Sports

The Kandy District Hockey Associations (KDHA) is all out to bring back the game to its former position as soon as they receive the greenlight from the authorities. Today, sportsmen and women at school and at club level are…

Northern Warriors led by Seekkuge Prasanna emerged champions of the Army Commander’s Cup T20 League Cricket Tournament when they defeated Western Warriors by 64 runs in the final played at Dombagoda on Friday. Shehan Fernando was…

Nalanda College Skipper Raveen de Silva was a fine all-rounder, who excelled during the Under-19 Division One Tier ‘A’ Inter-Schools Limited Overs Cricket Tournament. He scored 338 runs with a century and two half-centuries in…

Three National Basketball Teams consisting 20 players and officials gearing up to represent the country in the upcoming international tournaments, got vaccinated against the COVID-19, at the Army Hospital in Colombo recently. On…

TOKYO, August 6 – Indian Men yesterday won their first Olympic Medal in 41 years to get a Bronze but their Women could not produce the same in the Bronze Medal playoff match at the Olympic Games 2020 hockey match at the Oi Hockey…

TOKYO, August 6 – The USA Women’s Volleyball Team will play for a maiden Gold Medal Olympic Games match on Sunday after they registered a 25-19, 25-15, 25-23 victory over Serbia. Leading the USA was Annie Drews with 17 points…

Eighteen-year-old Pramod Ekanayake is a promising volleyball player, who has represented Vijayaba National School, Hungama with distinction. He started playing volleyball under their school coach and Master-in-Charge Tharaka…

Some of the founder members of Upcountry Lions Rugby Club are keen to get back to playing rugby and are hoping to bring a little bit more excitement and enjoyment. Kandy is badly in need of another rugby club. Today, out of…

Javelin thrower Dinesh Priyantha Herath, who won a Bronze Medal at the 2016 Rio Paralympics Games, will lead the nine-member Sri Lankan Team for the Tokyo Paralympics Games. He will be Sri Lanka’s flag-bearer at the opening…

Sports Minister Namal Rajapaksa yesterday met the Sri Lankan para athletes at the National Sports Council Premises in Torrington, before their departure to participate at the Tokyo Paralympics from next week. After the event, the…