Menaka De Silva - Place of Birth, Date of Birth, Age, Wiki, Facts, Net Worth, Birthday, Biography and Family

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Jan 26, 1985 Colombo, Western Province, Sri Lanka 39 years old

Olympic swimmer

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About Menaka De Silva

  • Menaka Srimani de Silva (born January 26, 1985) is a Sri Lankan swimmer, who specialized in sprint freestyle events.
  • She held a Sri Lankan record from the national championships in 2003 (28.28), until it was eventually broken by 13-year-old Kimiko Raheen nine years later (2012).De Silva qualified for the women's 50 m freestyle at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, by receiving a Universality place from FINA, in an entry time of 28.48.
  • She challenged seven other swimmers in heat four, including 31-year-old Melanie Slowing of Guatemala.
  • She raced to seventh place by two tenths of a second behind Nicaragua's Geraldine Arce in 28.93.
  • De Silva failed to advance into the semifinals, as she placed fifty-second overall out of 75 swimmers on the last day of preliminaries.

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