{
  "id": 10833202,
  "title": "Gold winner Tharanga gets brand-new Honda Vezel from SLAAJ",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/30/gold-winner-tharanga-gets-brand-new-honda-vezel-from-slaaj",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-09-30T01:52:59.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "The Island Sri Lanka",
    "slug": "the-island-sri-lanka",
    "url": "http://island.lk/gold-winner-tharanga-gets-brand-new-honda-vezel-from-slaaj/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "The Sri Lanka Automobile Association in Japan (SLAAJ) has gifted a brand-new Honda Vezel to gold medallist Rumesh Tharanga in a felicitation ceremony for the Sri Lankan team that competed at the Asian Games in Nagoya, Japan. The gesture was announced at the event, held on the eve of the team’s departure from Nagoya, with Nishantha Meegalla, Vice President of the Nagoya Prefecture of the Sri Lanka Business Council of Japan, revealing that the organization had decided to reward every Sri Lankan athlete who wins a gold medal with a brand-new vehicle. Tharanga, the world's top-ranked javelin thrower this season, secured Sri Lanka's first-ever javelin medal at the Asian Games on Monday with a throw of 88.55 metres.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}