Career
She held a Sri Lankan record from the national championships in 2003 (2828), until it was eventually broken by 13-year-old Kimiko Raheen nine years later (2012). De Silva qualified for the women"s 50 m freestyle at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, by receiving a Universality place from FINA, in an entry time of 28.48. She challenged seven other swimmers in heat four, including 31-year-old Melanie Slowing of Guatemala.
She raced to seventh place by two tenths of a second behind Nicaragua"s Geraldine Arce in 28.93.
De Silva failed to advance into the semifinals, as she placed fifty-second overall out of 75 swimmers on the last day of preliminaries.
