Nickname
Mikii (Facebook profile, 03 Apr 2023)
Hobbies
Listening to music, spending time with friends, driving, travel. (themorning.lk, 19 Jul 2021; Facebook profile, 03 Apr 2023)
Occupation
Athlete
Spoken languages
English, Sinhala
Coach
Zdravka Tchonkova-Dimitrova [national]; Munehiro Kugimiya [personal], JPN
Injuries
She suffered a right foot injury at the 2022 World Championships in Liverpool, England. (Facebook profile, 15 Nov 2022; wogymnast.com, 31 Oct 2022)
She withdrew from the all-around final at the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham, England, due to injury. (thegymter.net, 23 Oct 2022)
Start sporting career
She took up gymnastics at age seven.
Reason for taking up the sport
"I've always been the different one, ever since I was young. When I was seven years old, I had just found out about gymnastics through school. This was a sport I had never seen or heard about before, and as soon as I saw the opportunity to take it up, I signed myself up for it. A few hours into my first ever training session, I knew I had already fallen in love with it, and my dream ever since, was to one day be able to take part in the Olympics."
Milestones
She became the first gymnast to represent Sri Lanka at the Olympic Games when she competed in artistic gymnastics at the 2020 Games in Tokyo. (SportsDeskOnline, 26 Mar 2022; National Olympic Committee of Sri Lanka Facebook page, 20 Jul 2021)
Ambitions
To win a medal at the 2022 Asian Games in Hangzhou, People's Republic of China, and to compete at the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris. (sundaytimes.lk, 01 Aug 2021; themorning.lk, 19 Jul 2021)
Trainings
In 2019 she began training in Japan under a scholarship from the Olympic Solidarity Programme.
Most memorable sporting achievement
Competing at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo. (colombotimes.net, 09 Mar 2022)
Most influential person in career
Her family. (colombotimes.net, 09 Mar 2022)
Awards
She and judoka Chamara Repiyallage were flag bearers for Sri Lanka at the opening ceremony of the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo. (colombotimes.net, 09 Mar 2022; thepapare.com, 12 Jul 2021)
Last update : 2024-07-22