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Edirisinghe Senanayake

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Nickname(s)
  
E. M.

Height
  
1.73 m

Name
  
Edirisinghe Senanayake


Sport
  
Shooting

Nationality
  
Sri Lanka

Weight
  
79 kg

Full name
  
Edirisinghe Mudiyanselage Senanayake

Born
  
14 February 1970 (age 54) (
1970-02-14
)
Kandy, Sri Lanka

Event(s)
  
10 m air pistol (AP60) 50 m pistol (FP)

Edirisinghe Mudiyanselage "E. M." Senanayake (born February 14, 1970 in Kandy) is a Sri Lankan sport shooter. 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. 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.

References

Edirisinghe Senanayake Wikipedia