January 2017

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MBC MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE

& PORTFOLIOS (2016-17)

Publisher : Rays Publications Pvt Ltd

From the Captain's Desk 5

When you can no longer row with your legs, start rowing with your heart 6

Medal tally at the 75th ARAE-FEARA Regatta 7

Points tally at the 75th ARAE-FEARA Regatta 12

Snapshots of the 75th ARAE-FEARA Regatta 13

Program for February 2017 14

PRESIDENTMr. M.R.RAVINDRA

CAPTAIN OF BOATSMr. JAMES JOSEPH

HONORARY SECRETARYMr. FARID A. HUSAIN

HONORARY TREASURER Mr. ASHISH GUPTA

MIC - CATERINGMr. ABRAHAM KANDATHIL

MIC – CORPORATE AFFAIRS& EMPLOYEE RELATIONS

Mr. C.A. THEAGARAJAN

MIC – POOL & GYMMr. G.V. SUBBA RAO

MIC - BARMr. J.H. KUMAR

MIC - ENTERTAINMENTMr. S. SRIRAM

CONTENTS

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Designer : B. Satish Kumar

Cover picture: Team MBC at the 75th ARAE-FEARA Regatta

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Dear Members,

The 75th ARAE-FEARA Regatta, hosted by your Club, went off very well thanks to all the hard work by the behind-the-scene team of members who worked tirelessly in the days leading up to the event and through the entire week of the Regatta. The visiting teams were very happy with how well organised the Regatta was and the excellent condition of the boats. I must also extend my thanks to all the staff at MBC who worked so hard to make the event a success.

It was wonderful to have sub junior boys and girls participate in the scull races. This will serve as a good platform to introduce them to the ARAE tradition next year and I hope to see all of them grow as rowers in the years to come.

The enthusiasm of the super masters such as P. Venkataram, Arun Krishnan, S. Radhakrishnan, Revi Thomas, and Subba Rao, was wonderful to see. I hope it will serve as a call to rowing for other young members.

In the open category, Siddharth Sunil who has been waiting for a chance at the Macklin Scull Trophy, did well to win the Trophy. I am sure all of you join me in congratulating him on a well deserved win. The men’s fours crew, comprising of the two experienced hands Rohit Ravindra and Tushar Bansal combined well with the 2 youngsters Saket Reddy and Philip JJ, and did well to get the silver against a strong Colombo crew. The MBC Men’s B fours crew put up a good effort and I hope will use this experience to grow as a crew and reach their potential. Unfortunately, for the last 2 years we have not had a set crew for the women’s fours. However, they put a brave effort.

The Colombo crew has clearly been training hard for the last few months, and it showed in their performance at the ARAE. We at MBC should take a leaf out of Colombo’s book and work hard towards building up our crew.

Three years ago, the ARAE committee had planned to introduce a new trophy, but this, unfortunately did not happen. This year, MBC took initiative to ensure the trophy was introduced - the Borun Chanda Trophy for the Most Deserving Masters Oarsperson. Another first at this ARAE was the participation of three teams from Chennai other than MBC. The participants from these 3 teams also happen to be MBC members. We are sure this will promote the sport of rowing further.

After a gap of five years, MBC has hosted an important regatta. We have tried to use this opportunity to improve facilities at the club. In terms of managing the races, we had about 50 races a day (in 2 lanes) and the team did a wonderful job in managing this. We hope to shift to 3 lane racing at the 150th year regatta. No doubt, the ARAE-FEARA experience will serve us well in organising the 150th year regatta.

Warm regards, James Joseph

Captain of Boats

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This quote captures the essence and the spirit of the 75th ARAE-FEARA Regatta, 2017, which came to a close on Pongal day at the Madras Boat Club with some scintillating races. A fitting end to four hectic days, with an average of 60 races conducted each day.

The prestigious Macklin Scull Trophy was won by Siddharth Sunil of the Madras Boat Club who beat Hashen Hettigoda of the Colombo Rowing Club by a boat length.

