Amasha Hettiarachchi, a Grade 12 Student of Girls’ High School,Kandy is one of the best athletes in the province who has excelled in hurdles and her athletic coach is S.P. Vithana, former Sri Lanka Army Athlete. She showed her class for the first time as an Under 16 runner when she won the 400 Metre Race with a new meet record of 60.42 seconds. At the Provincial Athletic Meet in the Under 16 age group she did 300 metre hurdles in 45.35 seconds to establish her second meet record . Again at the Provincial Athletic Meet she won three events in the Under 18 age group , the 400 Metre Race she won with a new meet record of 56.8 seconds and followed with victories in 400 Metre Hurdles in 62.4 seconds and 100 Metre Hurdles in 14.9 seconds
In the year 2017 she secured the first place at the Sir John Tarbat Meet in the 400 Metre Race. The year 2019 was a year full of outstanding performances for Amasha Hettiarachchi, who won the First place in 400 Metre Hurdles at the third Asian Youth Athletic Championship clocking 61.42 seconds and secured the third place in 400 metre flat race and she won the first place in 300 metre hurdles with a timing of 4407 seconds In the same year at the National Athletic Meet she secured the third place in 400 metre hurdles event and registered two wins at the Junior National Meet in 400 metre race and 400 metre Hurdles events. Amasha was selected for the World Youth Games and it was not held due to the Corona Epidemic and she was selected as the emerging athlete among girls and she received a trophy at the Ministry of Sports on the 4th of March 2021.
Amasha’s intention is to enter the university by pursuing her studies while improving her athletic career which is at the highest point at present. She is grateful to the sports loving Principal of Girls’ High School,Kandy Malkanthi Abeygunasekera and the teacher-in-charge of athletics Priyani Dissanayake, and her athletic coach S.P. Vithana for giving her the proper guidance and encouragement.
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