Colombo Rowing Club retain title for fifth successive year
By Leslie Fernando
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Tushar Bansal (B) Rohit Ravindra (S) of Madras Boat Club, the
winner of the Men’s ‘A’ Pairs at the Madras Colombo 70th Annual
Regatta held on the Beira Waters yesterday. They had a winning
time on 3.50 secs. Pic: Kavindra Perera |
ROWING - Colombo Rowing Club rowers rowed with great endurance, Power
and strength to win the overall title with 28 points to Madras Boat Club
14 at the 70th edition of the Madras-Colombo Regatta held on the Beira
Waters yesterday.
The Colombo Rowing Club carried away the Deepam Challenge Cup for the
fifth successive year. They won the title in 2003, 2004, 2005, and 2006.
The reigning champions Colombo Rowing Club won the Men's 'B' Scull,
Men's 'B' Pair, Men's 'B' Four and the Boat Race. Madras Boat Club had
14 points winning the Men's 'A' Pair and Men's 'A' Scull.
The Colombo Rowing Club won the main event 'A' Four (the boat race).
The Colombo Rowing Club crew composed of Udesh Hettiarachchi, (B), Mewan
Gunawardene (2), Dejan de Soysa (2) and skipper Devaka Seneviratne rowed
with superior team work to pull off a thrilling win over Madras Boat
Club crew of Rahul Baliga, Tushar Bansal James Joseph and Rohit Ravindra.
Colombo Rowing Club 'clocked' 3.14 secs.
Colombo Rowing Club won the Masters Four defeating Madras Boat Club
with a time of 3.24 secs.
Madras Boat Club swept the board by winning the Ladies Scull, Ladies
Pair and Ladies Four and they were awarded the Adyar Cup.
Men's Double Scull was won by Colombo Rowing Club and the Women's
Double Scull won by Madras Boat Club. No points are awarded for these
two events and the Masters Four.
The 42 points aggregate are for Men's 'B' Scull, Men's 'B' Pair,
Men's 'B' Four, Men's 'A' Four, Men's 'A' Pair and Men's 'A' Scull.
Rowing results
Men's 'B' Pair: Dinesh Lasantha (Bow) and Champika Namantha (Stroke)
of Colombo Rowing Club beat Palaniappan Chockaling (Bow) and Vedraj
(Stroke) of Madras Boat Club (time 3.55 secs)
Ladies Four: Anisha (B) Keerthi (2), Fazila (3), Shruti (s), Sneha
(Cox) of Madras Boat Club beat Swarnamalie Wijesinghe (B), Vinuri
Jayasundera (2), Sachitra Jayatilleke (3), Naduni Perera (S), Sanjeevani
Kularatne (Cox) of Colombo Rowing Club (time 4.16 secs)
Masters Four: Colombo Rowing Club beat Madras Boat Club (time 3.40
secs)
Men's Double Scull: Anushan Selvaraja (B) and Baasim Hassan (S) of
Colombo Rowing Club beat Sathiesh Kumar (B) and Sriram Raja (S) of
Madras Boat Club (time 3.54 secs)
Womens Double Scull: Sneha (B) and Gowri (S) of Madras Boat Club beat
Dhanushi (B) and Dimitri (S) of Colombo Rowing Club (time 4.38 secs)
Ladies Scull: Shruti of Madras Boat Club beat Dimitri of Colombo
Rowing Club (time 4.36 secs)
Men's 'A' Scull: Rahul Baliga of Madras Boat Club beat Udesh
Hettiarachchi of Colombo Rowing Club (time 3.52 secs)
Men's 'A' Pair: Tushar Bansl (Bow) and Rohit Ravindra (Stroke) of
Madras Boat Club beat Dejan de Zoysa (Bow) and Devaka Seneviratne
(Stroke) of Colombo Rowing Club (time 3.50 secs)
Ladies Pair: Keerthi (Bow) and Sneha (Stroke) of Madras Boat Club
beat Sarani (Bow) and Amaya (Stroke) of Colombo Rowing Club (time 4.36
secs)
Men's 'B' Scull: Baasim Hassan of Colombo Rowing Club beat Rakesh
Mohanarangan of Madras Boat Club (time 4.18 secs)
Men's 'B' Four: Anushan Selvaraja (B) Dinesh Lasantha (2), Champika
Namantha (3), Shanilka de Silva (S) of Colombo Rowing Club beat
Palaniappan Chockaling (B), Sathiesh Kumar (2), Nirup Suresh (3), V.
Vedraj (S) of Madras Boat Club (time 3.40 secs)
Men's 'A' Four: Udesh Hettiarachchi (B), Mewan Gunawardene (2), Dijan
de Zoysa (3), Devaka Seneviratne (S) of Colombo Rowing Club beat Rahul
Baliga (B) Tushar Bansal (2) James Joseph (3), Rohit Ravindra (S) of
Madras Boat Club (time 3.14 secs).
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