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Susanthika Jayasinghe

1975 - Today

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Deshabandu Kameradin Susanthika Jayasinghe (Sinhala: සුසන්තිකා ජයසිංහ; Tamil: சுசந்திகா ஜயசிங்ஹ, born December 17, 1975) is a Sri Lankan retired sprinter, who specialised in the 100 and 200 metres. She won the Olympic silver medal for the 200m event in the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, the second Sri Lankan to win an Olympic medal after Duncan White and the first Asian woman to win an Olympic or World Championship medal in a sprint event. She is also the only Asian athlete to have claimed an Olympic medal in sprint events. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Susanthika Jayasinghe has received more than 410,929 page views. Her biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). Susanthika Jayasinghe is the 2,371st most popular athlete (down from 1,678th in 2019), the 37th most popular biography from Sri Lanka (down from 33rd in 2019) and the 4th most popular Sri Lankan Athlete.

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Among ATHLETES

Among athletes, Susanthika Jayasinghe ranks 2,371 out of 3,059. Before her are Sherri Howard, Tetyana Tereshchuk-Antipova, Queralt Castellet, Ed Belfour, Sylvie Becaert, and Roberto Moya. After her are Brigitte Kraus, Tamás Kásás, Svetlana Shkolina, Marc-André Fleury, Djabir Saïd-Guerni, and Chen Yueling.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1975, Susanthika Jayasinghe ranks 584. Before her are Mengke Bateer, Sergei Aschwanden, Rie Yamaki, Candra Wijaya, Predrag Drobnjak, and Sylvie Becaert. After her are Nadine Kleinert, Jarkko Ruutu, Natalie Zea, Eka Kurniawan, Olga Medvedtseva, and Anna Gabriel i Sabaté.

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In Sri Lanka

Among people born in Sri Lanka, Susanthika Jayasinghe ranks 37 out of 44. Before her are Thomas Cooray (1901), Bob Tisdall (1907), Robert Napier, 1st Baron Napier of Magdala (1810), Heather Armitage (1933), Alexander Khloponin (1965), and Beverley Craven (1963). After her are Muttiah Muralitharan (1972), Sanath Jayasuriya (1969), David Wilkie (1954), Kumar Sangakkara (1977), Mahela Jayawardene (1977), and Lasith Malinga (1983).

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Among ATHLETES In Sri Lanka

Among athletes born in Sri Lanka, Susanthika Jayasinghe ranks 4. Before her are Duncan White (1918), Bob Tisdall (1907), and Heather Armitage (1933).

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