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Edirisinghe Senanayake | |
Fullname: | Edirisinghe Mudiyanselage Senanayake |
Nickname: | E. M. |
Birth Date: | 14 February 1970 |
Birth Place: | Kandy, Sri Lanka |
Weight: | 790NaN0 |
Sport: | Shooting |
Event: | 10 m air pistol (AP60) 50 m pistol (FP) |
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Edirisinghe Mudiyanselage "E. M." Senanayake (born February 14, 1970, in Kandy) is a Sri Lankan sport shooter.[1] At age thirty-eight, Senanayake made his official debut for the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, where he competed in two pistol shooting events. He scored a total of 561 targets in the preliminary rounds of the men's 10 m air pistol, by two points behind Egypt's Mahmod Abdelaly, finishing only in forty-eighth place.[2] Three days later, Senanayake placed thirty-sixth in his second event, 50 m pistol, by one point ahead of Czech Republic's Martin Tenk, with a total score of 545 targets.[3]