DOHA: Qatar’s Waleed Al Sharshani yesterday topped the Laser Standard card with an overall nett score of 9 on the third day of the Sail the Gulf competition off the Katara coast.
Al Sharshani finished ahead of Oman’s Hussain Al Jabri who managed a tally of 10 while compatriot Ahmed Al Balushi ended the day with a nett score of 12.
In the Laser 4.7 class, UAE’s Hamza Al Ali with a nett score of 13 was a couple of notches better than Bahrain’s Saoud Al Naar and Qatar’s Abdurrahman Al Jinah.
Al Naar and Al Jinah managed an identical tally of 15 each.
In the Optimist class, India’s Chitresh Tatha emerged a convincing winner with a nett score of 9.
UAE’s Saif Al Mansoury (14) finished second while Netherlands’s Florine Bramervaer (22) finished in third spot.
Qatar’s Abdulrahman Al Nasr finished in 8th spot (45). Pakistan’s Najeeb Ullah was in red-hot form as he topped the Laser Radial class. Najeeb managed a tally of 9 while UAE’s Saeed Al Zaidi posted a score of 10.
India’s Vir Amar Menon (10) was third.
In the 470 class, India’s Praveen Prabhakar (10) and Vishnu Sujeesh topped the charts along with the duo of Duarte Monteiro (Portugal) and Adeel Khan (Pakistan).
Around 110 sailors from 20 countries including Argentina, Australia, Bahrain, Belgium, Canada, Britain, Denmark, Germany, India, Iran, Italy, Japan, Kazakhstan, the Netherlands, Oman, Pakistan, Portugal, Romania, UAE and Qatar are taking part in the four-day championship.
Today is the final day of the championship, organisers said yesterday. THE PENINSULA
