The Sri Lanka Beach Volleyball team will take part in the Rio Olympics Beach Volleyball qualifying third round on May 10 in Thailand.
The tournament is the 1016 AVC Continental Cup semi-finals, Final Phase 3 (men and women) from May 12 to 14 at Kalasing, Thailand.
The Asian Volleyball Confederation (AVC) has named this competition as the Asian Central Zone Rio Olympics Beach Volleyball Qualification third round.
The winning teams in this contest will qualify for the 2016 AVC Continental Cup final round to be held in Queensland, Australia.
The champions and runners-up at the Australian contest will qualify to take part in the Rio Olympics.
This is the first time that a Sri Lanka Beach Volleyball team is taking part in the Rio Olympics qualifying round.
The Sri Lanka team qualified as the runners-up of the tournament held in India last year (2015).
The Sri Lanka team: Geethika Lalani Gunewardena (Air Force), Sagari Gunasinghe (Navy), Kasuni Tharika (Navy), Chathurika Weerasinghe (Army)
Stand by: Maduni Weerakkody (Casual Line)
Manager: Dhanapala Jayapathma
Asst. Manager: D. Jayaranjana
Coach: Dhammika Rohan Silva
Popular grade five tuition teacher, Hayeshika Fernando wanted over assaulting a 21 year old youth was granted bail today after she surrendered to courts.
A British national had been arrested over attempting to smuggle in the largest haul of kush( drugs) from Thailand, customs said.
First Bishop of the Batticaloa Diocese, Retired Bishop Joseph Ponnaiya, passed away today at the age of 74, following a brief illness.
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