Tharushi_Karunarathna
Tharushi Karunarathna
Sri Lankan track and field athlete
Dissanayaka Mudiyanselage Tharushi Dilsara Karunaratne (18 November 2004) is a Sri Lankan track and field athlete who competes mainly in the 800 metres sprint. She won gold medal at the 2023 Asian Athletics Championships held in Bangkok in the 400m women's event and also the broke the 25 year old Asian record in the event.[1]
In October 2023, she took part at the 2022 Asian Games and claimed gold medal in the women's 800 m final at the age of 19 and became the first Sri Lankan since Susanthika Jayasinghe and Damayanthi Dharsha to clinch Asian Games gold medal for Sri Lanka.[2][3]