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Prasanna looks to flex muscles more next year

By Namal Pathirage

Silver medalist at the World Bodybuilding championship, 42-year-old Prasanna Peiris told the Sunday Times that he intends taking part in three major bodybuilding championships during the next year.

The builder, who has a gold and a silver in his bag, intends taking part in the 6th world championships which will be held in November next year. Prior to that, in March he will be in action at the Asian Bodybuilding Championships which will be held in Mongolia.

He will also take part in another Asian Championship in Bahrain next year. He competes in the 70kg lightweight class.

At the 64th Bodybuilding Championships that was held in Azerbaijan, Prasanna won the silver medal in his weight class but was elevated to the gold position as Egypt’s Mohammed Jaffar was penalised for the use of performance enhancing drugs.

However ironically when Prasanna walked home with this achievement he was taken aback as there was no official from the Ministry of Sports to greet him at the Bandaranaike International Airport at Katunayake.

The Secretary of the Sri Lanka Bodybuilding Association, Chandana Aluthge, commenting on the incident said, “Under any circumstances Prasanna’s achievement should have been recognised, after all he had brought home a silver medal from the World Championships.” The first Sri Lankan ever to win a medal in Bodybuilding was Robert Rupasinghe.

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