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| Full name | Chinthana Geetal Vidanage Vidanage | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nationality | Sri Lankan | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 31 December 1981 Polonnaruwa, Sri Lanka | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 68.81 kg (151.7 lb) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Country |  Sri Lanka | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sport | Weightlifting | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight class | 69 kg | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Team | National team | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Chinthana Geetal Vidanage (born December 31, 1981) is a Sri Lankan weightlifter.[1] 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.[2] 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.[3][4]
- ^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Chinthana Vidanage". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 4 December 2016.
- ^ "Men's 62 kg - Medallists". Melbourne 2006 Commonwealth Games. Melbourne 2006 Commonwealth Games Corporation. Archived from the original on 27 May 2011. Retrieved 3 November 2008.
- ^ "IWF COMMONWEALTH RANKING LIST - 2022 COMMONWEALTH GAMES QUALIFYING (final)" (PDF). IWF. 9 March 2022. Archived (PDF) from the original on 9 March 2022. Retrieved 9 March 2022.
- ^ Ratnaweera, Dhammika (15 March 2022). "Ten Lankan weightlifters to compete at Commonwealth Games". Daily News. Lake House. Archived from the original on 14 March 2022. Retrieved 14 March 2022.