Girls Bag Five Top Spots In Sailing Regatta Champs

Hyderabad, July 12 (Maxim News): It was girl power all the way with the top 5 spots being grabbed by the girls at the Telangana Sailing Regatta Sub-Junior Championships at The Yacht Club of Hyderabad Hussain Sagar.

Preethi Kongara and Lakshmi Nookarathnam of Hyderabad had reserved Gold and Silver. Lakshmi almost lost her second position to Jhansi Priya Laveti when she finished a terrible 18th position. Jhansi won the last race taking the competition down to the wire losing silver by just 3 points. Lakshmi was lucky enough and retained her second position.

Preethi got 7 wins out of 12 and had a stupendous margin of 35 points over her nearest rival Lakshmi Nookarathnam both students of the Yacht Club of Hyderabad.

At the end of 12 races 5 girls took the top 5 positions. They also secured 7th and 10th positions sweeping 7 of the top 10 positions. Paranoid Ravali who was placed at Bronze with a 2 point lead over Jhansi Priya had a bad race with a capsize. And she had to concede the medal to Jhansi who won the race to clinch Bronze with a 11 point lead

The Boys saw Mahesh Gudde of Mahboobnagar winning the Gold with 110 points followed by Ajay Gajji and Karthick Neenavath of Vikarabad with 127 and 139 points winning Silver and Bronze medals respectively. Sirisha Kerre of Mahboobnagar finished 7th overall and was another surprise beating many more experienced sailors and grabbing the most promising Girl award. Harshavardhan also of Vikarabad got the Most Promising Boy Sailor.

“I have been with the sport of sailing for 50 years and have never seen such an outstanding precision performances by girls who seem to have some magical understanding with the wind shifts of Hussain Sagar”, said Lt.Gen KS Rao , the President of the Telangana Sailing Association. (Maxim News)