Pradeep Sanjaya Uggl Dena Pathirannehelag

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Pradeep Sanjaya Uggl Dena Pathirannehelag Biography

Pathirana was born in Sri Lanka in 1986. Whilst serving in the Sri Lanka Army in Kilinochchi in 2008, a grenade exploded near to his unit. He and six other soldiers were injured, while another died. Pathirana suffered permanent injuries to his left hand and arm. As of 2016 he serves as a staff sergeant in the Sri Lanka Sinha Regiment of the Sri Lanka Army.

Pradeep Sanjaya Uggl Dena Pathirannehelag (born 29 April 1986) is a Paralympian track and field athlete from Sri Lanka competing mainly in T46 sprint events. In 2012, in London he became the first Sri Lankan competitor to win a Paralympic medal, taking bronze in the men’s 400 metres (T46) race.

After watching soldiers with a disability undertaking various sports, Pathirana was asked by his superiors if he wanted to join. He eventually took up para-athletics in 2010 and that year he was classified as a T46 athlete and entered his first international competition, the 2010 Asian Para Games. In 2012 Pathirana represented Sri Lanka at the Paralympics in London. He entered two events, the 200 metres and 400 metres sprints. In the 200 metres he failed to reach the finals, but in the 400 metres he finished third to claim his and Sri Lanka’s first Paralympic medal. As no other athlete won a medal for his country, as of 2012 Pathirana, is his country’s only medal winning Paralympian.

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