The Sri Lankan Olympic medalist Susanthika Jayasinghe has now formally announced her retirement from athletics. She is well known throughout the country for winning Sri Lanka’s first  Olympic medal since 1948 in the women’s 200m at the 2000 games held in Sydney. Her victory has been an inspiration to many young up and coming athletes in Sri Lanka and her presence at major international sporting events will be missed.

The 33 year old woman is Sri Lanka’s most successful athlete ever, she is expecting her first child later this year. In her retirement from sport she hopes to dedicate some of her time to projects with an aim to develop young Sri Lankans into skilled sports men and women.

In an interview with a leading Sri Lankan paper, Jayasinghe said her main goal now is to become a mother – “It has been a long felt dream which would finally become a reality this year. I want to get that great feeling of becoming a mother, devote some time for my child and then look at how I am going to give something back to athletics.”

If you are an up and coming athlete in Sri Lanka, check out our athletics results page where you can see the current national records in all Olympic events for both men and women. Compare your times and see how far you have to go!

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