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The Boat Race in Ooty 2017
Since the summer festival had already begun in Ooty, the number of visitors also more to Ooty. The tourists are kept enjoying the seasonal shows in the Nilgiri District. The summer seasonal shows include Vegetable Show, Rose Show, Boat Race, Flower Show and Fruit Show. All the seasonal shows will be mostly held on weekends. The vegetable show and rose show were held on last two weekends. Yesterday the boat race has been held at Ooty Boat House. The tourists have enjoyed the race. Most of the tourists participated and some of them won the prizes. The boat race was inaugurated by Nilgiri District Revenue Officer Mr Baskara Pandian.
The boat race competition divided into three categories like Two Men, Two Women and one couple. Following are the winners of the competition.
Women Category
1st Prize - Kalpana&Kvitha, Karur
2nd Prize - Jeevitha&Devi, Coimbatore
3rd Prize - Kowsalya&Gopika, Ooty
Men Category
1st Prize - Siva&Sampathkumar,Nagapatnam
2nd Prize - Ramesh Krishna&Jeeva, Tirupur
3rd Prize - Navaneedhan&Santhosh, Aruvankad
Couple Category
1st Prize - Ramesh&Gandhimathi, Chennai
2nd Prize - Babu&Subashini, Ooty
3rd Prize - Ibrahim&Banu, Ooty
One of the boat competition winners said, “We came to enjoy Ooty in summer. Ooty is very beautiful. It is really a pleasure to win this competition at Ooty Boat House."