Sri Lanka at the Olympics explained

Noc:	SRI
Nocname:	National Olympic Committee of Sri Lanka
Games:	Olympics
Rank:	123
Gold:	0
Silver:	2
Bronze:	0
App Begin Year:	1948

Sri Lanka first participated at the Olympic Games in 1948, and has sent a delegation to every Summer Olympic Games except for the 1976 Games to boycott apartheid South Africa and has never participated in the Winter Olympic Games.

Sri Lankan athletes have won a total of two Olympic silver medals, both in athletics.^{[1] [2] [3]}

The National Olympic Committee of Sri Lanka was created in 1937 and recognized by the International Olympic Committee that same year. The nation was designated as Ceylon (country code "CEY") until 1972.

Parami Wasanthi Maristela won Sri Lanka's first ever Youth Olympics medal, a bronze in the girls' 2000 metre steeplechase athletics event at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics.^[4]

Medal tables

Medals by Games

Games	Athletes	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total	Rank
as
		0	1	0	1	28
		0	0	0	0	–
		0	0	0	0	–
		0	0	0	0	–
		0	0	0	0	–
		0	0	0	0	–
		0	0	0	0	–
as Sri Lanka
		0	0	0	0	–
		0	0	0	0	–
		0	0	0	0	–
		0	0	0	0	–
		0	0	0	0	–
		0	1	0	1	64
		0	0	0	0	–
		0	0	0	0	–
		0	0	0	0	–
		0	0	0	0	–
		0	0	0	0	–
		0	0	0	0	–
	future event
Total		0	2	0	2	126

Medals by sport

List of medalists

Medal	Name	Games	Sport	Event
Silver				Men's 400 metre hurdles
Silver				Women's 200 metres

See also

• List of flag bearers for Sri Lanka at the Olympics
  • All-time Olympic Games medal count
• Sri Lanka at the Paralympics

References

1. News: White's silver in 1948 is still Lanka's best. Daily Mirror. Rootsweb. 25 August 2004. 22 October 2005. https://web.archive.org/web/20090905013302/http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~lkawgw/dwhite.htm. 5 September 2009. dead.
2. http://www.sundaytimes.lk/980705/sports2.html "Duncan White, the gentleman"
3. Web site: 2021-08-07. Finally, South Asian wins Olympic medal in Athletics after Susanthika Jayasinghe in 2000. 2021-09-07. NewsWire. en-US.
4. Web site: Parami wins Sri Lanka's maiden YOG medal. Sudarshana. Peiris. 15 October 2018. www.thepapare.com. Dialog Axiata. 15 October 2018.

External links

• Web site: Sri Lanka . 27 July 2021 . International Olympic Committee .
• Web site: Sri Lanka . Olympedia.com .
• Web site: Olympic Analytics/SRI . olympanalyt.com .
• Web site: Sri Lanka and Olympism . Olympic Review . 184 . February–March 1983 . 139–143 . International Olympic Committee . Berlioux, Monique . Lausanne . 2008-04-03.