Kurukshetra rowers rule roost
Haryana’s Kurukshetra University reigned supreme, sweeping both the men’s and women’s team championships at the all-India interuniversity rowing championships held at the Hussainsagar Lake in Hyderabad.
Kurukshetra won finals in the the women’s coxless pair, double scull and coxless four events besides a third-place finish in single scull, to lift the trophy.
In the men’s section, they clinched top honours in coxless pair and coxless four, and finished third in the single scull competition to take home the silverware.
THE RESULTS
WOMEN
Single scull 1000m: 1. Navneet kaur (Punjab University) 4;13.45, 2. Mayurakshi Mukherjee (WBUT) 4:21.98, 3. Amanjyot Kaur (Kurukshetra) 4:23.77. Coxless pair 1000m: 1. Suman/ Mukesh ( Kurukshetra University) 4: 02.69 2. Aditi Subramanian/ Sankavi Puhazhende (Anna University) 4: 03.48, 3. Tarunikha Pratap/ Ashwathy Nair (TN Dr Ambedkar Law University) 4:21.29. Double scull 1000m: 1. Amanjyot Kaur/ Pooja (Kurukshetra University) 3:51.32, 2. Amandeep Kaur/ Navneetha kaur ( Punjab University) 3:55.96, 3. Varnali Dey/ Mayurakshi Mukherjee (WBUT) 4:01.44. Coxless four 1000m: 1. Anu, Mukesh Kumari, Suman Devi, Harpreet (Kurukshetra) 3:50.84, 2. Sankavi Puhazhende, K. Dhitika Chowdary, J. Kavya Elizabeth, Aditi Subramanian (Anna University) 3:58.21, 3. Amritpal, Sandeep Kaur, Ashwini, Nisha (Punjab University) 4:11.90. Team championships: 1. Kurukshetra University (Haryana), 2. Punjab University (Patiala).
MEN
Single scull 1000m: 1. Gurwinder Singh (Punjab University) 3:46.36, 2. Kadale Santosh (Savitribai) 3:54.58, 3. Rahul (Kurukshetra) 3:56.72. Coxless Pair 1000m: 1. Parveen/ Sawan (Kurukshetra University), 2. Chandandeep Singh/ Gurjant Singh (Punjab University) 3:33.67, 3. Satnam Singh/ Karamjit Singh (Punjab University) 3:34.97. Double scull 1000m: 1. Gurmej Singh/ Sunil Kumar (Punjab University) 3:29.61, 2. Kadale Santosh/ M. Vaibhav (Savitribai) 3:30.48, 3. Sukhwinder Singh/ Kulwant Singh (Punjabi) 3:34.74. Coxless four 1000m: 1. Parveen, Sawan, Gurudev, Yuvaraj ( Kurukshetra) 3: 14.54, 2. Gurkamal, Mangat Singh, Gulsan, Sarbjeet Singh (Punjab University) 3:14.82, 3. Satnam Singh, Gagandeep Singh, Karamjit Singh, Deshraj (3:24.61). Team championships: 1. Kurukshetra University, 2. Punjab University.