36th Royal Thomian
Regatta
This event was held
on Saturday, the 24th October 2009, at the Colombo Rowing Club.
S. Thomas' College,
Mt. Lavinia won the 36th Royal Thomian Regatta.
Points STC - 40 : RC - 12
Regatta Picture Gallery 1
Regatta
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Thomians retain T. N.
Fernando Trophy -
http://www.sundayobserver.lk/2009/10/25/spo01.asp
By Ranjan ANANDAPPA
S. Thomas’ with a superior display of rowing defeated Royal to
retained the T. N. Fernando Trophy collecting 40 points to 12 in
their annual ‘Regatta’ at the Beira Lake waters yesterday.
Royal College won only the Junior Fours, Junior Double Sculls and
the Junior ‘B’ Fours as the other races were smooth rowing for the
Thomians.
When the main event the Boat Race began, the Thomians were well
ahead in the points tally 28\12 and the main event was only of an
academic interest, but the Thomians won the ‘Boat Race’ too to stamp
their class.
Results:
“A” Sculls: Sajeev de Silva (STC) beat Shehan Muthugala (RC) 3m 35
sec.
‘B’ Sculls: Danushka Jayanetti (STC) beat Chirath Karunanayake (RC)
3m 32 sec. ‘A’ Pairs: Eshan Goonewardena (B) and Ruven Weerasinghe
(S) (STC) beat Radhika Weerasekera (B) and Ashen Herath (S) Royal 3m
25 sec.
‘B’ Pairs Shehan de Livera (B) and Sajeev de Silva (S) of (STC) beat
Sahan Warnasuriya (B) and Thivanka Jayatileka (S) 3m 26 sec. ‘A’
Double Sculls: Ruven Weerasinghe (B) and Sajeev de Silva (S) (STC)
beat Jehan Samarsekara (B) and Chirath Karunanayake (S) 3m 12 sec.
“B” Double Sculls: Shehan Muthugala (B) and Pradeep Maddumabandara
(S) Royal beat Eshan Goonewardena (B) and Danushka Jayanetti (S)
(STC) 3m 16 sec.
Junior ‘B’ Fours: Sanjiva Jayasuriya (B), Ajmal Sideek (2), Sahan
Warnasuriya (3), Thivanka Jayatileka (S), Pasan Ranaweera (Cox)
Royal beat Akshat Wickremanayake (B), Danston Harold (2), Chamal
Jayanetti (3), Sajin de Livera (S) Kavan Elapatha (Cox) (STC) 3m 19
sec.
Junior Fours: Akila Keerthiratne (B), Sithija Gamage (2), Jehan
Samarasekara (3), Pradeep Maddumabandara (S), Pasan Ranaweera (Cox)
beat (STC) Yohan Wijeratne (B), Treshan Manatunga (2), Shehan de
Livera (3), Uween Jayasinghe (S), Peter Christy (Cox).
Boat Race: Eshan Goonewardena (B), Sajeev de Silva (2), Danushka
Jayanetti (3), Ruven Weerasinghe (S), Amrick Varia (Cox) of (STC)
beat Devinda Fernando (B), Radika Weerasekera (2), Chirath
Karunanayake(3), Ashen Herath (S), Danushka Perera (Cox).
The Thomian’s increased their Boat Race tally win to 22 to Royal’s
18. While they have won the T. N. Fernando Trophy for the 19th
occasion to Royal’s 14 with three ending in ties.
Thoras have a
right Royal victory -
http://sundaytimes.lk/091025/Sports/sp18.html
By Chathuri Dissanayake,
Pics by Saman Kariyawasam.
S. Thomas’ won the boat
race in style with a record timing of 3.02 at the 36th Royal-Thomian
regatta held at the Rowing Club Last evening. In a very close
encounter the Thomian ‘A’ 4 picked up at the last 300m of the race
with a superb finish while the Royalists tailed behind even though
they gave a good fight from the beginning.
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Thomians winning the
boat race at the Beira Lake yesterday. |
Thoras
celebrate. |
The lads from Mt.
Lavinia dominated the waters of Beira Lake scoring a total of 40
points to Royalists weak reply of 12 points in total.
Victors secured both ‘A’ scull and ‘B’ scull with Royal reaching the
finish line four seconds too late on both occasions. The trend set
by the scullers of Thomians was carried forward by both ‘A’ and ‘B’
coxless pairs when both were won by Thomians with ‘A’ pair timing in
3.25 to Royals 3.38 and the Thomian B pair timing in at 3.26 to
3.31.
First race won by the Royalists for the day was the ‘B’ double scull
when they rowed to victory in smooth long strokes which gave them a
timing of 3.16 as a reply to Thomians’ 3.23.
Thomians regained the upper hand in the battle soon after by winning
the ‘A’ double scull, leaving no time for the Royalists to even
catch their breath. The ‘C’ four was yet again won by the Thomians
with the Thomians maintaining a lead from the beginning but Royalist
did the best they could to give the Thomians a good fight but lost
3.26 to 3.19.
The most exiting races of the evening were the ‘B’ four and the ‘A’
four where the Thomian superiority was clearly visible. From the
start Royalists were leading but when they closed up to 500 meters
they left their opponents and rowed a smooth clear finish with a
timing of 3.06 to 3.15.
Highlight of the day was when the senior four took the waters. It
looked as if the Royalists had a chance but soon all hopes left the
Royal when the Thomian team taking the inside course took the lead
picking up pace with long smooth strokes which pushed them to their
victory over Royalists. The last 300 meters of the race was
thrilling as the two opponents pushed forward with Royal fighting
hard to save grace but ultimately lost to Thomians who rowed to
victory with a timing of 3.02 to 3.06.
Regatta
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