Sri Lanka first participated at the Olympic Games in 1948, and has sent a delegation to every Summer Olympic Games except for the 1976 Games to boycott apartheid South Africa. The nation has never participated in the Winter Olympic Games.
Sri Lankan athletes have won a total of two Olympic silver medals, both in athletics.[1][2][3]
The National Olympic Committee of Sri Lanka was created in 1937 and recognized by the International Olympic Committee that same year. The nation was designated as Ceylon (country code "CEY") until 1972.
Parami Wasanthi Maristela won Sri Lanka's first ever Youth Olympics medal, a bronze in the girls' 2000 metre steeplechase athletics event at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics.[4]
Medal tables
Medals by Games
| Games | Athletes | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1948 London | 7 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 28 |
| 1952 Helsinki | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 1956 Melbourne | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 1960 Rome | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 1964 Tokyo | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 1968 Mexico City | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 1972 Munich | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 1980 Moscow | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 1984 Los Angeles | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 1988 Seoul | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 1992 Barcelona | 11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 1996 Atlanta | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 2000 Sydney | 18 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 64 |
| 2004 Athens | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 2008 Beijing | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 2012 London | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 2016 Rio de Janeiro | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 2020 Tokyo | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 2024 Paris | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 2028 Los Angeles | future event | |||||
| 2032 Brisbane | ||||||
| Total | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 126 | |
Medals by sport
| Sport | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 Athletics | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| Totals (1 entries) | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
List of medalists
| Medal | Name | Games | Sport | Event |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 Silver | Duncan White |  London 1948 |  Athletics | Men's 400 metre hurdles |
| Silver | Susanthika Jayasinghe |  Sydney 2000 | Athletics | Women's 200 metres |
See also
References
- ↑ "White's silver in 1948 is still Lanka's best". Daily Mirror. Rootsweb. 25 August 2004. Archived from the original on 5 September 2009. Retrieved 22 October 2005.
- ↑ "Duncan White, the gentleman" Archived 2018-07-15 at the Wayback Machine, The Sunday Times, 5 July 1998.
- ↑ "Finally, South Asian wins Olympic medal in Athletics after Susanthika Jayasinghe in 2000". NewsWire. 2021-08-07. Archived from the original on 2021-09-07. Retrieved 2021-09-07.
- ↑ Peiris, Sudarshana (15 October 2018). "Parami wins Sri Lanka's maiden YOG medal". www.thepapare.com. Dialog Axiata. Archived from the original on 16 October 2018. Retrieved 15 October 2018.
External links
- "Sri Lanka". International Olympic Committee. 27 July 2021.
- "Sri Lanka". Olympedia.com.
- "Olympic Analytics/SRI". olympanalyt.com.
- Berlioux, Monique (February–March 1983). "Sri Lanka and Olympism" (PDF). Olympic Review. Lausanne: International Olympic Committee. pp. 139–143. Retrieved 2008-04-03.
