Hiruni Kesara Wijavaratine

Hiruni Wijayaratne (born December 5, 1990) is a Sri Lankan distance athlete. She holds eleven Sri Lankan national records for road and track events as of 2022, including the women's 10,000 metres and marathon.

She first ran the Sri Lankan women's marathon record of 2:36:35 in Houston, Texas, USA during the 2018 Chevron Houston Marathon. She then renewed the Sri Lankan women's marathon record at the 2019 Düsseldorf Marathon, with a time of 2:34:10 which is also a South Asian Area Record.

Wijayaratne represented Sri Lanka in the 2017 London marathon at the 2017 World Championships in Athletics. In 2019, she competed in the women's marathon at the 2019 World Athletics Championships held in Doha, Qatar. She did not finish her race.

Outside of running, Wijayaratne is a certified running coach who appeared on the Today show with her then trainee, Al Roker. She currently works in customer success at Omada Health.

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