Cherantha de Silva, Date of Birth, Place of Birth
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Date of Birth: 12-Jul-1996
Place of Birth: Colombo, Western Province, Sri Lanka
Profession: swimmer
Zodiac Sign: Cancer 
About Cherantha de Silva
- Cherantha De Silva (born July 12, 1996) is a Sri Lankan medal-winning swimmer, who has represented his country at 5 FINA World Championship's, 3 FINA World Cup's, 2 Commonwealth Games's, 1 Asian Games as well as 1 South Asian Games winning 7 medals. De Silva holds 6 national records (50m,100m and 200m and butterfly SCM & LCM). As well he was qualified with 4 World championship B standards(B cuts) for the 2018, 14th FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) held in Hangzhou,China.
- He narrowly missed the A standard(A cut) in the 50m Butterfly(SCM) clocking 23.48.
- While the A standard could have made history for Sri Lanka as the first Sri Lankan to achieve the A standard he missed it by 0.2 seconds.De Silva was bestowed the "Best Sportsman of the Year" award at the school level, provincial and national level.
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