India First In Sports
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Indian to swim across the English Channel
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Mihir Sen, 1958.
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Woman to swim across the English Channel
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Arati Saha, 1959
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Formula One racer
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Narain Karthikeyan
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Formula One team
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Force India F1
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A1 GP race victory
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Narain Karthikeyan, Zhuhai, China, 2007
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Person to equal world record in Archery
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Limba Ram, 1992
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Person to walk across the Mongolian Gobi Desert
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Sucheta Kadethankar who achieved the feat in 51 days, 11 hours and 40 minutes in 2011
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first Indian to win a medal in both Asian games(November 12 to 27 November 2010, Guangzhou(China)) and Commonwealth games(Delhi, India, from 3 to 14 October 2010).
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Ashish Kumar, He won Bronze medal in both games.
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first Indian to win 2 Gold Medals for India in Winter sports at the Asia Cup in Japan in 2011 and 2012. The Asian Champion is also a 4 time Olympian and has set the new Asian speed record on ice at 134.3 kmph and track record a 49.590 seconds.
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Shiva Keshavan,
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first Indian to win back to back Olympic medals (Bronze and Silver in the 2008 and 2012 Summer Olympics respectively)
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Sushil Kumar (wrestler)
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Olympic team medal
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Gold in Field Hockey, Amsterdam, beating the Netherlands in the Finals.
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Individual medal (in British India): Two Silver medals by Norman Pritchard in 200 metres and 200 metres hurdles at the 1900 Summer Olympics, Paris. (This is disputed however. The IOC claims he participated for India. The IAAF records him as participant for Great Britain.)
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Individual medal
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Bronze by K. D. Jadhav for Wrestling at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki.
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Medal in Tennis
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Leander Paes at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta
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Individual medal by a woman
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Bronze by Karnam Malleswari for weightlifting 54 kg class, at the 2000 Summer Olympics Sydney
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Individual Gold medal
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Abhinav Bindra in the 10 m Air Rifle event at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing
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Individual Silver medal (Independent India)
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Medal in boxing
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Medal in Badminton
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Medal in wrestling:
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Medal in boxing
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Medal in wrestling
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Chase Grandmaster : Female -
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Koneru Humpy - 2002 - She was also the youngest woman to become a grandmaster at 15 years old. (Hou Yifan of China is the youngest woman to become a grandmaster, at 14 years and 6 months.)
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Tennis
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Woman to win a match in a Grand Slam event
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Woman to reach 4th round (highest as of 2009) of a Grand Slam singles event
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Woman to win a Grand Slam title
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Grand Slam junior title
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Grand Slam junior title by a woman
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first Indian to win the Singles in the Junior Australian Open, when he defeated the Greek Alexandros-Ferdinandos Georgoudas in the final 6–3, 6–1 in the Finals in 2009.
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Cricket
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First Cricket Club in India
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First test match played in India
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First Indian Captain and the third in history to have led his team to victory after being enforced to follow on - against Steve Waugh's Australia in 2001-02
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First Cricket Stadium
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First Test Victory
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Against England At Madras
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Cricket tournament
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Captain in Tests
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Cricketer to score a century in a Test match
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Lala Amarnath, 118 against England in December 1933 at Bombay Gymkhana grounds
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First Indian to score the highest runs in a World Cup
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Cricketer to score a double century in a Test match
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Cricketer to score a triple century in a Test match
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Indian to score an ODI century:
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24 February 2010 (he was the first in the World to achieve this feat).
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Kapil Dev
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Batsman to complete 10,000 runs in Tests
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Batsman to complete 10,000 runs in ODIs
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Winner of the first T20 World Cup
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India (in 2007).
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Cricketer to score 100 centuries in Test and ODIs combined
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Sachin Tendulkar (he was the first in the World to achieve this feat)
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First bowler to take all 10 wickets in an innings
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Anil Kumble (against Pakistan)
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First batsman to score 50 centuries in Test Cricket
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Sachin Tendulkar
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First woman to score a double hundred in Test cricket
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Mithali Raj [214* against New Zealand at Wellington, 2004] (she was first in the world to achieve this feat)
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First Indian to score a T20 century
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Suresh Raina against South Africa.
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Six sixes in an Over
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First Nation to win a World Cup Finale on its home ground
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India (ICC 2011 Cricket World Cup) Final held at Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai
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Fastest Fifty in a T20I
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50 runs of 12 balls by Yuvraj Singh (vs England in the Inaugural World T20 Championship held in South Africa, 2007)
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