Thomian rowers regain Fernando Trophy
By Sajeewa JAYAKODY
S. Thomas’ College rowers showed their mastery in rowing by winning
the Regatta and the Boat Race at the 39th annual Royal-Thomian Regatta
on Saturday on the Beira Lake, Colombo, racking up a team total of 38
points to cruise comfortably ahead of Royalists, who had 14 points.
Before commencing the prestigious Boat Race, the points tally saw Mt.
Lavinia rowers lead by 26 to 14. Thus the Thomians regained the T.N.
Fernando Trophy after three years.
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Thomian Anuradha Nadaraja (Bow) and captain Sajin de Livera
(Stroke) after competing in the ‘A’ Pair event which they
lost to Royal’s Arith Cooray and Ishan Perera, who won the
Freddie Raux Trophy on 3.31 sec at their 39th annual Regatta
on the Beira Lake, Colombo on Saturday. Pic: Chinthaka
Kumarasinghe |
It marked the 19th time in the 39-year-history of the event that the
Thomians have won the Regatta while Rayalists having won it on 15
occasions. Reid Avenue oarsmen were unable to defend their title, having
won the Regatta by the biggest margin of 48-4 last year.
It was the Thomian crew of Anuradha Nadaraja, Ming-Hua-Change, Ramith
Nanayakkara, captain Sajin de Livera and Kemil Peter, competing in the
outside course led the way yesterday.
The crew teamed up to win the much waited Boat Race in three minutes
and four seconds over the 1000-metre course, comfortably ahead of the
Royal rowers, who clocked 3.06.
Earlier, Sandesh Bartlett of S. Thomas’ College took the Senior
Sculls Trophy, winning the A Scull in 3.43sec in the day’s first event,
which started at 12.30pm. Reid Avenue school’s sixteen-year-old Bilal
Hassen rowed on his way to capture the B Scull event in three minutes
and 52 seconds and won the Ajith Goonawardena Trophy.
In the B Four, S. Thomas’ College crew was enjoying a two-length lead
mid-way on the fascinating Beira Lake and they went on to maintain it
until reaching the winning line in 3.13 sec.
The Thomians won the B Four after a lapse of eight years in their
annual Regatta.
[Results:]
A Scull: Sandesh Bartlett (STC) 3.43 beat Aman Sideek (RC) 3.51.
B Scull: Bilal Hassen (RC) 3.52 beat Dhakshika Hennayake (STC) 4.03.
B Pair: Sahan Warnasuriya, Sajiva Jayasuriya (RC) 3.40 beat Akshath
Wickramanayake, Mushahid Munshif (STC) 3.45.
B Doubbl Scull: Sandesh Bartlett and Sajin de Livera (STC) 3.30 beat
Uvin Siriwardena and Pramod Rajaguru (RC) 3.42
A Double Scull: Ramith Nanayakkara and Ming-Hua-Chang (STC) 3.26 beat
Aman Sideek and Sanjiva Jayasuriya 3.35
A Pair: Arith Cooray and Ishan Perera (RC) 3.31 beat Anuradha
Nadaraja and Sajin de Livera (STC) 3.36
B Four: Akshath Wickramanayake, Sandesh Bartlett, Chevyth
Abeyewardena, Mushahid Munshif and Amrith Peiris (STC) 3.13 beat
Shavindra de Costa, Lahiru Herath, Keshan Ranasinghe, Dulaj Rajaguru and
Danushka Perera (RC) 3.2343rd Boat Race (A Four): Anuradha Nadaraja,
Ming-Hua-Chang, Ramith Nanayakkara, Sajin de Livera and Kemil Peter
(STC) 3.04 beat Amrith Cooray, Ishan Perera, Sahan Warnasuriya, Sanjiva
Jayasuriya and Kaveen Rajapakse (RC) 3.06.
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