Background
Weerawansa was born to W. Cosmas Damian (lecturer) and Mercy Edna (teacher) on 17 June 1966 at Negombo, Sri Lanka.
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Dinesh Weerawansa
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He was educated at the Royal College, Colombo and was senior college prefect 1984/85.
Career
In addition, he also functions as Associate Editor/ Sports Editor of the Daily News and a visiting lecturer at National Olympic Academy of Sri Lanka. He then pursued further studies at the Thomson Foundation,United Kingdom, Thomson Foundation,United Kingdom and the International Olympic Academy (IOA). In 1994, he was selected by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Japan to represent Sri Lanka at the South Asian Youth Exchange program
Only Sri Lankan media personality to be trained in the world-renowned IOA in Athena, Greece.
Holds a diploma in sports leadership conducted by the International Olympic Committee. Weerawansa has covered many milestone events in Sri Lanka sport, including Susanthika Jayasinghe winning the 2000 Sydney Olympic Games silver medal and 2007 World Championship bronze medal as well as Damayanthi Darsha and Sugath Tillakaratne winning gold medals for Sri Lanka (3) after 25 years at 1998 Bangkok Asian Games.
He had also served as a radio and television commentator at several international events, including Olympic Games, Asian Games, South Asian Games and Test/ ODI international cricket matches and represented Sri Lanka at the Asian Sports Press Union Congress in Seoul in 1990 and 1992 and South Asian Sports Association in Dhaka, 1993 - was elected Chairman of its Cricket Commission. XXVth Olympic Games in Barcelona, 1992
XXV11 Olympic Games in Sydney, 2000
XXV111 Olympic Games in Athens, 2004
XX1X Olympic Games in Beijing, 2008
XXX Olympic Games in London, 2012
8th IAAF World Championships in Edmonton, 2001
9th IAAF World Championships in Paris-Saint Dennis, 2003
10th IAAF World Championships in Helsinki, 2005
11th IAAF World Championships in Osaka, 2007
12th IAAF World Championships in Berlin, 2009
13th IAAF World Championships in Daegu, 2011
14th IAAF World Championships in Moscow, 2013
11th Asian Games in Hiroshima, 1994
12th Asian Games in Bangkok, 1998
13th Asian Games in Busan, 2002
14th Asian Games in Doha, 2006
15th Asian Games in Guangzhou, 2010
Asian Athletic Championships in Manila, 1993
South Asian Games in Dhaka, 1993
Asian Athletic Grand Prix Manila, 2007
Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) in Perth, 2011
President Mahinda Rajapaksa"s state visit to Japan, 2007.
Membership
He is honorary member of the International Taekwon-Do Federation he has been Sri Lanka’s prolific Sports Editor / sports journalist for nearly three decades and is also the IAAF athletic correspondent for Sri Lanka and he is the most experienced and travelled sports writer in Sri Lanka who has covered five editions of the Olympic Games (1992, 2000, 2004, 2008 and 2012), seven IAAF World Athletic Championships (2001, 2003, 2005, 2007, 2009, 2011 and 2013) and six Asian Games (1994, 1998, 2002, 2006, 2010 and 2014).
