquerque ( Sri Lankan record )

Web links

• Manjula Kumara in the database of World Athletics (English)