The former student of Prince of Wales College burst into the National limelight as a shooting prodigy two decades ago when he won a junior individual Gold Medal at the South Asian Shooting Championship in 2000 in Pakistan at the age of 14, barely a year after he was introduced to the sport by his father Manjula Fernando, an ex-Army officer.
There was no looking back thereafter for Suranga Fernando who raised the bar in pistol shooting setting numerous records when he was eligible to compete in the Under-21 category until 2006 but none of his 10 National and Sri Lanka records have been broken since.
He rewrote the record books several times by setting new marks in all five events of the pistol category.
Suranga Fernando has his sights set on competing in the Tokyo Olympics in 2021 or Paris Olympics in 2024 to put the icing on a sparkling career during which he represented Sri Lanka at three Commonwealth Games (2002, 2014 and 2018) in addition to two World Cups apart from regional competitions in his pet 10m Air Pistol event.
The precociously talented youngster was selected to represent Sri Lanka at the 2002 Commonwealth Games when he was 16.
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ابدأ النسخة التجريبية المجانية من Magzter GOLD لمدة 7 أيام للوصول إلى آلاف القصص المتميزة المنسقة وأكثر من 9,000 مجلة وصحيفة.
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هذه القصة مأخوذة من طبعة May 15, 2020 من Daily Mirror - Sri Lanka.
ابدأ النسخة التجريبية المجانية من Magzter GOLD لمدة 7 أيام للوصول إلى آلاف القصص المتميزة المنسقة وأكثر من 9,000 مجلة وصحيفة.
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