Telangana State sailors Lalitha, Goutham triumph

 Hyderabad: Telangana sailors left their mark on the closing day of the Telangana State Sailing Regatta. 

Local girl Majji Lalitha made a mockery of overnight placing and superseded leaders Tungara Mahboobee and Lakshmi Nookarathnam to take the sub-junior crown. 

She also won silver in the Open Sub-Junior category behind Chunnu Kumar of Karnataka. 

Incidentally, in what was first all three medal winning girls are students of Marredpally Girls Government School.

Kankatla Goutham proved his excellence with a double by winning both the State Junior and Open fleet Junior category titles.

Results: Final: TS Regatta: Sub-Junior: 1 Majji Lalitha 49, 2 Tungala Mahboobee 53, 3 Lakshmi Nookarathnam 56; 

Junior: 1 Kankatla Goutham 29, 2 Sanjay Reddy 47, 3 T Ajay 52; Open Regatta: 

Sub-Junior: 1 Chunnu Kumar (KA) 19, 2 Majji Lalitha (TS) 49, 3 Uma Chauhan (MP) 52; 

Junior: 1 Kankatla Goutham (TS) 29, 2 Ram Milan Yadav (MP) 31, 3 Satish Yadav (MP) 32.