Varun, Anurag, Piyush claim top spots in rowing meet

Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, June 1

Rowers Varun Antil, Anurag and Piyush Sharma claimed top three spots in the single sculls event at the Chandigarh State Sub-Junior and Challenger Sprints Rowing Championship for boys/men and girls/women, held at Sukhna Lake.

Varun claimed the gold medal after completing the race in 02:49:438 minutes while Anurag claimed the silver medal in 03:09:451 minutes. Piyush Sharma got bronze medal after completing the patch in 03:09:509 minutes.

The event was organised under single sculls, double sculls, coxless pairs in boys and girls, men’s and women’s category while the coxless fours (4 -) event was organised only in the men’s category.

In the double sculls event of boys (sub-junior) event, Varun Antil and Sukhdev Singh claimed gold medal while Anurag Walia and Manan Batish finished second in the championship.

In the women’s challenger sprints, Ranjana Devi claimed the top position in single sculls event while the pair of Amritpal Kaur and Ranjana Devi followed by Manisha and Tanya Sangwan claimed gold medal and silver medal, respectively, in the double sculls category.

Results

Boys (sub-juniors) SJB1X — Varun Antil 1st (gold medal) 02:49:438; Anurag 2nd (silver medal) 03:09:451; Piyush Sharma 3rd (bronze medal) 03:09:509

Double sculls (SJB2X) — Varun Antil and Sukhdev Singh 1st 02:34:222; Anurag Walia and Manan Batish 2nd 02:48:881

Girls (sub-juniors) SJG1X — Muskan Sharma 1st 02:52:85; Tripat Anchal Kaur 2nd 04:00:139

Double sculls (SJG2X) — Muskan Sharma and Tripat Anchal Kaur 1st 4:57:572

Men’s challenger sprints Single sculls (CM1X) — Jaspal Singh 1st 2:05:156; Gurmej Singh 2nd 2:07:598; Saurav 3rd 2:08:970; Davinder Singh 4th 2:15:806; Dishant Sehgal 5th Position 2:26:71

Double sculls (CM2X) — Sukhdeep Singh and Jaspal Singh 1st 01:48:146; Ravi Kumarand and Saurav 2nd 1:53:602; Jaspreet Singh and Davinder Singh 3rd 01:57:479; Gurmej Singh and Aasish Nain 4th, 2:00:611; Manjoth Singh and Himanshu Sharma 5th, 2:14:808

Coxless pairs (CM2-) — Ravinder Jeet Singh and Jagsir Singh 1st 1:53:498; Des Raj and Sunil Kumar 2nd 01:56:395; Rajinder Singh and Sharma Singh 3rd 01:58:353; Harish and Balwinder Singh 4th, 02:06:975

Coxless fours (CM4-) — Jagsir Singh, Sharma Singh, Rajinder Singh and Ravinder Jeet Singh 1st 1:41:563; Sunil Kumar, Des Raj, Manjeet Singh and Tarsem Singh 2nd (silver medal) 1:51:786; Gulshan, Gulshan Kuar, Gurdeep Singh and Manjinder Singh 3rd 2:14:770

Women’s challenger sprints single sculls (CW1X) — Ranjana Devi 1st 2:52:683

Double sculls (CW2X) — Amritpal Kaur and Ranjana Devi 1st 2:16:343; Manisha and Tanya Sangwan 2nd 2:55:077

Coxless pairs (CM2-) — Nisha Hooda and Ashwini Patil 1st (gold medal) 2:50:009