PANAJI
Dayne Coelho and Katya Coelho of Goa Yachting Association took full advantage of home conditions to take both the guns in the races on Day 1 of the Sail Goa 2023, Zonal Sailing Championship at Dona Paula on Thursday.
Dayne clawed his way to the top in the IQfoil Men's National Ranking beating India's top-ranked Jerome Kumar and Saurabh Kumar of AYN. Katya raced ahead of her closest rival Ishwariya Ganesh in the IQfoil women’s category stamping her authority on day 1.
In the RS:X men’s category, Ebad Ali of AYN, the Asian Games windsurfer, took both guns ahead of Ved Pathak of AYN and Mithelesh Kumar of EMESC. In the RS:One Open youth category, 16-year-old Kayah Coelho is taking on boys and giving them a run for their money. Ganesh Vishvakarma of Trishna Sailing Club took all 3 guns and is leading after Day 1. In the Open Foil category, Aditya Sangwan of AYN is leading after he took both the guns.
In the raceboard category in the men's division, DP Chennaih of EMESC took all 3 guns to make a sensational comeback to national windsurfing after a long break. He was ahead of NS Rawat of INWTC Goa and Kamalapati of EMESC while in the youth boys' division, N Vamshi of INWTC Goa is in first place ahead of Adarsh Chunekar of GYA.
In Grandmasters division, Gopal Amin of GYA took 2 guns out of 3 and is ahead of Brig PC Roy and Capt Suresh Babu of INWTC Goa. In the Topper Class, Jogendar Thakur of EMESC is ahead of Raiti Babaji of Jellyfish Water Sports with two guns in both races.
