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Rowing: Services holds sway

By Our Sports Reporter

Shalini Varghese (right) and Manjula Roy of AP who won the gold in 2000m in the rowing competition at Hussain Sagar Lake in Hyderabad on Sunday. — Photo: K. Ramesh Babu

HYDERABAD DEC. 15. Services dominated the rowing competitions in men's section winning all four golds at stake in the 32nd National Games at Hussain Sagar Lake here today.

D.B. Ratheesh of Services won the first gold in the men's single scull race with a timing of 8:37.40 while, V.K. Vinod Kumar of Kerala and Laxman Singh of Chandigarh finished second and third clocking 9:1.25 and 9:2.64 respectively.

Later, Sunil Kakade and Kudrat Ali, the Asian championship bronze medallists, earned Services the second gold in men's double sculls.

However, in women's section, there was something to cheer for the host as Shalini Varghese and Manjula Roy clinched the gold in double sculls with 9:13.96 while Kerala's Jincymol Varghese and Malini Baroi and Andaman & Nicobar pair Suchitra Rani Mondal and Malathi Sarkar picked silver and bronze respectively.

The results: Men: Single sculls: 1. D.R. Ratheesh (Svc) 8:37.40, 2. V.K. Vinod Kumar (Ker), 3. Laxman Singh (Chd); Double scull: 1. Sunil Kakade & Kudrat Ali (Svc), 2. Jarnail Singh & Jaspal Singh (Pjb), 3. Abilash & P.P.Pandey (AP). Timings not available; Coxless pairs: 1. Services (Mujeeb Rehman & Roshan Lal) 8:4.83, 2. Chandigarh (Bhupender Singh & Sukbhir Singh), 3. Andhra Pradesh (Arun T. Paul & Elibison Thomas); Coxless fours: 1. Services (Udaybir Singh, Kasam Khan, Inderpal Singh & P.T. Paulose) 7:11.57, 2. Punjab (Karnail Singh, Tarlochan Singh, Jagjit Singh & Rampal Singh), 3. Andhra Pradesh (Arun T. Paul, Shyju, Subash, Elbinson Thomas).

Women: Single scull: 1. Gurpreet Kaur (Pjb) 9:21.81, 2. Manjula Roy (AP), 3. Jincymol Varghese (AP); Double scull: 1. Shalini Varghese & Manjula Roy (AP) 9:13.96, 2. Jincymol Varghese & Malini Baroi (Kerala), 3. Suchitra Rani Mondal & Malathi Sarkar (Andaman & Nicobar); Coxless four: 1. Kerala (Soniyamma Mathew, Malini Baroi, Julee Varghese & R.Shobini) 8:45.11, 2. Andhra Pradesh (Elisabeth, Monalisa Mohanti, Anjali Havildar), 3. Orissa (Malabika Das, Priyadarshini Rao, Sagarika Barik & Mamata Jena); Coxless pairs: 1. Monalisa Mohanti & Elisabeth (AP), 2. Julee Varghese & R.Shobini (Kerala), 3. Kirandeep Kaur & Gurmoor Kaur Keng (Chd).

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