Gayani Dissanayake

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Gayani Dissanayake
Personal information
Born (1994-04-20) 20 April 1994 (age 27)
Danthure, Kandy, Sri Lanka
Height 1.82 m (5 ft 11+1⁄2 in)
Occupation Netball player
Netball career
Playing position(s): GD, GK
Medal record
Representing  Sri Lanka
Silver medal – second place 2012 Colombo Netball
Silver medal – second place 2014 Singapore Netball
Silver medal – second place 2016 Thailand Netball
Gold medal – first place 2018 Singapore Netball

Gayani Dissanayake (Sinhala: ගයානී දිසානායක) (born 20 April 1994) is a Sri Lankan netball player and a former captain of the Sri Lanka national netball team who plays in the position of goal defense or goal keeper in international netball tournaments.[1][2] She is the second most capped player for Sri Lanka after veteran Tharjini Sivalingam.

Career[]

Gayani made her international debut in 2011 after emerging from youth level. She became the vice captain of the national team in 2014 during the 2014 Asian Netball Championships. She continued as the vice captain of the side for the 2015 Netball World Cup, which was also her first World Cup appearance.[3] Gayani was appointed as the captain of the team for a short tenure for the 2016 Asian Netball Championships where Sri Lanka emerged as runners-up to Malaysia.[3]

She was also one of the key members of the Sri Lankan contingent which emerged as champions at the 2018 Asian Netball Championships beating Singapore 69–50 in the final, which also marked Sri Lanka's first Asian Netball Championships triumph since 2009.[4][5] She was included in the Sri Lankan squad for the 2019 Netball World Cup, which was her second World Cup tournament.[6][7]

References[]

  1. ^ "Gayani Dissanayake". Netball World Cup. Retrieved 2019-09-30.
  2. ^ "Gayani Dissanayake". Netball Draft Central. Retrieved 2019-09-30.
  3. ^ a b "Gayani Dissanayake: From the village of Danthure to the world netball stage". The Sunday Times Sri Lanka. Retrieved 2019-09-30.
  4. ^ "Sri Lanka : Sri Lanka wins Asian Netball Championship after 9 years". www.colombopage.com. Retrieved 2019-09-30.
  5. ^ hermesauto (2018-09-09). "Netball: Sri Lanka prove too strong for Singapore as they triumph 69-50 in Asian Championship final". The Straits Times. Retrieved 2019-09-30.
  6. ^ "Sri Lanka pick netball squad for World Cup". Sunday Observer. 2019-05-18. Retrieved 2019-09-30.
  7. ^ "Sri Lanka". Netball Draft Central. Retrieved 2019-09-30.


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