38th Royal Thomian Regatta

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.

8th Annual LC-MC regatta 2011

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.

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Upcoming events in October

8th LC MC Regatta

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. 

 

27th Sri Lanka Rowing Nationals

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. 

27th Rowing Nationals, Sri Lanka

The 27th annual national regatta of Sri Lanka is to be held in the upcoming week.

This time it will be on the 2000m course of bolgoda lake and every oarsman and oarswoman will take part in this contest. 

Bolgoda Regatta 2011

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. 

results:

Men's category:

• Senior Champs:  Colombo Rowing Club (CRC)
• Intermediate Champs: Colombo Rowing Club
• School Category: Royal College, Colombo

Women's category:

• Senior Champs: Ladies College, Colombo
• Intermediate Champs: Sri Lanka Army
• School Category: Ladies College, Colombo

Participants:

• Sri Lanka Army
• Sri Lanka NAVY
• Sri Lanka Air Force
• Kothelawala Defense University
• Moratuwa University
• Colombo Rowing Club
• Bolgoda Lake Rowing Club
• Royal College
• St. Thomas's College
• Ananda College
• Prince of Wales College
• Asian International School
• Ladies College
• Musaeus College
• Bishop's College

2nd Indoor Rowing Championship 2011

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. 

74th Madras-Colombo regatta

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.

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Madras Colombo Regatta 2011

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.

Bolgoda Regatta 2011

The 8th edition of the Bolgoda regatta will most probably be held on the 2nd or 3rd week of August at the Ranmal Holiday Resort, panadura.

28th Inter University Regatta - 2011

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

Inter University Regatta

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.

Upcoming Events in the rowing calender

Nuwar-Eliya regatta

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.

Inter Monsoon Regatta

Inter monsoon regatta which is an annual event of the regatta calender of Colombo Rowing Club, was held on 3rd, 4th and 5th of June at CRC premises. The regatta is considered as one of the most prestige regattas amongst the rowing community.

This regatta consists of two major events followed by some other events. HMS 4s and RCYC pairs are the most significant.

Indoor Rowing

For the first time in the history of rowing in Sri Lanka, an Indoor Rowing Competition was held last week, 1st (Saturday) and 2nd (Sunday) of May 2010 at Ranmal Holiday Resort, Panadura.

In European countries, during the off season (usually in the winter), as they can't do boat training in the outdoors, they have invented a machine called Ergo Meter. It is actually a simulator and simulates the rowing activity(complete rowing cycle).

To preserve the competitiveness of athletes, they organize "Indoor Rowing championships" in every year in which athletes have to row in the ergometers.

Nowadays ergometer is considered as a very important device for rowing, In Sri Lanka there are some institution who has these devices. So the Kothelawala Deffence University and the Bolgoda Lake Rowing Club took the initiative in conducting such an Indoor Rowing Championship in Sri Lanka.

As this is a very much new experience to the Rowing community, almost every institutions involved in rowing took part in this inaugural event. The rowing team of Sri Lanka army exposed them selves after a long time in this competition.

The whole competition was conducted based on age categories:

• 13 years and below
• 14 – 16 years
• 17 – 20 years
• 21 – 25 years
• 26 – 31 years
• 32 – 38 years
• Over 39 years (Masters)
• Elite Category.

And there was a special event called Bolgoda Endurance Challenge event which was an open.

All these categories pertained for both men and women. Only the under 13 event was rowed for 1000m. all others were 2000m. And for each category there were individual events (each athlete has to row 2000m) and team events (where each team consists of 4 members and each one has to row 500m x 4).

At the end of the day kothelawala diffence university bagged most of the trophies in the age categories over 20 and they were even threatening Sri Lanka Navy and Sri Lanka Air Force. Royal College and St. Thomas College were doing well in school categories while prince of wales college, Moratuwa also got some medals.

In women's categories It was again Kotelawala deffence university got many of the trophies in age categories over 20. Meauseus College, St. Bishop's College and Ladies College were among the winners of the school category events.

As this competition is to be organized annually, we can expect more and more competition in the upcoming years, and also because of the rapid growth of the sport in the country, we can expect more and more institutions will become aware of the sport and will coming in to play in upcoming regattas.

Rowing Nationals 2009

This year’s rowing nationals was held in the waters of the Bolgoda Lake, Panadura and this year was the very first time that rowing nationals was taken to outstations rather than holding at the Bere lake, Colombo.

For the 25^th time running Amateur Rowing Association of Sri Lanka(ARASL) organized the rowing nationals where University of Moratuwa Rowing Team was the technical facilitators by laying the lanes according to the international standards.

There were 15 institutions and more than 200 participants took part in this great event and for their first time Kothalawala Defense University (KDU), Prince of Wales College and Bolgoda Lake Rowing Club (BLRC) appeared and women’s team of the KDU made a significant impact on the rowing community by showing their talents after having just 2 months practice.

All the races were held under the following categories.

· Under 16

· Under 19

· Over 19

· Open

Results:

Men’s Champs:-

· Under 16 – Royal College

· Under 19 – St. Thomas College

· Over 19 – University of Moratuwa

· Open – St. Thomas College

Women’s Champs:-

· Under 16 – Ladies College / Bishop’s College

· Under 19 – Ladies College

· Over 19 – University of Colombo

· Open – Ladies College

This was the first time that the University Of Moratuwa has won an age category championship in a Rowing Nationals. Before this, they were the senior champs at the Bolgoda Regatta 2009 which was held in July, this year. As the pioneers of organizing regattas at the Bolgoda Lake and who has done a prominent job in promoting the sport among Sri Lankans, University of Moratuwa Rowing Team is now in a position that can go up to the international level even beating Sri Lanka Air Force and Sri Lanka Navy. Also they are the people who introduced the international standard 2000m straight course multilane rowing races to the Sri Lankan rowing community.

Bolgoda Regatta - 2009

For the 6^th time running, the University of Moratuwa Rowing Team and division of physical education are planning to organize Sri Lanka's one of most the popular rowing competition held annually – the “Bolgoda Regatta 2009” with the assistance of Bolgoda Lake Rowing Club (BLRC), panadura. This Regatta is still the only multi-lane rowing competition in Sri Lanka raced in a straight 2000m course according to international standards. Almost all the rowing Institutions in Sri Lanka have participated in this annual event and it has been complimented time and again as a well organized Regatta.

This year's regatta is scheduled to be hold on 4th and 5th of July at Ranmal Holiday Resort, Panadura. University of Moratuwa Rowing Team welcome you all to come and join and have a fantastic time.

Rowing At Bolgoda Lake!

As an initial step to make popular "ROWING" as a sport among Sri Lanka and to promote rowing even outside of colombo, a rowing club named Bolgoda Lake rowing Club(BLRC) established in the last year, in the premises of Ranmal Holiday Resort- panadura, in colaboration with the University of Moratuwa Rowing Team.

Bolgoda lake, wich is a very beautiful lake, in western province, is very famous among the people who love mother nature of Sri Lanka. It covers both colombo and kaluthara disticts and has calm waters which is ideal for rowing.
Although Rowing is a sprot done since about 1900, it has been not famous in Sri Lanka due to various reasons.