Rowing C’ship: Sandeep Kumar wins single scull event

Sandeep Kumar of All India Police clinched the honours in the 500 m single scull event with a timing of 1:44.44 on the final day of the 34th National rowing championship at Hussain Sagar Lake.

Sandeep Kumar holds his medal after winning the single scull event.

Sandeep Kumar of All India Police clinched the honours in the 500 m single scull event with a timing of 1:44.44 on the final day of the 34th National rowing championship at Hussain Sagar Lake here on Saturday. The 23-year-old Sandeep, competing in his maiden Nationals and also in the single scull, was a clear winner in the race with Santosh Kadale of Maharashtra (1:46.06) and G. Vishnu Prasad of Kerala (1:46.91) settling for silver and bronze respectively.

In the women’s section, Naveet Kaur, who won a ‘double’ in the 2000 m category, again stole the show picking another double in the 500 m category today winning the single scull and then pairing with Harpreet Kaur to clinch the pairs event. Telangana Home Minister Nayani Narasimha Reddy gave away the prizes.

The results:

Women: Open single scull: 1. Navneet Kaur (Pjb) 1:59.62, 2. Pooja (Chd) 2:02.66, 3. Mayurakshi Mukherjee (WB) 2:02.95.

Pairs: 1. Sanjukta Dung Dung & Manjula Xess (Odi) 1:48.33, 2. Monalisa Mohanty & Mamta Jena (Chd) 1:53.06, 3. A. Aswany & Chippy Kurian (Ker) 1:56.29.

Double scull: 1. Harpreet Kaur & Navneet Kaur (Pjb) 1:45.24, 2. Thara Kurian & Dittymol Varghese (Ker) 1:47.50, 3. Ch. Priya Devi & L. Lakshmi Devi (Mnp) 1:49.47.

Coxless fours: 1. Odisha (Pramila Prava Minz, Pratima Puhana, Sanjukta Dung Dung, Manjula Xess) 1:45.72, 2. Chandigarh (Monalisa Mohanty, Mamta Jena, L. Nanaobi Devi & Priya Darsini Raut) 1:50.73, 3. Andaman (Subashini, Jyoti Priya Aarti, Basanti Tigga, Reena Kumari) 1:52.75.

Men: Single scull: 1. Sandeep Kumar (All India Police) 1:44.44, 2. Santosh Kadale (Maha) 1:46.06, 3. G. Vishnu Prasad (Ker) 1:46.91.

Pairs: 1. Gurwinder Singh & Karamjeet Singh (Pjb) 1:41.58, 2. Siddarth Sunil & Ram Saravana Raja (TN) 1:41.88, 3. Parveen & Anil Kumar (Har) 1:44.20.

Lt wt double scull: 1. G. Vishnu Prasad & Arjun B. Panicker (Ker) 1:34.40, 2. Manohar lal & S. Immanuval David Singh (All India Police) 1:35.25, 3. Gurmeet Singh & Ranjeet Singh (Pjb) 1:37.16.

Coxless four: 1. Punjab (Lachhman Singh, Sushil Kumar, Robin Mangar, Rohit Kumar) 1:33.10, 2. All India Police (M. Mahesh Reddy, Sathish Erva, D. Sai Raju, T. Sunil (All India Police) 1:34.72, 3. Andhra Pradesh (R. Jithu, P.V. Adarsh, Paras, Narendra Kumar) 1:36.22.

Lt wt coxless fours: 1. All India Police (Dharmendra Choudhary, Nitesh Kumar Lall, Ravinderjit Singh, Jagsir Singh) 1:28.33, 2. Ch. Naveen, Sathish Erva, D. Sai Raju, T. Sunil (Telangana) 1:28.99, 3. Madhya Pradesh (Vishwajeet Sandhav, Farukh Khan, Manas Sharma, Bhanu Pratap Singh) 1:32.28.