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KHELO INDIA GAMES

6th Edition of Khelo India Youth Games inaugurated
14. Khelo India Youth Games
15. Khelo India Winter Games 2024 in Tamil Nadu
16. Khelo India University Games • PM Modi inaugurated the opening ceremony of 6th Khelo India
Youth Games 2023 at the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium in
17. Khelo India’s ASMITA Yogasana League
Chennai.
18. Khelo India ASMITA Wushu League
• This is the first time that Khelo India Youth Games are being
held in South India From 19 -31 January, 2024
• 4 venue cities– Chennai, Coimbatore, Madurai and Trichy
• The mascot for the games is Veera Mangai. Rani Velu Nachiyar,
fondly called Veera Mangai, was an Indian queen who waged a
war against British colonial rule.
• The logo for the games incorporates the figure of poet
Thiruvalluvar.
• Maharashtra leads the tally with the highest number of total
medals, followed by Haryana and Tamil Nadu.
• Maharashtra defended their Khelo India Youth Games title after topping the medals tally with 57 gold medals, 48
silver and 53 bronze.
• It was their fourth KIYG title.

Medal tally of the Khelo India Youth Games 2024:

Rank State Gold Silver Bronze Total medals
1 Maharashtra 57 48 53 158
2 Tamil Nadu 38 21 39 98
3 Haryana 35 22 46 103
4 Delhi 13 18 25 56
5 Rajasthan 13 17 17 47
6 Telangana 13 4 7 24
7 Uttar Pradesh 11 13 18 42
8 Punjab 11 13 15 39
9 Kerala 11 9 15 35
10 Manipur 10 11 10 31

Lieutenant Governors of J&K and Ladakh • It Will be held in Ladakh for the first time from
February 2-6. The second portion is scheduled in
Launch Logo and Mascot for 4th Khelo
Gulmarg, Jammu & Kashmir from February 21-25.
India Winter Games 2024 • Snow skating, ice hockey and curling are shifted to
Ladakh while other sports events will be held at ski
resort, Gulmarg.
• The Mascot for Winter Games, Snow Leopard
(‘Sheen-e She’ (Shan)), is the symbol of Himalaya’s
natural heritage and reflects the commitment of
the government towards the protection and
• Lieutenant Governor of J&K, Manoj Sinha and preservation of wildlife.
Lieutenant Governor of Ladakh Brigadier (Retd) Dr.
B.D. Mishra
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First part of Khelo India Winter Games in

Leh Concludes
• Maharashtra won 20 skating medals that include 6
golds
• Army clinched the Gold Medal in Ice Hockey
• ITBP Women won the gold
• Ladakh hosted the Khelo India Winter Games for
the first time. Leh hosted two disciplines - Ice
Hockey and Speed Skating.
• The fourth edition of the Khelo India University
• The second part of the KIWG has been scheduled
Games (KIUG) will be held from February 19 - 29
in Gulmarg, Jammu & Kashmir from February 21-
2024.
25 in four other sports.
• A total of 16 sporting disciplines are being held in
Guwahati of the total 20 sporting disciplines and
Gulmarg hosting 2nd phase of the 4th the rests 4 disciplines at other North- Eastern
Khelo India Winter Games states.
• The 2nd Chapter of winter games 2024 i.e in 4 • Over 215 universities are participating in this mega
snow sports (Ski Mountaineering, Alpine Skiing, university event.
Snowboard & Nordic Skiing) are being held at
Gulmarg, J&K from February 21–25, 2024 4th Khelo India University Games 2023
• The 1st Chapter of winter games 2024 i.e in 2 ice
concludes in Guwahati
sports (Ice Hockey & Ice Skating) was held from
2nd Feb to 6th Feb 2024 at Leh, Ladakh
• The Khelo India Scheme is the flagship Central
Sector Scheme of the Ministry of Youth Affairs &
Sports
• Snow Leopard - mascot of Khelo India Winter
Games

