# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/niluka-karunaratne
# Generated: 2026-08-16T04:40:24.482Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/niluka-karunaratne"
name: "Niluka Karunaratne"
slug: "niluka-karunaratne"
description: "Niluka Karunaratne is a Sri Lankan badminton player who has competed at the Olympics in 2012, 2016 and 2020. His father Louie Karunaratne and brothers Dinuka Karunaratne, Chamika Karunaratne and Diluka Karunaratne are also professional badminton players. He is currently regarded as the number one premiere badminton player in Sri Lanka and Sri Lanka's most decorated badminton player with a record 21 medals to his name at international events including 9 gold medals. He also holds the unique distinction of winning five gold medals in five different continents. He reached his higher career singles ranking of 34 in June 2013, which is also the personal best ranking by a Sri Lankan badminton player. He has also emerged as national badminton champion for record 17 times, the most by a Sri Lankan badminton player. Despite his achievements in the sport, he was also sidelined for disciplinary issues on few occasions."
tagline: "Badminton player"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Karunaratne_8973.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Athletes"
  slug: "athletes"
profileType:
  name: "Athlete"
  slug: "athlete"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2066131"
birthDate: "1985-02-13"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           43.48
  momentum:             2.307692307692307
  historical:           9.012204
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "尼卢卡·卡鲁纳拉特纳"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "نيلوكا كاروناراتنى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niluka_Karunaratne"
    title: "Niluka Karunaratne"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niluka_Karunaratne"
    title: "Niluka Karunaratne"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niluka_Karunaratne"
    title: "Niluka Karunaratne"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EB%8B%90%EB%A3%A8%EC%B9%B4_%EC%B9%B4%EB%A3%A8%EB%82%98%EB%9D%BC%ED%8A%B8%EB%84%A4"
    title: "닐루카 카루나라트네"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ms.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niluka_Karunaratne"
    title: "Niluka Karunaratne"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niluka_Karunaratne"
    title: "Niluka Karunaratne"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://si.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B6%B1%E0%B7%92%E0%B6%BD%E0%B7%96%E0%B6%9A_%E0%B6%9A%E0%B6%BB%E0%B7%94%E0%B6%AB%E0%B7%8F%E0%B6%BB%E0%B6%AD%E0%B7%8A%E0%B6%B1"
    title: "නිලූක කරුණාරත්න"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%86%DB%8C%D9%84%D9%88%DA%A9%D8%A7_%DA%A9%D8%B1%D9%88%D9%86%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%AA%D9%86%DB%92_(%D8%A8%DB%8C%DA%88%D9%85%D9%86%D9%B9%D9%86_%DA%A9%DA%BE%D9%84%D8%A7%DA%91%DB%8C)"
    title: "نیلوکا کرونارتنے (بیڈمنٹن کھلاڑی)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://uz.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niluka_Karunaratne"
    title: "Niluka Karunaratne"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q559902"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump