Nehru trophy snake boat race 2023
Location: Punnamda backwaters alappuzha district.
69th edition of the Nehru
Trophy Boat Race (NTBR) held at Punnamada Lake on August 12 2023
19 chundan vallams ( snake boats) will participate.
snake boats
total 5 heats
HEATS 1.
track 1. veeyapuram ( PBC pallathuruthy)
track 2 . vellamkulangara
( LBC karumady)
track 3 : cherutana (KVBC kumarakom)
track 4 : sree
mahadevan (MBC mankombu)
HEATS 2.
track 1. devas ( PBC
punnamada)
track 2: nadubhagam (ubc kainakary)
track3: st george (sbc
thekkekara)
track 4: champakulam (KTBC kumarakam)
HEATS 3
track 1. sree vinayakan (SHBC kainakary)
track 2: payipadan (KBC
kumarakom)
track 3: kattil thekkethil (KPBC kerala)
track 4: ayaparambu pandi (LBC chenangari)
HEATS 4
track 1 :
st pious (NBC niranam)
track 2:
anari ( sbc kumarakom)
track 3: talavady ( TBC talavady)
track 4:
Jawahar (KBC kodupunna)
HEATS 5
track 1: karichal ( VBC kainakary)
track 2: alapadan (NBRA kochi)
track 3: NIL
track 4: Niranam (KNCDC kaipuzhamuttu kumarakom)
FINALS 2023
veeyapuram
nadubhagam
chambakulam
kattil
thekkethil
.
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 A, B
Veppu.A B
thekkanodi thara
thekkanodi kettu
.
.
Nehru trophy results 2023
Chundan snake boat category : Winner Nehru Trophy 2023 veeyapuram chundan
rowed by pallathuruthy boat club
Eruttukuthy A grade: moonu thaikkal
Eruttukuthy B Grade:
thuruthipuram
Eruttukuthy C Grade:
vadakkumpuram
Veppu A Grade: ambalakadavan
Veppu
B Grade: p g karipuzha
Churulan: moozhi
thekkan odi thara (women) :
kattil thekkethil
Thekkan odi (women) Kettu: kattil thekku
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registered snake boats 2023
karichal chundan rowed by village boat club kainakary
jawahar
tayangari rowed by kodupunna boat club
anari chundan rowed by samudra
boat club kumarakam
nadubhagam chundan rowed by UBC kainakary
alappadan
puthen chundan rowed by IBRA ernakulam
devas chundan rowed by pbc
alapppuzha
st pious X chundan rowed y niranam boat club
veeyapuram
chundan rowed by pallathuruthy boat club
vellamkuangara chundan rowed by
luna boat club
ayaparambu pandi chundan rowed by lourde matha boat club
mahadevikad kattil thekkethil chundan ploice boat club alappuzha
karuvatta
sree vinayakan chundan rowed by sh boat club kainakary
niranam chundan
rowed by NCDC boat club kumarakom
champakulam chundan rowed by kumarakom
town boat club
thalavady chundan rowed by talavady town boat club
cheruthana chundan
payippad chundan
st george chundan
sree mahadevan
chundan rowed by mankombu boat club
.
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The Nehru trophy
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 - CochinThere
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
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