Viren Nettasinghe and Ranithma Liyanage were crowned as the National Badminton Champion and Champion by winning double titles in the 72nd National Badminton Championship organized by the Sri Lanka Badminton Institute.

The finals of the open division were held at the Badminton Stadium, where Viren Nettasinghe, who won the men's singles championship, and Ranitma Liyanage, who won the women's singles championship, won the mixed doubles championship together.
Trade Services Badminton Gym, Otters Sports Club Badminton Gym and Sri Lanka Badminton Institute Viren Nettasinghe won the men's open singles final of this year's National Badminton Championship, which was held for eight days at the sports hall, with Shenuk Samararatne scoring 21-10 and 21-19.
Ranitma Liyanage defeated Rashmi Mudali 21-10 and 21-16 in the women's open singles final. In the open mixed doubles final, Ranithma and Viren teamed up to defeat Tulith Paliyaguru and Panchali Adhikari 21-15, 17-21 and 21-19.
Bhuvaneka Gunathilaka, who won the triple titles at the National Championships last year and became the National Badminton Champion, was satisfied by winning the Men's Open Doubles Championship together with Jason Homer this time, and Shenuk Samararatne and Savinaka Weerasekera lost to them in the final match with the score of 21-14 and 21-16.
Ranitma Liyanage and Praveena Wijesundara defeated Warangana Jayawardena and Rashmi Mudali 21-17, 19-21 and 24-22 to win the women's open doubles title.
In addition to the open competition division, the 72nd National Badminton which included junior division competitions from under 11 to under 19 age group, senior division competitions from above 30 years to 70 years and combined competition division of over 100 years, over 110 and over 120 years. In the championship The Sri Lanka Badminton Institute had arranged to distribute cash prizes of two million rupees to the winners.  Apart from cash prizes, trophies, medals and certificates were awarded.According to a decision taken by the organizing committee, measures were taken to give valuable prizes instead of monetary prizes to the champions and champions of the junior competition section of the tournament.
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