Cherantha de Silva

Cherantha de Silva

Cherantha de Silva poolside at Thanyapura Aquatic Training Centre
Personal information
Full name K. T. Cherantha Gihash de Silva
Nickname(s) "Machine", "Cheriff"
National team  Sri Lanka
Born 12 July 1996
Colombo, Sri Lanka
Height 1.77 m (5 ft 9 1⁄2 in)
Weight 73 kg (161 lb)
Sport
Sport Swimming
Strokes Freestyle and Butterfly
Club Rainbow Aquatics
Medal record
Men's swimming
Representing  Sri Lanka
2016 South Asian Games
2016 Guwahati 4 × 100m Freestyle
2016 Guwahati 100m freestyle
2016 Guwahati 200m Butterfly
2016 Guwahati 4 x 100m Medley
2016 Guwahati 4 x 200m Free
2016 Guwahati 100m Butterfly
2016 Guwahati 50m Butterfly

Cherantha de Silva (12 July 1996) is a Sri Lankan medal winning swimmer, who has represented his country at several international competitions.

In 2014 the former Sports Minister Mahindananda Aluthgamage sponsored de Silva to train at the Bolles School, Jacksonville, Florida.

De Silva participated at 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, competing in the 50m and 100m freestyle and the 50m and 100m butterfly but failed to progress past the heats.[1] De Silva subsequently competed in the 2014 FINA World Swimming Championships held in Doha, Qatar, where he swam in the heats of the Open 50m butterfly, Open 100m butterfly, Open 50m freestyle and Open 100m freestyle.[2]

De Silva was selected in 2015 by the Sri Lanka Aquatic Sports Union (SLASU) to receive the country's first FINA affiliated international training scholarship to train at the Thanyapura Aquatic Training Centre in Phuket, Thailand.[3]

In 2016 De Silva participated at the South Asian Games in Guwahati, India where he won one Gold, four Silver and two Bronze medals.[4]

De Silva holds two national records (200m and 50m butterfly). In May 2016 he became the first Sri Lanka to break the 55 second barrier in the 100m butterfly,[4] setting a new national record of 54.99 seconds, narrowly missing the Olympic "B" qualification standard of 54.12 seconds.[5]

De Silva was bestowed the "Best Sportsman of the Year" award at school level,[6] provincial and national level.

References

  1. ↑ "Cherantha de Silva". Glasgow 2014 - Commonwealth Games. Retrieved 29 August 2016.
  2. ↑ "K. T. Cherantha de Silva". My Swim Results. Kentgold Holdings Pty Ltd. Retrieved 29 August 2016.
  3. ↑ "Kimiko Raheem and Cherantha De Silva look at Olympic Prospects". Aquatic Sports Lanka. Retrieved 29 August 2016.
  4. 1 2 Abeysekera, Anuradha (16 May 2016). "Cherantha sets two Lankan swim marks in Malaysia". The Daily News. Retrieved 29 August 2016.
  5. ↑ ".". Dinamina. Retrieved 29 August 2016.
  6. ↑ "Erandhi, Cherantha Adjudged Best Sports Stars". The Sunday Leader. Retrieved 29 August 2016.
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