Karateka Nilakshan going great guns

Thushan Jayasuriya

Nilakshan Sohan Fernando, a young athlete from Maris Stella College Negombo, is an up and coming player who hopes to reach greater heights in the field of Martial Arts with Kenseikan Karate. By now, he has achieved many victories, that a boy in the same age couldn't achieve.

Starting his sport at 2007, he has a long way to go. But the victories achieved by him so far cannot be under estimated. Nilakshan won the first place of the International Karate-Do Championship which was organized to celebrate the fifth anniversary of the Karate-Do Association(Sri Lanka Branch) held at March 2011 at the Sugathadasa Indoor Stadium Colombo. Other than that, Nilakshan has won the championship in the Boys 11-12 years under the Kata and Kumite catagories in the Annual Karate-Do Championship 2010, first place of the Boys 11-12 years Kumite Championship in the Sixth Shukokai International Open Karatedo Championship held on 2010, first place of the Boys 11-12 years of the Kumite category in the second UKF International Karate Championship in 2010 and the second place of the Kata category in the same Championship. Apart from that , he secured the first place in the Kata category of the Seventh Annual Seiko Kai Open Karate Do Championship in 2010, first place of the Kumite event of Fifth Anniversary and International Karate-Do Championship in 2011 and the first place under the Kata category of the same event.