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		+	* Rumesh Pathirage of Sri Lanka won gold in Men's Javelin Throw at the 2026 Asian Games with a throw of 88.55 meters.
	* The Sri Lankan athlete Susanthika Jayasinghe won the women's 200m Bronze medal in year 2000 at Sydney Olympics. On October 5, 2007 the gold medalist Marion Jones admitted to having been taking performance enhancing drugs prior to the 2000 Summer Olympics, and Susanthika Jayasinghe was later awarded the silver medal.		* The Sri Lankan athlete Susanthika Jayasinghe won the women's 200m Bronze medal in year 2000 at Sydney Olympics. On October 5, 2007 the gold medalist Marion Jones admitted to having been taking performance enhancing drugs prior to the 2000 Summer Olympics, and Susanthika Jayasinghe was later awarded the silver medal.

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+* Sri Lanka, Barbados and Tanzania won the inaugural Commonwealth Public Debt Management Awards in recognition of their contributions and innovation in managing public debt on 27 March 2026.<ref>https://thecommonwealth.org/news/barbados-sri-lanka-tanzania-win-commonwealth-public-debt-management-awards</ref>
 * Sri Lanka is one of the 11 South Asian countries declared polio-free by the World Health Organisation (WHO) on 27 March 2014. The region has been maintaining its polio-free status for the last 3 years.<ref>http://www.searo.who.int/mediacentre/releases/2014/pr1569/en/</ref>

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+* The Dutch government on 6 July 2023 announced to return hundreds of stolen art and cultural artifacts to Sri Lanka and Indonesia, former Dutch colonies.
 * The Sri Lankan cricket team won the 2008 Asia Cup held in Pakistan beating India by 100 runs.

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		+	* Sri Lankan baker Tharshan Selvarajah won the title for best baguette in Paris at the 30th Grand Prix de la Baguette de Tradition Francaise de la Ville De Paris contest on 10 May 2023.
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		+	* Sri Lanka won the Asia Cup tournament for the sixth time in the shortest form of cricket in Dubai on 11 September 2022 beating Pakistan by 23 runs in the final.<ref>https://www.icc-cricket.com/news/2788151</ref>
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		+	* Sachini Fernando and Hiruni Harichandra from the University of Sri Jayewardenepura, Nugegoda, Sri Lanka won the third and fourth prizes at the 2021 Annual Innovations Pitch Competition organised by the American Society for Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (ASTMH) for their respective healthcare tools.
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		+	* International Water Management Institute (IWMI) based in Colombo, Sri Lanka won the Prince Albert II of Monaco Foundation Award, one of the most coveted environmental awards in the world for the year 2020, in recognition its work that enables the development of scientific solutions in support of some of the world's poorest populations.<ref>https://www.fpa2.org/news-8006.html</ref>
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		+	* Archaeologists from Sri Lanka and their international colleagues have discovered the oldest known evidence of bow and arrow use, used 48,000 years ago in Sri Lanka. This represents the earliest evidence of bow and arrow technology outside of Africa to date, as published on 12 June 2020 in the journal Science Advances.<ref>https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/6/24/eaba3831</ref>
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		+	* Sri Lankan port city Colombo, in association with local partners, launched a year-long project to clean up a 5 km stretch of beach in the city of Colombo on 4 January 2020.
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		+	* Sri Lanka's first ever low orbit research satellite Raavana 1 was successfully launched into space on 17 April 2019.
	* Sri Lankan cricketer Kumar Sangakkara won the award for Outstanding Contribution to Sport at the 5th Asian Awards on 17 April 2015 in London.		* Sri Lankan cricketer Kumar Sangakkara won the award for Outstanding Contribution to Sport at the 5th Asian Awards on 17 April 2015 in London.