5 Sri Lankan records were created in the 2022 National Championship Weightlifting Tournament organized by the Sri Lanka Weightlifting Federation. Also there, Indika Dissanayake and Dilanka Isuru Kumara reached their usual performances and created new Sri Lankan records.
Dilanka Isuru Kumara competed in the 55 kg
weight class and lifted 116 kg in the snatch and 141 kg in the clean and jerk and
created 3 new Sri Lankan records by lifting a total weight of 257 kg. Dilanka
won the most outstanding player of the tournament awards.
And Indika Dissanayake competed in the 73 kg
weight class and set a new Sri Lankan record by lifting a weight of 135 kg from
snatch. There, from clean and jerk, Indika lifted 161 kg and a total weight of
296 kg and won the gold medal in 73kg weight class.
Ruchita Jayasena, who competed in the 81 kg
weight category, set another Sri Lankan record by lifting a weight of 138 kg
under the snatch method.
Chamari Varnakulasuriya won the best female player of the tournament award.