Sri Lanka’s Gayanthika Abeyratne and Indunil Herath failed to perform their best and were deprived of any medal at the women’s and men’s 800m finals of the ongoing Indonesia Asian Games on Tuesday, 28 August. Many finalists from Sri Lanka in track and field events in this year’s Asian Games failed to stage a medal-winning performance so far. The Games will be over this weekend. Women’s 800m Finals – Gayanthika Abeyratne of SL - 2:05.50 seconds to win 6^th place Note: Gayanthika Abeyratne’s personal best - 2:02.55 made in 2017 Women’s 800m Medals – Gold: Wang Chunyu of China - 2:01.80 seconds. Silver: Mukasheva Margarita of Kazakhstan - 2:02.40 seconds Bronze: Elbahraoui Manal of Bahrain - 2:02.69 seconds Men’s 800m Finals – Indunil Herath of SL - 1:51.36 seconds to win 8^th place Note: Herath’s Sri Lanka record for men’s 800m - 1:47.13 seconds Men’s 800m Medals – Gold: Manjit Singh of India - 1:46.15 seconds Silver: Johnson Jinson of India - 1:46.35 seconds Bronze: Abubaker Abdalla of Qatar - 1:46.38 seconds

• Note: The above file picture shows Gayanthika Abeyratne (on right, No.377)