FIRST IN SPORTS 1. The first Indian to win an individual medal - TopicsExpress



          

FIRST IN SPORTS 1. The first Indian to win an individual medal at the Olympic Games - KD Jadhav 2. The first Indian to win a gold medal at the Olympic Games - Abhinav Bindra 3. The first Indian woman to win an individual medal at the Olympic Games - Karnam Malleswari 4. The first Indian (also the first Asian) to win the Wimbledon junior Singles title - Ramanathan Krishnan (in 1954) 5. The first Indian to win a Grand Slam title (French Open mixed doubles title in 1997) - Mahesh Bhupathi 6. The first Indian to achieve a career Grand Slam in mixed doubles - Mahesh Bhupathi (2006) 7. The first Indian to achieve a career Grand Slam in doubles - Leander Paes (2012) 8. The first Indian to become a world champion in billiards -Wilson Jones 9. India’s first Grandmaster and also the first Indian to win the FIDE World Chess Championship - Vishwanathan Anand 10. The first Indian to win the under 10 World Chess Championship - P. Harikrishna 11. The first Indian to win the All England Badminton Championship - Prakash Padukone 12. The first Indian gymnast to win a medal at the Commonwealth Games - Ashish Kumar 13. The first Indian woman to receive the Grandmaster’s title - Koneru Humpy 14. The youngest Indian to win the Grandmaster title - Parimarjan Negi (13 years 3 months and 22 days) 15. The youngest Indian to captain its test cricket team - Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi 16. The first Indian to swim across the English Channel - Mihir Sen (1958) 17. The first Indian woman (also Asian woman) to swim across the English Channel - Aarti Saha (1959) 18. The first woman in the world to swim the seven seas -Bula Chaudhary 19. The first Indian woman to win a gold medal at the Asian Games - Kamaljit Sandhu 20. The first Indian women athlete to win a medal at a world event (Bronze at World Athletics Championship, 2003) -Anju Bobby George 21. The first Indian woman to win a Grand Slam title -Sania Mirza 22. The first Indian to win the World Junior Badminton Championships and also to win a Super Series tournament, (by clinching the Indonesia Open) -Saina Nehwal 23. 1st recipient of Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award - Viswanathan Anand 24. 1st woman recipient of Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award -Karnam Malleswari 25. 1st recipient of Dhyanchand Lifetime Achievement Award -Aparna Ghosh 26. 1st cricket player to be awarded the Arjuna Award - Salim Durrani 27. 1st Indian to win Olympic medals at two consecutive Olympic Games -Sushil Kumar.
Posted on: Fri, 08 Aug 2014 04:53:37 +0000

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