The following is a list of Sri Lankan sportspeople.

Archery

Dilhara Salgado Dilhara Salgado (born 25 March 1983) is a Sri Lankan archer. She attended Methodist College, Colombo and is a member of the Sri Lanka Air Force Archery Club. She competed in the 2011 World Archery Championships in Turin, Italy, scoring 1289. Sa ...

Badminton

Lucky Dharmasena Lucky Dharmasena also known as Lucky Alagoda (born around 1945) is a Sri Lankan former badminton player. Lucky Dharmasena is a former national badminton champion who is also regarded as one of the greatest female badminton players to have represen ...

Nadeesha Gayanthi Nadeesha Gayanthi Murukkuwadura (born 6 September 1984) is a Sri Lankan badminton player. She was included in the national badminton team in 2006 and got the opportunity to represent Sri Lanka at the 2006 Asian Games competing in the women's sin ...

Thilini Hendahewa Thilini Pramodika Hendahewa (born 18 September 1996) is a Sri Lankan badminton player. She competed at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics in Nanjing, China, also at the 2014 and 2018 Commonwealth Games. Hendahewa was the women' singles champion at t ...

Thilini Jayasinghe Thilini Sudhara Jayasinghe (Sinhalese: තිලිනි සුනාරි ජයසිංහ; Tamils: திலினி சுனாரி ஜயசிங்க; born 15 January 1985) is a Sri Lankan badminton player. Born in Peradeniya, Jay ...

* Chamika Karunaratne *

Dinuka Karunaratne Edirimuni Dinuka Nishan Perera Karunaratne ( Sinhala: දිනුක කරුණාරත්න; Tamil: தினுக கருணாரத்ன; born 6 October 1987) is a Sri Lankan badminton player. Personal life His father Louie Karuna ...

Niluka Karunaratne Niluka Karunaratne ( Sinhala: නිලූක කරුණාරත්න; Tamil: நிலுக கருணாரத்ன) (born 13 February 1985) is a Sri Lankan badminton player who has competed at the Olympics in 2012, 2016 and 2020. His ...

Oshadie Kuruppu Oshadie Poornima Kuruppu (also spelt as Oshadi Kuruppu, 20 August 1994 – 8 February 2022) was a Sri Lankan badminton player. Starting in 2015 she represented Sri Lanka at senior level in several international competitions including the 2016 So ...

Inoka Rohini de Silva Inoka Rohini de Silva also commonly known as Inoka Rohini (born around 1971) is a Sri Lankan former badminton player. De Silva was a national badminton champion at the women's doubles in 1995, 1996, 1998 partnering with Chandrika de Silva. Inoka ...

Lekha Shehani Dona Lekha Shehani Handunkuttihettige (born 30 January 1993) is a Sri Lankan badminton player. She started to playing badminton at the age of 8. In 2009, she began to participate in the national badminton tournament, and in 2013, she won her fir ...

Chandrika de Silva Chandrika de Silva (Sinhalese: චන්ද්‍රිකා ද සිල්වා; Tamils: சந்திரிகா த சில்வா; born 24 February 1974) also known as Renu Chandrika Hettiarachchige is a Sri Lankan badminton ...

* Kavidi Sirimannage *

Niroshan Wijekoon Pathmasiri Niroshan Bandara Wijekoon (born February 10, 1964) is a Sri Lankan Olympian and the first badminton player to represent Sri Lanka. Wijekoon held the Sri Lankan National Badminton Championships singles title for nine years (1983–1987 ...

Basketball

Billiards

Muhammad Lafir Muhammad Junaid Muhammad Lafir (27 May 1930 - 26 April 1981) also known as either Mohammed Lafir or M J M Lafir was a Sri Lankan snooker player. He won the IBSF Amateur World Championship in 1973 and is regarded as the greatest snooker player ...

Boxing

Manju Wanniarachchi Manju Dinesh Kumara Wanniarachchi ( si, මංජු දිනේෂ් කුමාර වන්නිආරච්චි) (born 2 December 1979) is a Sri Lankan amateur boxer. He won a gold medal at the 2010 Commonwealth Games in the bantamwei ...

Carrom

Nishantha Fernando Nishantha Fernando (born 8 February 1970) was a Sri Lankan cricketer. He was a right-arm bowler who played for Moratuwa Sports Club Moratuwa Sports Club was a first-class cricket team in Sri Lanka. It competed in the Premier Trophy, Sri Lanka' ...

Chamil Cooray Chamil Darshana Cooray Bulathsinghalage is a Sri Lankan carrom player. He has been playing for Sri Lanka from 2004 to date who was also the captain of the Sri Lanka Men's Carrom team that won the 2016 Carrom World Championship in Birmingham, E ...

Cricket

Cycling

Maurice Coomarawel Maurice Coomarawel (16 April 1940 – 22 July 2008) was a Sri Lankan cyclist. He competed in the individual road race at the 1960 Summer Olympics The 1960 Summer Olympics ( it, Giochi Olimpici estivi del 1960), officially known as the G ...

Football

Golf

Mithun Perera K. Mithun Chamika Udayanga Perera (born 26 December 1986) is a Sri Lankan golfer. His father, Nandasena Perera, is also a notable golfer. As an amateur, Perera won the Sri Lanka Amateur three times as well as other Asian amateur events. He rep ...

Nandasena Perera K Nandasena Perera (29 August 1954 – 14 February 2019) was a Sri Lankan professional golfer. Early life Perera grew up in Colombo, Sri Lanka. Perera left school early to work for his family. He later got into golf while working as a caddy at t ...

Anura Rohana Anura Rohana (born 11 September 1973) is a Sri Lankan professional golfer. He plays primarily on the Professional Golf Tour of India, where he has won three times. He also plays on the Asian Tour and Asian Development Tour, primarily in events p ...

