Ushan Thiwanka renews Sri Lanka high jump indoor record
February 26, 2022 01:14 pm
USA-based Sri Lankan athlete Ushan Thiwanka Perera has renewed the Sri Lankan high jump indoor record at the Lone Star Conference Outdoor Track & Field Championships, in Texas.
The 23-year-old, who represents Texas A&M University-Commerce, set the record with a jump of 2.27 meters.
The former schoolboy of Maris Stella College, who left the country on a scholarship in 2020 to Texas A&M University-Commerce, is training and following his higher studies in Texas.
Thiwanka broke the record his own record previously set in Sri Lanka indoor high jump with a jump of 2.26 meters.
In March 2021, Thiwanka had broken the long-standing Sri Lanka high jump record of 2.27m which was set by Manjula Kumara Wijesekera in 2004 and equaled in 2005.
