Games 2021:
Latest Updated on: 18-12-2021- Winners of all Tenis Grand Slam Titles:
- Anju Bobby George is : Legendary Indian long jumper
Anju Bobby George has been bestowed with the Woman of the Year Award byWorld Athletics for grooming talent in the country and advocating gender equality.
The 44-year-old Anju, the only Indian to have won a medal in theWorld Championships with a long jump bronze in the 2003 edition, was named for the award in the world body's annual awards
- World Cup T-20: Australia won the cup defeating New Zealand.
- India to host World Yoga Championship 2022: to be held in June 2022.
- Manu Bhaker won gold: in the 10m pistol mixed team with Iran’s Javad Foroughi in the President’s Cup 2021.
- Tajamul Islam, Won gold in World Kickboxing Championship: for the 2nd time, 13-year-old Tajamul Islam has clinched the gold medal in World Kick Boxing Championship. This is the second time that the girl from Kashmir has achieved the feat. The championship was held in Egypt’s Cairo. Before this, she had won the title in 2016. A resident of Bandipora district in Kashmir, Tajamul Islam has been practicing the sport of kickboxing since she was 6 years old( in 2016).
- 2 New Playing teams have been inducted for the IPL version of 2022: these 2 teams are Ahmedabad & Lucknow.
- Manu Bhakar: won 5 medals in Jr. world championship, that includes 4 golds & 1 bronze.
- Smriti Mandhana: became the 1st Indian woman to score a century in the pink ball test.
- Pankaj Advani: 6-Red Snooker World Cup(September 2021)
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- Danial Recardo: won Italian Gra Prix 2021
- Olympic Tokyo 2020 games: concluded on 07/08/2021. The USA topped the medal tally, while India was at 41st rung with 7 medals, in total.
The players & their contributions:-
- Sonu Sood: will be the brand ambassador for Winter Olympics 2022, be held in Russia.
- Hockey Team of India: set a record of clinching maximum no. of medals in Olympic Hockey. It has amassed 12 medals up to now(8 Golds, 1 Silver & 3 Bronzes), this record was with Germany earlier, of 11 medals.
- Central Government Of India: planned to found 100 'Khelo India Centers".
- The top Honor in sports/games in India Viz. Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratan Award:
- P.V.Sindhu: the Indian shuttler won the Bronze medal in Tokyo Olympics 2021. She became the 1st Indian woman to win 2 medals in Olympics in the individual event, That too, with different colors. She had won a silver in Rio Olympics in 2016.
* Know more about Gold Medals in Olympics:
. Priya Malik won a Gold medal in: world cadet Wrestling( 43 KG category) Championship, held in Hungry.
- India will host in the year 2026: World Badminton Championship 2026.
- Wimbledon Jr Single Title: Won by Sameer Banerjee, a 17 years old American boy of an Indian-Origin.
- Copa Cup 2021: won by Argentina, defeating Brazil.
- Nihal Sareen: won the Serbia Chess Open Title and as a result, he has recorded his consecutive tournament victory in Serbia.
- Football European Championship 2020: Italy won the title defeating England in the final.
- Wimbledon 2021: Men's Singles:- Novak Djokovic(Serbian), Women's Singles:- Ashleigh Barty(Australian)
- Austrian GP 2021: Max Verstappen of RedBull.
- Mitali Raj: is an Indian cricketer and the captain of the Indian women's national cricket team. A right-handed opening batter. She is the highest run-scorer in women's international cricket and the only female cricketer to surpass the 7,000 run mark in Women's One Day International matches. she is the first player to score seven consecutive 50s in ODIs. Raj also holds the record for most half-centuries in WODIs.
- India's flag-bearers at Tokyo Olympic: Opening Ceremony- Mary Kom & Mandeep Singh, Closing Ceremony- Bajrang Punia.
- India's flag-bearer at Tokyo Paralympic: Mariyappan Thangavelu, who is defending the T-42 gold he had won in the 2016 Rio Paralympics during the August 24 to September 5 showpiece in Tokyo.
- Devendra Jhajharia(from Rajasthan): qualified for Tokyo Olympics, by setting a world record in Javelin.
- Sumit Malik: Indian wrestler who had qualified for Tokyo Olympics, has been banned for 2 years on caught with doping.
