COLOMBO; heroine, Sri Lanka-Sixteen years ago sprinter Susanthika Jayasinghe was a national; return, having become Sri Lanka's first woman to win an Olympic medal Today she is a struggling single mother with only bitterness towards a country she says has given her nothing in (2 August 2016). "Olympics: Sri Lanka sprint star bitter after state neglect". Rappler. Retrieved 2021-09-08.
Athletic Assn. of Sri Lanka: "Latest Sri Lankan Athletics News"[usurped] "It has been a long felt dream which would finally become a reality this year. I want to get that great feeling of becoming a mother, devote some time for my child and then look at how I am going to give something back to athletics."