{"id":348,"date":"2026-04-25T16:34:25","date_gmt":"2026-04-25T16:34:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/?p=348"},"modified":"2026-04-25T16:34:25","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T16:34:25","slug":"asanga-seneviratne-elected-president-of-sri-lankas-national-olympic-committee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/2026\/04\/25\/asanga-seneviratne-elected-president-of-sri-lankas-national-olympic-committee\/","title":{"rendered":"Asanga Seneviratne Elected President of Sri Lanka\u2019s National Olympic Committee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Asanga Seneviratne has been elected as the new President of the National Olympic Committee of Sri Lanka.<\/p>\n<p>The election was held today (25) during the committee\u2019s official voting session. A total of five candidates contested for the position.<\/p>\n<p>Key contenders included Jaswar Umar, President of the Sri Lanka Football Federation, and Sirandha Peiris, Vice President of the Sri Lanka Shooting Federation.<\/p>\n<p>Seneviratne secured <strong>16 votes<\/strong> to win the election and will serve as President for a four-year term.<\/p>\n<p>His leadership is expected to contribute to the development of Olympic sports and strengthen athlete performance in Sri Lanka.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Asanga Seneviratne has been elected as the new President of the National Olympic Committee of Sri Lanka. The election was held today (25) during the committee\u2019s official voting session. A total of five candidates contested for the position. Key contenders included Jaswar Umar, President of the Sri Lanka Football Federation, and Sirandha Peiris, Vice President &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":349,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348","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=348"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":350,"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348\/revisions\/350"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}