{"id":28903,"date":"2026-08-01T15:32:48","date_gmt":"2026-08-01T10:02:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/?p=28903"},"modified":"2026-08-02T13:20:26","modified_gmt":"2026-08-02T07:50:26","slug":"sri-lanka-crowned-in-gold-rumesh-tharanga-secures-historic-gold-in-mens-javelin-throw-at-2026-commonwealth-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/?p=28903","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lanka Crowned in Gold: Rumesh Tharanga Secures Historic Gold in Men\u2019s Javelin Throw at 2026 Commonwealth Games"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sri Lanka&#8217;s Rumesh Tharanga has brought honor to the motherland by winning the gold medal in the Men&#8217;s Javelin Throw event at the ongoing 2026 Commonwealth Games in Scotland.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Tharanga secured the historic victory with a impressive throw of 89.75 meters. This marks the first time in history that Sri Lanka has won a gold medal in the javelin throw event at the Commonwealth Games.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Rumesh Tharanga currently holds the second spot in the global world rankings for the javelin throw event.<\/p>\n<div class='saic-wrapper saic-default saic-comments-closed saic-border' style='overflow: hidden;'><div class='saic-wrap-link'><a id='saic-link-28903' class='saic-link saic-icon-link saic-icon-link-true auto-load-true' href='?post_id=28903&amp;comments=0&amp;get=30&amp;order=DESC' title='0 Comments'><i class='saico-comment'><\/i><span>0<\/span> Comments<\/a><\/div><!--.saic-wrap-link--><div id='saic-wrap-commnent-28903' class='saic-wrap-comments' style='display:none;'><div id='saic-wrap-form-28903' class='saic-wrap-form saic-clearfix'><div class='saic-form-avatar'><\/div><div id='saic-container-form-28903' class='saic-container-form saic-no-login'><p>Comments are closed<\/p><\/div><!--.saic-container-form--><\/div><!--.saic-wrap-form--><div id='saic-comment-status-28903'  class='saic-comment-status'><\/div><ul id='saic-container-comment-28903' class='saic-container-comments saic-order-DESC ' data-order='DESC'><\/ul><div class='saic-holder-28903 saic-holder'><\/div><\/div><!--.saic-wrap-comments--><\/div><!--.saic-wrapper-->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sri Lanka&#8217;s Rumesh Tharanga has brought honor to the motherland by winning the gold medal in the Men&#8217;s Javelin Throw [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":28904,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[94,97,113],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-latest","category-smartphones","category-sport","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28903","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28903"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28903\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28905,"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28903\/revisions\/28905"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/28904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}