Sri Lanka finished 16th in the medal standings at the 5th Asian Para Games in Aichi-Nagoya with nine medals — two gold, four silver and three bronze. The team flew home on Monday. The final tally is two medals down on the previous edition.

A contingent of 22 athletes competed in six sports — athletics, swimming, table tennis, badminton, shooting and wheelchair tennis — but every medal came from athletics and swimming, the Daily Mirror reported in a wrap by Susil Premalal. The four other sports returned empty-handed.

Sri Lanka won 11 medals at the 2022 Games — two gold, five silver and four bronze — so the 2026 return is two short, with the gold count unchanged.

Only 34 of the competing nations won a medal at all. Among South Asian countries only India, Sri Lanka and Pakistan reached the table. India finished fourth overall with 114 medals (30 gold, 35 silver, 49 bronze). China again dominated, topping the standings with 435 medals, including 207 gold.

The full medal table

Gold

Silver

Bronze

A correction to the summary figures

The Daily Mirror’s wrap states in prose that the haul was “two gold, three silver, and four bronze.” Its own itemised list, reproduced above, gives four silvers and three bronzes. Both versions total nine, and the list names every athlete and event, so the prose sentence appears to have transposed the two middle figures. This article follows the list.

Four medals reported here for the first time

This desk covered Somasiri’s 1,500m gold, Wickramasingha’s long jump gold, Basnayake’s swimming silver and Safran’s long jump bronze as they happened. The wrap adds four results that had not reached us: Palitha Bandara’s shot put silver, Nuwan Indika Gamage’s 100m T44 silver, Naveed Raheem’s 100m butterfly bronze and Saman Subasinghe’s 400m T47 bronze.

Bandara is not a new name here — this desk reported in August on his stated goal of reaching the 2028 Paralympics.

The Navy’s own announcement

Subasinghe’s bronze was announced separately by the Sri Lanka Navy, reported by Hiru News on Tuesday evening. The Navy gives his time in the men’s 400m T47 as 50.03 seconds for third place, and the Games dates as 18 to 24 October.

Hiru’s English headline calls him “Captain” Subasinghe. Its Sinhala text gives his rank as නායක නැවි — Leading Seaman — which is the rank used here.

The photograph published with the Hiru report shows the athlete in a blazer with a bronze medal and a garland, met by six Navy officers in dress whites in an airport arrivals hall. That is consistent with the Daily Mirror’s report that the team was due back on Monday, and with the medal’s colour.

A classification discrepancy

The two Daily Mirror accounts disagree on one entry. This desk’s earlier report, following the Daily Mirror’s filing of 21 October, recorded Wickramasingha’s 200m silver as T42. Tuesday’s wrap gives the same medal as T47.

T47 is the classification in which she won her long jump gold, which makes T47 the more likely of the two. The earlier T42 appears to be the error. Both figures come from the same outlet.

Not reported

Neither filing gives Sri Lanka’s position on the table by gold count, the margins in the events this desk had not previously covered, or whether any of the nine results were personal or national bests. Neither says why the four non-medalling sports were entered, nor who led the delegation.

Corroborated — two verified newsrooms. The Daily Mirror supplies the medal table and the placing; Hiru supplies the Navy’s account of Subasinghe’s race. Ada Derana could not be checked, and island.lk — which filed a mid-Games report — was unreachable at the time of writing, returning a database error.