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TOKYO, August 6 – Poland bagged a surprise Gold Medal when inexperienced Dawid Tomala beat the morning weather to come first in the 2020 Olympic Games 50km race walk in Sapporo today. None expected Tomala to beat a galaxy of the…

TOKYO, August 6 – Defending Olympic champion Shaunae Miller-Uibo of Bahamas shattered American Allyson Felix Gold Medal hopes with a new area record in a crushing Women’s 400m at the 2020 Olympic Games at the National Olympic Stadium…

Leg-spinner Gayan Chandraboos (4/16) and Ashan Priyanjan (3/23) bowled well as Northern Warriors defeated Western Warriors by 64 runs in the Army Commander’s League T20 Cricket Tournament final, concluded at Dombagoda yesterday.…

Bangladesh handed Australia their second defeat in-a-row to go 2-0 up in the five-match T20I series with a five-wicket win in the second match on Wednesday. Bangladesh are now on the cusp of making history – their first ever…

Skipper Seekkuge Prasanna produced a fine all-round performance to steer the Northern Warriors to a 24-run victory over the Eastern Warriors in their Army Commander’s League T20 Cricket Tournament match played at Dombagoda yesterday.…

One of the top cricketers to come out of Kandy in recent time is Hasitha Boyagoda, former Trinity College Captain, who won the schools highest award, the Ryde Gold Medal for 2017. The medal is awarded each year to the Best…

Twenty-one-year-old Sachintha Udara Senanayake was an outstanding cricketer of Dharmaraja College, Kandy. He had the honour of Captaining the First Eleven Cricket Team of Dharmaraja during the 2018/2019 Inter-Schools cricket…

Gaja Holdings, one of the prime sports promoting organisations in the country, has come forward to boost five sports - basketball, netball, football, hockey and rugby - by training players based on a proper plan. A minimum of…

 Sri Lanka Athletics (SLA) will conduct the National Athletic Championship Stage-2 at the Sugathadasa Stadium on August 9 and 10. The first-stage of the National Championship was held on May 21 to focus mainly on the ‘Road to…

TOKYO, August 5 – USA’s World champion Grant Holloway was made to eat humble pie as Jamaican Hansle Parchment pulled off a surprise gold medal in the Men’s 110m hurdles final of the 2020 Olympic Games track and field competition…