{"id":2255,"date":"2026-06-07T05:03:05","date_gmt":"2026-06-07T05:03:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/?p=2255"},"modified":"2026-06-07T05:03:05","modified_gmt":"2026-06-07T05:03:05","slug":"national-level-competitions-of-the-36th-national-youth-sports-festival-begin-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/2026\/06\/07\/national-level-competitions-of-the-36th-national-youth-sports-festival-begin-today\/","title":{"rendered":"National-Level Competitions of the 36th National Youth Sports Festival Begin Today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The national-level competitions of the 36th National Youth Sports Festival, organized jointly by the National Youth Services Council and the National Youth Clubs Federation, commenced today (June 6).<\/p>\n<p>This year&#8217;s competitions will be held across 14 venues in different districts of the country, with separate events for both male and female participants.<\/p>\n<p>A wide range of sports events will be conducted, including beach volleyball, swimming, badminton, carrom, cricket, kabaddi, chess, netball, basketball, football, volleyball, elle, tug of war, and a night marathon.<\/p>\n<p>The competitions will take place in several locations, including Negombo, Ratnapura, Colombo, Galle, Matara, Maharagama, Kurunegala, Jaffna, Gampaha, Hambantota, and Homagama.<\/p>\n<p>The festival officially began with the Beach Volleyball competition at Negombo Beach Park. The event is scheduled to be held over two days, on June 6 and 7.<\/p>\n<p>Participants who emerge victorious at the divisional level competitions qualify for district-level events, while district-level winners advance to the national-level competitions.<\/p>\n<p>The main events and closing stages of the 36th National Youth Sports Festival are scheduled to be held in November at the Diyagama Stadium in Homagama, Colombo District.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The national-level competitions of the 36th National Youth Sports Festival, organized jointly by the National Youth Services Council and the National Youth Clubs Federation, commenced today (June 6). This year&#8217;s competitions will be held across 14 venues in different districts of the country, with separate events for both male and female participants. A wide range &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2256,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2255","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\/2255","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=2255"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2255\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2257,"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2255\/revisions\/2257"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}