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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…

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…