Olympic history of Sri Lanka

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Sri Lanka , whose NOK , the National Olympic Committee of Sri Lanka , was founded in 1937 andrecognizedby the IOC in the same year, has been participating in the Summer Olympics since 1948. From 1948 to 1972, the athletes appeared under the name Ceylon at (IOC Code CEY). In 1976 they did not participate. Athletes from Sri Lanka have not yet participated in the winter games. Young athletes took part in both of the youth summer games that have been held so far.

Overview

Sri Lanka's first Olympic team, called Ceylon , consisted of athletes and boxers in 1948. The country's first Olympian was track and field athlete Duncan White on July 30, 1948 . The first Sri Lankan woman to appear at the Olympic Games on September 20, 1988 was the swimmer Dipika Chanmugam.

In addition to athletics and boxing, Sri Lanka was also involved in the following summer games swimming and diving (from 1952), cycling (from 1960), wrestling and shooting (from 1964), sailing (from 1968), weightlifting (from 1984), badminton ( from 1992) and judo (from 2016).

The first medal was won at the very first Olympic participation. Duncan White won silver in the 400 meter hurdles. It would take 52 years before another medal could be won. In the meantime, the island nation's athletes started under the current name of Sri Lanka . In 2000 in Sydney the athlete Susanthika Jayasinghe won silver over 200 meters.

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  Duncan White, Sri Lanka's first silver medalist in 1948, with the first Duncan White Award

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  Susanthika Jayasinghe, silver 2000, at the 2007 World Cup

Youth games

When the 2010 Summer Youth Olympic Games were held in Singapore for the first time , seven young people, four boys and three girls, took part in athletics, swimming, table tennis and badminton.

At the second event in 2014 in Nanjing , nine young people, seven boys and two girls, took part in the sports of athletics, rowing, swimming, tennis, beach volleyball and badminton. Badminton player Sachin Dias won a medal that is not included in Sri Lanka's medal record. Together with its Chinese partner He Bingjiao he won the double for mixed team bronze medal.

Overview of the participants

Summer games

year	Athletes			Flag bearer	sports											Medals
	total	m	w																total	rank
1896-1936	not participated
1948	7th	7th	0	Duncan White	3	4th											1		1	28
1952	5	5	0		1	2	1	1
1956	3	3	0		1	2
1960	5	5	0		1	2	1		1
1964	6th	6th	0		1	2				1	2
1968	3	3	0		1	1						1
1972	4th	4th	0	Lucien Rosa	3						1
1976	not participated
1980	4th	4th	0		4th
1984	4th	4th	0	Lalin Jirasinha			1					2	1
1988	6th	4th	2	Daya Rayasinghe	2		2				2
1992	11	5	6th		7th		1				1		1	1
1996	9	5	4th	Sriyani Kulawansa	6th			1			2
2000	18th	9	9	Damayanthi Dharsha	13		2				2	1					1		1	64
2004	7th	4th	3	Susanthika Jayasinghe	4th		2				1
2008	8th	4th	4th	Susanthika Jayasinghe	2	1	2				1		1	1
2012	7th	4th	3	Niluka Karunaratne	2		2				1			2
2016	9	7th	2	Anuradha Cooray	3		2				2		1	1	1
total																0	2	0	2	106

Winter games

year	Athletes			Flag bearer	sports	Medals
	total	m	w						total	rank
1924-2018	not participated
total						0	0	0	0	-

List of medal winners

Gold medals

So far (as of 2018) no gold medals

Silver medals

Surname	Games	sport	discipline
Duncan White	1948 London	athletics	400 meter hurdles
Susanthika Jayasinghe	2000 Sydney	athletics	200 metres

Bronze medals

So far (as of 2018) no bronze medals

Medals by sport

sport	gold	silver	bronze	total
athletics	0	2	0	2
total	0	2	0	2

Web links

• Sri Lanka in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )
• Sri Lanka on Olympic.org  - The Official website of the Olympic movement (English)
• Web presence of the NOCSL