Roshita Joseph

Roshita Joseph also spelt as Joseph Roshita (born 29 May 1991) is a Sri Lankan carrom player. She was also a former number 1 women’s carrom player in Sri Lanka and has won the national titles on six occasions. In 2020, she became a world champion in the women’s singles of the inaugural edition of the World Online Carrom Championship. She is currently attached to Sri Lankan Navy.

Biography She pursued carrom as a childhood hobby and she was attracted to carrom as her family had a carrom board. She was inspired to play carrom by both her parents and learnt the basic skills from them. She pursued her primary and secondary education at the All Saints’ Girls College in Borella. She also played netball, athletics and swimming at school level competitions. However, she stopped engaging in sports activities following her father’s death.

In 2020, she married fellow national carrom player Abishek Jayawardhana. She was part of the Sri Lankan side which lost to India in the women's team final at the 2012 Carrom World Championship and she also teamed up Chalani Lakmali with to claim third place in women's doubles event in the same world championship.

She was a key member of the Sri Lankan team which claimed silver medal in women's team competition at the 2016 Carrom World Championship. She was named in the Sri Lankan women’s national carrom team for the 2018 Carrom World Cup. She was part of the Sri Lankan team which emerged as runners-up to India in the women's team competition of the 2018 Carrom World Cup. She finished at seventh place in the women's singles at the 2018 Carrom World Cup.

She was appointed as the captain of the Sri Lankan women’s team for the 8th Carrom ICF Cup 2019. Sri Lanka women’s team finished at third position in the team competition at the 2019 International Carrom Federation Cup. She won the women’s singles title at the 2020 World Online Carrom Championship which was organized by the UAE Carrom Federation. It was also her maiden carrom world title and became the third Sri Lankan to win a carrom world title after Nishantha Fernando and Chamil Cooray.