Sports News
12:55pm on Wednesday 28th October 2009
Sri Lanka Air Force Tennis team emerge champs in the Defence Service Tennis Championships which was held 26th, 27th, and 28th of October, 2009 at the Tunmulla Sports Complex, Colombo.The Air Force team won 9 out of 14 games at this event. The points table of the event is as follows:Sri Lanka Air Force – 49 pointsSri Lanka Navy – 20 pointsSri Lanka Army – 07 points   ...
4:04pm on Monday 26th October 2009
Airwoman Anusha Prasadika competing in this years Australasia 3Gun championship in the Philippines made her country proud by becoming the over all ladies champion of the competition whilst winning the gold medal at the Ladies Rifle course of fire.Mean while Corporal Abeywardana from the Sri Lanka Army  won the gold medal in the Men’s Rifle course of fire and Haritha Pilapitiy...
7:13pm on Sunday 25th October 2009
The SLAF soccer team have secured a place in the semi finals of the Dialog Champions League as they ended up in a nil all draw against Saunders SC, this evening (17 October 2009) at the City League Ground Colombo. The Airmen have played four matches in the second round of this tournament, having won two and drew two matches so far with one more match to be played. In today’s game both...
6:59pm on Thursday 22nd October 2009
Airmen sanjeewa scored his 6th consecutive goal, becoming the 3rd most scorer, in the Dialog Champion league as the Air force soccer team beat the Old Bens SC 4-1 this evening (22 October 2009). Just after 16 minutes of play Anthony Prabath from the Old Bens SC the first half of the game.However from thereon the situation changed as Chanaka Fernando scored the first goal in the 47th minu...
12:22pm on Thursday 22nd October 2009
The Sri Lanka Air Force Rugby team and its skipper have been nominated to compete in the poll which has been appearing on the Sunday Observer , Daily News and Daily Dinamina  news papers for the past for the past 03 weeks. However, this week ending from 25th October 2009 being the final week for this competition Squadron Leader Kosala Ranasinghe has been placed 4th with 6541 vo...
6:34pm on Tuesday 20th October 2009
Ishara Madurangi of SLAF won the Ping Pong Academy Women’s Title during the All Island Open Ranking Table Tennis Championship held on 17th & 18th October 2009 at St. Thomas’ Indoor Stadium Mt Lavinia.The Results of the Finals are as follows:Open Women’s Singles: Ishara Madurangi of Sri Lanka Air Force beat Tharunya Sashini of Sri Devananda College Ambalangoda 12/10 , 11/0...
6:15pm on Tuesday 20th October 2009
The formidable Defence services XV will scrum down against the Sri Lanka Rugby Football Union (SLRFU) presidents XV for the president Mahinda Rajapaksha Trophy at the Navy grounds Welisara this evening.Yoshitha Rajapaksha, Flanker will lead the defence services XV and Pradeep Liyanage will be his counter part in today's encounter. Both teams will be very aggressive as this will be the fi...
2:32pm on Monday 19th October 2009
Airmen played against the Sri Lanka Navy SC in a 03 day (15, 16 & 17 October 2009) cricket match in the Premier League Tournament at the Riffle green which resulted in a draw. The Sailors winning the toss opted to bat scoring 255 all out, and in response the Airmen managed to score only 204. Coming to bat in the second innings the Sailors scored 299 all out. Thereafter the...
4:45pm on Sunday 18th October 2009
The SLAF Soccerites playing against the unbeaten Renown SC in the Dialog Champions League, soccer tournament settled for a 1 all draw last evening (17 October 2009) at the City League Ground Colombo.Both teams played really well from the kick off it self to score the first goal and open their scoring, in which Mohamed Nazir from Renown SC succeeded in the 23rd minute of the game. Fr...
3:16pm on Friday 16th October 2009
The Australasia 3Gun Championship organized by the international practical shooting confederation is scheduled to be held from 17 to 29 October 2009. The event will be hosted in the Philippines by the Philippine practical shooting association, in which they plan to conduct courses of fire in all three disciplines namely Handgun, Shotgun and Rifle.A total of 10 participants and 03 other o...
