{"id":2098,"date":"2026-06-03T07:00:07","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T07:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/?p=2098"},"modified":"2026-06-03T07:00:07","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T07:00:07","slug":"sri-lankan-youth-athletes-return-home-after-winning-8-medals-at-the-asian-u20-athletics-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/2026\/06\/03\/sri-lankan-youth-athletes-return-home-after-winning-8-medals-at-the-asian-u20-athletics-championship\/","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lankan Youth Athletes Return Home After Winning 8 Medals at the Asian U20 Athletics Championship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Sri Lankan Youth Athletics Team returned to the country on June 2 after an impressive performance at the <strong>2026 Asian U20 Athletics Championship<\/strong> held in Hong Kong.<\/p>\n<p>The team achieved a remarkable result by winning <strong>eight medals<\/strong> in total:<\/p>\n<p>\ud83e\udd47 2 Gold Medals<\/p>\n<p>\ud83e\udd48 2 Silver Medals<\/p>\n<p>\ud83e\udd49 4 Bronze Medals<\/p>\n<p>Sri Lanka finished <strong>8th in the overall medal standings<\/strong>, outperforming several strong Asian nations.<\/p>\n<p>The athletes received a warm welcome at the <strong>Bandaranaike International Airport<\/strong>. Following instructions from the Minister of Youth Affairs and Sports, <strong>Sunil Kumara Gamage<\/strong>, a delegation of ministry officials was present to greet the team. Representatives from Sri Lanka Athletics, ministry officials, and family members also attended the reception.<\/p>\n<p>Among the team&#8217;s standout performers were:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Tarushi Abhisheka \u2014 Gold Medal in the Women&#8217;s 1500m and Bronze Medal in the Women&#8217;s 800m.<\/li>\n<li>Ransini Perera \u2014 Gold Medal in the Women&#8217;s 200m event.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The team&#8217;s success has been widely praised as a major achievement for Sri Lankan athletics and a reflection of the talent, dedication, and potential of the country&#8217;s young athletes on the Asian stage. \ud83c\udfc5\ud83c\uddf1\ud83c\uddf0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Sri Lankan Youth Athletics Team returned to the country on June 2 after an impressive performance at the 2026 Asian U20 Athletics Championship held in Hong Kong. The team achieved a remarkable result by winning eight medals in total: \ud83e\udd47 2 Gold Medals \ud83e\udd48 2 Silver Medals \ud83e\udd49 4 Bronze Medals Sri Lanka finished &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2099,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2098","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2098"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2098\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2100,"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2098\/revisions\/2100"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}