{"id":988,"date":"2026-05-08T09:07:40","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T09:07:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/?p=988"},"modified":"2026-05-08T09:07:58","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T09:07:58","slug":"sri-lankan-team-returns-home-with-16-medals-from-commonwealth-weightlifting-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/2026\/05\/08\/sri-lankan-team-returns-home-with-16-medals-from-commonwealth-weightlifting-championship\/","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lankan Team Returns Home with 16 Medals from Commonwealth Weightlifting Championship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Sri Lankan team that competed in the 2026 Commonwealth Youth and Senior Weightlifting Championships held in Samoa arrived at the Bandaranaike International Airport in Katunayake early this morning.<\/p>\n<p>Representing Sri Lanka, the athletes won a total of 16 medals, including 7 silver medals and 9 bronze medals, bringing pride to the country.<\/p>\n<p>The championship was held in Apia, Samoa, from April 25 to May 2, with around 500 athletes from 27 Commonwealth countries participating in the competition.<\/p>\n<p>It is noteworthy that all the Sri Lankan medal winners who represented the country at this international event are school students.<\/p>\n<p>The team arrived at Katunayake Airport today (08) at around 4.25 a.m. on Air India flight AI-277 from India.<\/p>\n<p>Officials of the Sri Lanka Weightlifting Federation and the students\u2019 parents were present at the airport to welcome the athletes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Sri Lankan team that competed in the 2026 Commonwealth Youth and Senior Weightlifting Championships held in Samoa arrived at the Bandaranaike International Airport in Katunayake early this morning. Representing Sri Lanka, the athletes won a total of 16 medals, including 7 silver medals and 9 bronze medals, bringing pride to the country. The championship &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":989,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-988","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\/988","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=988"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/988\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":990,"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/988\/revisions\/990"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}