Daily Mirror News, July 14th,2024: The Monsoon Regatta run by the Telangana Sailing Association and The Yacht Club of Hyderabad at Hussain Sagar is the longest running junior national regatta in India without a break for 15 years since 2009. The prestigious Monsoon Regatta Trophy for the winner and the SH Babu Memorial Trophy for the most consistent sailor at this National Ranking Championship are up for grabs

This year the Monsoon Regatta will host a record 140 sailors from Tamilnadu, Madhya Pradesh, Mysore, Orissa, Karnataka, Maharashtra,Telangana and Andhra Pradesh. while close to 40 percent of the fleet is from the host state of Telangana.

Sarfaraz Ahmad, IAS, will preside over the prize giving as Chief Guest on 20th July at 4 PM. What’s new this year is the addition of three new under 18 Classes of boats, ILCA4, 29er and International 420. “During the last few years Telamngana dominated the 470 class with Preethi Kongara heading for the Asian Games in 2023. We thought introducing the International 420 as a transition class will be very useful for the future. ” said Suheim Sheikh the President of the Telangana Sailing Association 

In the under 16 Optimist Class, local Telangana girl Deekshita Komaravelly is the top seed to watch out for closely followed by Shreya Krishna from Tamilnadu. Govardhan Pallara will lead the boys having won the Nationals at Shillong. In the under 18 Laser Class its a tight toss up between MP and Goa while in the under 19 Mixed Classes it is dominated by top seeds from Telangana Vaishnavi Veeravamsham and crew Shravan Kathravath. 

The Under 18 girls is a tight race between Somya Singh of Bhopal and Alia Sabreen of Orissa and in boys Yuvraj Yadav of Goa and Shashank Batham of Bhopal are top seeds. An International Jury comprising of International Judges  from Thailand, Australia, Hongkong and India will be presiding over the regatta chaired by Mr.RutSubniram of ThailandIn the 29er Skiffs it is a tight race between Madhya Pradesh and Goa represented by sailors from INS Mandovi. The Race Management will be headed by Mr.Shrikant Chaturvedi and International Rece Officer