National Weightlifting Championship 2017 was held at the Torrington Gymnasium from 26 December 2017 to 29 December 2017. The SLAF Weightlifting Team emerged all-round champions of both men’s and women’s categories defeating all the other teams. The performance of the SLAF Team at the National Weightlifting Championship 2017 is given below.

58 KG    LAC Rajapaksha RMNS(Sri Lanka Record)
69KG     LAC Wickramasinghe WMAS

Silver
58 KG    LAC Subashini WMC
63KG     LAC Umeira M

Men ­ Senior Championship
Gold
62KG   LAC WijesingheAUMM
77 KG  LAC Janith PHM
94 KG  LAC Peters SM
105KG LAC Jayawikcrama WPGTC
105KG+   LAC Charuka WP (Sri Lanka Record)
69KG   LAC Palagasinghe PKIWK

Bronze
105KG+   CPL Wijerathne RPMS

Men ­ Junior Championship
Gold
62KG     AC Jayathilaka SMM
69KG     AC Jayasena URR

Silver
69 KG    AC Jayalath PGD

Further, following SLAF Weightlifters were selected as the best weightlifters in their respective series

Women ­ Senior Championship
LAC Gomas BDH

Men ­ Senior Championship
LAC Palagasinghe PKIWK

Men ­ Junior Championship
AC Jayasena URR