Edirisinghe Senanayake

Who is Edirisinghe Senanayake?

Edirisinghe Mudiyanselage "E. M." Senanayake is a Sri Lankan sport shooter. At age thirty-eight, Senanayake made his official debut for the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, where he competed in two pistol shooting events. He scored a total of 561 targets in the preliminary rounds of the men's 10 m air pistol, by two points behind Egypt's Mahmod Abdelaly, finishing only in forty-eighth place. Three days later, Senanayake placed thirty-sixth in his second event, 50 m pistol, by one point ahead of Czech Republic's Martin Tenk, with a total score of 545 targets.