Madhya Pradesh rowers exhibited an impressive game winning two gold, two silver and three bronze medals securing first position in 35th National Rowing Championship.
The grand finale of 35th National Rowing Championship was held on Tuesday at Water Sports Centre, Upper lake Bhopal. In the championship rowers from State exhibited an excellent performance in 2000 meter race securing first position. The rowers from Telangana secured second position by bagging two gold and two bronze medals.
The players from Karnataka showcased an outstanding performance and bagged two gold medals securing third position.
In women’s doubles players from Madhya Pradesh Sona Keer and Rukmani won gold medals. In men’s category under Coxless-4 event rowers from Madhya Pradesh Ankit, Rohit, Aman Rathore and Manas Sharma bagged gold medals.
Under lightweight coxless-4 event in men’s category rowers from Madhya Pradesh Vishwajeet Sandhev, Umar Farooque, lucky and Bhanupratap Singh won silver medal.
In double scull race Surendra Parmar and SC Vishakath Chandra from Madhya Pradesh gave their best. The players secured second position by bagging silver medal in men’s category (under 21).
In male pair event rowers from Madhya Pradesh Kuldeep Sandhev and Prince Nasir won bronze medal. In lightweight double race Mangal Singh and Balram Soni from Madhya Pradesh won the bronze medal.
Similarly, the female rowers also performed exceptionally. In coxless-4 event player from Madhya Pradesh Amandeep Kaur, Ramanjeet Kaur, KM Geeta and Karuna Devi won bronze medal.
The winners were felicitated at the ‘medal ceremony’. The winners were felicitated by Joint Director of Sports and Youth Welfare Department Vinod Pradhan, President of Rowing Federation of India Rajlaxmi Singh Deo, Vice President Devraj Singh.
Notably, under the rowing championship 500 meter race will be played on Wednesday.