Sri Lanka first participated at the Olympic Games in 1948, and has sent a delegation to every Summer Olympic Games except for the 1976 Games to boycott apartheid South Africa and has never participated in the Winter Olympic Games.
| Sri Lanka at the Olympics | |
|---|---|
 | |
| IOC code | SRI |
| NOC | National Olympic Committee of Sri Lanka |
| Website | www |
| Medals Ranked 123rd |
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| Summer appearances | |
Sri Lankan athletes have won a total of two Olympic silver medals, both in athletics.[1][2][3]
The National Olympic Committee of Sri Lanka was created in 1937 and recognized by the International Olympic Committee that same year. The nation was designated as Ceylon (country code "CEY") until 1972.
Parami Wasanthi Maristela won Sri Lanka's first ever Youth Olympics medal, a bronze in the girls' 2000 metre steeplechase athletics event at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics.[4]
Medal tables
editMedals by Games
edit| Games | Athletes | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
as  Ceylon
| ||||||
| 1948 London | 7 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 28 |
| 1952 Helsinki | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 1956 Melbourne | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 1960 Rome | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 1964 Tokyo | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 1968 Mexico City | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 1972 Munich | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
as  Sri Lanka
| ||||||
| 1980 Moscow | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 1984 Los Angeles | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 1988 Seoul | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 1992 Barcelona | 11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 1996 Atlanta | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 2000 Sydney | 18 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 64 |
| 2004 Athens | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 2008 Beijing | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 2012 London | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 2016 Rio de Janeiro | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 2020 Tokyo | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 2024 Paris | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 2028 Los Angeles | future event | |||||
| 2032 Brisbane | ||||||
| Total | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 126 | |
Medals by sport
edit| Sport | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 Athletics | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| Totals (1 entries) | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
List of medalists
edit| Medal | Name | Games | Sport | Event |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 Silver |
Duncan White |  London 1948 |
 Athletics |
Men's 400 metre hurdles |
| Silver |
Susanthika Jayasinghe |  Sydney 2000 |
Athletics |
Women's 200 metres |
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ "White's silver in 1948 is still Lanka's best". Daily Mirror. Rootsweb. 25 August 2004. Archived from the original on 5 September 2009. Retrieved 22 October 2005.
- ^ "Duncan White, the gentleman", The Sunday Times, 5 July 1998.
- ^ "Finally, South Asian wins Olympic medal in Athletics after Susanthika Jayasinghe in 2000". NewsWire. 2021-08-07. Retrieved 2021-09-07.
- ^ Peiris, Sudarshana (15 October 2018). "Parami wins Sri Lanka's maiden YOG medal". www.thepapare.com. Dialog Axiata. Retrieved 15 October 2018.
External links
edit- "Sri Lanka". International Olympic Committee. 27 July 2021.
- "Sri Lanka". Olympedia.com.
- "Olympic Analytics/SRI". olympanalyt.com.
- Berlioux, Monique (February–March 1983). "Sri Lanka and Olympism" (PDF). Olympic Review. Lausanne: International Olympic Committee. pp. 139–143. Retrieved 2008-04-03.
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