Sri Lanka’s athletes brought on the smiles landing 8 medals including a gold in the 800m women’s event by Tharushi Abisheka at the 2025 U18 Asian Youth Athletics Championships held in Saudi Arabia. Sri Lanka also won another silver medal in the women’s mixed relay event.
The Sri Lankan athletes clocked 2:14.25 minutes, setting a Sri Lankan youth record.
China claimed the gold medal with a time of 2:11:11 minutes, while Thailand won the bronze with a time of 2:15:00 minutes.
The four-day competition, organized by the Asian Athletics Federation, concluded yesterday (April 18) in Qatif.
Sri Lanka finished 9th in the overall medal standings, with a total of eight medals — one gold, three silver, and four bronze. It was also one of only 19 countries to win at least one medal.
China topped the overall medal standings with 19 gold, 12 silver and 5 bronze medals while Japan came in second with 3 gold, 3 silver and one bronze medal.
Host Saudi Arabia came in third place with 3 gold, 1 silver, and 2 bronze medals.