Rajiva celebrates Silver Jubilee with Sri Lanka Masters Athletics and Table Tennis

Rajiva Wijetunge, who has won twenty six international medals for Sri Lanka in both Masters Athletics and Table Tennis since 1999. celebrates his silver jubilee with Sri Lanka Masters Athletics and Table Tennis.

Highlights of his Masters Table Tennis career was when he won a bronze medal in the men’s singles and a silver medal in the men’s doubles at the World Masters Games in Edmonton Canada in 2005. Rajiva was the first Sri Lankan to win an individual medal for Table Tennis at the World Masters Games.

He won two bronze medals for the discus throw and the shot putt events at the Asian Masters Athletics Championships. Wijetunge also holds the Royal College Under 14 shot putt record fifty years after it was established in 1973. Wijetunge was the president of the Table Tennis Association of Sri Lanka (TTASL) from 2007 to 2009 and 2015/16.

He was also the president of the Mercantile Table Tennis Association (MTTA) from 2012 to 2015, Patron of the MTTA in 2019, Vice President of Masters Sri Lanka Athletics from 2006 to 2010 and Vice President of the Veterans Table Tennis Association of Sri Lanka (VTTASL) since 2002. Wijetunge was a member of the selection committee of the Table Tennis Association of Sri Lanka (TTASL) for a period of (10) Ten years.