Sri Lanka’s Top woman shuttler Thilini Jayasinghe, who competed at the Last Olympic Game in Beijing, has a glimpse of hope in making her way to the London Olympics this year. According to the selections, done by the world governing body for Badminton, she has been included in the stand bye list at third position. [...]

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Sri Lanka’s Shuttle star Niluka Karunaratne’ participation at the forth coming London Olympic is confirmed by the Governing Body for the based in Malaysia. According to the ranking of the participants Niluka is placed in the 30th slot out of 38 in the men’s category thereby assuring him to compete in the Men’ Singles. The [...]

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Sri Lanka's number one badminton player, Niluka Karaunaratne has climbed to the 48th position in World rankings. The latest rankings were issued on Thursday. Karunaratne, placed 26th slot among the 38 badminton players already qualified for London Olympics, skipped the recently held Asian championships in order to keep himself fit for the pinnacle event. "In [...]

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Former national champion, Thilini Jayasinghe will have yet another opportunity to book her ticket to London Olympics, provided she appears in the major segment in the Asian Badminton Championships to be held in Shandong, China. The tournament is to be held from 17 to 22 at Qingdao Sports Centre Conson Stadium, China. Jayasinghe, currently ranked [...]

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The under 13 girls’ and boys’ badminton tournament organized by the Gateway College, Colombo was held recently at Gateway College Sports Complex, Colombo. The boys’ team of Lyceum International School Wattala emerged champions and the girl’s team were the runners up. The under 15 boys and girls badminton tournament was organized by Stafford International School [...]

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Amateur Badmintontournament Subhash Indrajith emerged the men’s singles and doubles winner in the Mercantile Amateur Badminton Tournament held recently at S. Thomas’ College indoor stadium. In the women’s competition Lakshima Peiris a past pupil of Moratuwa Our Lady of Victories Convent, who represented the Nations Trust Bank won the triple championship.the teams from the Nation [...]

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Sri Lanka beat Kazakhstan by 5-0 in the Thomas Cup badminton tournament in Macau, China, on Wednesday. Despite beating Kazakhstan, Sri Lanka had lost to Japan and Thailand on Tuesday and crashed out of the tournament. In the Uber cup competition, Renu Chandrika and Thilini Pramodika excelled to beat Kazakhstan by 5-0 but Sri Lanka [...]

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Sri Lanka crashed out of the Asian circuit of Thomas & Uber Cup competition as the islanders were beaten 5-0 by Japan and Thailand in Macau, China, on Tuesday. Sri Lanka, playing in Group 'C' had to meet Japan, Thailand and Kazakhstan in the Thomas cup. Niluka Karunaratne, ranked number 62 in the world, met [...]

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An injury to Ayesha Silva in the women’s final prevented Srilankan Airlines flying away with a “triple” for the fourth successive year, at the 16th Travel Trade Sports Club Men’s and Women’s Badminton Championships 2012, concluded at St. Thomas’ College, Mt. Lavinia, Indoor Stadium on Sunday. Srilankan Airlines retained the two men’s titles, the open [...]

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Sri Lanka's badminton star, Niluka Karunaratne, reached the semi-final men's singles event in the Uganda International Badminton Championship, in Uganda on Saturday. Niluka beat Jacob Malek of South Africa by 21/13 and 21/08 to reach quarter finals.  He then defeated Misa Silberman of Israel  by 21/18 and 21/16 to book his place in the semi-final. [...]

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Sri Lanka's badminton star, Niluka Karunaratne, has been given a walk-over in the first round of the Uganda International Badminton Championship, in Uganda on Friday. Niluka was given a walk-over from Ali Shahhasseini of Iran. Niluka, the third seeded player in the tournament, will meet Jacob Malienka of South Africa in the second round on [...]

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The 16th Travel Trade Sports Club men’s and women’s Badminton Championships 2011 will be held on Sunday, January 29 at St. Thomas’ College, Mt. Lavinia Indoor Stadium from 8.00 .a.m. to 8.00 p.m. 25 teams from 12 TTSC fir ms will take part in three categories, namely the Men’s Open, the Men’s Veterans (Over 40) [...]

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Sri Lanka’s badminton whiz-kid Achini Ratnasiri is the country’s undisputed number one women’s player but Sri Lanka’s badminton officials have put a spoke in the wheel of her ambitions to secure an Olympic Games slot, cleverly disguising their vile attempts behind “national interest”, sources told “Daily Mirror”. The 17-year old schoolgirl who has won the [...]

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Sri Lankan Niluka Karunaratne qualified for the second in the men's singles of the Scotland open Badminton championships as he beat German Reuter Marshall by 2-0. Marshall, who ranked 90th in world, lost to Niluka by 21/17 &  21/17. Niluka has won two international badminton tournaments held in America, is ranked 98th among world badminton [...]

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Former National Badminton champion L.R. Ariyananda who is now an official fighting for a cleaner sport says the mystery of the missing audited accounts of the Sri Lanka Badminton Association for the year 2010 could open the lid on a multi-million Rupee racket of corrupt officials exploiting innocent youth players. However his repeated pleas to [...]

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Sri Lanka's national badminton champion Niluka Karunaratne won a gold medal in the Bill Graham Miami International tournament held in Miami, USA. He beat Pachco Rodrigo of Peru in the men's singles final winning in straight sets 21/12, 21/14. This is the second gold medal for Niluka who is on a long tour across the [...]

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Richmond College won the all island inter schools under 12 team badminton championship for the third consecutive year. The tournament was held at the Richmond College Badminton Courts, Galle on October 25. The defending champions had to win a close final to retain their title in the Super ‘A’ division defeating Rahula College, Matara by [...]

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Kasun D. Amarasena of Richmond College, Galle clinched a double at the recent Junior National Badminton Championships when he claimed both the singles and doubles titles in the under 13 age group. Amarasena defeated Thihan Hewagama of Ananda College in the final of the singles event and then partnered fellow Richmond player Tilina Hansa Pethum [...]

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Achini Ratnasiri and Upuli Samanthika won the bronze medal in the women's badminton doubles at at the Youth Commonwealth Games which is currently in progress in Isle of Man, United Kingdom. The Sri Lankan pair beat Australia in the consolation finals by 2-1. The scores were recorded as 12/21, 21/19 and 16/21

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Achini Ratnasiri and Upuli Samanthika qualified to the semi-finals of the women's badminton doubles. However, they were unfortunate to lose to the Malaysian pair of S. Cheah and L. Yang 2-0 in the semi-final. The scores were (21/16 and 22/20). -MSA

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