A great sense of pride and accolades are due to the 19-year-old, who clocked a time of 2.03.20 minutes to clinch the Gold Medal in the Women’s 800m event at the 19th Asian Games.
Karunarathna created history for Sri Lanka with the first athletics gold since 2002 for the country.
Further, she set an Asian record and a national record at the 2023 Asian Athletics Championship held in Bangkok, Thailand, finishing the event with a time of 2:00:06 minutes.
Karunarathna holds the record for both 400m and 800m events at the All-Island School Games 2019 while being the Gold medalist for both events.
She also holds the record for the 800m at the Sir John Tarbot Senior Championships 2019 and is the Gold medalist for both the 400m and 800m events.
She was awarded the best female athlete under 16 at the provincial meet in 2019.
DSI, Sri Lanka’s No. 1 footwear company and Mission Critical Sportswear and athleisure brand, AVI are the official partners of Team Sri Lanka at the 19th Asian Games held in Hangzhou, China.
The Official Team Uniform was handed over to the Chief de Mission of Team Sri Lanka by D Samson and sons Pvt Ltd, Managing Director Mr. Thusitha Rajapaksa, during a ceremony held recently at National Olympic House before the team departed.