The equally prestigious Willingdon Trophy for the Men’s Coxed Fours was won by the Colombo crew consisting of Manilka Gunaratna, Prathap Pereira, Shehan Muthugalla, Ruwen Werasinghe and Lasaru Kuddlilama. They beat the much fancied Madras Boat Club (MBC) crew of Rohit Ravindra, Tushar Bansal, Philip JJ, Saket Reddy and Anirudh Sanjeev. Both Rohit and Tushar have won the Willingdon many times over the last twelve years, while Philip and Saket are relatively new to the ARAE.

The Hussain Trophy for the Women’s Single Scull was won by the very charming and almost unbeatable Ishara Abbey of Colombo. She overcame Yamini Singh of the College of Military Engineering (CME), Pune by the proverbial whisker!

Dilki Wijeyaskhara, Jatri Marapana, Amani Tissera and Ishara Abbey won the MBC Trophy

in the Women’s Fours, beating the team from Bengal Rowing Club (BRC).

Colombo made a clean sweep of all the women’s events in the open category, winning the Double Scull, the Pairs, and the Women’s Fours.

In the FEARA Masters Coxed Fours for Men, the CME team consisting of P Rajanesh, Raghuveer Singh, Inderpal Singh and Mujieeb Rehman beat the Madras Boat Club team consisting of Satish, Karthik, Prem and Vivek coxed by Radhakrishnan. The men from Madras put up a very brave fight against the much fancied CME crew, which included Inderpal Singh who has represented India many times.

The FEARA Super Masters, Coxed Fours for Men was won by the team from BRC, which beat the team from Lake Club, Kolkata, to win Gold in the event. However, it was the MBC crew consisting of Antony, Kalyanasundaram, Arun Krishnan, Shivkumar, and coxed by Ananya that won everybody’s hearts by putting in a sterling performance to win the Bronze.

The ARAE open Men’s Overall Trophy, the Hooghly Cup, was won by Colombo with 36 points; the ARAE open Women’s Overall Trophy, the Adyar Cup, was also won by Colombo with 38 points; the Ergometer CME Trophy was shared by MBC and BRC with 16 points each. The newly

instituted Most Deserving Master Oarsperson, Borun Chanda Trophy, was awarded to Soumen Das of the Bengal Rowing Club.

The Overall Trophy was won by BRC with 110 points, MBC came 2nd with 88 points, Colombo came 3rd with 83 points and CME a close 4th with 81 points.

CME won the Overall FEARA Masters Men and Women category with a total of 38 points, while BRC won the Sub Junior category with a total of 44 points.

Lt. Gen. Vishwambar Singh, VSM, Director General of Weapons and Equipment and Colonel Commandant, The Madras Sappers was the Chief Guest for the evening. Mr. Bharat Joshi. British Deputy High Commissioner, Chennai and family also came to witness the races. Gen. Vishwambar Singh, a passionate Oarsman himself, said that he was delighted to see the enthusiasm with which the racing was conducted and glad to note that both young and not so young had participated. He was referring to the Sub juniors on one hand and the Veteran race on the other where the MBC coxed fours had an average age of 65 plus.

The spirit with which this Regatta was held should be applauded. While competition was fierce on the water, and there were many hard fought races, in the final analysis we believe that the sport of Rowing carried the day!

“WHEN YOU CAN NO LONGER ROW WITH YOUR LEGS,

START ROWING WITH YOUR HEART”

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S No.

Category/ Trophy

Winner Club 2nd place Club 3rd place Club

1ARAE Open

Men 1XSiddharth Sunil MBC Hashen Hettigoda Colombo

Maheshwar Singh

SWSC

2ARAE Open

Men 2X (Phadnis Salver)

Lasaru Kudaligama / Hashen Hethigoda

ColomboSajeev de Silva /

Shehan MuthugalaColombo

Lt. Ashraf Ali / Capt Abhimanyu

SoodCME

3ARAE Open

Men 2- (Venables Bowl)

Ruven Weerasinghe / Sajeev de Silva

ColomboSuryajeet Gulia / Capt NS Waldia

CMEPrathap Pereira

/ Manilka Gunaratna

Colombo-B

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ARAE Open Men 4+

(Willingdon Trophy)

