Cherantha de Silva
Cherantha De Silva (born 12 July 1996) is a Sri Lankan medal-winning swimmer, who has represented his country at 6 World Aquatics Championships, 3 FINA World Cup's, 2 Commonwealth Games, 1 Asian Games as well as 1 South Asian Games, winning 7 medals. De Silva broke 6 Sri Lankan national records and 4 internationally recognized records (more details below). Further, De Silva qualified with 4 World championship B standards(B cuts) for the 2018, 14th FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) held in Hangzhou, China. He narrowly missed the A standard (A cut) in the 50m Butterfly (SCM) clocking 23.48. While the A standard could have made history for Sri Lanka as the first Sri Lankan to achieve the A standard he missed it by 0.2 seconds. Also, De Silva was bestowed the "Best Sportsman of the Year" award at the school level, provincial and Sri Lanka school level.
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| Full name | K. T. Cherantha Gihash De Silva | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nickname(s) | "Cheran","Machine", "Cheriff", "Tha" | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| National team | Sri Lanka | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 12 July 1996 Colombo, Sri Lanka | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.77 m (5 ft 9+1⁄2 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 73 kg (161 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Swimming | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Strokes | Freestyle and Butterfly | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Club | Thanyapura | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| College team | Kenyon College, Gambier | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Coach | Miguel Lopez | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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To top off his swim career De Silva earned a scholarship to study in the US at Kenyon College, Gambier, Ohio. He earned a bachelors degree in Economics.