Sri Lanka first participated at the Olympic Games in 1948, and has sent a delegation to every Summer Olympic Games except for the 1976 Games to boycott apartheid South Africa. The nation has never participated in the Winter Olympic Games.
Sri Lankan athletes have won a total of two Olympic silver medals, both in athletics."Duncan White, the gentleman" , The Sunday Times, 5 July 1998.
The National Olympic Committee of Sri Lanka was created in 1937 and recognized by the International Olympic Committee that same year. The nation was designated as Ceylon (country code "CEY") until 1972.
Parami Wasanthi Maristela won Sri Lanka's first ever Youth Olympics medal, a bronze in the girls' 2000 metre steeplechase athletics event at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics.
Medal tables Medals by Games GamesAthletesGoldSilverBronzeTotalRank 7 0 1 0 1 28 5 0 0 0 0 – 3 0 0 0 0 – 5 0 0 0 0 – 6 0 0 0 0 – 3 0 0 0 0 – 4 0 0 0 0 – 4 0 0 0 0 – 4 0 0 0 0 – 6 0 0 0 0 – 11 0 0 0 0 – 9 0 0 0 0 – 18 0 1 0 1 64 8 0 0 0 0 – 8 0 0 0 0 – 7 0 0 0 0 – 9 0 0 0 0 – 9 0 0 0 0 – 6 0 0 0 0 – future event Total 0 2 0 2 126
Medals by sport
List of medalists Medal NameGamesSportEvent Silver London 1948 Athletics Men's 400 metre hurdles Silver Sydney 2000 Athletics Women's 200 metres
See also List of flag bearers for Sri Lanka at the Olympics :Category:Olympic competitors for Sri Lanka All-time Olympic Games medal count Sri Lanka at the Paralympics
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