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Hiruni Wijayaratne (born December 5, 1990) is a Sri Lankan distance athlete. She holds eleven Sri Lankan national records for road and track events as of 2022, including the women's 10,000 metres and marathon.
She first ran the Sri Lankan women's marathon record of 2:36:35 in Houston, Texas, USA during the 2018 Chevron Houston Marathon. She then renewed the Sri Lankan women's marathon record at the 2019 Düsseldorf Marathon, with a time of 2:34:10 which is also a South Asian Area Record.
Wijayaratne represented Sri Lanka in the 2017 London marathon at the 2017 World Championships in Athletics. In 2019, she competed in the women's marathon at the 2019 World Athletics Championships held in Doha, Qatar. She did not finish her race. She was discarded from selection for the 2022 Commonwealth Games by National Sports Selection Committee despite recommendation by Wimalasena Perera.
Outside of running, Wijayaratne is a certified running coach who appeared on the Today show with her then trainee, Al Roker. She currently works in customer success at Omada Health.
Competition record
References
"Hiruni breaks national record in Texas - Daily Sports". dailysports.lk. Retrieved 2018-01-17.
External links
Hiruni Wijayaratne at World Athletics
Hiruni Wijayaratne Kentucky Wildcats results
Kata Kunci Pencarian:
- Hiruni Wijayaratne
- List of Sri Lankan records in athletics
- Luis Orta
- Sri Lanka at the 2019 World Athletics Championships
- Houston Marathon
- List of South Asian Games gold medalists in athletics
- National records in the marathon
- National records in the 10,000 metres
- List of eligibility transfers in athletics
- Sri Lanka at the 2018 Asian Games