| Gayanthika Aberathna | |
| Birth Date: | 23 December 1986 |
| Birth Place: | Sooriyawewa, Sri Lanka[1] |
| Height: | 1.62 m[2] |
| Weight: | 48 kg |
| Sport: | Athletics |
| Event: | 800 m, 1500 m |
Gayanthika Artigala Thushari Abeyratne (born 23 December 1986) is a Sri Lankan middle-distance runner who established a national record time at 800m.
She won a gold medal at the 2017 Asian Indoor and Martial Arts Games and silver at the 2017 Asian Championships.[3] She currently holds her country's national record in the 800 metres.
At the 2023 Asian Athletics Championships in Bangkok she won a bronze medal in the 1500m.[4]
| Representing | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | Asian Games | Incheon, South Korea | 7th | 800 m | 2:06.21 | |
| 2015 | Asian Championships | Wuhan, China | 6th | 800 m | 2:07.46 | |
| Military World Games | Mungyeong, South Korea | 13th (h) | 1500 m | 4:36.29 | ||
| 2016 | South Asian Games | Guwahati, India | bgcolor=silver | 2nd | 800 m | 2:09.64 |
| bgcolor=silver | 2nd | 1500 m | 4:25.75 | |||
| 2017 | Asian Championships | Bhubaneswar, India | bgcolor=silver | 2nd | 800 m | 2:05.27 |
| Asian Indoor and Martial Arts Games | Ashgabat, Turkmenistan | bgcolor=gold | 1st | 800 m | 2:05.12 | |
| 2018 | Asian Indoor Championships | Tehran, Iran | 4th | 800 m | 2:11.20 | |
| bgcolor=gold | 1st | 1500 m | 4:26.83 | |||
| Commonwealth Games | Gold Coast, Australia | 21st (h) | 800 m | 2:04.72 | ||
| Asian Games | Jakarta, Indonesia | 6th | 800 m | 2:05.50 | ||
| 2019 | Asian Championships | Doha, Qatar | 4th | 800 m | 2:05.74 | |
| 11th | 1500 m | 4:24.42 | ||||
| 2022 | World Championships | Eugene, United States | 29th (h) | 800 m | 2:02.35 | |
| 2023 | Asian Championships | Bangkok, Thailand | 3rd | 800 m | 2:03.25 | |
| 3rd | 1500 m | 4:14.39 | ||||
| Asian Games | Hangzhou, China | 8th | 800 m | 2:05.87 | ||
| 4th | 1500 m | 4:18.77 | ||||
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