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 (1996-07-12) July 12, 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 Thanyapura [1]
Coach Miguel Lopez[2]
Medal record
Men's swimming
Representing  Sri Lanka
2016 South Asian Games
2016 Guwahati4 × 100m Freestyle
2016 Guwahati100m freestyle
2016 Guwahati200m Butterfly
2016 Guwahati4 x 100m Medley
2016 Guwahati4 x 200m Free
2016 Guwahati100m Butterfly
2016 Guwahati50m Butterfly

Cherantha de Silva (born July 12, 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.[3] 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.[4]

De Silva was selected in 2015 and 2017[5] 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.[6]

In 2016 De Silva participated at the South Asian Games in Guwahati, India where he won one Gold, four Silver and two Bronze medals.[7]

De Silva holds 7 national records (50m,100m and 200m and butterfly SC & LC). In May 2016 he became the first Sri Lanka to break the 55 second barrier in the 100m butterfly,[7] setting a new national record of 54.99 seconds, narrowly missing the Olympic "B" qualification standard of 54.12 seconds.[8]

De Silva was bestowed the "Best Sportsman of the Year" award at school level,[9] provincial and national level.

In December 2017, De Silva was able to set history for Sri Lanka by breaking a foreign national record. De Silva was able to shatter Singapore Olympian Quah Wen Zeng's 50-m butterfly record, thus renewing it to 23.48 seconds.[10] (He broke the Singapore national record and Sri Lankan national record, as well as set a new meet record in this race.) The specialty of De Silva's performance was that he was able to break 11 records across five events in just two days. (He broke records in heats and renewed it again in finals with one meet record.)[11]

In February 2018, de Silva was named to Sri Lanka's 2018 Commonwealth Games team.[12][13]

References

  1. ↑ "Thanyapura Health & Sports Resort - Optimise Your Life". Thanyapura Phuket. Retrieved 19 March 2018.
  2. ↑ http://www.thanyapura.com/thanyapura-phuket-welcomes-new-aquatics-head-coach-miguel-lopez-alvorado/. Missing or empty |title= (help)
  3. ↑ "Cherantha de Silva". Glasgow 2014 - Commonwealth Games. Retrieved 29 August 2016.
  4. ↑ "K. T. Cherantha de Silva". My Swim Results. Kentgold Holdings Pty Ltd. Retrieved 29 August 2016.
  5. ↑ "FINA Scholarship Programme at Thanyapura Health & Sports Resort". Thanyapura Phuket. 2017-03-28. Retrieved 2017-04-10.
  6. ↑ "Kimiko Raheem and Cherantha De Silva look at Olympic Prospects". Aquatic Sports Lanka. Retrieved 29 August 2016.
  7. 1 2 Abeysekera, Anuradha (16 May 2016). "Cherantha sets two Lankan swim marks in Malaysia". The Daily News. Retrieved 29 August 2016.
  8. ↑ Dinamina http://epaper.dinamina.lk/art.asp?id=2016/05/10/pg19_0&pt=p&h=# |url= missing title (help). Retrieved 29 August 2016.
  9. ↑ "Erandhi, Cherantha Adjudged Best Sports Stars". The Sunday Leader. Retrieved 29 August 2016.
  10. ↑ "Cherantha de Silva Makes History for Sri Lanka in Singapore". SwimSwam. 2 December 2017.
  11. ↑ Ranasinghe, Dinushki (2 December 2017). "Cherantha de Silva outshines himself overseas". ThePapare.com.
  12. ↑ "Swimming: Two women and four men to represent Sri Lanka at CWG 2018". The Sunday Times. Colombo, Sri Lanka. 19 February 2018. Retrieved 18 March 2018.
  13. ↑ Ranasinghe, Dinushki (1 March 2018). "Know your swimmers for Commonwealth Games 2018". www.thepapare.com. Dialog Axiata. Retrieved 18 March 2018.
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