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Colombo rowers drown Madras by Leslie Fernando The Colombo Rowing Club created history on the Adyar River beating arch rivals Madras Boat Club (MBC) by 22 points to 20 in the 67th edition of the annual Madras-Colombo Regeatta held last Sunday in Chennai, India. It was CRC's first win in Chennai. They won the 'A' Pairs - Diluk Aluwihare and Usman Fatherally by 2 1/2 lengths beating B. Dusyanth and Vishwakathik (time - 2.42 secs) 'B' Pairs - Dejan Soysa and Devanka Seneviratne beating Rohit Ravindra and Tushar by 2 lengths (time - 2.51 secs), 'B' Men's Fours - Asiri Abhayaratne, Usman Fathrally, Prajith Perera, Devanka Aluwihare and Mehran Careem beating Rohit Ravindra, S. Abilash, Romith Rao, Neville Billimoria, Kiran Kurian by 2 lengths (time - 2.38 secs), and Women Pairs - Minoli and Mithila Goonewardena over Gowri Adappa and Shewtha Ravi by 1 length. (time - 3.25 secs). Madras Boat Club however won the 'B' Sculls, 'A' Sculls, Women Fours, Women Sculls, and the Challege Fours. Speaking to the 'Sunday Observer,' a senior official of CRC, team Usman Fatherally, who won the 'A' Pairs and 'B' Pairs, said that the team's success was due to the focus training and the experience of oarsmen who had competed in Madras before which had helped to work out strategies. He also stated that it was very challenging to beat Madras Boat Club in Madras as they have a 700-metre course comparatively shorter to the waters at the Beira Lake and also considering the fact that the Madras team were national sprint champions. In the ladies events, CRC won the pairs, while Madras won the four and sculls. The team was led by national oarsman Diluk Aluvihare and coached by Lakmal Wickremage and John Dinese. Results 'B' Sculls - James Joseph (Madras Boat Club) beat Mevan Gunawardena (Colombo Rowing Club) by 1/2 length (time 2.51 secs) 'A' Sculls - Rohit Ravindra (MBC) beat Heshan Henry (CRC) by 1 length (time 2.58 secs). Women Fours - Gowri Adappa, R. Sumana, Sneha Venkat, Shewtha Ravi, Rahul Gopinath (MBC) beat Niroshini Wanigasuriya, Minoli Goonewardena, Mithila Goonewardena, Isurika Peiris, Indunil Peiris (CRC) by one length (time 3.15 secs). Women Sculls - Sneha Venkat (MBC) beat Niroshani Seneviratne (CRC) easily (time 3.50 secs). Veteran Fours - James Joseph, Ketan Adiya, Chockalingam, Sanjay Jayaraj, Rahul Gopinath (MBC) beat Varuna de Silva, Rohan Fernando, Hiran Derenegana, Yohan Thurainayagam (CRC) (time 3.06 secs). Challenge Fours - B. Dushyanth, Vishwakarthik, C. E. Palaniappan, Tushar Bansal, Sharan Kapoor (MBC) beat Diluk Aluvihare, Dejan Soysa, Devaka Seneviratne, Udesh Hettiarachchi, Sharen Kannangara (CRC) by one length (time 2.34 secs). |
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