Boxer Ratnayake forced to quit

Sri Lanka's Olympic boxer Anurudda Ratnayake has been forced to quit the sport as he has reached the compulsory retirement age of 34 announced by the Amateur Boxing Association (ABA) of Sri Lanka.

This means that Ratnayake will not be able to represent Slimline BC in the 81st Clifford Cup boxing meet which gets under way at the Sugathadasa indoor stadium today.

The former boxer from Peradeniya MMV earlier rewrote history books when he became the first boxer since 1968 to qualify and represent the country at the Olympic Games in Beijing China.

This was after he had reached the quarterfinals of the fly weight under 51 kgs weight class event in the AIBA World Championships held in Chicago, United States of America.

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