Royal College rowing crew managed to up-lift the T. Noel Fernando Memorial Trophy, by outclassing their arch rivals, St. Thomas' college at the 38th annual Royal Thomian regatta. In the process the royal crew was able to win the 42nd boat race as well. The event was held at the Colombo Rowing Club on Saturday, 22nd October 2011 from 2.00 pm onwards.
The regatta was a full of excitement and both crews staged very close races but St. Thomas' crew won only one event - junior double scull which carries 4 points. The rest of the races were won by the Reed avenue boys recording a 48-4 victory.
One special incident in the regatta was both junior and senior fours were rowed under lights. Junior four was rowed at about 6.30 and the senior four, which is the boat race - 42nd this time, was started at about 7.00 pm. This was a newly added feature to the sri lankan rowing and which certainly helped both crews to hit new records in timings by providing favorable rowing conditions. This time regatta was organized by the Royal College.
Regatta format:
Races were rowed down in a 1000 yards course. Regatta is composed of 10 races, out of 2, which carry no points, in fact exhibition races. The remaining 8 races are further categorized as junior(4) and senior(4) races.
Ladies College won the 8th annual Ladies - Musaeus regatta to 41 - 11, grabbing the Mary Museaus Higgins Trophy (Overall Regatta) for the 5th occasion.
It's been confirmed the "LC MC regatta" will be held on 14th of October 2011(Friday) at Colombo Rowing Club(CRC) form 2.00 pm onwards.
The 8th annual
regatta between Ladies College-Colombo and Museaus College-Colombo,
renowned as LC MC regatta, will be held on 15th of October(most likely)
2011 on the waters of Beire Lake, Colombo. Last year's championship was
won by Museaus College.
38th Royal Tomian Regatta
The regatta between the two schools, Royal College-Colombo and St. Thomas' College-Mt. Lavinia is to held on the 22nd of October 2011(most likely) at the Colombo Rowing Club premises. The defending champions, Royal will fight to retain their title, while thomians striving to lift the T N Fernando trophy for the 19th time in their history. The races will be rowed on a 1000 yards course, beire lake.
The 27th rowing nationals was held on 15th, 16th and 17th of September 2011 on the waters of Bolgoda lake, panadura. After about 10 years of disappearance, Sri Lanka Army also took place in this event making the total number of participation to 17 teams and more than 300 contestants.
The regatta was conducted under age categories, which are:
under 16
under 19
over 19
open
And in each category, races were for both men and women.
After three days of exciting races, the regatta was ended up with the following results:
MEN'S
Category
First place
Second place
Third place
Open
Sri Lanka Air Force
Colombo Rowing Club
Sri Lanka Navy
Over 19
Sri Lanka Air Force
Sri Lanka Navy
University of Moratuwa
Under 19
Ananda College
Royal College
St Thomas’ College
Under 16
St Thomas’ College
Royal College
Ananda College
WOMEN'S
Category
First place
Second place
Third place
Open
Ladies College
Colombo Rowing Club
Museaus College
Over 19
SL Army
University of Moratuwa
Kothalawala Defense University
Under 19
Ladies College
Colombo Rowing Club
Bishops College
Under 16
Ladies College
Colombo Rowing Club
Museaus College/Bishops College
Under 19 men's coxed fours finals: Ananda College winning the race.
Open men's cox-less fours finals: Sri Lanka Air Force winning the race by a split second beating St. Thomas' College.
Mora Rowing Crew:
This time, moratuwa men's crew(mora) went to the regatta without their seniors rowing, but still managed to grab some medals showcasing some promising talents. their main focus was on the "Over 19" Category and after a close race they were beaten by the "Sri Lanka Air Force-A" in the coxed fours event. The crew was;
Samantha de Silva(B), Dinesh Kasunjith(3), Thilina Buddika(2), Charuka Kavinda(S) and Dasun Madushan(cox)
Along with that Samantha De Silva(B) and Charuka Kavinda(S) won the bronze medal in the Over 19 coxless pairs event too.
The two medals were meant lot to the crew as these oarsmen are just having one year of experience. So it is quite sure that these young talents will achieve new heights in the rowing arena in Sri Lanka as the time goes on. At the same time, another crew of the mora took part in the "open coxless fours" event but managed to cross the finish line at 4th.
Initiating a new chapter in Mora Rowing, the women's crew managed to win a gold medal at this national regatta in the "Over 19" category. As this was the 1st time in mora rowing history, Nuwanthika Rajapakshe(S) and Radhavi Samarakoon (B) were able to race their coxless pair down the 2000m course and emerge 1st at the finish line.
At the same time Nuwanthika Rajapakshe(S), Ashanthi Fernando(3), Udari de Alwis(2), Radhavi Samarakoon (B) and Nithini Thenuwara(Cox) were able to win the silver medal in the "Over 19" coxed fours event, advancing form the bronze they won last year.
Meanwhile Udari de Alwis(S) and Ashanthi Fernando(B) managed to win the bronze medal in the "Over 19" double sculls, which helped the team to secure the 2nd place in the women's over 19 category.
