{"id":122564,"date":"2023-10-05T18:16:51","date_gmt":"2023-10-05T18:16:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/?p=122564"},"modified":"2023-10-09T15:08:00","modified_gmt":"2023-10-09T15:08:00","slug":"tharushi-wins-gold-in-800m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/tharushi-wins-gold-in-800m\/","title":{"rendered":"Tharushi wins Gold in 800m"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 class=\"post-title single-post-title entry-title\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Tharushi wins Gold in 800m<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailynews.lk\/2023\/10\/04\/admin-catagories\/breaking-news\/153540\/tharushi-wins-gold-in-800m\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-49618 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dailynews.lk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/111-1.jpg\" alt=\"elanka\" width=\"600\" height=\"341\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #800080;\">Source:<\/span><\/strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><a style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 16px;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailynews.lk\/2023\/10\/04\/admin-catagories\/breaking-news\/153540\/tharushi-wins-gold-in-800m\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Dailynews<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">18-year-old Tharushi Karunarathna has won the gold medal in the women\u2019s 800m at the 2023 Asian Games in Hangzhou.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">She won the race with a timing of 2:03:20. Karunarathna broke from the pack with about 140m to go and dashed to the finish line ahead of India\u2019 Bains Harmilan and China\u2019s Chunyu Wang.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">Gayanthika Aberathna finished race in eighth with a timing of 2:05.87.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">This is the first gold medal for Sri Lanka at this year\u2019s Asian games.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">This is also the first athletic gold medal for Sri Lanka at the Asian Games after the gold medals won by Susanthika Jayasinghe in 100m and Damayanthi Dharsha in 400m at the 2002 Busan Games.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">Sri Lanka has won one gold medal and two silver medals so far at the Hangzhou Games.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/BZ-ZnWnVxh0?si=u-6OPXLYq-VVVQv1\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tharushi wins Gold in 800m Source:Dailynews 18-year-old Tharushi Karunarathna has won the gold medal in the women\u2019s 800m at the 2023 Asian Games in Hangzhou. 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