Sri Lankan Power Lifting Champion and Asian Power Lifting Bronze Medalist Darin Weerasinghe has been selected to Captain the Sri Lanka Power Lifting Team while Ransilu Jayathilake will be Vice Captain at the Asian Power Lifting Championship to be held from 1st to 5th May in Bandung Indonesia.

The Asian Powerlifting meet will have over 200 participants from India, Pakistan, Mongolia, Kazakhstan, Japan and Chinese Taipei. The Sri Lanka Team will comprise of 10 members and 2 female participants from the forces.

Darin will be taking part in the Heavy Weight Category of over 120kg and this is the first time Sri Lanka will have an athlete in the Super Heavy Weight Category. The Asian Power Lifting meet will see athletes lift well over 300kg in Squat, Bench Press and Deadlift. Darin currently has over 7 National records in Power Lifting and hopes to guide the team to the Podium.

<strong>Photo caption: Darin Weerasinghe and the team.</strong>