Grand reception for Asian Games silver medal winning Indian sailing team
By ANITuesday, November 23, 2010
NEW DELHI - The Indian sailing team, which won a silver medal in the match racing event at the ongoing Asian Games were accorded a warm welcome here by the Indian Navy and the Yachting Association of India (YAI).
The team comprised of Lt Cdr (Retd) F Tarapore and Cdr Atool Sinha, CPO (MA) Balraj, POR (Tel) Shekhar Singh Yadav and Trunal.
Lt Cdr (Retd) F Tarapore, had earlier won the Fireball class gold medal as crew of Zarir Karanjia in the 1982 Asian Games sailing regatta held off the Mumbai harbor and also picked up a hat-trick of bronze medals in the Asian Games held between 1986 and 1994 in different classes of boats.
The ‘Indian Naval Watermanship Training Centre’, Mumbai, has been a training centre for champion sailors and has produced 13 Arjuna awardees, two Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna awardees and one Dronacharya awardee for the sport in the past 40 years.
The YAI was formally constituted on 15 May 1960 and was registered under the Societies Registration Act XXVI of 1961 on 22 December 1964 at Calcutta, West Bengal.
The YAI is affiliated to the International Sailing Federation (ISAF), which is recognised by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) as the governing authority for sailing worldwide.
The YAI is officially recognised by the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports, Government of India and the Indian Olympic Association as the governing authority for sailing, windsurfing, motor boating, powerboat racing and personal watercraft, at sea and on inland waters in India. (ANI)
