[1] Ramanayake's rise continued on that same season, when she and her fellow markswoman Malini Wickramasinghe won Sri Lanka's first ever gold medal in the air rifle pairs at the Commonwealth Games in Victoria, British Columbia.

[5] On her second Olympic appearance in Atlanta 1996, Ramanayake flaunted her most potential form to shoot a modest 389 for a twenty-fifth place tie with three others in her signature event, the 10 m air rifle.

[8] She managed to get a minimum qualifying score of 392 in air rifle shooting from her outside-final finish at the Asian Championships in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia few months earlier.

[1][9] In the 10 m air rifle, held on the first day of the competition, Ramanayake started off with a modest 97 in the first series, but fared poorly on the second and fourth to get a decent 386 out of a possible 400, finishing thirty-eight out of forty-four shooters in the qualifying round.

[10][11] Nearly a week later, in the 50 m rifle 3 positions, Ramanayake marked a steady 195 in prone, a lowly 181 in standing, and 191 in the kneeling series to close her historic Olympic run out of the final in a tie for twenty-fifth place, her career best after eight years, with Australia's Susan McCready at 567 points.