Sri Lanka at the Commonwealth Games

Sri Lanka  at the Commonwealth Games
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Commonwealth Games history (summary)
British Empire Games
1938* 1950*
British Empire and Commonwealth Games
1958* 1962* 1966*
British Commonwealth Games
1970* 1974
Commonwealth Games
1978 1982 1990 1994 1998 2002 2006 2010 2014 *As Ceylon

Sri Lanka have participated in all but three Commonwealth Games since 1938, with the only ones missed being the 1954, 1974 and 1986 Games. Sri Lanka have won ten medals at the Games, but had a 44-year medal drought spanning 1950 to 1994. Until 1974, Sri Lanka competed under the name Ceylon.

List of Games Bids

Year	Bid Host City, Province
2018 Commonwealth Games	Hambantota, Southern Province

Medals

Overall Medal Tally

See also: All-time medal tally of Commonwealth Games

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1930 Hamilton	did not attend
1934 London	did not attend
1938 Sydney	1	0	0	1
1950 Auckland	1	2	1	4
1954 Vancouver	did not attend
1958 Cardiff	0	0	0	0
1962 Perth	0	0	0	0
1966 Kingston	0	0	0	0
1970 Edinburgh	0	0	0	0
1974 Christchurch	did not attend
1978 Edmonton	0	0	0	0
1982 Brisbane	0	0	0	0
1986 Edinburgh	did not attend
1990 Auckland	0	0	0	0
1994 Victoria	1	2	0	3
1998 Kuala Lumpur	0	1	1	2
2002 Manchester	0	0	0	0
2006 Melbourne	1	0	0	1
2010 Delhi	0	1	1	2
Total	4	6	3	13

List of medalists

Medal	Name	Games	Sport	Event
1 ! Gold	Barney Henricus	1938 Sydney	Boxing	Featherweight (57 kg)
1 ! Gold	Duncan White	1950 Auckland	Athletics	Men's 440 yards hurdles
1 ! Gold	Pushpamali Ramanayake Malee Wickremasinghe	1994 Victoria	Shooting	Women's Air Rifle - Pairs
1 ! Gold	Chinthana Vidanage	2006 Melbourne	Weightlifting	Men's 62 kg
2 ! Silver	K. Edwin	1950 Auckland	Boxing	Flyweight
2 ! Silver	Albert Perera	1950 Auckland	Boxing	Bantamweight
2 ! Silver	Dodangoda Chandrasiri Lakshman Rajasinghe	1994 Victoria	Shooting	Men's Small Bore Rifle, Prone - Pairs
2 ! Silver	Malee Wickremasinghe	1994 Victoria	Shooting	Women's Air Rifle
2 ! Silver	Sriyani Kulawansha	1998 Kuala Lumpur	Athletics	Women's 100 m hurdles
2 ! Silver	Chinthana Vidanage	2010 Delhi	Weightlifting	Men's 69 kg
3 ! Bronze	Alex Obeyesekera	1950 Auckland	Boxing	Welterweight
3 ! Bronze	Sugath Thilakaratne	1998 Kuala Lumpur	Athletics	Men's 400 m
3 ! Bronze	Sudesh Peiris	2010 Deilh	Weightlifting	Men's 62 kg

Source:

Overall Medal Tally by Sport

Sport	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
Boxing	1	2	1	4
Shooting	1	2	0	3
Athletics	1	1	1	3
Weightlifting	1	1	1	3
Total	4	6	3	13

Numbers of athletes and sports

This list shows the total number of athletes, male and female, and the total sports they were selected to compete in.

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Year	Athletes	Male	Female	Sports
2010	93	73	20	14
2006	67
2002	56	31	25
1998
1994
1990
1982
1978
1970
1966
1962
1958
1950
1938

External links

• Commonwealth Games Federation
• Australian Commonwealth Games Association

References

• Official results by country