Vidusha Lakshani

{{short description|Sri Lankan athletics competitor}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=December 2024}}

{{Infobox sportsperson

| image = Women Triple Jump Vidusha Lakshani of Sri Lanka.jpg

| caption = Lakshani at the 2017 Asian Athletics Championships

| full_name = Heenatimullage Dona Vidusha Lakshani

| birth_date = {{Birth-date and age|28 December 1996}}

| birth_place = Negombo, Sri Lanka

| education = Newstead Girls School Negombo

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| weight =

| club = SL Army

| event = Triple jump, Long jump

| medaltemplates =

{{Medal|Sport| Women's athletics }}

{{Medal|Country| {{SRI}} }}

{{Medal|Competition| South Asian Games }}

{{Medal|Silver| 2016 Guwahati | Triple jump }}

{{Medal|Silver| 2019 Kathmandu | Triple jump }}

{{Medal|Competition| Asian Championships }}

{{Medal|Bronze| 2019 Doha | Triple jump }}

}}

Heenatimullage Dona Vidusha Lakshani (born 28 December 1996), known as H. D. Vidusha Lakshani or simply Vidusha Lakshani, is a Sri Lankan athlete specialising in the triple jump.{{cite web |title=Vidusha Lakshani |url=http://www.srilankaolympic.org/pages/athletes_item.php?id=8 |publisher=National Olympic Committee of Sri Lanka |access-date=2 August 2019 |archive-date=30 May 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190530225110/http://www.srilankaolympic.org/pages/athletes_item.php?id=8 |url-status=dead }}{{cite web |title=Vidusha Lakshani |url=http://www.ceylonathletics.com/player/vidusha |publisher=Ceylon Athletics |access-date=2 August 2019 |archive-date=21 July 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190721180933/http://www.ceylonathletics.com/player/vidusha |url-status=live }}

She was born 28 December 1996 in Negombo, Western Province. She attended Newstead Girls College.{{cite news |title=Vidusha Lakshani: Bringing smile to weeping Negombo |url=http://www.themorning.lk/vidusha-lakshani-bringing-smile-to-weeping-negombo/ |access-date=2 August 2019 |work=The Morning |date=28 April 2019 |archive-date=2 August 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190802095340/http://www.themorning.lk/vidusha-lakshani-bringing-smile-to-weeping-negombo/ |url-status=dead }}

In 2018, she became the national triple jump champion with a jump of 13.64m. She has also medalled in the 2016 South Asian Games and other events. {{As of|2019|1|1}}, she was ranked 60th in the world in women's triple jump, and had earlier held 41st place for one week.{{cite web |title=H.D. Vidusha Lakshani |url=https://www.iaaf.org/athletes/-/302682 |publisher=IAAF |access-date=2 August 2019 |archive-date=26 April 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190426105919/https://www.iaaf.org/athletes/-/302682 |url-status=live }}

She won bronze medal in the Asian Athletics Championships 2019 held in Doha, Qatar, and dedicated the medal to the memory of friends and teachers who had died in the attack at St Sebastian's Church, Negombo, in the 2019 Sri Lanka Easter bombings.{{cite news |last1=Balasuriya |first1=Madushka |title=Vidusha dedicates medal to blast victims |url=http://www.ft.lk/sports/Vidusha-dedicates-medal-to-blast-victims/23-676962 |access-date=2 August 2019 |work=DailyFT |date=25 April 2019}}