365Telugu.com online news, July 18th,2024: The races were held in the afternoon giving the fatigued sailors a breather after multiple championships at Hussain Sagar and many months of training. Two races were sailed across all fleets and the weather was medium to heavy but very gusty and shifty giving the Hyderabad based Telangana Sailors a slight edge as a consequence of knowing the lake like the back of their hands
Govardhan Pallara of Telangana sailed safe and placed a comfortable 5 and 6 and looks like heading for a clear gold but still needs to sail both the remaining races to clinch the SH Babu Trophy for consistent performance.
Deekshita of Telangana came in from a far 14th in the 9th race to shock the fleet with a win and an 8th and screamed up to second overall pushing Aakash Tangai of TSC Mysore to third and Shreya Krishna of Tamilnadu to 4th spot
Shreya was leading the race at top spot but crashed to 7th giving Deekshita – who finally won the race-a huge advantage. In the ILCA 4 Boys which is another very competitive fleet Ekalavya Batham of Madhya Pradesh popped back to the top of the fleet with some brilliant finishes and pushed Krishna Divaker of TSC Mysore to 3rd spot and compatriot Akshat Dohre also of Madhya Pradesh to second .
In the ILCA4 girls Alya Sabreen of Orissa won both races with some excellent tactics and pushed Somya Singh to overall second . The Monsoon Regatta also sailed a Green Fleet with local girl Rameeza Bhanu of Rainbow Homes who started sailing just months ago is heading for bronze.
There are 2 more races to complete the series if the weather holds and both the ILCA and Optimist under 16 are tightly fused at the top and the end results could be anybody’s guess given that if more than 10 races are said the sailors are allowed to discard two races against the one currently discarded.
In the 420 mixed doubles fleet its between Vaishnavi and Thanuja both of Telangana and the last two races will prove who the better sailor is Nikhil and Satyam in the 29er skiffs are leading and are likely to clinch the trophy
Points Tally at the end of Day 4
Under 16 Optimist Class
- Govardhan Pallara (TSA) Telangana 31
- Deekshita (TSA) Telangana 45
- Aakash Tangai TSC Mysor 63
Under 18 29er Skiff Doubles
- Nikhil Mandavkar & Satyam Jha NBSC Goa 10
- Mallesh Gadham & Karthik Korrolla NBSC Goa 19
- Ajay Yadav & Adiraj Yadav NSS MP 23
Under 18 International 420 Mixed Doubles
- Vaishnavi Veeravamsham & Shravan Kathravath TSA Telangana 10
- Thanuja Kameshwar & Ganesh Peerkatla TSA Telangana 12
Under 18 ILCA 4 Single Hander Girls
- Alia Sabreen OYA Orissa 13
- Somya Singh NSS Madhya Pradesh 15
- Manya Reddy SSC Telangana 28
Under 18 ILCA 4 Single Hander Boys
- Ekalavya Batham NSS MP 37
- Akshat Dohre NSS MP 40
- Krishna Divakar TSC Mysore 40