As Sri Lanka gear up for the 13th installment of the South Asian Games, which will be officially declared open in seven days in Kathmandu, Nepal, the island nation will pin hopes on its athletes to rake up more medals than they claimed in 2016.In the 2016 South Asian Games (SAG) held in Guwahati and Shillong in India, Sri Lanka fielded 484 athletes in 23 sports and finished off second in the medals tally with a total of 186. Among them were 25 gold, 63 silver and 98 bronze medals — a success rate of above 38 percent.