Devindu Charithapani Dissanayake, a second year student of Grade Thirteen Class at Mahamaya Girls’ School,Kandy is an outstanding Weightlifter and a promising Swimmer and a Cadet as well.
At the start she secured the First place in the 75 Kg. weight class at the Junior Novices Weightlifting Championship held at Welikanda weighlifting centre in the year 2018 and in the same year she secured the first place at the All Island Weightlifting Championship in the 69 Kg. weight class held at Mawanella Rivisanda School Hall.After that she secured the second place in the 81 Kg. weight class at the All Island Schools Weightlifting contest held in 2019 and at the Provincial Meet Devindu secured the first place in the 69 Kg.weight class and repeated her winning spree when she secured first place at the XLV National Sports Festival in the 75 Kg.weight class . Again in the year 2019 she won the first place in the 91 Kg. Weight cl;ass and in 2020 at the XLVI National Sports Festival she won the first place in the 81 Kg. weight class.
As a Swimmer Devindu won the first place in the 200 Metre Individual Medley event at the Seventh Novices Swimming Meet in 2011 and in 2012 she won the first place in 25 metre Backstroke in the same event. At the Age Group championship she won the first place in 200 metre Individual Medley event and in the same year she secured second place in the Butterfly event. At the 8th Annual Age Group championship she secured the second place in the 100 metre Freestyle event and in the year 2014 at the Central Provincial Swimming Meet she won first place in 25 Metre Backstroke event and first place in 100 metre Individual Medley event and the 25 metre Butterfly event. In the year 2017 as a Cadet she represented the School at the Cadet Battalion in the Annual Assessment Army wing Boys/Girls Camp and was placed third in the De Soysa Challenge Shield for which she won the School colours.
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