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Navneet, Santosh clinch honours
Punjab’s Navneet Kaur won two gold medals in the 34th National Rowing Championship at Hussainsagar Lake here on Thursday. It was a doubly sweet affair as she was winning her maiden gold at the country’s highest level in the senior category.
34TH NATIONAL ROWING CHAMPIONSHIP
Hyderabad: Punjab’s Navneet Kaur won two gold medals in the 34th National Rowing Championship at Hussainsagar Lake here on Thursday. It was a doubly sweet affair as she was winning her maiden gold at the country’s highest level in the senior category.
The 20-year-old Punjabi University student took 8.26.83sec to take the first place in the 2000mts Open Single Scull. Later, joining forces with Harpreet Singh, she romped home in the Open Pair competition.
I have won s silver in the double scull at the National Games in Kerala but beating two-time Asian Games Dittymol Varghese gives me confidence” she said after receiving the medal.
In the men single scull, Nasik’s 21-year-old Santosh Kadale won his maiden national gold, which was a major jump from the bronze he won in last year’s Challenger National at Bangalore, albeit in double scull.
Host Telangana men team had to be contended with a silver in the Open Men’s Coxless while K Tejeshwar Reddy bagged a bronze medal for Andhra Pradesh in single scull.
Results: Women: Open Single Scull: 1. Navneet Kaur(Punjab, 8.26.83), 2. Pooja (Chandigarh), 3. Dittymol Varghese; Open Pair: 1. Sanjukata Dung Dung/ Manjula Xess (Odisha, 7.53.35), 2. Monalisha Mohanty/ Mamta Jena (Chandigarh), 3. Ashwany A/ Chippy Kurain(Kerala); Open Double Scull: Navneet Kaur/ Harpreet Kaur(Punjab, 7.42.94), 2. Rukmani Dangi/Sona Keer (Madhya Pradesh), 3. Ch Priya Devi/ L Lakshmi Devi(Manipur); Open Coxless Four: 1. Kamala Lakra, Pracila Baxla, Sanjukta Dung Dung(Odisha, 7.25.92), Mandeep Kaur, Monika, Beant Kaur, Avantika (Punjab), 3. Aswany A, Nimmy MT, Sreelakshmi B, Chippy Kurian(Kerala); Men: Open Single Scull: 1. Santosh Kadale (Maharashtra, 7.39.34), 2. Sandeep Kumar(All India Police), 3. K Tejeswar Reddy (Andhra Pradesh); Open Pair: 1. Praveen/ Anil Kumar (Haryana, 7.09.88), 2. Siddarth Sunil/ Ram Sarvana Raja(Tamil Nadu), 3. Vishwajeet Sandhav/ Bhanu Pratap Singh(Madhya Pradesh); Open Light Weight Double Scull: 1. Manohar Lal/S Immanuval David Singh (All India Police, 7.04.96), 2. Gurmeet Singh/ Ranjeet Singh (Punjab), 3. Vishnu Prasad G/Arjun B Panicker (Kerala); Open Coxless Four: Lachhman Singh. Sushil Kumar, Robin Mangar Rohit Kumar(All India Police, 6.37.21), 2. M Mahesh Reddy, Satish Erva, D Sai Raju, T Sunil Kumar(Telangana), 3. Jithr R, Adarsh PV, Paras, Narendra Kumar(Kerala); Open Lt Wt Coxless Fours: Dharmendra Choudhary, Nitesh Kumar Lall, Ravinderjit Singh, Jagsir Singh(All India Police,6.33.22), 2. Gulshan Kumar, Gulshan, Tarsem Singh, Rajinder Singh(Chandigarh), 3. Vishwajeet Sandhav, Farukh Khan, Manas Sharma, Bhanu Pratap Singh(Madhya Pradesh); U-21 Double Scull: Jishnumon R (Kerala, 7.03.14), 2. Jaspal Singh(Chandigarh), 3. Kulwant Singh (Punjab).