• 4th Khelo India University Games 2023,

4th edition of Khelo India Winter Games Ashtalakshmi held from 19-29 Feb, 2024
conclude in Gulmarg • The Games were played across seven sister states
of the North-East
• Chandigarh University clinched the overall
championships - 71 medals, including 32 gold, 18
silver and 21 bronze.
• Lovely Professional University were second with
20 gold, 14 silver and eight bronze
• Guru Nanak Dev University finished third with 12
gold, 20 silver and 19 bronze and was only
• 4th edition of KIWG - Army clinched the top contingent apart from the champions to cross the
position with 10 gold, 5 silver and 6 bronze medals 50-medal mark.
• First runner up Karnataka with 9 gold & 2 silver
medals
• 2nd runner up Maharashtra with 7 gold, 8 silver &
Khelo India medal winners now eligible
7 bronze medals. for government jobs

4th edition of Khelo India University

Games
• PM Modi virtually inaugurated the 4th edition of
Khelo India University Games - 2023, Ashtalakshmi
at Sarusajai Sports Complex in Guwahati.

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• Medal winners in all Khelo India competitions will Khelo India ASMITA Wushu League (West
now be eligible for government jobs as per a
Zone) to begin on August 25 in Uttar
revised criteria.
• The eligibility will extend to winners of medals Pradesh
from the Khelo India Youth, University, Para, and
Winter Games.
• Khelo India Games were first organised in 2018 as
part of the Modi Government’s initiative to
revitalise sports culture at the grassroots level.

3rd Edition Of North East Games 2024

Begins In Nagaland

• The Khelo India ASMITA Wushu League (West

Zone) is all set to begin from 24th august at Godwin
Public School in Meerut, Uttar Pradesh.
• The four-day league will last till the 27th of August.
• Nagaland Chief Minister Neiphiu Rio officially • Women athletes from various West Zone states
declared open the 3rd North East Games 2024 at including Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh,
Regional Centre for Sporting Excellence, Sovima. Maharashtra, Rajasthan, Gujarat and others will be
• More than 3000 athletes from 8 North Eastern participating in this event.
states are competing in 15 disciplines.
Bihar to host Khelo India Youth Games
Khelo India’s ASMITA Yogasana League to and Para Games in April 2025
begin in Bihar

• A flagship event of the Ministry of Youth Affairs and

Sports,
• There will be a gap of 10 to 15 days between KIYG
and KIPG.
• The first edition of the Para Games was held in
Delhi last year.
• Previously the Khelo India Youth Games 2023 were
held in Tamil Nadu in January

• Khelo India’s ASMITA Yogasana League (East Zone)

began at Patliputra Sports Complex in Patna,
Bihar.
• The three-day East Zonal League will conclude on
24th of August.
• These states are Bihar, Jharkhand, Arunachal
Pradesh, Assam, Meghalaya, Manipur, Mizoram,
Nagaland, Tripura, Sikkim, West Bengal and Odisha.

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Khelo India winter games scheduled in

Ladakh in January 2025
• featuring ice sports like ice hockey and ice skating
from January 23 next year.
• from January 23 to 27, 2025

ARCHERY
1. Women’s Archery compound Jyothi Surekha Vennam clinches gold
event in Luxembourg medal in women’s Archery compound
2. Swiss Open Indoor Archery event at GT Open in Luxembourg

India bags 14 medals, including 9 Golds at India’s Atanu Das bags Bronze Medal in
Archery Asia Cup 2024 in Baghdad, Iraq Swiss Open Indoor Archery

• India’s Atanu Das won the bronze medal in the

men’s recurve event at the Swiss Open 2024
India finished the Archery Asia Cup 2024 with 14
archery competition in Lausanne, Switzerland
medals, including 9 golds, 4 silvers and 1 bronze in
Baghdad, Iraq.
• India swept the top podiums in all the individual
events
• Deepika Kumari (three-time Olympian)- gold
medal (women’s recurve individual)
• Dhiraj Bommadevara - gold medal (men’s recurve
individual)
• Parneet Kaur - gold medal (women’s compound
individual)
• Prathamesh Jawkar - gold medal (men’s
compound individual)

