Sajeev and Shehan win at ARAE Regatta

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Published on Saturday, 07 January 2012 22:18

Written by Lishan Wickramanayake

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The Colombo Rowing Club bagged two titles at the annual Amateur Rowing Association of the East (ARAE) regatta held today at the Lake Club, Kolkata India. Sajeev De Silva and Shehan Muthugala represented the Colombo Rowing Club at this regional rowing event. The annual ARAE regatta, as the event is more commonly known, brings together a number of clubs from the Asian region such as the Calcutta, Madras, Karachi, Singapore, Hong Kong and Manila to name a few.

Ace Sculler Sajeev won both the single sculls (Macklin Sculls Trophy) and the Double Sculls (Phadnis Salva Trophy) with partner Shehan Muthugala. Incidentally 20-year old Sajeev was the defending champion in both events when he won both events at last year’s regatta held at the Bolgoda Lake, Sri Lanka. Chamal Jayanetti and Ashan Pitiarchchi (CRC) finished third in the Double Sculls event as well.

The Colombo Rowing Club finished 3rd in the overall men’s tally with 18 points while the Madras Boat Club (23) secured second place with host club, the Lake Club- Kolkata, winning the Hooghly Challenge Cup with 26 points.

The Colombo Rowing Club could not match up to their previous year’s performance at the Bolgoda Lake where they won six out of the eight trophies on offer including the prestigious Willingdon fours for the men’s coxed fours.

Apart from the Colombo Rowing Club, the Bolgoda Lake Rowing Club (BLRC) also participated in the Regatta with the double scull duo of Swarnamalie Wijesinghe and Sachithra Jayathilake coming second in the women’s double sculls event. While BLRC captain Lushantha Welikala won the Single Sculls in the Master’s event (FEARA)

The Women’s category was won by the Indian powerhouse, Madras Boat Club, with The Rowing Center (Tamil Nadu) and The Lake Club coming in second and third respectively.

Summary of Winners

MENS

1x – 1st Sajeev De Silva (Colombo), 2nd S.M. Qmaruddin  (Lake Club-A) Jay Prakash Singh (Lake Club-B)

2x

1st Sajeev De Silva/Shehan Muthugala (Colombo-A), 2nd  Meherdil Babai / Imran Khan, Meherdil Babai

Imran Khan, Chamal Jayenetti/Ashan Pitiarachchi (Colombo-B)

2-

1st Madras (A) Rohit Ravindra/Tushar Bansal , 2nd Lake Club (A) Om Prakash Singh/Santosh Kumar Singh, 3rd Lake Club (B) Sanjay Naskar/Bubai Halder

4+

1st Lake Club (A) Baldew Singh/Junith Sengupta /Jay Prakash Singh/Shakil Ahmed /Rupa Mondal

2nd Madras Boat Club (A) Joshua Ruthnaswamy /Atul Jagadish /Aravind N /Siddharth Yadav /Anirudh Sanjeev

3rd Lake Club (B) Sanjay Naskar /Bubai Halder /Prashanta Halder /Samir Halder /Jayanta Sardar ,

 

Points Table

Overall Club Points

1st Lake Club 26

2nd Madras Boat Club 23

3rd Colombo Rowing Club 18

 

Womens

1x 1st Madras Boat Club Fazila Husain , 2nd Lake Club (A) Maitreyee Banerjee,  3rd Lake Club (B) Priya Mukherjee

2x 1st Madras Boat Club Fazila Husain/Iha Diwan, 2nd Bolgoda Lake Rowing Club Swarnamali Wijesinghe / Sachitra Jayathilake , 3rd The Rowing Center (A) V. Nithya / T. Angel Priya

2- 1st Lake Club Priya Mukherjee /Maitreyee Banerjee, 2nd The Rowing Centre R. Priyadarshini/ R. Suganya,

3rd Madras Boat Club Aditi S./ Ashwathy

4+ 1st Madras Boat Club Iha Diwan/Dhitika C. /Ashwathy /Aditi S. /Anirudh Sanjeev

2nd Karachi Boat Club Ushna Manzoor Khan/Salma Rabia Arif /Mashal Tariq Khan/ Manal Kamran/Maherdil Babai

3rd The Rowing Centre Angel Joseph/T. Angel Priya /K. Kathir Jyothi/P. Pasca Mary

 

POINTS TABLE

 

Overall Club Points

1st Madras Rowing Club 36

2nd The Rowing Center 22

3rd Lake Club 16

 

 

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