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A two year schol for Chinthana Down Under
By S.R. Pathiravithana
“Thanks to the ground breaking feat by young Chinthana Vidanage Sri Lanka weightlifting is in for good times. Since he won the Commonwealth ‘gold’ in this sport a lot of people are earnestly coming forward to assist us” said Gunaratne Banda President of the Sri Lanka Weightlifting Federation upon his re-election on Friday.

“At the same time the Weightlifting Federation along with NOC and the Commonwealth Games Sponsors are in the process of organizing a reception in honour of Chinthana, but we are awaiting the return of NOC chief Hemasiri Fernando who is in Korea at present’.

Speaking on the Lankan Champion lifter the Lankan Weightlifting chief further said “In a move to further Chinthana’s skills the Sri Lanka Weightlifting Federation is hoping to send Chinthana to Australia on a two year scholarship and we are hoping to do this very soon. In case he takes off to Australia earlier than the SAF games scheduled for August he will be back for the games and then take off again once the games are over.

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