Rajesh bags a double

Rajesh bags a doubleHyderabad: The hot favourite Rajesh Choudhary showed once again why he is rated as one of the best sailors in the country at present, when he chalked up a double victory in back to back races in the Laser Radial class despite a capsize in the second race, in the Laser Sailing Nationals at the Hussainsagar lake on Tuesday.The first race of the Laser Radial fleet was sailed in wind speeds ranging between 12 and 15 knots. Raut of AYN took the lead in the initial stages and was first round the windward mark. But thereafter he was overtaken by Rajesh who went on to win.The wind picked up even more and when the second race started it was between 18 and 20 knots. But after the first triangle, during the course of the second beat stretch, Rajesh ran into rough weather and his boat overturned. However, the adept sailor that he is, Rajesh managed to pull his boat upright, clambered in again and continued sailing to overtake the rest of the fleet and finish first.Mistral: First race: 1. Ghanshyam AYN 30m 30s; 2. A. Tripathi AYN 30m 58s; 3. A. Prakash 32m 57s. Second race: 1. Ghamshyam AYN 32m 30s; 2. R. Saravanan AYN 36m 20s; 3. A. Tripathi AYN 37m 07s.Laser 4.7 class: Third race: 1. Navin Shirodkar NDA 41m 46s; 2. Mrinalini Santhanam TNSA 42m 13s; 3. Alekhya Sudam SSC 42m 47s. Fourth race: 1. Navin Shirodkar NDA 44m 19s; 2. Sooraj Sadanandan TNSA 45m 46s; 3. Mrinalini Santhanam TNSA 46m 18s.