{"id":29589,"date":"2026-09-14T23:51:56","date_gmt":"2026-09-14T18:21:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/?p=29589"},"modified":"2026-09-15T00:58:48","modified_gmt":"2026-09-14T19:28:48","slug":"sri-lanka-secures-top-spots-on-the-world-stage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/?p=29589","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lanka Secures Top Spots on the World Stage"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sri Lankan athletes achieved remarkable international success last night (13), securing both a gold medal in track and field and a runner-up title in women&#8217;s cricket.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">World Athletics Championship Gold: Rumesh Tharanga Pathirage clinched the gold medal in the javelin throw event at the World Athletics Ultimate Championship 2026. He achieved an impressive throw of 91.06 meters, pushing the Olympic gold medalist into second place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Asian Women&#8217;s Cricket Runner-Up: The Sri Lanka Women\u2019s Cricket Team secured the runner-up position in the Asia Cup after competing against India in the final match.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/video.php?height=476&#038;href=https%3A%2F%2Fweb.facebook.com%2Freel%2F1045727211615877%2F&#038;show_text=false&#038;width=476&#038;t=0\" width=\"476\" height=\"476\" style=\"border:none;overflow:hidden\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowFullScreen=\"true\"><\/iframe>\n<div class='saic-wrapper saic-default saic-comments-closed saic-border' style='overflow: hidden;'><div class='saic-wrap-link'><a id='saic-link-29589' class='saic-link saic-icon-link saic-icon-link-true auto-load-true' href='?post_id=29589&amp;comments=1&amp;get=30&amp;order=DESC' title='1 Comment'><i class='saico-comment'><\/i><span>1<\/span> Comment<\/a><\/div><!--.saic-wrap-link--><div id='saic-wrap-commnent-29589' class='saic-wrap-comments' style='display:none;'><div id='saic-wrap-form-29589' class='saic-wrap-form saic-clearfix'><div class='saic-form-avatar'><\/div><div id='saic-container-form-29589' 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-29589'  class='saic-comment-status'><\/div><ul id='saic-container-comment-29589' class='saic-container-comments saic-order-DESC ' data-order='DESC'><\/ul><div class='saic-holder-29589 saic-holder'><\/div><\/div><!--.saic-wrap-comments--><\/div><!--.saic-wrapper-->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sri Lankan athletes achieved remarkable international success last night (13), securing both a gold medal in track and field and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":29590,"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-29589","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\/29589","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=29589"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29589\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29591,"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29589\/revisions\/29591"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/29590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}