Gymnastics

Achini Chamen Achini Chamen (born ) is a Sri Lankan artistic gymnast, representing her nation at international competitions. She competed at the 2003 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships in Anaheim, California Anaheim ( ) is a city in northern Orange Co ...

Anna-Marie Ondaatje Anna-Marie Suzanne Quint Ondaatje also simply known as Anna-Marie Ondaatje (born 1 September 2000) is a Canadian born female rhythmic gymnast of Sri Lankan descent. She has competed in national level competitions in Canada and has represented bot ...

Karate

Wasantha Soysa Wasantha Soysa was a Karate champion and a Guinness record holder who has approximately twelve world records, including breaking twelve slabs of concrete in one blow with his head, and breaking 522 clay tiles. His nickname was the 'Rajarata Ir ...

Netball

Deepika Abeykoon Deepika Abeykoon is a Sri Lankan netball player and center, goal defense of the Sri Lankan national netball team. Season held on 12-21 July. References 1989 births Sri Lankan netball players 2019 Netball World Cup players Living people ...

* Kasturi Chellaraja Wilson *

Gayani Dissanayake Gayani Dissanayake ( si, ගයානී දිසානායක) (born 20 April 1994) is a Sri Lankan netball player and a former captain of the Sri Lanka national netball team who plays in the position of goal defense or goal keeper in intern ...

* Chathurangi Jayasooriya *

Nauchalee Rajapakse Nauchalee Rajapakse is a Sri Lankan netball player who represents Sri Lankan netball team in international netball tournaments. She represents Army SC in local netball competitions. She was a member of the Sri Lankan contingent which emerged as ...

Elilenthini Sethukavalar Elilenthini Sethukavalar also spelled as Elilenthinie Sethukavalar also simply known as Elil Sethukavalar (born 4 April 1995) is a Sri Lankan netball player represents Sri Lankan netball team in international netball tournaments and also work ...

* Tharjini Sivalingam *

Dulangi Wannithilake Dulangi Wannithilake also spelled as Dulangi Wannithileka ( si, දුලාංගී වන්නිතිලක) (born 17 October 1994) is a Sri Lankan netball player who also is a basketball player and represents Sri Lankan netball team in in ...

Mellony Wijesinghe Mellony Wijesinghe ( si, මෙලනී විජේසිංහ) (2002 – 20 October 2019) was a Sri Lankan netball player who played in the position of goal shooter in international netball tournaments. She died on 20 October 2019 from s ...

Racing

* Ananda Wedisinghe * Dilantha Malagamuwa

Rugby

Swimming

* Mathew Abeysinghe *

Cherantha de Silva Cherantha De Silva (born 12 July 1996) is a Sri Lankan medal-winning swimming (sport), swimmer, who has represented his country at 6 World Aquatics Championships, 3 FINA World Cup's, 2 Commonwealth Games, 1 Asian Games as well as 1 South Asian ...

Kimiko Raheem Kimiko Shihara Raheem (born 28 January 1999) is a Sri Lankan national swimmer who has represented her country at several international competitions. She represented her country at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. She won multip ...

Mayumi Raheem Mayumi Raheem (born 15 September 1991) is a swimmer from Sri Lanka who won 3 gold medals at the 2006 South Asian Games in the Women's 50 metres, 100 meters and 200 metres breaststroke. She also won 5 silver medals and 5 bronze medals, bringing he ...

Table Tennis

Dr. Nimal Lucas Dr Nimal Lucas is a veteran table tennis player from Sri Lanka. He also won the national table tennis championship. Additionally, he was the captain of the Sri Lankan table tennis team from 1966 to 1971. He participated in the Men's Open Single ...

Track & field athletes

Sriyantha Dissanayake Deshabandu Sriyantha Dissanayake (also known as Sriyantha Subashan Abeysekara Dissanayake) is a Sri Lankan sprint athlete specializing in the 100 and 200 metres. Early life and education Sriyantha was a champion athlete during his school days at ...

Manjula Kumara Manjula Kumara Pathiranage Wijesekara (born 30 January 1984 in Morawaka) is a Sri Lankan high jumper. He has been regarded as one of the most experienced high jumpers to have represented the country mainly in the Asian Games and Commonwealth Gam ...

Himasha Eashan Himasha Eshan Waththakankanamge is a Sri Lankan sprint athlete specializing in the 200 and 100 metres. He studied at the Kalutara Vidyalaya. He held the South Asian and Sri Lankan records in the 100 m sprint with the time of 10.26 seconds, until ...

Sugath Thilakaratne Deshabandu Robosingho Arachchilage Don Sugath Thilakaratne (born July 30, 1973 in Norton Bridge, Sri Lanka), commonly as Sugath Thilakaratne, is a Sri Lankan athlete who competed in the 400 metres The 400 metres, or 400-meter dash, is a sprin ...

Tharushi Karunarathna Dissanayaka Mudiyanselage Tharushi Dilsara Karunaratne (born 18 November 2004) is a Sri Lankan middle-distance runner who competes mainly in the 800 metres. She won a gold medal at the 2023 Asian Athletics Championships held in Bangkok in the 40 ...

Weightlifting

Sudesh Peiris Anton Sudesh Peiris Kurukulasooriyage (born February 3, 1985) is a weightlifter from Sri Lanka. Kurukulasooriyage was born in Sandalankawa, Sri Lanka. At the 2010 Commonwealth Games he won a bronze medal in the 62 kg event. Kurukulasooriyage ...

Chinthana Vidanage Chinthana Geetal Vidanage (born December 31, 1981) is a Sri Lankan weightlifter. He won a gold medal in the men's 62 kg category weightlifting; the first weightlifting gold medal for Sri Lanka in the 2006 Commonwealth Games held in Austra ...