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SHOOTING
1. Men's air rifle event at ISSF Indian Olympian Divyansh Singh Panwar wins gold in
World Cup in Cairo men's air rifle event at ISSF World Cup in Cairo
2. Olympic Selection Trials • In air rifle shooting, Indian Olympian Divyasnsh Singh Panwar had
3. World Shooting Para Sport struck gold in the men's event with a
Tournament world record score in the final
4. Indian Sports Honours 2024 • The 21-year-old shot a world record 253.7
in the 24-shot final
• Panwar's score broke the previous record of 253.3 set by China at the 2022 Asian
Games in Hangzhou.
• While Sonam Uttam Maskar, competing in her first International Shooting Sport
Federation (ISSF) World Cup, bagged silver in the women's 10-metre event in Cairo

Arjun Babuta breaches Air Rifle world

record in Olympic Selection Trials

• Indian shooters won 26 medals - 14 gold, seven

• in men's 10M Air Rifle.
silver and five bronze
• His tally of 254.0 was 0.3 above the mark set by
• India have now secured 17 Olympic quotas in
fellow finalist and India teammate Divyansh Singh
shooting for the Paris 2024 Summer Games - the
Panwar, at the Cairo World Cup earlier this year.
country’s best-ever tally in the sport.
Name Individual Category Medal
Indian Para-Shooter Mona Aggarwal Varun Tomar men’s 10m air pistol Gold Medal
Claimed A Gold Medal At World Shooting Esha Singh women’s 10m air Gold Medal
Para Sport Tournament pistol
Nancy women’s 10m air rifle Gold Medal
Akhil men’s 50m rifle 3 Gold Medal
Sheoran positions
Yogesh Singh men’s 25m centre fire Gold Medal
pistol
Yogesh Singh men’s 25m standard Gold Medal
pistol
• At the World Shooting Para Sport tournament in
Changwon, Korea
• Aggarwal claimed a gold medal in women’s 10m Raiza Dhillon, Gurjoat Khangura Clinch
air rifle Skeet Mixed Team Bronze Medal
• Army man Amir Ahmed Bhatt secured a silver in
25m pistol
• The Asian Shooting Championships 2024 was held
in Jakarta, Indonesia from January 8 to 17.
• The event also doubled as the qualifying event for
the Paris 2024 Olympics for rifle and pistol
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• India's Raiza Dhillon and Gurjot Singh Khangura Kiran Ankush Jadhav clinches Men’s 50m
won the mixed skeet team bronze medal at the
Rifle 3P title at 67th National Shooting
Asian Shotgun Championships 2024 in Kuwait
City. Championship

Suma Shirur Wins 'Coach of the Year

(Female)' Award at Indian Sports Honours
2024
• The Olympian and former
chief coach of the Indian
Shooting Team, Suma
Shirur was awarded the India to host
Coach of the Year (Female) ISSF Junior
award by the Indian Sports
Shooting World
Honours 2024.
• She was recognized for her Cup for first time
role in guiding the Indian in 2025
shooting team to success at • This will be the
the Paris Olympics and 11th edition of
Paralympics, and for her the junior
work promoting gender shooting World
parity in Indian sports Cup and the first one in India.

HOCKEY
1. FIH Hockey Men’s Junior World Cup
India Named Hosts for 2025 FIH Hockey Men’s
2. Hockey5s World Cup
3. National Women's Hockey League
Junior World Cup
• India is set to host the FIH Hockey Men’s Junior World Cup in
4. Hockey India Awards
December 2025.
5. Men’s Asian Champions Trophy 2024.
• It will be the first time that a Junior Hockey World Cup will be
6. FIH Hockey Star Award 2024 comprising as many as 24 teams.
• FIH Hockey Men’s Junior World Cup 2023 was held in
Malaysia. Germany won their seventh title.
• India has previously hosted the tournament thrice in 2013
(New Delhi), 2016 (Lucknow) and 2021 (Bhubaneswar).
• They have won the title twice in 2001 and 2016.
• Dr. Dilip Tirkey, President of Hockey

Sreejesh and Camila Caram appointed as

co-chairs in FIH Athletes Committee
• International Hockey Federation (FIH) has named
legendary goalkeeper P.R. Sreejesh and Chile’s
Camila Caram as the co-chairs of the FIH Athletes
Committee.
• The FIH Athletes Committee is a consultative body
that provides recommendations to the FIH
Executive Board and other bodies.
• FIH President Tayyab Ikram

