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Summa Navaratnam
Voller Name	Sumanthiran Navaratnam
Nation	Sri Lanka Sri Lanka
Geburtstag	21. Mai 1925
Geburtsort	Araly, Vaddukoddai, Jaffna, Northern Province, British Ceylon
Größe	176 cm
Gewicht	67 kg
Karriere
Disziplin	Sprint
Verein	Sri Lanka Army
Status	aktiv
Medaillenspiegel
Südasienspiele 3 × 1 × 0 × Jogos da Lusofonia 0 × 0 × 2 × Militärweltspiele 0 × 0 × 1 × U20-Asienmeisterschaften 0 × 1 × 0 ×
Südasienspiele Gold Dhaka 2010 100 m Gold Dhaka 2010 4 × 100 m Silber Dhaka 2010 200 m Gold Guwahati 2016 4 × 100 m Jogos da Lusofonia Bronze Lissabon 2009 4 × 100 m Bronze Lissabon 2009 4 × 400 m Militärweltspiele Bronze Rio de Janeiro 2011 4 × 100 m Juniorenasienmeisterschaften Silber Jakarta 2008 100 m
letzte Änderung: 8. Januar 2021

Sumanthiran Navaratnam (auch: Sumana Navaratnam, Summa Navaratnam; geb. 21. Mai 1925; gest. 19. Oktober 2023) war ein sri-lankischer Leichtathlet und rugby union player, Trainer und Geschäftsmann. Er galt als einer der besten Sportler von Sri Lanka und war zum Zeitpunkt seines Todes der älteste lebende Athlete von Sri Lanka.

Leben

Sumanthiran Navaratnam wurde am 21. Mai 1925 in Araly, Vaddukoddai, Jaffna, Northern Province geboren. Er war das fünfte Kind in seiner Familie. Sein Vater S. S. Navaratnam war ein Beamter.

Navaratnam married Sri Lankan-born British-American best-selling author Rosemary Jansz and the couple had two daughters, Rosanne and Sharon. The couple later divorced and Rosemary moved to London with her daughters in 1960. He was later married to Romaine and had two children.

Death

Navaratnam died on 19 October 2023, at the age of 98. His remains were laid at A. F. Raymond Parlour and his funeral was held at Borella cemetery.

Career

Navaratnam established himself as a reputed prominent distinguished sportsman at the Royal College in Colombo where he pursued his primary and secondary education. He gained attention as a school athlete at Royal College at the age of fifteen when he became the youngest Royalist to be awarded the Royal College athletics colours. He also went on to captain the Royal College rugby and athletics teams.

In 1945, for the Indo-Ceylon Dual Athletic Meet, he was chosen to represent Ceylon. He competed in the men's 4 × 100 yards relay event alongside Duncan White, R. E. Kitto and Basil Henricus. He was then overlooked from the Sri Lankan contingent which participated at the 1948 Summer Olympics and in 1952 Summer Olympics due to nepotism with the selection process at that time.

Navaratnam represented Ceylon at the 1950 British Empire Games which was held in Auckland, New Zealand, and competed in the men's 100 yards, men's 220 yards and in men's events. He finished in fifth position in the men's heats 100 yards competition and could not progress to the semi–final. He was also slated to compete in the men's 200 yards event but he did not start and was disqualified. He teamed up with fellow prominent track and field athletes Duncan White, John de Saram and Oscar Wijesinghe in the men's 4 × 110 yards event where Sri Lanka finished in fourth position during the 1950 British Empire Games.

Navaratnam was fondly called "the fastest man in Asia" after clocking at record 10.04 seconds at the India States Olympic Meet which was held in Madras in 1953. It was also regarded as the fastest timing recorded on a grass track on Asian soil. He began his athletics coaching career with Royal College in 1953. He retired from athletics in 1955 and pursued his career as a professional rugby player.

Navaratnam was part of the Ceylon rugby team which played in an unofficial match against the touring British Lions in 1950 where the British Lions defeated Sri Lanka 44–6. He was just one of three local native Sri Lankans along with Leslie Ephraims and Clair Roeloffsz to have been selected to play for the Ceylonese rugby team which was otherwise dubbed as an "all-white" Sri Lankan team. He also captained the Ceylonese Rugby & Football Club and under his captaincy CR & FC won the Clifford Cup in 1954.

Navaratnam was elected as the president of the Ceylon Rugby Football Union in 1972 and was re-elected as the president of the Sri Lanka Rugby Football Union in 1974. He also joined the Royal (Ceylon) Air Force. He went on to become rugby coach of Royal College, Colombo Rugby Football Union and the national team. He also started the Summa Navaratnam Junior Rugby Academy and began coaching children.

Navaratnam pursued a mercantile career as a junior trading executive of Dodwell & Company in Colombo. After the closure of Dodwell, he joined the Stores & Sales Department of Colombo Commercial Company. On his return to Sri Lanka in around 1989, he became general manager of Consolexpo corporation where he served for three years. He became general manager at the Ceylon and Foreign Trades PLC in 1993 and served in the position for about 16 years before his retirement in 2009. He was also appointed to the board of Ceylon and Foreign Trades and its subsidiaries. == Persönliche Bestleistungen == * 100 Meter: 10,31 s (+0,9 m/s), 6. Oktober 2010 in [[Neu-Delhi]] * 200 Meter: 21,12 s (+0,3 m/s), 9. Oktober 2010 in Neu-Delhi == Weblinks == * {{World Athletics|14225468}} <nowiki/> <nowiki>{{SORTIERUNG:Abeypitiya, Shehan}} [[Kategorie:100-Meter-Läufer (Sri Lanka)]] [[Kategorie:200-Meter-Läufer (Sri Lanka)]] [[Kategorie:4-mal-100-Meter-Staffel-Läufer (Sri Lanka)]] [[Kategorie:4-mal-400-Meter-Staffel-Läufer (Sri Lanka)]] [[Kategorie:Teilnehmer an den Commonwealth Games (Sri Lanka)]] [[Kategorie:Teilnehmer an den Südasienspielen (Sri Lanka)]] [[Kategorie:Südasienspielesieger (Leichtathletik)]] [[Kategorie:Sri-Lankischer Meister (Leichtathletik)]] [[Kategorie:Sportsoldat (Sri Lanka)]] [[Kategorie:Sri-Lanker]] [[Kategorie:Person (Colombo)]] [[Kategorie:Mann]] [[Kategorie:Geboren 1990]] {{Personendaten |NAME=Abeypitiya, Shehan |ALTERNATIVNAMEN= |KURZBESCHREIBUNG=sri-lankischer Sprinter und Rugbyspieler |GEBURTSDATUM=1925 |GEBURTSORT=[[Colombo]] |STERBEDATUM=2023 |STERBEORT= }} Navaratnam, Summa}} [[Category:1925 births]] [[Category:2023 deaths]] [[Category:Alumni of Royal College, Colombo]] [[Category:Athletes (track and field) at the 1950 British Empire Games]] [[Category:Commonwealth Games competitors for Sri Lanka]] [[Category:People from Jaffna District]] [[Category:Sri Lankan male sprinters]] [[Category:Sri Lankan rugby union players]] [[Category:Sri Lankan Tamil businesspeople]] [[Category:Sri Lankan Tamil sportspeople]]