Early life
Sriyani Kulawansha describes her childhood as being the "vehicle of our house" as she used to run to buy groceries from her home located on a hill. It is there she realized her "energy and love" for sports. She received her primary school education from Udakendawala Primary School and entered Ibbagamuwa Central College after passing the grade 5 scholarship exam. There she took part in all the four games for girls Athletics, Elle (a game like baseball), Netball and Volleyball and won the all island championship in all of them. And she won the best sportswoman award in 1989 for Athletics, Volleyball and Netball. She had to give up Netball and volleyball to focus on Athletics when she came to the national level. She grew up in Melsiripura, a remote area in Sri Lanka'sProfessional career
While she was in 1989 South Asian Games practice squad she learned that high jump event has been cancelled due to lack of participants. But she credits her parents and coach Dervin Perera for motivating her to change to hurdles event. She describes her biggest career achievement as winning the Silver Medals in the 1998 Commonwealth Games. Sriyani retired from sports at the age of 34 even after getting selected to the 2004 Olympics. She says the decision was made because she knew that she had little chance to win and to give the opportunity to another athlete. After retirement she was invited to work as a project officer at the Education Ministry to provide services to students.Competition record
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* 1970 births Living people People from North Western Province, Sri Lanka Sri Lankan female hurdlers Olympic athletes for Sri Lanka Athletes (track and field) at the 1992 Summer Olympics Athletes (track and field) at the 1996 Summer Olympics Athletes (track and field) at the 2000 Summer Olympics Commonwealth Games medallists in athletics Athletes (track and field) at the 1998 Commonwealth Games Athletes (track and field) at the 2002 Commonwealth Games Asian Games bronze medalists for Sri Lanka Medalists at the 1998 Asian Games Asian Games medalists in athletics (track and field) Athletes (track and field) at the 1994 Asian Games Athletes (track and field) at the 1998 Asian Games Athletes (track and field) at the 2002 Asian Games World Athletics Championships athletes for Sri Lanka Commonwealth Games silver medallists for Sri Lanka South Asian Games gold medalists for Sri Lanka South Asian Games medalists in athletics Medallists at the 1998 Commonwealth Games Asian Athletics Championships winners {{SriLanka-athletics-bio-stub