Air Force Athletes who represented Sri Lanka in the Asian Athletics Championship in China, returned home after a successful tour on 09 June 2015.With the guidance of Chairman, SLAF Athletics Air Cdre SK Pathirana and Secretary Gp Capt D Munasinghe, Air Force athletes performed extremely well at the Championship.  LAC Nimali WKLA won the Bronze medal in women’s 800m after 22 years,...

The inaugural Air Force Badminton Tournament was declared open by the Commander of the Air Force and the driving force behind the tournament, Air Marshal Kolitha Gunatilleke, this morning at the Air Force Health Management Centre, Tummulla.  Sponsored and organized by the Sri Lanka Air Force, the tournament is conducted by the Sri Lanka Badminton Association, and is expected to give...

SLAF Netball team emerged victorious against the Brunei National Netball team at the recent tour of Brunei from 01 May 2015 to 07 May 2015. The SLAF Netball team faced 04 matches with the National Netball Team in Brunei and became overall champions as 2-1(One match was drawn).       ...

SLAF TTS Eka emerged men's & women's Champions in the Inter Unit Handball Championship 2015 held on 14th May 2015 at SLAF Base Katunayake.In the men’s final, SLAF Station Ekala beat SLAF Station Colombo while in the women’s final, SLAF TTS Ekala beat SLAF Base H'goda.Base Commander SLAF Base Katunayaka, Air Commodore SK Pathirana graced the awarding ceremony as the Ch...

The 26 Regiment Wing at SLAF Base Katunayake won the Men's Championship while SLAF TTS Ekala won the Women's Championship at the Inter Unit Boxing Championship 2015 which was held at the Indoor Stadium of the SLAF Base Katunayake.     Aircraftsman Indika of SLAF Base Vavuniya  and Aircraftswoman Jayasinghe of the SLAF TTS Ekala were announced as the...

SLAF Base Rma secured the overall championship whilst SLAF Base H'goda became runner up at the Inter Unit Carrom Championship 2015 which was concluded today (29 Apr 2015) at SLAF Station Cbo. The Commanding Officer of SLAF Colombo, Air Commodore Prasanna Payoe graced the presentation Ceremony as the Chief Guest.  Chairman, SLAF Carrom, Wing Commander VTS Sirimanne, O...

The SLAF won the 29th Youth Rupavahini Volleyball Tournament Women's title last evening (11 Apr 15) at the National Youth Services Indoor Stadium, Maharagama. 8  teams took part at this year tournament and SLAF beat Sri Lanka Foreign Employment Bureau  25-17, 25-20 and 25-09 in the Cup final. Airwoman Anusha Sandamali was adjudged the best player of the tournament whilst AC Ash...

“Guwan Hamuda Papedi Sawariya 2015” was held for the 16th consecutive year, coinciding with the 64th Anniversary of the Sri Lanka Air Force. The men’s race was held on 2nd ,3rd and 4th April 2015  in 3 stages. Cyclists from all around the country participated in this race covering a total distance of 432.1Km. Nidush Nirantha  of the Air Force won the overall Championship ...

SLAF’s men and women shooters emerged both Team Champions in the Open Division event while the Production division men and women shooters also became the Champions in their categories at the Golden Eagle IPSC Hand Gun Nationals 2015 concluded last evening at SL Navy Welisara.The event was organized by the Sri Lanka Air Force in collaboration with National Rifle Association at...

The Sri Lanka Air Force Karate team became the Champions at the Open karate championship, the first stage of ‘SRI LANKA FRIENDS CUP- 2015’, which was conducted at the Sir Albert Peiris Indoor Stadium  Wennappuwa on 21 March 2015.The tournament was organized by the Sri Lanka Friends Karate Organization, with the participation of more than 650 Karate players in all events under Bl...

SLAF riders took honours at the Pannala motor cross held on 22 Mar 15 at Pannala motor cross track. The SLAF team participated with 7 riders and grabbed 6 placements by overtaking many leading riders around the country.PlacementsNovices event1st   Sgt Perera HKRT2nd  Lac Galpeella YMEAB3rd  Cpl Lakmal CEvent standard 115 cc1st  Lac Peiris HYMEvent standard 250cc2nd&nb...

