Wannakuwatte Waduge Dinesh Nishantha Fernando is a Sri Lankan
carrom player and a former world number one carrom player. Fernanado was a National Carrom champion in Sri Lanka, who became a Carrom World champion in Men's singles event in 2012 by defeating C. Bharathi Dhasan of India 25–4, 25–10 in the finals. Fernando also became the first Sri Lankan to win Carrom World Championship title and the second Sri Lankan to win an individual World Championship title, following Mohammad Lafir, who won the Snooker World Championship title in 1973. Fernando was also the key member of the Sri Lankan carrom team which won the
2016 Carrom World Championship
The 2016 Carrom World Championship, was the 7th edition of an international Carrom tournament governed by the I nternational Carrom Federation, contested from 7 to 11 November 2016 in Birmingham, United Kingdom
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England
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, the largest Carrom World Championship, with fifteen countries participating.
See also
List of Sri Lankans by sport
References
Sinhalese people
Sri Lankan carrom players
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