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2. Sri Lanka at the 2024 Summer Olympics - Wikipedia

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   IOC code: SRI: NOC: National Olympic Committee of Sri Lanka: Website: www.srilankaolympic.org: in Paris, France 26 July 2024 () – 11 August 2024 () Competitors: 6 (3 men and 3 women) in 3 sports: Flag bearer (opening) Viren Nettasinghe & Dilhani Lekamge: Flag bearer (closing) Viren Nettasinghe & Dilhani Lekamge: Medals: Gold 0 Silver 0 Bronze 0

3. Traditional games of Sri Lanka - Wikipedia

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   The game was documented by Henry Parker in Ancient Ceylon: An Account of the Aborigines and of Part of the Early Civilisation (1909) with the name perali kotuwa or the war enclosure. [20] Parker mentions that it is also played in India. It closely resembles another game from Sri Lanka called Kotu Ellima. The two games use the same board which ...

4. Sri Lanka at the 2016 Summer Olympics - Wikipedia

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   2020. 2024. Sri Lanka competed at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from 5 to 21 August 2016. This was the nation's seventeenth appearance at the Summer Olympics, with the exception of the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal. Six of the nation's Olympic editions were previously designated as Ceylon .

5. List of mammals of Sri Lanka - Wikipedia

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   Order: Cetacea (cetaceans) The order Cetacea includes whales, dolphins and porpoises. They are the mammals most fully adapted to aquatic life with a spindle-shaped nearly hairless body, protected by a thick layer of blubber, and forelimbs and tail modified to provide propulsion underwater. Name. Binomial.

6. List of World Heritage Sites in Sri Lanka - Wikipedia

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   The most recent site, the Central Highlands of Sri Lanka, was listed in 2010. The Central Highlands and the Sinharaja Forest Reserve are natural sites, the other six are cultural. In addition, Sri Lanka has four sites on its tentative list. The country served as a member of the World Heritage Committee in the years 1983–1989. [3]

7. List of Sri Lanka national cricket captains - Wikipedia

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   List of Sri Lanka national cricket captains. This is a list of all men, boys and women who have captained a Sri Lankan national cricket team at official international level. Sri Lanka became a full member of the International Cricket Council on 21 July 1981. Previously they were an associate member of the ICC from 1965, which made them eligible ...

8. Sri Lanka at the Olympics - Wikipedia

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   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 and has never participated in the Winter Olympic Games . Sri Lankan athletes have won a total of two Olympic silver medals, both in athletics . The National Olympic Committee of Sri Lanka was created in ...

9. Football Federation of Sri Lanka - Wikipedia

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   FFSL was founded on 1939 as Ceylon Football Association, later rechristened as Football Federation of Sri Lanka in 1972. FSL affiliated with FIFA in 1952. FFSL affiliated with Asian Football Confederation in 1954 and was the founding member of South Asian Football Federation which was founded in 1997. In 2021, the organisation introduced a new ...