Nehru trophy snake boat race 2019
Location: Punnamda backwaters alappuzha district.
67th edition of the Nehru
Trophy Boat Race (NTBR) held at Punnamada Lake on August 31 2019.
Seventy-eight boats participated in different categories .Chundan vallams
(snakeboats) category 25 boats Iruttu kuthi (A) 26 boats Churulan category 4
boats. iruttu kuthi (B) category 4 boats Veppu (A) category 9 boats Veppu (B)
category 7 boats Thekkanodi category for women 3 boats
History
In 1952 the then prime minister of India Shri Jawaharlal Nehru on his visit to kerala took the water route from Kottayam to Alappuzha. A race was organised in his honour. The victor of the race was Nadumbaghom chundan. Nehru was so excited seeing the race that he leapt on to the boat and congratulated the winners.Later that year he send a token of his appreciation - a miniature silver chundan mounted on a ebony case. The plaque on the trophy bears the following inscription above his signature " To the winners of the boat race which is a unique feature of community life in Travancore - Cochin. There after the event became an annual feature named prime minister's trophy boat race and is held on the second saturday of August every year. After nehru's death it was renamed as Nehru Trophy . .
Nehru trophy boat race 2019 results
.Chundan snake boat : Winner Nehru Trophy nadubhagam rowed by pallathuruthy boat club (PBC) Thekkan odi Thara vallam( women) winner sarathy rowed by police boat club
Thekkan odi kettu vallam (women) Chellikadan rowed by friends vanitha club Eruttukuthi A grade ; Munnu thaikal rowed by nattakam boat club Erutukuthi B grade : ponjanathu amma rowed by yuvjan kala samithi rowed by padoor Eruttukuthy C grade : Sreemurugan rowed by udayamperoor sarangi arts and sports club Churulan vallam: Velangadan Veppu A grade: shot pulikathara rowed by kumarakam samudra brothers Veppu B grade: chitamel thottukadavan rowed by kumarakam kcym .... .
categories
The race is held in four main categories Chundan : Is the lord of the race. It can accomodate about 100 oarsmen who can produce 90 to 120strokes per minute, the 100 foot chundan can cover a distance of 1.4 kms in about 5 minutes. The first design of a chundan was submitted by Kodupunna Venkitanarayanan Asari . Because of the eel like structure these boats are called snake boats by foreigners Churulan Iruttukuthi Veppu. .
Nehry trophy boat race 2019 results
2nd losers final
Nadumbhagam chundan
Eruttukuthy A grade:
Eruttukuthy B Grade:
Eruttukuthy C Grade:
Veppu A Grade:
Veppu B Grade:
Churulan:
Thekkan odi (women) Kettuvallam:
Thekan odi (women) Thara vallam .
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