Chinthana Vidanage

Chinthana Geetal Vidanage (born December 31, 1981) is a Sri Lankan weightlifter. He won a gold medal in the men's 62 kg category weightlifting; the first weightlifting gold medal for Sri Lanka in the 2006 Commonwealth Games held in Australia. In, 2011 Vidanage was banned for four years for violating anti-doping rules.

He was born in Polonnaruwa. Vidanage was a student of Polonnaruwa Royal Central College.

Vidanage has qualified to compete for Sri Lanka at the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham, England.

Drugs

A urine sample provided by Vidanage in April 2011 at the 2011 Asian Weightlifting Championships in China was found to have metabolites of two methylhexanamine, which is banned by the World Anti-Doping Agency. Vidanage admitted taking the drug "unknowingly". The International Weightlifting Federation subsequently banned him for four years.

See also

List of Sri Lankans by sport

References

External links

1981 births

Living people

People from North Central Province, Sri Lanka

Sri Lankan male weightlifters

Weightlifters at the 2008 Summer Olympics

Olympic weightlifters for Sri Lanka

Commonwealth Games gold medallists for Sri Lanka

Weightlifters at the 2006 Commonwealth Games

Weightlifters at the 2010 Commonwealth Games

Sri Lankan sportspeople in doping cases

Doping cases in weightlifting

Commonwealth Games silver medallists for Sri Lanka

Weightlifters at the 2014 Asian Games

Commonwealth Games medallists in weightlifting

Weightlifters at the 2014 Commonwealth Games

Weightlifters at the 2018 Commonwealth Games

Asian Games competitors for Sri Lanka

Sri Lankan powerlifters

Medallists at the 2006 Commonwealth Games

Medallists at the 2010 Commonwealth Games