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
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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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Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore in the Men's Double Trap event at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens
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Medal in boxing
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Medal in Badminton
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Saina Nehwal, winning bronze in the London Olympics 2012
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Medal in wrestling:
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Sushil Kumar, winning a Bronze in the Beijing Olympics 2008 and a Silver in the London Olympics 2012
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Medal in boxing
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MC Mary Kom, winning bronze in the London Olympics 2012
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Medal in wrestling
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Yogeshwar Dutt, winning a bronze in the London Olympics 2012
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Chess Grandmaster: Male
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Viswanathan Anand, 1988
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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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Grand Slam title
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Mahesh Bhupathi (partnering with Japanese Rika Hiraki) in the Mixed Doubles category of the 1997 French Open
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Woman to win a match in a Grand Slam event
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Nirupama Vaidyanathan beat Italian Gloria Pizzichini in the first round of the 1998 Australian Open
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Woman to reach 4th round (highest as of 2009) of a Grand Slam singles event
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Sania Mirza in the Singles category of the 2005 US Open
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Woman to win a Grand Slam title
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Sania Mirza (partnering with Mahesh Bhupathi) in the Mixed Doubles category of the 2009 Australian Open
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Grand Slam junior title
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Ramanathan Krishnan in the Singles category of the 1954 Wimbledon Championship
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Grand Slam junior title by a woman
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Sania Mirza (partnering with Russian Alisa Kleybanova) in the Doubles category of the 2003 Wimbledon Championships
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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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Calcutta now Kolkata (1792) Calcutta cricket club
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First test match played in India
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India v/s England in Eden Gardens,(Calcutta) (result draw) (5-8 Jan 1934)
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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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The Bombay Triangular (1905–1911) which later became the Bombay Quadrangular (1912–1936)
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First Indian Captain to win more than 21 test matches as a captain
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Test match
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Captain in Tests
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C. K. Nayudu for the 1932 tour of England
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ODI captain
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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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Sourav Ganguly 183 runs V/S Sri Lanka in 1999 World Cup Cricket
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Cricketer to score a double century in a Test match
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Polly Umrigar, 223 against New Zealand at Hyderabad in 1955-56
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Cricketer to score a triple century in a Test match
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Virender Sehwag, 309 against Pakistan in Multan in 2004
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Indian to score an ODI century:
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Kapil Dev, 175* against Zimbabwe in the 1983 Cricket World Cup.
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Indian to score an ODI double century is Sachin Tendulkar, 200* against South Africa at Gwalior
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24 February 2010 (he was the first in the World to achieve this feat).
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Chetan Sharma against New Zealand in 1987
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First World Cup Runners up captain
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Sourav Ganguly (2003)
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World Cup: At the 1983 World Cup when India beat West Indies in the Finals Under the captaincy of
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Kapil Dev
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Batsman to complete 10,000 runs in Tests
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Sunil Gavaskar (he was the first in the World to achieve this feat)
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Batsman to complete 10,000 runs in ODIs
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Sachin Tendulkar (he was the first in the World to achieve this feat)
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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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Yuvraj Singh in a T20 match vs England.
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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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