PANAJI
Goa Yachting Association’s (GYA) Dayne Coelho won gold in the RS:X Men’s class while Katya Coelho bagged silver in the IQ Foil women’s class for Goa at the YAI Senior Multi Class Regatta (MDL Cup) which concluded recently.
Riding on his success at the recently concluded 3rd leg of Asian Games Selection Trials in Goa in April wherein he had won the gold medal for Goa, Dayne Coelho finished top in the Asian Games Selection trials after the fourth and final leg held in Mumbai. With this achievement Dayne has created history by becoming the first Goan to qualify two times in a row for the Asian Games in any individual sport.
It was not easy as the fight went on till the last race and he was constantly up against his his closest rival Ebad Ali of the Army Yachting Node, who finished with the silver medal in Mumbai.
Katya Coelho, who also represented India at the last Asian Games in Jakarta in 2018, is competing in the IQ-Foil class and is working hard to follow in her brother’s footsteps as she won the silver medal in Mumbai and is training hard for the last leg of the Asian Games Selection trials for the IQ Foil which will be held from May 20-25 in Mumbai.