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Hockey5s World Cup: Rajni Etimarpu, • Under Coca-Cola India's #SheTheDifference

campaign, the partnership is aimed at the
Simranjeet Singh to lead Indian men’s and
advancement of women's hockey in India by
women’s teams providing essential resources and support to
players.
• Hockey India President: Dr. Dilip Tirkey

Hockey India Awards: Hardik Singh and

Salima Tete win Balbir Singh Sr. Award for
Player of The Year 2023

The inaugural Hockey5s World Cup, both the Men’s

and Women’s, will be held in Muscat, Oman between
January 24 and 31.
Hockey5s, the shortened format of the traditional 11-
a-side game, features five players per team.
• Salima Tete received the Hockey India Balbir Singh
Japan Wins its Maiden Sultan Azlan Shah Senior Award for Player of the Year 2023 in the
Hockey Trophy women's category,
• Hardik Singh (also the FIH Player of the Year) won
the award in the men's category and won a cash
prize of ₹25 lakhs.
• Olympian and World Cup winner Ashok Kumar was
honored with the Major Dhyan Chand Lifetime
Achievement Award 2023.

• Japan won its maiden Sultan Azlan Shah Hockey

Netherlands defeated India to win FIH
trophy by defeating Pakistan in the final. Hockey5s Women’s World Cup
• The final was played at the Azlan Shah Stadium in • The 2024 Hockey5s
Ipoh, Malaysia, 2024. World Cup was the
• The Sultan Azlan Shah Cup is an annual first edition of the
international men's field hockey tournament held FIH Women's
in Malaysia. Hockey5s World Cup,
• It is the quadrennial world championship for
FIH World rankings : Indian men slip to women's national hockey5s teams organized by
the FIH.
4th, women's team ranked 9th • It was held from 24 to 27 January 2024, in Muscat,
• India had directly qualified for the Paris Olympics Oman.
through an Asian Games gold last year and didn’t • The Netherlands won the final against India to
need to play in the recently-concluded Olympic claim the first gold medal.
Qualifiers.
• In the Women’s Rankings, India failed to make the
cut for the Paris Games
Indian women's hockey team defender
Deep Grace Ekka announces international
Coca-Cola India announces its first ever retirement
partnership with Hockey India, for the
National Women's Hockey League
• Anandana, The Coca-Cola India Foundation,
announces its first ever partnership with Hockey
India, for the National Women's Hockey League
2024.

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• She hails from Odisha and represented India in two Indian team. Midfielder Vivek Sagar Prasad has
Olympic Game (2016 Rio Olympics, 2020 Tokyo been named vice-captain of the team.
Olympics) • The Indian team coach is Craig Fulton.
• The men’s Champions Trophy is a six-
ALFA Hockey Launches #BankeDikhaAlpha nation hockey tournament where the six top-
ranked Asian hockey teams participate.
Campaign: India’s Only Hockey Campaign
• China, India, Japan, South Korea,
Ahead of Paris Olympics Malaysia, and Pakistan are participating in the 8th
edition.

Hockey India retires jersey number 16 in

honour of PR Sreejesh

• ALFA Hockey, Asia’s no 1 manufacturer of field

hockey sticks and accessories, is proud to
announce the launch of its #BankeDikhaAlpha
campaign. • Hockey India has retired jersey number 16 from
• ALFA Hockey stands out as the only brand in India the national senior men’s team in honour of
to have launched a dedicated hockey campaign. goalkeeper PR Sreejesh.
• Hockey India termed Sreejesh the ‘God of Modern
Indian men’s hockey team win bronze Indian Hockey’.
• Sreejesh recently announced his retirement from
Hockey after a successful Paris Olympics.
• Hockey India has also decided to appoint Sreejesh
as the coach of the junior men’s hockey team.

Harmanpreet Singh & PR Sreejesh wins

• The Indian hockey team has claimed a bronze FIH Hockey Star Award 2024
medal at the Paris Olympics after defeating Spain
• The medal is India hockey team’s 13th in history.
• The bronze in men’s hockey is India’s fourth
bronze medal of the Paris Olympics, with the
previous three coming in the Shooting discipline,
two of which Manu Bhaker won.

