{"id":69657,"date":"2021-07-23T12:54:11","date_gmt":"2021-07-23T12:54:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/?p=69657"},"modified":"2021-07-23T12:54:11","modified_gmt":"2021-07-23T12:54:11","slug":"lanka-female-police-officer-selected-as-olympics-boxing-judge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/lanka-female-police-officer-selected-as-olympics-boxing-judge\/","title":{"rendered":"Lanka female Police officer selected as Olympics boxing judge"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 28px; color: #003366;\">Lanka female Police officer selected as Olympics boxing judge<\/span><\/h1>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-69658 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Lanka-female-Police-e1627044718225.jpg\" alt=\"Lanka female Police\" width=\"600\" height=\"399\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #003366;\"><em><strong>Nelka refereeing an international boxing match<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #993366;\">Source:<\/span><\/strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><a style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 20px;\" href=\"https:\/\/island.lk\/lanka-female-police-officer-selected-as-olympics-boxing-judge\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Island<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\" align=\"LEFT\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">A female Chief Inspector of Police of the Sri Lanka Police has been selected as a Boxing Referee and Judge for the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\" align=\"LEFT\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">Chief Inspector T. Nelka Shiromala will create history by becoming the first Sri Lankan female boxing referee to officiate at the 2020 Olympic Games which will begin in Tokyo, Japan on the 23rd of July.<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"LEFT\"><!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\" align=\"LEFT\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">She is a product of Ripon Girls\u2019 College, Galle and has joined SL Police as a Trainee Sub Inspector in 1997.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\" align=\"LEFT\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">She represented the Police boxing team in 2002 as the first woman Police boxing team member. She is also the first lady Police officer to represent Sri Lanka in boxing at international level.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\" align=\"LEFT\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">In 2009 she took up to the refereeing and in 2011 became the first Sri Lankan women referee to officiate at an international event when she was invited to officiate 2011 London Olympic test event where she was awarded with a two star qualification just within six months of international refereeing.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lanka female Police officer selected as Olympics boxing judge Nelka refereeing an international boxing match Source:Island A female Chief Inspector of Police of the Sri Lanka Police has been selected as a Boxing Referee and Judge for the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo. Chief Inspector T. Nelka Shiromala will create history by becoming the first [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":69658,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"aside","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[36086],"class_list":{"0":"post-69657","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-aside","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-articles","8":"tag-t-nelka-shiromala","9":"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>Lanka female Police officer selected as Olympics boxing judge<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"A female Chief Inspector of Police of the Sri Lanka Police has been selected as a Boxing Referee and Judge for the 2020 Olympic\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"noindex, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Lanka female Police officer selected as Olympics boxing judge\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"A female Chief Inspector of Police of the Sri Lanka Police has been selected as a Boxing Referee and Judge for the 2020 Olympic\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/lanka-female-police-officer-selected-as-olympics-boxing-judge\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"eLanka\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/eLanka.com.au\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2021-07-23T12:54:11+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Lanka-female-Police-e1627044718225.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"600\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"399\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"eLanka admin\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"eLanka admin\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/lanka-female-police-officer-selected-as-olympics-boxing-judge\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/lanka-female-police-officer-selected-as-olympics-boxing-judge\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"eLanka admin\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/#\/schema\/person\/f6e635b74ab35ef88a68a9973cacc5bd\"},\"headline\":\"Lanka female Police officer selected as Olympics boxing judge\",\"datePublished\":\"2021-07-23T12:54:11+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/lanka-female-police-officer-selected-as-olympics-boxing-judge\/\"},\"wordCount\":186,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/lanka-female-police-officer-selected-as-olympics-boxing-judge\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Lanka-female-Police-e1627044718225.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"T. 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