Kumudu Priyanka Dissanayake Mudiyanselage (born 26 March 1988) is a Sri Lankan Paralympic track and field athlete who is also a current world record holder in women's 200m T45 category. She made her first Paralympic appearance representing Sri Lanka at the 2020 Summer Paralympics.

Biography

She lost both her hands and vision in one of her eyes at the age of 16 due to a

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explosion. She is also current employed at MAS Holdings.

Career

She made her debut in para-athletics during the 2006 Para Athletics National Meet. On 17 December 2010, she set the IPC world record in the women's 200m T45 category with a timing of 28.58 seconds. She represented

Sri Lanka at the 2018 Asian Para Games Sri Lanka took part in the 2018 Asian Para Games which was held in Jakarta from 6 to 13 October 2018, sent a delegation consisting of 30 para-athletes in 9 different sporting events. The 2016 Rio Paralympic medalist Dinesh Priyantha Herath was th ...

and claimed a bronze medal in the women's long jump event where he compatriot

Amara Indumathi Amara Lallwala Palliyagurunnans (born 1986), also known as Amara Indumathi, is a Sri Lankan female Paralympic athlete. She competed at the 2012 Summer Paralympics and at the 2016 Summer Paralympics. Indumathi became the first Sri Lankan woman at ...

claimed gold medal. Kumudu initially ended up at fourth position in women's long jump final at the

2018 Asian Para Games The 2018 Asian Para Games ( id, Pesta Olahraga Difabel Asia 2018, ''Asian Para Games 2018''), officially known as the 3rd Asian Para Games and also known as Indonesia 2018, was a pan-Asian multi-sport event that held from 6 to 13 October 2018 ...

but she was upgraded to bronze medal position following a doping violation by an Uzbekistani athlete in the same event. She claimed bronze medal in women's long jump event at the 2021 World Para Athletics Grand Prix which was held in Dubai. She received bipartite invitation from

International Paralympic Committee The International Paralympic Committee (IPC; german: Internationales Paralympisches Komitee) is an international non-profit organisation and the global governing body for the Paralympic Movement. The IPC organizes the Paralympic Games and fun ...

to participate at the Tokyo Paralympics. She was the only female athlete to have represented Sri Lanka at the 2020 Tokyo Paralympics and she was also the only civilian to have qualified to compete for Sri Lanka at the Tokyo Paralympics whereas rest of the athletes were attached to

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. She became only the second female competitor to represent

Sri Lanka at the Paralympics Sri Lanka made its Paralympic Games début at the 1996 Summer Paralympics in Atlanta, with a single athlete (Kalika Pathirana) in track and field. The country has participated in every subsequent edition of the Summer Paralympics, but has never en ...

after Amara Indumathi. She competed in both the women's long jump and women's 100m T47 events at the

2020 Summer Paralympics The , branded as the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games, was an international multi-sport parasports event held from 24 August to 5 September 2021 in Tokyo, Japan. They were the 16th Summer Paralympic Games as organized by the International Paralym ...

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Priyanka, Kumudu 1988 births Living people Sri Lankan female sprinters Sri Lankan female long jumpers Paralympic athletes for Sri Lanka Athletes (track and field) at the 2020 Summer Paralympics Place of birth missing (living people)