The three-day annual sailing regatta of central command concluded on Sunday under the aegis of army war college, Mhow. The final race was flagged of by the commandant MCTE Lt General M U Nair SM.
The race witnessed some intense competition between sailing team from army war college, infantry school, military college of telecommunication engineering, uttar bharat area, madhya bharat area, a mountain division and central command troops.
Instituted in 2005 the central command sailing regatta is a flagship event in the annual sailing calendar of the command.
It aims at inculcating the spirit of adventure, watermanship and camaraderie amongst various institutions under the command. Over the years the defense service has been largely dominating the sport. Tarapore Motiwala Dutta and Pillai are some of the renowned servicemen who have made yeoman contribution to the sailing at the international and national level.
The sailing event had a total of 17 teams participating. The races were witnessed by a large number of senior army officers, ladies and school children.
Lt General V S Sreenivas PVSM VSM presented the trophies and prizes to the winners. The sailing championship was won by colonel Rishi Kumar and group captain kala of army war college and colonel Rahul Sangwan and colonel Yogesh of army war college came second. The kayaking race was won by army war college. In Kayaking officers’ singles Lt Mukesh Kumar of MCTE was winner and GC Nishant of CTW MCTE was second. In kayaking officers’ doubles GC S Tiwari and GC Hariom Yadav of CTW MCTE were winners and GC Aman Gupta and GC Aman Sehawag were runner up.
In Kayaking singles JCO and OR was won by rifleman Deepak Karki and L/Nk Ved Prakash stood second. In kayaking doubles rifleman Sachin Tamang and rifleman Vivek Thapa stood first and rifleman Anish rana and rifleman Vivek Thapa stood second. In the kayaking JCO and OR all the single and doubles winner are from army war college mhow.