{"id":112738,"date":"2023-04-25T16:11:28","date_gmt":"2023-04-25T16:11:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/?p=112738"},"modified":"2023-04-25T16:11:55","modified_gmt":"2023-04-25T16:11:55","slug":"sri-lankan-confirmed-as-world-badminton-referee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/sri-lankan-confirmed-as-world-badminton-referee\/","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lankan confirmed as world badminton referee"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 id=\"page-title\" class=\"title\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Sri Lankan confirmed as world badminton referee<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000080;\">Source:<\/span><\/strong><a style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 16px;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sundayobserver.lk\/2023\/04\/23\/sports\/sri-lankan-confirmed-world-badminton-referee\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sundayobserver<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sundayobserver.lk\/2023\/04\/23\/sports\/sri-lankan-confirmed-world-badminton-referee\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-49618 size-full alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sundayobserver.lk\/sites\/default\/files\/u30\/15-2_21.jpg\" alt=\"elanka\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">The Badminton World Federation (BWF) recently confirmed experienced badminton match referee Padula Sri Rohana de Silva as a BWF referee.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">De Silva was one of only four candidates who passed the theory exam in Malaysia last year and as a referee for the Osaka International Challenge 2023 he passed his practical assessment in Japan this year.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">In the history of Sri Lanka badminton, he is only the second to be confirmed as a BWF referee. He also creates history by becoming the first Sri Lankan to attain the highest level of umpiring and has been a BWF-Certificated umpire since 2012.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">De Silva began his career in badminton in 1995 as a local technical official and advanced to international status in 2002. He has served as an international technical official for 21 years with many more to go.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">According to Sri Lanka Badminton De Silva is now assisting aspiring young umpires and referees in rising through the ranks and achieving recognition at an international level.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sri Lankan confirmed as world badminton referee Source:Sundayobserver The Badminton World Federation (BWF) recently confirmed experienced badminton match referee Padula Sri Rohana de Silva as a BWF referee. De Silva was one of only four candidates who passed the theory exam in Malaysia last year and as a referee for the Osaka International Challenge 2023 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":112739,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"aside","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[46240,52434],"class_list":{"0":"post-112738","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-aside","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-articles","8":"tag-rohana-de-silva","9":"tag-the-badminton-world-federation","10":"post_format-post-format-aside"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v25.7.1 (Yoast SEO v25.9) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Sri Lankan confirmed as world badminton referee<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Badminton World Federation (BWF) recently confirmed experienced badminton match referee Padula Sri Rohana 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