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Sri Lanka at the 2010 Asian Games

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IOC code
  
SRI

Flag bearer
  
Mithun Perera

Competitors
  
104 in 24 sports

Sri Lanka at the 2010 Asian Games

NOC
  
National Olympic Committee of Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka will participate at the 16th Asian Games in Guangzhou, China.

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Archery

Sri Lanka will send 5 archers.

Men
  • Indranath Perera
  • Chaminda Rajasinghe
  • Nipun Seneviratne
  • Women
  • Dilhara Salgado
  • Shashikala Kumarasinghe
  • Athletics

    Sri Lanka will send 21 athletes.

    Men
  • Shehan Abeyptiya
  • Manjula Kumara
  • Chaminda Wijekoon
  • Prasanna Amarasekara
  • KK Seneviratne
  • Nalin Priyantha
  • Keith de Mel
  • DN Karunaratne
  • Gayan Wickramasinghe
  • Rohitha Pushpakumara
  • Gihan Ratnayake
  • Shivantha Weerasuriya
  • Ashan Hasaranga
  • Women
  • Jani Chaturangani de Silva
  • Nadeeka Lakmali
  • Chamli Priyadarshani
  • Chandrika Rasnayake
  • Niluka Nadeeshani
  • Niranjani Abeywickrema
  • Sujani Buddhika
  • Badminton

    Sri Lanka will send 4 badminton athletes.

    Men
  • Niluka Karunaratne
  • Dinuka Karunaratne
  • Women
  • Thilini Jayasinghe
  • Subodha Dahanayaka
  • Sri Lanka was supposed to make its Asian Games debut in Baseball.

    However, according to the official Olympic Committee website, Baseball is not listed as a sport being competed by Sri Lanka and it later withdrew.

    Beach Volleyball

    Sri Lanka will send 2 men and women beach volleyball teams.

    Men
  • Asanka Pradeep & Pubudu Ekanayake
  • Mahesh Perera & Wasantha Ratnapala
  • Women
  • Sujeewa Withanange & Nirosha Gunasinghe
  • LS Somaratne & HN Lakmini
  • Boxing

    Sri Lanka was scheduled to send 7 boxers (6 men and 1 women), but 3 men boxers have withdrawn. Also 2010 Commonwealth Games gold medalist Manju Wanniarachchi has withdrawn to injury.

    Men
  • Chaminda Tennakoon
  • Saman Priyadharshana Silva
  • PD Suresh
  • Women
  • Niranjala Senanayake
  • Cricket

    Sri Lanka is one of Asia's powers in cricket, however it will only send a men's team.

    Sri Lanka has been seeded first, and will automatically enter the knockout round where it will play the runner up from Group B in the quarterfinal.

    Roster
  • Jehan Mubarak
  • Jeevantha Kulathunga
  • Kaushalya Weeraratne
  • Chinthaka Jayasinghe
  • Indika de Saram
  • Nuwan Zoysa
  • Dilhara Lokuhettige
  • Kaushal Lokuarachchi
  • Dilshan Munaweera
  • T.M. Sampath
  • Kushal Janith
  • Isuru Udana
  • Sanjeewa Weerakoon
  • Gayan Wijekoon
  • Malinga Bandara
  • Knockout stage
    Knockout map
    Quarterfinals

    Cycling

    Sri Lanka will send 2 cyclists

    Road

    Men
  • Lakshman Wijeratne
  • Women
  • Lasanthi Gunathilaka
  • Golf

    Sri Lanka will send 4 golfers, all men.

  • Mithun Perera
  • T Nadaraja
  • VB Ranaratna
  • KA Chandradasa
  • Gymnastics

    Sri Lanka will send 2 male gymnasts.

    Artistic

    Men
  • Nadika Cooray
  • Tharindu Pathmaperuma
  • Kabbadi

    Women
  • Team
  • However, according to the official Olympic Committee website, Kabbadi is not listed as a sport being competed by Sri Lanka.

    Karate

    Sri Lanka will send one male karate athlete.

    Men

    RJ Edward

    Rowing

    Sri Lanka will only send 2 rowers.

    Men
  • Rajeev De Silva- Single and Double Sculls
  • Guyan Jayaratne- Double Sculls
  • Rugby sevens

    Sri Lanka's men's team consists of 12 athletes.

    Men
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  • Sailing

    Sri Lanka will send 4 sailors

    Men
  • DA de Alwis
  • Janaka Pathirage
  • CL Gunawardena
  • Women
  • Sureni Alapatha
  • Shooting

    Sri Lanka will send 4 male shooters.

    Men
  • Edirisinghe Senanayake
  • Sarath Chandrasiri
  • Mangala Samarakoon
  • Yamith Krishantha
  • Squash

    Sri Lanka will only send a men's team.

    Men
  • Navin Samarasinghe
  • Gihan Suwaris
  • Binura Jayasuriya
  • Swimming

    Sri Lanka will send 2 swimmers.

    Men
  • Heshan Unamboowe
  • Women
  • Madhawee Weerathunga
  • Synchronized swimming

  • Elisha Gomes
  • Dehara Katipearachchi
  • Taekwondo

    Sri Lanka will send 2 athletes in taekwondo.

    Men
  • Ravindra Rajapaksa
  • Gayan Kumara
  • Table tennis

    Sri Lanka will send 2 paddlers.

    Men
  • Rohan Sirisena
  • Women
  • Ishara Madurangi
  • Tennis

    Sri Lanka will send 3 male tennis athletes.

    Men
  • Harshana Godamanna
  • Thangarajah Dineshkanthan
  • Vimukthi de Alwis
  • Weightlifting

    Sri Lanka will send 2 male weightlifters. However the team will not include Suresh Peris or Chintana Vindange medal winners at the 2010 Commonwealth games.

    Men
  • Priyantha Wijesuriya
  • Chaturanga Dissananyake
  • Wushu

    Sri Lanka will send one wushu athlete.

    Men
  • ID Abeyratne
  • References

    Sri Lanka at the 2010 Asian Games Wikipedia