The tri-service team comprising athletes from the Sri Lanka Air Force, Sri Lanka Army and the  Sri Lanka Navy bagged two bronze medals in the 4x100 M (Men’s) and the 4x400 M (Women’s) event at the 05th Military World Games held at Rio De Janeiro, Brazil from 15th to 24th July 2011.

7000 competitors took part in these games from more than 100 countries. A 72 member team represented the Armed Forces of Sri Lanka at the games. The SLAF contingent included AVM Anura Silva as Judo team captain, Air Commodore A.P. Abeysekara as coach athletics team, Air Commodore Harsha Fernando as Deputy Chef De Mission, Wing Commander Padman Costha as Volleyball team captain and Squadron Leader MCM Fernando as the Womens Volleyball team coach. 

Airman Ranil Jayawardana was part of the team that won the first Bronze being placed third in the 4 X 100 whilst Corporal Chandrika Rasnayaka contributed to the second Bronze medal in the 4 X 400 relay and just missed another Bronze by few seconds in the 400m race.

The Bronze medalists are as follows

4 X 100m (Men)

Ranil Jayawardana	-    SLAF
Safran Shareef	-    SLA
Chamara Gihan	-    SLA
Shehan Ambepitiya	-    SLN

4 X 400m (Women)

Chandrika Rasnayaka	-    SLAF
Menaka Wickramasinghe	-    SLA
Dilrukshi Champika	-    SLA
Kusumawathie A	-    SLA

The SLAF was represented by the following sportsmen and women at the games:

JUDO

                                                                               

S/No	Svc No	Rank	Name
01	01280	AVM	WA SILVA	Team Captain
02	23240	Cpl	Weerasinghe    MAAM	Physio
03	015933	AC	Wickramage    JSK
04	019250	AC	Bandara HMCJ
05	019489	AC	Jayawardana WGUR
06	TA 28301	AC	Dharmawardane RCN
07	AW 3014	AC	Fonseka
08	AW 3015	AC	Rathnayake
09	AW/01405	AC	Wijerathne    DGCD
10	AW/01406	AC	Bandaramanike BGS
11	AW/01498	AC	Wijewardana DYL

TRACK AND FIELD

                 

S/No	Svc No	Rank	Name
01	01378	Air Cdre	Ajith Abeysekera	coach
02	09796	Sgt	Prassanna Fernando	physiotherapist
03	AW/1286	Sgt	Sujani Bhuddhika	100,100 x 4, 200
04	AW/01318	Cpl	Chandrika Rasnayake	100x4,400,200,400x4
05	AW/01318	Cpl	Samanmali DAS	1500,400 x 4
06	TW/1230	AC	Dulakshi WPEK	3000
07	TA/2782	AC	Jayawardana PARS	100x4

VOLLEYBALL / BEACH VOLLEYBALL

S/No	Svc No	Rank	Name
01	01879	Wg Cdr	PN De Costa	Team caption
02	02141	Sqn Ldr	MCM Fernando	Girls team coach
03	14868	F/Sgt	Udayakumara WP	Refree
04	08582	Sgt	Silva GBDR	Refree
05	AW/01305	LAC	Gunawardana  KKGL
06	TW/1262	AC	Gunasinghe  HNL