Dilhani Lekamge | |
Full Name: | Hatarabage Lekamge Nadeesha Dilhani Lekamge |
Nationality: | Sri Lankan |
Birth Place: | Eheliyagoda, Sabaragamuwa Province, Sri Lanka[1] |
Sport: | Athletics |
Event: | Javelin throw |
Pb: | 58.41 m (2018)[2] |
Education: | Mahinda School |
Height: | 1.60 m |
Weight: | 68 kg |
Show-Medals: | yes |
Nadeesha Dilhani Lekamge (born 14 October 1987) is a Sri Lankan javelin thrower. She won a silver medal at the 2017 Asian Championships.
Lekamge was born in 1987 in the town of Eheliyagoda on Sri Lanka. It was there that she was educated at the Mahinda School.[3]
She enlisted as a private in the Sri Lankan army.[4] Lekamge is at present a corporal in the Sri Lanka Army Women's Corps.[5]
She won a silver medal at the 2017 Asian Championships[6] with a throw of 58.11m. She was placed fifth at the 2018 Commonwealth Games.
At the 2023 Asian Athletics Championships in Bangkok she threw a national record javelin throw of 60.93m and she won the bronze medal. At the same games her fellow athlete Gayanthika Abeyratne also won a bronze medal in the 1500m.[7]