Manilka Gunaratna / Prathap Pereira /

Shehan Muthugalla / Ruwen Weerasinghe / Lasaru Kuddligama

Colombo

Rohit Ravindra / Tushar Bansal / Philip JJ / Saket Reddy / Anirudh

Sanjeev

MBC

Rohit Kumar Singh / Azhar

Hussain / Arijit Mazumdar /

Aditya Bannerjee / Pintu Pramanik

CRC-B

5ARAE Open Women 1X

(Husain Trophy)Ishara Abbey Colombo Yamini Singh CME

Sweta Brahmachari

LC

6ARAE Open Women 2X

Janethri marapana / Samaakhya Gajanayaka

ColomboYamini Singh / Capt Amandeep

KaurCME

Vanshika Agarwal /

Avantika AgarwalBRC-A

7ARAE Open Women 2-

Ishika de Silva / Amani Tissera

ColomboDhitika Choudhary

/ Sankavi Puhazhendi

MBCMahima Dey /

Devanshi KothariBRC

8ARAE Open Women 4+

(MBC Trophy)

Dilki Wijeyasekhara / Jatri Marapana /

Amani Tissera / Ishara Abbey / Peter Christy

Colombo BRC

Maedhini de Alwis / Binali de Alwis / Ranuli

Wickramasekara / Senuri de Silva

/ Mayanthi Weerakoon

BLRC

9ARAE Sub

Junior Boys 1XMd Rahat Ali BRC

Jeetmoy Chakraborty

LCVinayak Mahesh

TCME

10ARAE Sub

Junior Girls 1XRS Jai Sree Trishna Kaushani Sadukhan LC Atika Pundir CME

11FEARA Masters

Men 1XCME SWSC Sourav Konar BRC

12FEARA Masters Men 2X (Karachi

Rowing Cup)

Kudrat Ali / Raghuveer Singh

CMEGautam Valecha /

Santu GaraiBRC-A

Sourav Konar / Parimal Roy

BRC-B

13FEARA Masters

Men 2-Mujeeb Rahman / P

RajaneeshCME

Sumit Bose / Santanu Bannerjee

BRC

Lasantha Walikala / Chanaka

Thalpahewa

BLRC

14FEARA Masters

Men 4+

P Rajanesh / Raghuveer Singh / Inderpal Singh / Mujieeb Rehman / Vinayak Mahesh T

(Cox)

CME

Radhakrishnan (Cox) / Vivek

Dhanda / Karthik Venkatesan / Prem

/ Satish

MBC

Balaji Maradappa / Arumugam Sivaraman /

Manoj Joseph / Md Rehaan

Sayeed / Roshni Mahadevan

(Cox)

SWSC

LIST OF WINNERS

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15FEARA Masters

Women 2XSumana Narayanan / Aparna Chandrasekar

MBCSukumari /

SrividyaMBC -

16FEARA Masters

Women 1XLakshmi P Athreya MBC M Vidya RMYC -

17FEARA Super

Masters Men 1XGautam Valecha BRC-A Soumen Das BRC-B GV Subba Rao MBC-A

18FEARA Super

Masters Men 2XJaideep Rawat /

Soumen DasBRC

Krishna Mohan / S Prabhakar

TRCArun Krishnan /

Subba RaoMBC

19FEARA Super

Masters Men 2-Ajay Gupta / Ranjan

bannerjeeBRC

Biswajit Bhattacharya / Asis

SarkarCRC -

20FEARA Super

Masters Men 4+

Arup Sen / Ajay Gupta / Ranjan

Bannerjee / Jaideep Rawat / Soumen Das

(Cox)

BRC

Uttam Mukherjee / Nirmal mazumdar / Kamal Bhowmik / Tapan KR Das / Shiladitya mondal

(Cox)

LC

Kalyansundaram / Antony

Gonzalves / Shivakumar /

Arun krishnan / Cox Ananya

MBC-A

21FEARA Super Msters Women

2X

Jyoti Shanbag / PR Jayashree

RMYC

Latha Sambamurthy

/ Aparna Chandrasekar

MBC -

22Super Masters Invitation 4+

BRC

Raffath Sayeed / Dr Acharya /

Arun Krishnan / Radhakrishnan /

Gita (Cox)

MBC

S No. Category/ Trophy Winner Club 2nd place Club 3rd place Club

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