The Air Force rugby team emerged victorious over defending champions SL Navy Club in the ongoing Clifford Cup knock-out rugby tournament played yesterday evening(22 March 15).The Airmen beat the Sailors 37 points (four goals and three penalties) to 23 points (two goals and three penalties) at the Race Course Grounds yesterday. SLAF players played to a well mapped out game plan, with good...

SLAF Bodybuilders bagged 01 gold, 05 silver and 02 bronze medals at the the Mr Sri Lanka Body BuIlding Championship 2015 concluded at Ananda College Colombo on 14 March 2015.The performances of the SLAF are as follows.Gold medalLac Fonseka RLC - 70 KgSilver MedalsLac Tennakoon HMRD - 60 kgLAC Chaminda Pieris WM - 75 kgLAC Dhanushka  PRA- 80kgLAC Abeysekara UVNM - 8...

The Sri Lanka Air Force ruggerites defeated Police SC by 44 to 22 yesterday evening (20th Feb 2015) at Ratmalana Air Force grounds, in their Dialog inter Club 'A' Division League Rugby Tournament.Air Force scored their 44 points with 4 goals, 2 unconverted tries and 2 penalties while police scored 1 goal and 3 unconverted tries. Fijian Opathie Belena, AC Nuwan Perera, LAC Surya Krishan, ...

The Air Force 10th Open Squash Championship was held from  7 February 2015  with the participation of 300 participants and successfully concluded this evening (14 February 2015 ) at the Sri Lanka Air Force Squash Complex, Ratmalana. Ravindu Laksiri of DS Senanayake College Colombo and Naduni Gunawardanei of   Vishaka College Colombo won the Men’s and Women’s ...

The SLAF men and women Judokas became the Champions and runners up respectively at the 54th National Judo Championship organized by the Sri Lanka Judo Association which was held at Judo Association Colombo on 29 and 30 December 2014. SLAF won the Men’s Open and team categories and became runner up of the Women’s team category whilst bagging 12 Gold Medals, 08 Silver Medal...

The 89th ABA Men and Women National championship 2014 was concluded at the Sugathadasa Indoor Stadium, Colombo, last week. The final event of this year's boxing calendar saw the cream of Sri Lankan boxers in action in the Sugathadasa ring. Sri Lanka Air Force's s Boxer Cpl Dilshan MYM won the most outstanding player of the year 2014 trophy for winning Bronze at the Robert to Ba...

The SLAF women’s team secured the women Championship whilst the men’s team finished runners up at the National Taekwondo Championship 2014 which was concluded a short while ago at the Indoor Stadium of the University of Colombo. The SLAF obtained 5 Gold medals, 2 Silver medal, 5 bronze medals. The Sri Lanka Air Force team was adjudged the all-round runner up of the Championship&...

The Sri Lanka Air Force Volleyball team emerged victorious in a two match series over the Indian Air Force Volleyball team. SLAF Volleyball team won the first match 3-1 and out played their counterparts with straight 3-0 sets win in the second match. The tour was undertaken in line with the IAF- SLAF sports exchange program under the ongoing IAF- SLAF Air staff Talks.As the reciprocal vi...

Sri Lanka Air Force Academy China Bay secured the overall championship at the second Inter Unit golf tournament held at the Sri Lanka Air Force Eagle’s Heritage Golf on 06th December 2014.The game consisted of 18 holes one round match and a total of 52 players participated in the tournament. Sri Lanka Air Force Academy Cby team displayed their skills in such fashion that enabled the Ac...

No 26 Regiment wing SLAF Base Kat and SLAF TTS Eka won the Men’s and Women’s Championships respectively, at the Inter Unit Wrestling  championships 2014 concluded  on 05th December  2014 at the Sport Complex,  SLAF Base Katunayake.  SLAF Base Rathmalana and SLAF BIA became the Men’s runners up and No 26 Regiment wing SLAF Kat became Women’s runn...