Jerome, Swatantra maintain lead

​Hyderabad: With the monsoon winds showing, the Multi Class Sailing Championship-2018 is becoming more challenging byt he day. The undefeated Jerome Kumar extended his winning streak in Race 7 and 8 but fell short of a third when his juggernaut was halted by budding sailor Manpreet Singh in RS-X class.

BK Rout got the gun in Race 8 of Laser Standard class. Muzahid Khan won Race 9 and took the lead. Rishab Nayar took Race 7 in Laser 4.7 class while Swatantra Singh proved his mettle again by winning Race 8 and 9 in Finn class.

Results: Laser Standard: Race 7: 1-Upamanyu Datta, 2-Harpreet Singh, 3-B Mohopatra; Race 8: 1-BK Rout, 2-Gitesh, 3-Muzahid Khan; Race 9: 1-Muzahid Khan, 2-Harpreet Singh, 3-Ajay Singh Rajput;

Laser Radial: Race 7: 1-Gitesh, 2-Deelip Kumar, 3-Dharmendera Singh;

Race 8: 1-Sachin Singha, 2-M Suresh Kumar, 3-Ramya Saravanan;

Race 9: 1-Deelip Kumar, 2-Tarun P Bhatia, 3-Sachin Singha; 470:

Race 7: 1-Prince Nobel/Mahesh C Yadav, 2- Sonu Jatav/RK Sharma, 3-Praveen Kumar/Sudhanshu Shekhar;

Race 8: 1-Atul Lende/CHS Reddy, 2-Prince Nobel/Mahesh C Yadav, 3-Manu J/SC Singha;

Race 9: 1-Sonu Jatav/RK Sharma, 2- Praveen Kumar/Sudhanshu Shekhar, 3-Atul Lende/CHS Reddy; RS-X: Race 7: 1-Jerome Kumar, 2-Kamalapathi, 3-K Arjun Reddy; Race 8: 1-Jerome Kumar, 2-Manpreet Singh, 3-K Arjun Reddy; Race 9: 1-Manpreet Singh, 2-Kamalapathi, 3-Jerome Kumar;

Finn: Race 7: 1-Gurjeet Singh, 2-MK Yadav, 3-Swantantra Singh;

Race 8: 1-Swantantra Singh, 2-MK Yadav, 3-Naveen Kumar;

Race 9: 1-Swantantra Singh, 2-Vivek, 3-Naveen Kumar; Laser 4.7:

Race 7: 1-Rishab Nayar, 2- A Sanjay Reddy, 3- Naveen Kumar;

Race 8: 1-Ram Milan Yadav, 2-N Hemanth, 3-Satish Yadav;

Race 9: 1-K Goutham, 2-Satish Yadav, 3-Rishab Nayar.