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 The 2008 Summer Olympics (), officially the Games of the XXIX Olympiad () and also known as Beijing 2008 (), were an international multisport event held from 8 to 24 August 2008, in Beijing, China. A total of 10,942 athletes from 204 Na ...

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 The 50 meter pistol, formerly and unofficially still often called Free Pistol, is one of the ISSF shooting events. It provides the purest precision shooting among the pistol events, and is one of the oldest shooting disciplines, dating back to th ...

, by one point ahead of Czech Republic's

Martin Tenk Martin Tenk (; born 8 February 1972 in Ostrava) is a Czech sports shooter and Olympic medalist. He won a bronze medal in the 50 metre pistol at the 2000 Summer Olympics The 2000 Summer Olympics, officially the Games of the XXVII Olympiad and ...

, with a total score of 545 targets.

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Sri Lankan male sport shooters Living people Olympic shooters for Sri Lanka Shooters at the 2008 Summer Olympics Sportspeople from Kandy 1970 births Shooters at the 2006 Asian Games Shooters at the 2010 Asian Games Commonwealth Games competitors for Sri Lanka Shooters at the 2014 Commonwealth Games Asian Games competitors for Sri Lanka 20th-century Sri Lankan people 21st-century Sri Lankan people {{SriLanka-sportshooting-bio-stub