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Friday, Oct 21, 2005

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Chinese dominate

V. V. Subrahmanyam

HYDERABAD: Chinese rowers dominated the first day of the heats in different categories of the 11th Asian rowing championship at Hussain Sagar Lake even as Indian men pulled off a surprise result finishing first by clocking 6.00.80 in the light weight men's eights heats here on Thursday.

The Indian team comprising Sunil Khakde, Balyan Ratheesh, Praveen, Saju Thomas, Narayan Rathore,Pradeep Balyan, Darmesh Sangwan and Satish Joshi maintained a comfortable lead from start to finish on the 2000 m course (with which they are familiar) in ideal rowing conditions on still water with no wind.

There was more to cheer about in the afternoon when the women's team comprising Swathi Sanjay, P.R.Raje, Julee Verghese, Pravasini Dwivedi finished first in the light weight women's coxless fours with a timing of 7.28.97 finishing ahead of the Chinese Taipei team which clocked 7.48.75.

It was informed that all those who topped the heats will automatically qualify for the finals scheduled on October 22 and 23 while the rest in each category will battle it out again tomorrow to book the other slots.

The morning session of races had it's moments of tension as some of the rowers in the light weight men's double sculls got stuck with plenty of plastic bags floating all over the lane because of the heavy inflow from the nearby stream. Consequently, the timings were much slower than what they would have wished for.

The results (all heats):

First heat: Light Weight Women's singles scull: 1. Karoba Pere (Ina) 8.01.51, 2. Ganieva Zarrina (Uzb). Second heat: Xu Dong Xiang (Chn) 7.53.41, 2. Nikree Thuttharaksa (Tha).

Light weight men's eights: 1. India (Sunil Khakde, Balyan Ratheesh, Praveen, Saju Thomas, Narayan Rathore, Pradeep Balyan, Darmesh Sangwan, Satish Joshi) 6.00.80, 2. Kazhakhstan 6.08.61.

Light weight men's singles sculls: Heat 1: 1. B.Tharkar (Ind) 7.16.80, 2. Thettibal Ruphalphol (Thai) 7.23.30. Heat:2 1. Xu Zhi Su (Chn) 7.06.54, 2. Aulia Rahmat Yudi (Thai) 7.39.76.

Light weight men's doubles sculls: Heat 1: 1. Xu Dong Xiang & Chen Al Nai (Chn) 7.10.11, 2. Thailand. Heat 2: 1. Ganieva Sevara & Ganieva Zaleerana (Uzbekistan) 7.20.63, 2. Chinese Taipei.

Men's single sculls: Heat 1: 1.Lasmin Lasmin (Indonesia) 7.15.79, 2. Palestine. Heat 2: 1. Cuy Yong Hui (Chn) 7.06.41, 2. Thailand.

Light weight men's doubles sculls: 1. Thettipal Ruthnapol & Thai Anupong (Thai) 6.35.28, 2. Uzbekistan. Heat 2: 1. Zhu Zhi Yu & Xie Jun (Chn) 6.27.22, 2. Kazhakhstan.

Light weight coxless fours: 1. India (Swathi Sanjay, P.R.Raje, Julee Verghese, Pravasini Dwivedi) 7.28.97, 2. Chinese Taipei 7.48.75

Women's singles sculls: Heat 1: 1. Karoba Tera (Ina) 7.53.45, 2. Japan. Heat 2: 1. Xi Ai Hua (Chn) 7.47.84, 2. Chinese Taipei.

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