Panaji: Katya Coelho of Goa Yachting Association dominated the second day of the Sail Goa Zonal Sailing Championship in the IQFoil Women’s Category, as she took the gun in all three races of the day. Dayne Coelho of GYA extended his lead over Jerome Kumar of AYN by four points and took two guns out of the three races in the same category.
In the RS:X Men’s Category, Ebad Ali and Ved Pathak of AYN, along with Mithelesh Kumar of EMESC, continued their stellar performance and maintained their positions. Narayan Munda of Orissa Yachting Association closed the gap between him and Ganesh Vishvakarma of Trishna Sailing Club by taking two guns out of three to make it a close contest in the RS:One Open Youth Category.
Abhinav Yadav of EMESC gave strong competition to the leader of the pack, Aditya Sangwan of AYN, in the Open Foil Category by taking one gun out of three. In the Raceboard category, DP Chennaih of EMESC maintained his top spot by taking all three guns again in the Men’s division. NS Rawat of INWTC Goa barely managed to hold on to his second place ahead of Kamalapati of EMESC.
In the youth boys division, N Vamshi of INWTC Goa maintained his first place ahead of Adarsh Chunekar of GYA and NVSK Vishwesh. In the Grandmasters division, Gopal Amin of GYA took all three guns and is ahead of Brig. PC Roy and Capt. Subramanian of INWTC Goa, who are tied with 13 points each. Jogendar Thakur of EMESC is ahead of Raiti Babaji.