Hockey India announced national men’s

hockey squad, led by Harmanpreet Singh
for the 8th Men’s Asian Champions Trophy
2024. • Indian men’s hockey team captain Harmapreet
Singh and former Indian goalkeeper PR Sreejesh
• The 8th Men’s Asian Champions Trophy 2024 will
won the FIH Hockey Star Awards 2024.
be held at Hulunbuir City, Inner Mongolia, People’s
• FIH announced the winner of its annual Hockey
Republic of China
Star award for the year 2024 in a ceremony held in
• from 8-17 September 2024.
Muscat on 8 November 2024.
• India is the defending champion of the Men’s
• Harmanpreet Singh won his third FIH Player of the
Asian Champions Trophy, having won the 7th
Year award in 2024, having won it in 2021 and
edition in Chennai in 2023.
2022.
• Harmanpreet Singh, who was the leading goal
• Hardik Singh, won the 2023 Award.
scorer at the 2024 Paris Olympics, will lead the

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Winners of the 2024 FIH Hockey Star Awards Men's Hockey Junior Asia Cup 2024: India
Player of the Year
beat Pakistan for record-extending fifth
• Male- Harampreet Singh of India
• Women- Yibbi Jansen of Netherlands title

Goalkeeper of the Year

• Male- PR Sreejesh of India
• Women- Ye Jiao of China

Rising Star of the Year Award

• Male-Sufyan Khan of Pakistan
• in Muscat, Oman
• Women-Zoe Diaz of Argentina
• a record-extending fifth title (2024, 2023, 2015,
2008 and 2004)
Coach of the Year Award
• Bronze Medal - Japan
• Men- Jeroen Delmee of Netherlands
• Women-Alyson Annan of China
Prasar Bharati signs MoU with Hockey
Umpire of the Year India to provide live broadcast of
• Male - Steve Rogers of Australia upcoming Hockey India League
• Women-Sarah Wilson of Scotland

Hockey: India wins Women’s Asian

Champions Trophy beating China 1-0

• The upcoming Hockey India League, which is being

revived after seven years
• Set to commence on December 28 in Rourkela,
HIL will be broadcast live across the nation through
Doordarshan and Prasar Bharati’s new OTT
• The Women’s Asian platform — Waves.
Champions Trophy,
2024, took place India wins Women’s Hockey Junior Asia
in Rajgir, Cup 2024 against China

Bihar from 11th November to 20th, 2024.

• India’s Women’s Hockey Team successfully
defended their title
• India won their third Women’s Asian Champions
Trophy, after previous wins in 2016 and 2023.
• Player-of-the-tournament: Deepika (India);
• Goalkeeper-of-the-tournament: Yu Kudo (Japan)
• in Muscat, Oman
• Mascot - 'Gudiya’ - Inspired by the house sparrow
• India won their maiden Women's Hockey Junior
• Logo Design: The logo features the Bodhi Tree
Asia Cup title last year by defeating the Republic of
Odisha defeated Haryana, bags its maiden Korea in the final.
gold • Earlier the Indian hockey team beat Pakistan to win
• Hockey India-14th Senior National championship at the Men's Hockey Junior Asia Cup 2024 in Muscat,
the SDAT-Mayor Radhakrishnan Stadium, Chennai Oman
• maiden gold medal for Odisha

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CRICKET
ICC Players of the Month for December 2023,
1. ICC Players of the Month for
December 2023 Australia's Pat Cummins and India's Deepti Sharma
2. ICC Players of the Month for
February 2024
3. ICC Player of the Month for
October 2024

Joseph, Hunter win ICC Player of the Sri Lankan Star Kamindu Mendis and
Month awards England’s Maia Bouchier Crowned ICC
Players of the Month March

• Pace bowler Shamar Joseph became the first West

Indian to win the Men's ICC Player of the Month
award (January)
ICC Players of the Month for April 2024
• Ireland's batter Amy Hunter claimed the honour in
the women's category