- Abhimanu Mishra: The Indian American boy became the world's youngest Chess Grand Master, aged 12 years, 4 months & 25 days.
- Rani Sarnobat: the Indian Pistol shooter, holds the distinction of being the first Indian pistol shooter to win a gold medal at the ISSF World Cup as well as the first Indian woman shooter to win gold at the Asian Games.
- ICC T-20 World Cup 2021: will be played in UAE & Oman from 17 October to 14 November.
- Deepika Kumari(the ace archer of India): made a hat-trick of winning Gold medals at the World Archery Cup, in Paris. This is Deepika's second individual World Cup Gold medal of 2021 and the third gold of the day as she had earlier won gold in the women's team and mixed team event as well.
Thus, she got 3 golds in World Cup Stage - 3.
- U.P. government named one 'shooting range' on: Iconic shooter 'Chandra Tomar' aka 'Shooter Dadi'.
- Theme Song of Indians in Tokyo Olympic 2021: Song is "Laksha mera samne hai", meaning "My aim is facing me". Sung by 'Mohit Chauhan".
- Manpreet Singh: has been appointed captain of the Indian Men's Hockey Team & Rani Rampal: captain of Women Hocket Team for Tokyo Olympic 2021.
- ICC's 1st World Test Champion Ship: won by New Zeeland.
- Laurel Hubbard: New Zealand weightlifter becomes first transgender athlete picked for Olympic Games.
- Sachin Tendulkar and Muttiah Muralitharan Named Star Sports' Greatest of All Time in the 21st Century: India’s Sachin Tendulkar and Sri Lanka’s Muttiah Muralitharan were named as Star Sports’ Greatest of All Time batsmen and bowler respectively in Tests of the 21st century. A 50-member jury gathered by Star Sports made the decision
- French F1 GP: won by Max Verstappen, For the red-bull team.
- ICC players of the month 'May': Mushfiqur Rahim(M) of Bangladesh and Kathryn Bryce(W) of Scotland were announced as the winners of the ICC Player for the Month Awards for May 2021.
- D.Gukesh: D. Gukesh sensationally won the $15,000 Gelfand Challenge chess title and with it, a ‘wild card’ for the elite Meltwaters Champions Chess Tour.
- Olympics & Para Olympics Games 2032: will be hosted by Brisbane, the Australian city.
- Veenu Mankad (Former Indian Cricketer): became the 7th Indian Cricketer to be included in the "Hall of Fame" of ICC.
- French Open(Tennis) 2021: won by Novak Djokovic, Serbia Nationale. It was his 19th Grand Slam Title.
- Vinesh Phogat: Tokyo Olympic Games bound wrestler Vinesh Phogat won the women’s 53kg freestyle gold with an 8-0 win over Khrystyna Bereza of Ukraine at the Poland Ranking Series in Warsaw
- Novak Djokovic: is the 1st man to win all four Grand Slams at least twice in the open era.
- Yuka Saso: won US women's Open Golf Champion Ship.
- Virender Sehwag: the former Indian Cricketer player, launched his coaching portal, named "CRICURV".
- Sifan Hassan, an athlete from the Netherlands set a new world record: by running the 10,000 meters in 29 minutes, 6.82 seconds at the Fanny Blankers-Koen Games. The 28-year-old Dutch athlete,
- Sergio Perez(Red Bull): wins Azerbaijan GP
- Sunil Chhetri: surpasses Messi's tally to become 2nd highest international goalscorer among active players, he overtook Argentina star Lionel Messi.
Read more at this link: https://in.news.yahoo.com/sunil-chhetri-surpasses-messis-tally-023031426.html
- 60th National Athlete Championship will be hosted by: Patiala.
- Novak Djokovic (of Serbia): won the Belgrade Open(Tennis) 2021:
- Devon Conway: a New Zeeland's Cricket Bat's man, created history by hitting a Double Test century in his debut match
- Fouad Mirza: is the 3rd Indian who qualified for the equestrian event in the Tokyo Olympics.
- ICC's Men' Cricket World Cup: in the years 2027 & 2031 will be played among 14 teams.
- Asian Man/woman Boxing Championship 2021: held in Dubai, India got 3rd place by winning 15 medals.
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