President's Inauguration Medal

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{{Infobox military award

|name=President's Inauguration Medal

|image=President's Inauguration Medal.png

|image_size=140px

|caption=

|presenter= Sri Lanka

|type=Commemorative medal

|eligibility= All regular ranks of the Sri Lanka Army, Sri Lanka Navy and Sri Lanka Air Force

|awarded_for= Service

|campaign=

|status= No longer awarded

|description= Suspended from a plain suspension bar

|clasps=None

|established= 1978

|firstawarded=1978

|lastawarded=1978

|total_awarded=

|total_awarded_posthumously=

|total_recipients=

|individual=

|higher= Sri Lanka Armed Services Long Service Medal

|same=

|lower=50th Independence Anniversary Commemoration Medal

|image2=100px

|caption2=Ribbon bar

}}

The President's Inauguration Medal (Sinhala: ජනාධිපති ධූරප්‍රාප්ත පදක්කම janādhipathi dhūraprāptha padakkama) was a decoration of the Military of Sri Lanka, granted to all regular servicepersons of the country's armed services in service on 4 February 1978, following a formal recommendation by the tri-service commanders.{{cite web|title=Medal|url=http://www.navy.lk/en/medals-en.html|website=Sri Lanka Navy|publisher=navy.lk|accessdate=30 September 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170929183339/http://www.navy.lk/en/medals-en.html|archive-date=29 September 2017|url-status=dead}} The decoration commemorated the inauguration of the first executive president of Sri Lanka, J. R. Jayewardene.