Pradeep Sanjaya Uggl Dena Pathirannehelag

Pradeep Sanjaya Uggl Dena Pathirannehelag
Full name	Pradeep Sanjaya Uggl Dena Pathirannehelag
nation	Sri Lanka
birthday	April 29, 1986
Career
discipline	200 m , 400 m , 800 m , 4 × 100 m
Trainer	Jansz Dissanayake
status	active
Medal table
Paralympic Games bronze 2012 London 400 m World Championships for the Disabled bronze 2013 Lyon 400 m Para-Asian Games gold 2010 Guangzhou 400 m silver 2014 Incheon 800 m bronze 2014 Incheon 400 m
last change: February 10, 2015

Uggal Dena Pathiranalage Pradeep Sanjaya ( April 29, 1986 ) is a Sri Lankan athlete in disabled sports . He competes in classification group T46 .

Career

Pathirana was seriously injured in an artillery explosion during his army service in 2008 in his left hand and arm, both of which have only been usable to a very limited extent since then. Two years later he started playing disabled sports and shortly afterwards was able to celebrate his first major triumph with the gold medal at the Para-Asian Games over 400 meters.

At the 2012 Summer Paralympic Games in London , he represented his country just four years after his accident. While he missed the final in the 200-meter run, he secured third place over 400 meters and thus won the first ever Paralympic medal for Sri Lanka. He was able to repeat this success at the World Athletics Championships for the disabled in Lyon in 2013 , when he again won the bronze medal in the 400-meter run. However, he failed in the semifinals over 200 meters, with the 4 x 100 meter relay (T42-T46) he finished in 6th place.