Bhathiya wins National Karate Championship again
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Bhathiya Wickramarachchi of Bandaranayake College Gampaha repeated his good form to win the Full Contact National Karate Championship for the third successive year.
Bhathiya, a Grade 9 student of Bandaranayake College secured his hat-trick when he repeatedly won the gold medal for a third year running at the Sugathadasa Stadium recently. He has already won the gold medals in 2010 and 2011 at the championship organised by the Sri Lanka Karate Do Federation. Bhathiya has been mastering Karate since his early childhood under Japanese grandmaster Takahiro Okayama and Deepal Wickramarachchi.
He also got through the grading test conducted by grandmaster Okayama in February this year and is a first dan black belt competitor. – NA
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