The London Summer Games were held from 27 July to 12 August 2012. The Sri Lankan team featured one marathon runner, a short-distance sprinter, two badminton players, one shooter and two short-distance swimmers: Anuradha Cooray in the men's marathon, Christine Merrill in the women's 400 metres hurdles, Niluka Karunaratne in the men's badminton singles, Thilini Jayasinghe in the women's badminton singles, Mangala Samarakoon in both the 10 metre air rifle and 50 metre rifle prone, Heshan Unamboowe in the men's 100 metre backstroke and Reshika Udugampola in the women's 100 metre freestyle. The seven athletes were announced by the National Olympic Committee of Sri Lanka on 12 July 2012 and the delegation was led by chef de mission Deva Henry. Other officials that attended the Games were director of sports Ranjani Jayakody, athletics and shooting manager Shemal Fernando, badminton manager Rohan de Silva, swimming manager Nishantha Piyasena and NOC representative Ranjani Jayakody. In accordance with a memorandum of understanding signed in October 2009, the team trained at Durham University's sporting facilities during the run-up to the Games. Karunarante was selected as the flag bearer for the opening and closing ceremonies.