Chinthana Vidanage
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| Full name | Chinthana Geetal Vidanage Vidanage | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nationality | Sri Lankan | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 31 December 1981 Polonnaruwa, Sri Lanka | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 68.81 kg (151.7 lb) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Country | Sri Lanka | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sport | Weightlifting | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight class | 69 kg | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Team | National team | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Updated on 2 January 2022 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinthana Geetal Vidanage (born December 31, 1981) is a Sri Lankan weightlifter. He won a gold medal in the men's 62 kg category weightlifting; the first weightlifting gold medal for Sri Lanka in the 2006 Commonwealth Games held in Australia. In, 2011 Vidanage was banned for four years for violating anti-doping rules.
He was born in Polonnaruwa. Vidanage was a student of Polonnaruwa Royal Central College.
Vidanage has qualified to compete for Sri Lanka at the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham, England.