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Gunawardena honoured at Sabuddhi Awards ceremony

08 Dec 2022 - {{hitsCtrl.values.hits}}      

Saman Kumara Gunawardena receiving his award from Deputy Minister of Sports Rohana Dissanayake   

By Susil Premalal

The book titled 100 years of Sri Lanka Athletics’, compiled by Director of Sports, University of Kelaniya, Saman Kumara Gunawardena won the Best Sports Academic Book of the Year at the 2022 Sabuddhi Sports Literary Awards ceremony held at the Duncan White Auditorium of the Ministry of Sports in Colombo.   


The book includes the history of Sri Lanka Athletics and is the only academic sports book to be published in the Asian and South Asian regions. 

 
Gunawardena came into the limelight in the 1970’s as a top athlete and administrator and has been the statistic recorder of Sri Lanka Athletics for nearly 30 years.   Gunawardena, who is an old boy of Seethawaka MV Avissawella and Dharmapala MV Pannipitiya had earlier published a book on athletics on behalf of the Asian Athletics Association and it was distributed among 45 Asian countries.