Bhawna Dehariya of Madhya Pradesh, successfully scaled the summit at Mount Kosciuszko, Australia’s highest mountain peak on March 10th, 2020 to co-incide with Holi.
Last year she scaled Mount Kilimanjaro on November 27th, 2019 to co-incide with Diwali.
Amritpal Singh, India Captain became the first Indian to be signed by Australia’s Sydney King’s club for the upcoming National Basketball League.
Motera Stadium (aka) Sardar Patel Stadium, Ahmedabad, Gujarat has a seating capacity of over 1,10,000.
Inaugrated by U.S. President Donald Trump on his first official visit to India on February 24th,m2020
With this it superceded the ‘Melbourne Cricket Ground (Australia) which held the record earlier.
Constructed by Larsen and Toubro (L &T), India . Designed by the Australian Company – Populous
The 48 kg – Rupa Singh participated against a strong field of 10 international jockeys to make her winning debut in the 13th and penultimate round.
It was her first race outside India on the back of an Arabian horse and without whips being used according to the rules. She rode Nicolas who covered the 1600 metres distance 1.56.60 seconds. Andrezej Wojtowicz was the trainer of the winning horse Nicholas.
The event was a part of the HH Shaikh Mansour Bin Zayed Al Nahyan’s ‘Global Arabian Flat Racing Festival’.
The Chennai jockey Rupa Singh is the sister of Hyderabad jockey Ravinder Singh.
Jitu Rai participates in both the 10-metre and 50-metre pistol shooting events.
Jitu Rai scored 191.3 points and claimed the Gold by beating China’s Pang Wei, former World and Olympic champion who scored 186.5. Wang Zhiwei of China, also an Olympic medallist, claimed the 3rd position with 165.8 final score.
Jitu Rai was born on August 25th, 1987 in Sankhuwa Sabha,Nepal and is an Indian citizen. He is the 4th brother of 5 siblings.
Rai joined the Indian Army in 2006 and is a Naib-Subedar in ’11 Gorkha Rifles’ and resides in Lucknow (Uttar Pradesh).
WINNING RECORD:
ISSF WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP 2014
Silver Medal – 2014 Granada(Spain) – 50m air pistol
ISSF WORLD CUP 2016
Gold Medal – 2016 Bangkok(Thailand) – 50m air pistol
Bronze Medal – 2015 Changwon(South Korea) – 10m air pistol
Silver Medal – 2014 Maribor(Slovenia) – 50m pistol
Silver Medal – 2014 Munich (Germany) – 10m air pistol
Gold Medal – 2014 Maribor(Slovenia) – 10m air pistol
COMMONWEALTH GAMES 2014
Gold Medal – 2014 Glasgow(Scotland) – 50m pistol
ASIAN GAMES 2014
Gold Medal – 2014 Incheon(South Korea) – 50m pistol
Bronze Medal – 2014 Incheon(South Korea) – 10m air pistol
He was born on October 31st, 1992 in Ludhiana, Punjab(India) to Rajbir Singh Sodhi and mother Simrat Sodhi. The Sodhis migrated to Auckland in 1992 when Ish was only 4 years old.
At an early age he was enrolled in Papatoetoe Cricket Club, South Auckland . Ish Sodhi developed into a right arm leg spin bowler and began his cricketing career representing the Northern Districts.
Representing the NZ National Cricket Team:
New Zealand against Bangladesh – Debut October 2013
T20 against West Indies – Debut July 2014
3 Test series against Pakistan – November 2014
One Day Cricket against Zimbabwe – August 2015
Currently ICC World T-20 – March 2016
Paes shared the podium with Andre Agassi(3 Grand Slam Winner)and Sergi Bruguera(2 Grand Slam Winner)
Leander Paes, Indian Professional Tennis Player is considered one of the best doubles and mixed doubles players in the world.
The 23 year-old was India’s first athlete since 1952 to win in individual sports . Leander Paes won for India after a long spell of 44 years where India had been without an individual medal. In 1952 K.D. Jadhav won a bronze medal in wrestling.
He began playing tennis at the age of 5 and in 1985 joined Britannia Amritraj Tennis Academy in Madras(now Chennai) where he was coached by Dave O’Meara.
Leander Paes was born in Calcutta(now Kolkata)on June 17th,1973 to Dr.Vece Paes(National Hockey Bronze medallist- Munich Olympics 1972) and mother Jennifer Paes(Captained the Indian Basket Ball team – Asian Basketball Championship 1980). He currently lives in Mumbai, Maharashtra.
*Atlanta Olympics :
First round : Defeated Richey Rineberg(United States) 6-7,7-6,1-0 retired
Second round : Defeated Nicolas Pereira(Venezuela) 6-2,6-3
Third round : Defeated Thomas Enquisit(Sweden) 7-5,7-6
Quarter finals : Defeated Renzo Furlan(Italy) 6-1, 7-5
Semi-finals : Lost to Andre Agassi(United States) 6-7,3-6
Bronze medal match : Defeated Fernando Meligeni(Brazil) 3-6,6-2,6-4
M S Dhoni was first appointed Skipper for the Indian Cricket Team in 2007. Subsequently 2009, 2010, 2012, 2014 and presently 2016 edition.
The 34-year Dhoni, is the only Captain in history to have won all 3 ICC Trophies (World T20 in 2007, Word Cup in 2011 and Champions Trophy in 2013.
Aditya was in top form as he toppled the pre-tournament favourite Liang Wenbo of China in the final with a thumping 3-0 win to clinch the Gold medal.
This is India’a first World Games Gold medal since the legendary shuttler Prakash Padukhone’s Bronze in the inaugral edition of the ‘World Games’ in 1981 and only the second for India in the history of the World Games.
This is India’a first World Games Gold medal since the legendary shuttler Prakash Padukhone’s Bronze in the inaugral edition of the ‘World Games’ in 1981 and only the second for India in the history of the World Games.
The ‘World Games’ is an international multi-sport event for sports or disciplines not contested in the Olympic Games. International World Games Association (IWGA) – www.theworldgames.org, founded 1981.
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