Monsoon Regatta Day 3: Telangana Sailors Dominate Fleets; Nilkonda Mani Leads Leaderboard..

Varahi media.com online news,June 4,2026:Day 3 of the 17th YAI Monsoon Regatta National Ranking Championship saw light to medium velocity winds and three races were sailed in the under 16 Optimist class and a wipe out by Telangana Sailors across most fleets. 

Nilkonda Mani once again topped the leaderboard with two positions in the top 3 while the reigning National Champion Ravikumar Banneoulu after a bad two days got one win and one second position .

The star of the day was Vutla Narasimha  – the son of a daily wage labourer recently returned from the Singapore Nationals – who won the third race of the day pipping Ravi at the finish line in a hard fought 45 minute race . This is Narasimha’s first race win at a  National Championship and he has gained to stand at overall 3rd behind Mani and Ravikumar

Ravikumar was top seed and national champion and was disqualified in race 1.  His performance lacks the crispness he displayed at the Nationals but he is close enough by 6 points behind to pip Mani with Narasimha biting at his heels just one point behind. Ravi has also lost his discard by being disqualified in race 1 

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The Monsoon Regatta Cup is anybody’s at this point but nilkondla Mani is still in command and steering his boat to the top.

Rameza Bhanu has pipped Shringari Roy in the girls division whirl both are sailing neck to neck across the race course and both heading for the podium and only the consisten sailor in the last 5 races will hit gold

The under 16 Novices fleet also sailed today and Veer Vignesh from Mudfort School Secunderabad topped the day with 3 wins followed closely by Mohammad Rehman  from Telangana Sailing Association and the top girl Roshni also from Mudfort Government School 

The Laser Boys saw Preeth Siwal and Hriday Joshi of the Navy seem unsurpasssable but dark horse Kownik Vardhan of MJPT Schools has upped from 4th to 3rd despite a cpsize in the fluky winds . 

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In the Laser Girls Katyayani Kaushik of the Navy and Ramyashree of MJPT schools are heading for Gold and silver but this is just half way thru the 10 race regatta and anything can happen

In the 29er Boys Skiffs Vinod Dandu and Arvind still head the leader board but the Navy boys led by Sharanya are catching uo with two solid wins today 

the Inernational 420 Mixed class saw a tight match between Chandralekha and Badrinath and it going to be a close race over the next two days 

Penalty points tally at the end of Race 5 

Sub Junior Boys under 16 

         Club                                                   Penalty Points

1st    TSA   NILKONDA MANI                     7

2nd  TSA   RAVI KUMAR BENNOLLU      13

3rd   TSA   VUTLA NARASIMHA              15

Sub Junior Girls Under 16

         Club                                                   Penalty Points

1st    TSA   RAMEEZA BHANU                      18

2nd   SSC   SHRINGARI ROY                        21

3rd   TSA   SAKSHI KUMARI                         40

Junior Boys Laser Under 18

Preeth Siwal Navy                             5              

Hriday Joshi Navy                           10

Kownik Vardhan MJPT Schools       18

29er Skiffs Boys

1. Vinod Dandu & Arvind Maloth                 TSA        7

2. Sharanya Jadhav & Shivam Walmiki       Navy       9 

3. Rizwan Mahammad & Sathwik Dhoki      Navy     13

International 420 Mixed  (All TSA)

Chandralekha and Dhanush     7

Badrinath and Rishwita             8

Sirisha & Ramcharan               14 

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