11:15am on Thursday 15th October 2009
Sri Lanka Air Force cricket club beat Burgher RC yesterday (14 October 2009) at the Riffle Green, Colombo, Sri Lanka Air Force Sports Club with a 31 run win over (D/L method). The airmen winning the toss invited their opponents to bat, who managed to score 178 all out (Dilhan Cooray 38, Weranga Dissanayake 49, Sidath Priyankara 3/31, Madura Sanjaya 3/42) in 47 over’s.In response ...
7:26pm on Sunday 11th October 2009
The SLAF Soccerites after five wins out of six matches in the first round of the Dialog Champion league, kicked off the second round first match with a 2-1 victory over Jupiters SC this evening (11 October 2009).Compared to the previous match played against the same opponents in the first round, Jupiters SC did well to restrict the Airmen to only two goals after a tight game. However, th...
12:06pm on Saturday 10th October 2009
Sri Lanka Air Force Station Colombo emerged overall champions in the annual road and walking race-2009, which was organized by the Sri Lanka Air Force Sports Council this morning (10 October 2009). Over 250 participants inclusive of Officers, Air men and women from various age groups representing all Air Force Bases/Camps took part at this event that concluded at the Sri Lanka Air F...
10:08am on Tuesday 6th October 2009
Rohan Sirisena from the Sri Lanka Air Force Table Tennis Club, won the Men’s Singles events at the St John’s Table Tennis Championship which was concluded at St Thomas Indoor Stadium Mt Lavinia on 4 Oct 2009. Nirmani Silva from the Sri Lanka Air Force Table Tennis Club emerged runner up in women’s singles; Following are the breakdown results of which the SLAF players participa...
4:50pm on Wednesday 30th September 2009
The national Decathlon champion Mohamad Sameera from the Air Force sports club taking part in the 87th National Athletic Championship, performed his personal best in four of the ten disciplines (long jump, shot-putt, pole volt and javelin) and aggregated 6342 points to lower the former national record established in 2006.The Air Force athlete’s participating in this championship ...
12:39pm on Monday 28th September 2009
Skipper at the SLAF men’s Volleyball team Cpl Taraka Abeykoon brought great honour to SLAF by selecting to lead the Sri Lanka Senior  men’s team at the 15 Asian Senior Men’s Volleyball Tournament which is being held in Philippine from 26 Sep to 05 Oct 2009.Cpl Abeykoon one of the best quick attackers of the game had previously toured India, Qutar, Vietnam, Indonesia and P...
8:44pm on Sunday 27th September 2009
The first ever “Sigiriya Rally Cross” the newest addition to the countries motor racing arena, was flagged off this morning at a newly built track in Sigiriya. The specialty in this form of track was that it comprised the features of a ‘tar mach’ as well as the ‘gravel road’ with various obstacles of its kind. A participation of two Indian riders also added importance to the ...
6:44pm on Saturday 26th September 2009
The mighty Rathnam SC, one of the best teams in the game of soccer were beaten by the Air Force team 01nil, this evening(26 September 2009), in one of the Dialog Champion league matches played at the City Football League ground Colombo.Leading Air Craft man Chaminda managed to score the only goal in the match just few minutes after the kick off, which subsequently went on to be the winni...
3:03pm on Friday 25th September 2009
The airmen participating in the Division 1 Premier Cricket ODI Tournament beat Singha SC on 23 September 2009. This is the second match to be won by the SLAF Cricket team in this tournament. The game was interrupted from the start due to bad weather conditions and each team was restricted to play 37 overs each.The airmen winning the toss invited the opponents to bat first in which t...
1:03pm on Wednesday 23rd September 2009
Air Force Badminton player  Aircraftman Madusanka RSK (known as RS Kasun) defeated the no 2 ranked Sri Lanka Badminton player Diluka Karunarathne (One of Karunarathne brothers) this morning (23 September 2009) in the quarter finals of the Nationalized Services Badminton Open Tournament held  at the St Thomas’s collage indoor badminton courts. Further Kasun is due to play...
12:33pm on Wednesday 23rd September 2009
    The ‘Inter Unit Badminton Championships’ a annual feature in the SLAF sports calendar was concluded on 18 September 2009 at the SLAF Base Katunayake Sports Complex. The event is held annually amongst the SLAF Bases/Stations in view of promoting the game within the SLAF and selecting competent players to represent organization at national level. The Chief of St...
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