Panchali Janodya Adikari, a grade eleven student of Mahamaya Girls College, Kandy is an outstanding badminton player who started playing badminton at the tender age of six years under the coaching of R.S.Dahanayake. At first she studied at Gothami Vidyalaya,Kandy from Grade One onwards and in the Year 2017 she was admitted to Mahamaya Girls School to pursue higher studies as well as badminton her pet sport. At Mahamaya Girls College she was coached by R.L.Lasantha, a reputed badminton coach.
In June 2018 ,Panchali was selected by Sri Lanka Badminton Association to follow a training course in badminton at Prakash Padukone Academy, Bangalore for three weeks for the under 15 age category. After this training course she did extremely well to win the Under 15 Singles title at the Junior Nationals and to win the National Badminton Tournament held at Lumbini Vidyalaya and Royal College Sports Complex respectively from 24th October to 14th November, 2018.
In the year 2019 Panchali was selected to represent Sri Lanka at the Under 19 World Badminton Championship held at Kasan, Russia at the age of 14 years and she was the youngest player out of the four badminton players who were selected. In the year 2019 she became the Under 17 Singles Champion at the 66th National and Junior National Badminton Championship and she won the doubles title with Manudi Mithara of Sujatha Balika Vidyalaya,Matara. Again in the year 2019 she toured Indonesia to compete at the Asian Junior National Badminton Championship.
Panchali says that she has a long way to go in badminton and due to Covid 19- epidemic her badminton practices have been halted and she has started practices under the coaching of R.S. Dahanayake, a private Badminton Coach.
Her intention is to do higher studies in the Commerce Stream and to continue to play badminton and come up-to Olympic Level.
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