Mongia scores second win

HYDERABAD, July 28: Former Champion Nitin Mongia took advantage of a foul committed by the defending champion R Mahesh, to score his consec...

HYDERABAD, July 28: Former Champion Nitin Mongia took advantage of a foul committed by the defending champion R Mahesh, to score his consecutive win in the Laser category of the Doshi Ford Inland Sailing Championship at the Hussain Sagar Lake, in Hyderabad, today.

Mongia who won the first race yesterday, eased through the second race by about five boat lengths.

Mahesh, after the reversal in the inaugural race, put up a determined effort to level the scores in conditions ideal for the competition, and it looked like he would do so as he led the pack at the beginning.

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But, once he did a 360 to exonerate himself from the penalty after touching the mark, it was his Naval Sailing clubmate Mongia all the way.

Mongia, winner here in 1990 and 1991, clocked 47 min 51 sec while Mahesh had a timing of 48:17 sec and was closely followed by Goutam Dutta (48:22).

Anirudh Vijay Kumar of the Secunderbad Sailing Club finished fourth. Rajesh Choudhary scored an effortless win in the second race of the Laser Radials.

The 21-year-old EMESA sailor led from the start to emerge victorious with a margin of almost half-a-leg. The second placed Dinesh Boorugula was about 40 boat lengths ahead of the next competitor Ranjeeth Dhillon.

Results

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Laser Standard (2nd race): 1. Nitin Mongia, 2. R Mahesh (both NSC, Mumbai), 3. Goutam Dutta (EMESA), 4. Anirudh Vijay Kumar, 5. Suhein Shaikh (SSC), 6. Ram Kumar (CESE, Pune).

Laser Radials (1st race): 1. Boorugula Sri Nagesh Nagesh, 2. Thirumal Rao (SSC), 3. Ranjeeth Djillon, 4. Rajesh Choudhary (both EMESA), 5. Ashwini Chouhan, 6. Dinesh Boorugula (both SSC).

Second race: 1. Rajesh Choudhary (EMESA), 2. Dinesh Boorigula SSC), 3. Ranjeeth Dhillon (EMESA), 4. Tirumal Rao (SSC), 5. Boorugula Sri Nagesh (SSC), 6. Jagdish Singh (EMESA).

Enterprise: 1. Drona Narayanan, Mahesh (C), 2. Dharmender Singh, AK Das (C), 3. Nawaz Currimbhoy, Natasha (C), 4. Goutam Dutta, N S Bahchhal (C), 5. D Chakravarthy, PK Mohan (C), 6. RK Patil, Harbhajan Singh (C). Second race: 1. Drona Narayana, Mahesh, 2. Goutam Dutta, Bahchhal, 3. Dharmender Singh, A K Das, 4. Nawaz Currimmbhoy, Natasha, 5. RK Patil, Harbhajan Singh, 6. Chakravarthy, PK Mohan.