Gayanthika Aberathna

Personal information
Born	(1986-12-23) 23 December 1986 (age 37) Sooriyawewa, Sri Lanka[1]
Height	1.62 m (5 ft 4 in)[2]
Weight	48 kg (106 lb)
Sport
Sport	Athletics
Event(s)	800 m, 1500 m

Gayanthika Artigala Thushari Abeyratne (born 23 December 1986) is a Sri Lankan middle-distance runner^[3] who established a national record time at 800m.

Career

She won a gold medal at the 2017 Asian Indoor and Martial Arts Games and silver at the 2017 Asian Championships.^[4] She currently^[when?] holds her country's national record in the 800 metres.

At the 2023 Asian Athletics Championships in Bangkok she won a bronze medal in the 1500m.^[5]

International competitions

Year	Competition	Venue	Position	Event	Notes
Representing  Sri Lanka
2014	Asian Games	Incheon, South Korea	7th	800 m	2:06.21
2015	Asian Championships	Wuhan, China	6th	800 m	2:07.46
	Military World Games	Mungyeong, South Korea	13th (h)	1500 m	4:36.29
2016	South Asian Games	Guwahati, India	2nd	800 m	2:09.64
			2nd	1500 m	4:25.75
2017	Asian Championships	Bhubaneswar, India	2nd	800 m	2:05.27
	Asian Indoor and Martial Arts Games	Ashgabat, Turkmenistan	1st	800 m	2:05.12
2018	Asian Indoor Championships	Tehran, Iran	4th	800 m	2:11.20
			1st	1500 m	4:26.83
	Commonwealth Games	Gold Coast, Australia	21st (h)	800 m	2:04.72
	Asian Games	Jakarta, Indonesia	6th	800 m	2:05.50
2019	Asian Championships	Doha, Qatar	4th	800 m	2:05.74
			11th	1500 m	4:24.42
2022	World Championships	Eugene, United States	29th (h)	800 m	2:02.35
2023	Asian Championships	Bangkok, Thailand	3rd	800 m	2:03.25
			3rd	1500 m	4:14.39
	Asian Games	Hangzhou, China	8th	800 m	2:05.87
			4th	1500 m	4:18.77

Personal bests

^[6]

Outdoor

• 400 metres – 55.62 (Colombo 2014)
• 800 metres – 2:02.55 (Diyagama 2017) NR
• 1500 metres – 4:18.7 (Jaffna 2016)
• 5000 metres – 17:00.46 (Diyagama 2011)

Indoor

• 800 metres – 2:05.12 (Ashgabat 2017)