Winning three medals at the nationals is a remarkable achievement of the mora women's team, not only because this is the first time in the history of mora rowing, but also this has been their second year in rowing.
For the 8th time running, the Rowing crew of the University of Moratuwa, organized the famous "Bolgoda regatta" of this year, held on 3rd and 4th of September at Ranmal Holiday Resort, Panadura. This is the Sri Lanka's pioneering - 2000m - multi lane regatta, which has been conducting since 2003.
This year's regatta was in tribute to Dr. Ray Wijeyawardhene, who was him self an oarsman, and supported the moratuwa university crew with building the sport inside the university and as well as outside. He took the initiative to start rowing at "Bolgoda Lake" and was one of the guys who supported and guided the mora crew, to start their 1st ever bolgoda regatta.
This year, there were more that 100 races(approx: 112) rowed in two days and the participation was more than 200. Races were rowed under men's and women's categories with
under 13
under 15
under 19
under 23
under 30
over 30
open
6 trophies were awarded for men's and women's categories;
School category ( M / W )
Intermediate category ( M / W )
Senior Category (Open) ( M / W )
It was significant that this was the first appearance of Sri Lanka Army rowing crew after 2000-2001 season. They have been on stage until 2000/ 2001, dominating the waters, but disappeared into thin air due to some reasons. So this was their very first since then, and achieved some honor, announcing their arrival to the arena.
The 2nd Indoor Rowing Championship of Sri Lanka will be held at the Kothelawala Defense University(KDU) on 5th and 6th August 2011.
"Indoor Rowing" is still a novel event and it was introduced last year to the rowing community here in Sri Lanka. It was a joint organizing effort by Kothelawala Defense University and the Bolgoda Lake Rowing Club to conduct the event for the first time ever, where almost all the "rowing" institutions took par.
The championship will be held for men's and women's categories and there will other several sub categories too.There will be age categories and also an elite where anyone can participate. Also there will be team events and individual events.
The winners will be decided based on "timings" recorded in "eorgo-meters". Ergometer is the device used in indoor rowing.
Colombo Rowing Club won all the men's events but the B4 race at the 74th Madras-Colombo regatta today(saturday-23rd july 2011). It was a memorable race to win the B4 race by the Madras crew, beating the most favorable and experienced Colombo crew. Regatta ended up with the score-board saying colmbo having 42 while madras 8 points.
At the meantime all the women's races were won by Madras crew. Madras girls proved that they are quite ahead of the colombo girls.
The 74th edition of the world’s second oldest regatta, renowned as the Madras-Colombo, will be kicked off on this Saturday (23rd July 2011) on the waters of Beire Lake, Colombo.
This time the Colombo Rowing Club will be hosting this prestigious event as it was Madras Boat Club of India last year. Last time it was Madras Boat Club, who grabbed the honor, but having won the ARAE regatta early in this year, Colombo Rowing Club will be a tough opponent. So a thriller regatta is an inevitable.
The "Battle of the Undergraduates" between University of Moratuwa rowing team and the University of Colombo rowing team ended up on the waters of Beire Lake, Colombo on 25th Saturday, last week, making the colombo team victorious.
This was the 28th time, the arch rivals rowed for the Professor Stanley Wijesundera Trophy. After 3 consecutive years of losses, colombo varsity men's team won the title by effective team tactics.
results: men's : colombo - 28 moratuwa - 14
women's: colombo - 24 moratuwa - 18
Mora rowing team was coached by Mr. Maheel Gamage and the colombo by Mr. Lloyd Sirimanne
The Rowing event of the Sri Lanka Inter University Games will be kicked off on 25th of June 2011. The arch rivals, University of Moratuwa and University of Colombo, will row their hearts out to win the prestigious Prof. Stanley Wijesundera trophy.
This will be the 28th time, that both universities going to show "what they are made of" on the waters of Beira Lake on a 1000m course. Winning the past 3 regattas consecutively, moratuwa rowing team has the physiological advantage over colombo, but having experienced oarsmen who have been rowing for past three years, Colombo rowing team is also in a good position.
Past 3 regattas were "going down to the wire", and this time probably it wont change. To witness the undergraduates towing, be at the Colombo Rowing Club premises on 25th Saturday of June 2.00 pm onwards.
This is the first ever, recorded, regatta that is going to be held on the waters of the gregory lake in Nuwara-Eliya. It will be conducted as a 600m sprints, which will be done in the same style as the carlton regatta.
Single sculls(1x), double sculls(2x) and coxed fours(4+) will be raced and the event will be held on 20th of April, 2011
regatta will be funded by the "tharunyata hetak" and many of the rowing teams in Sri Lanka will row at the venue.
RCYC
One of the most prestigious intermediate-level regatta organized by the Colombo Rowing Club, which will be kicked off in April. The exact date is yet to be decided.
This time, it will have some extra events, as the main event in the regatta is the RCYC pairs.
