2022 Athletics calendar RELEASED!

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The Sri Lanka National Athletics calendar has officially been released with Local and International events neatly lined up, and we’ve got it all for you, right here.

The year 2022 is an extra special one for the Sri Lanka Athletics Association as they celebrate their centenary year. To kick off celebrations, the Association partnered with Nestomalt to host a Mini Marathon and Health Run which concluded successfully over the weekend.

A lot to look forward to this year with the Asian Games and Commonwealth Games coming up in Q3 and a lot of hopes still lie on the young up and coming stars of the track and field.

The second week of February will see the initial trials for the Asian Games which is set to take place in September in Hangzhou, China immediately followed by the first selection trials for the Asian Junior Championships.

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8th – 10th of April will witness the 100th National Athletics Meet which will also serve as the final selections for the Asian Games. The month of May will bring in the Sri Lanka Junior National Athletics championship which will be the decisive trial to qualify for the South Asian Junior Championships.

June will be an important month for all athletes across board as a mandatory performance analysis test will be done on the National and Elite Athletic pools in the country. This will segway into the Fitness test ahead of the Commonwealth Games and July will bring the Birmingham games to life, with Athletics taking place in the first week of August.

September will take our qualifying athletes to China for the 19th Asian Games and a few more international events are in the works with the authorities to fill out the last couple of months of 2022.

At Tokyo Olympic Games in 2021, Sri Lanka witnessed Yupun Abeykoon breaking barriers in the Men’s 100m event, qualifying for the event 25 years post the country’s last entry. Mathilda Karlsson and Milka De Silva, two proud women entered history as Sri Lanka’s first entries in Equestrian and Artistic Gymnastics at the Olympic Games, respectively. Matthew Abeysinghe and Niluka Karunaratne donned their 2nd and 3rd consecutive Olympic Jersey for Sri Lanka at the Tokyo Games.

What will 2022 bring us? ThePapare.com will be on top of things as always, bringing you every run, every throw, every medal and record this year, so keep following www.thepapare.com/athletics to know all that is, Sri Lanka Athletics.

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Competition Calendar – 2022 @ 20.01.22
January
22nd 18th Asian Marathon Championships (Cancelled Due to Covid) Buriram, Thailand
10th Bangladesh Half & Full Marathon Dhaka
15th South Asian Cross Country Championships – Postponed India
22nd Sri Lanka Centenary Half Marathon Colombo
February
10th 11th & 12th First Selection Trial for Asian Games Colombo
11th & 12th 1st Selection Trials for Asian Junior Championships Colombo
11th to 13th 10th Asian Indoor Athletics Championships – Postponed to 2023 Nur – Sultan, Kazakhstan
March
02nd 03rd & 04th SL Army Novices Athletics Championships Sugathadasa
10th to 19th 6th Asian Indoor & Martial Art Games Pattaya, Thailand
10th & 11th 2nd Selection Trials for Asian Games Colombo
12th 16th Asian Cross Country Championships – Postponed Kathmandu, Nepal
18th to 20th World Indoor Championships Belgrade, Serbia
20th Asian 20 km Race Walking Championships Nomi City, Japan
27th March AOD Test Competition Diyagama
April
07th Sri Lanka Athletics’ Centenary Celebration Day Colombo
08th 09th & 10th 100th National Championships 2022 (Final Trials) Colombo
May
TBC Asian Grand Prix Series/Asian Relays 2022 Thailand
09th 10th 11th & 12th Junior National Championships (Final Junior Trials) Colombo
14th & 15th Busan Internationa Pole Vault Meeting Busan, Korea
19th & 20th South Asian Junior Championships Colombo, Sri Lanka
28th & 29th Taiwan Athletics Open Taipei
June
11th & 12th Performance Analyze Test – National & Elite Pool Colombo
16th to 19th 20th Asian Junior Championships Techeon Gun, Korea
July
02nd Fitness Trial for Commonwealth Games Team Colombo
15th to 24th 18th World Athletics Championships Eugene, Oregon, USA
August
02nd to 07th Commonwealth Games (Athletics) Birmingham, England
02nd to 07th 19th World Junior Championships Cali, Colombia
September
02nd Fitness Trial for Asian Games Team Colombo
TBC Asian Throwing Championships Mokpo, Korea
16th to 22nd 19th Asian Games (Athletics) Hangzhou, China
October
TBC Asian Half Marathon Championships Thailand
TBC 4th Asian Youth (18) Athletics Championships Kuwait City, Kuwait