Menaka Srimani de Silva (born January 26, 1985) is a Sri Lankan swimmer, who specialized in sprint freestyle events. She held a Sri Lankan record from the national championships in 2003 (28.28), until it was eventually broken by 13-year-old Kimiko Raheen nine years later (2012).

De Silva qualified for the women's 50 m freestyle at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, by receiving a Universality place from FINA, in an entry time of 28.48. She challenged seven other swimmers in heat four, including 31-year-old Melanie Slowing of Guatemala. She raced to seventh place by two tenths of a second behind Nicaragua's Geraldine Arce in 28.93. De Silva failed to advance into the semifinals, as she placed fifty-second overall out of 75 swimmers on the last day of preliminaries.

Menaka de Silva

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1985 births

Living people

Sri Lankan female swimmers

Olympic swimmers for Sri Lanka

Swimmers at the 2004 Summer Olympics

Sri Lankan female freestyle swimmers

Swimmers from Colombo

South Asian Games silver medalists for Sri Lanka

South Asian Games medalists in swimming

Menaka de Silva