{"id":53080,"date":"2012-09-04T23:49:02","date_gmt":"2012-09-04T23:49:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=53080"},"modified":"2012-09-17T11:29:21","modified_gmt":"2012-09-17T11:29:21","slug":"london-2012-paralympic-pradeep-sanjaya-won-sri-lankas-first-medal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/london-2012-paralympic-pradeep-sanjaya-won-sri-lankas-first-medal\/","title":{"rendered":"London 2012 Paralympic: Pradeep Sanjaya Won Sri Lanka\u2019s First Medal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Colombo Telegraph &#8211;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/london-2012-paralympic-pradeep-sanjaya-won-sri-lankas-first-medal\/pradeepsanjaya\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-53081\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-53081\" title=\"pradeepsanjaya\" src=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/pradeepsanjaya.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"206\" \/><\/a><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sri_Lanka_at_the_Paralympics\">Pradeep Sanjaya<\/a><\/span>\u00a0won Sri Lanka\u2019s first medal of the London 2012 Paralympic Games\u00a0in the Men\u2019s 400m T46 in today. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.london2012.com\/paralympics\/athletics\/event\/men-400m-t46\/phase=atm441100\/\">He bacame the 3rd palce and won the Bronze medal<\/a>.\u00a0\u200e<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I have to buy all the equipment, shoes and clothes, everything from my own salary. I did not get any sponsorship for my training,\u00a0If we are get proper equipment and sponsorship, I&#8217;m sure we would do much better,&#8221; Pradeep Sanjaya told BBC Sinhala service\u00a0last Monday.<\/p>\n<p>To listen Pradeep Sanjaya&#8217;s interview with BBC Sinhala click <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sinhala\/multimedia\/2012\/09\/120902_paralympic_team.shtml\">here<\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/london-2012-paralympic-pradeep-sanjaya-won-sri-lankas-first-medal\/pradeep-sanjaya\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-53155\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-53155\" title=\"Pradeep Sanjaya\" src=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Pradeep-Sanjaya.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Pradeep-Sanjaya.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Pradeep-Sanjaya-206x300.jpg 206w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">httpv:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=-YYInUbDeXc&amp;feature=player_embedded#!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/london-2012-paralympic-pradeep-sanjaya-won-sri-lankas-first-medal\/pradeep-sanjaya-para-1olympic-2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-53195\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-53195\" title=\"Pradeep Sanjaya para 1olympic\" src=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Pradeep-Sanjaya-para-1olympic1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"632\" height=\"359\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Pradeep-Sanjaya-para-1olympic1.jpg 632w, https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Pradeep-Sanjaya-para-1olympic1-300x170.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 632px) 100vw, 632px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":53081,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,2187,1],"tags":[4384,4385,4387,4398,4388,4383],"class_list":["post-53080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-colombotelegraph","category-most-popular","category-news","tag-london-2012-paralympic-and-sri-lanka","tag-london-2012-paralympic-pradeep-sanjaya","tag-para-olympic-sri-lanka","tag-paralympic-games-sri-lanka","tag-paralympic-sri-lanka-bronze","tag-pradeep-sanjaya-won-sri-lankas-first-medal"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.3 - 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