Yashasvi Jaiswal, Sutherland Named ICC

Players of the Month for February 2024

• Hayley Matthews, the West Indies captain, has

been named the ICC Women’s Player of the Month
• Muhammad Waseem, the UAE captain and opener,
has been named the ICC Men’s Player of the
Month

Gudakes Motie and Chamari Athapaththu

Named ICC Players of the Month for May

• Indian opener Yashasvi Jaiswal claims ICC Men’s

Player of the Month
• Australia’s record-breaking all-rounder Annabel
Sutherland wins ICC Women’s Player of the Month

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• West Indies’ left-arm spinner Gudakesh Motie won International Cricket Council (ICC) has
the ICC Men’s Player of the Month award
revealed the Players of the Month for
• Sri Lanka skipper Chamari Athapaththu secured
her second ICC Women’s Player of the Month September 2024.

Jasprit Bumrah, Smriti Mandhana named

ICC Player of the Month for June

• Sri Lanka’s Kamindu Mendis and England’s Tammy

Beaumont for their outstanding performances in
international cricket.

The ICC Player of the Month for October

2024

The International Cricket Council (ICC) has

revealed the recipients of the ICC Players
of the Month awards for July 2024

• Pakistan spinner Noman Ali claim the ICC Men’s

Player of the Month award for October 2024.
• England’s Gus Atkinson and Sri Lanka’s Chamari
• New Zealand's star all-rounder Melie Kerr has
Athapaththu have been crowned as the standout
been awarded the ICC Women's Player of the
performers in men’s and women’s cricket,
Month for October 2024
respectively.

Dunith Wellalage and Samarawickrama Pat Cummins, Nat Sciver-Brunt named as

Named ICC Players of the Month for Wisden's Leading Cricketers in the World
• England all-rounder Nat
August 2024 Sciver-Brunt and Australia
captain Pat Cummins have
been named as the Leading
Cricketers (Women and Men)
in the World in the 2024
edition of Wisden Cricketers’
Almanack.
• Sciver-Brunt becomes the first
English woman to be given the honour
• Wisden Cricketers' Almanack, or simply Wisden,
colloquially the Bible of Cricket, is a cricket

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reference book published annually in the United
Kingdom.

Haris and Wyatt-Hodge Shine as ICC

Players of the Month
• The International Cricket Council (ICC) has today
announced the ICC Players of the Month for
November 2024 as Pakistan’s Haris Rauf and
England’s Danni Wyatt-Hodge.

Retirement
Rohit Sharma, Virat Kohli announce retirement
1. Wisden's Leading Cricketers in the World
from T20Is
2. Rohit Sharma, Virat Kohli announce
retirement from T20Is
3. Ravindra Jadeja retired from T20
internationals.
4. Kedar Jadhav Retires from all forms of
Cricket
5. David Wiese announces international
retirement
6. Mohammad Nabi to Retire from ODI
Cricket
7. Shikhar Dhawan announces retirement
from Cricket

Rohit Sharma
• The 37-year-old becomes only the third Indian Virat Kohli’s
captain to have won a World Cup – across formats • Virat Kohli’s T20 international career began on June
– after Kapil Dev (1983) and MS Dhoni (2007 and 12, 2010
2011). • 125 T20 International matches
• Career began in 2007 • Second-highest run-getter in T20Is (4188), behind
• first-ever captain to lead a team to 50 T20I games. only Rohit Sharma
• Under Rohit, India have also become the first team • The Man of the Match award (T20 World Cup
to win the T20 World Cup without losing a single 2024)
game.
• 159 T20 International matches played
• Highest run-scorer in T20I history (4231)
• Mist sixes in T20I (205)

All-rounder Ravindra Jadeja announced

his retirement from the T20 internationals

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Indian All-rounder Kedar Jadhav Retires T20 veteran David Wiese announces
from all forms of Cricket international retirement

• He played for Maharatsra in domestic cricket

• Jadhav made his One Day International (ODI)
debut for India in 2014, against Sri Lanka • Namibia all-rounder David Weise
• He played 73 ODIs and nine T20Is for India
• Kedar Jadhav, who donned the Indian jersey in the
2019 World Cup, last represented the national
David Warner Announces Retirement from
team in an One Day International (ODI) against One Day International Cricket
New Zealand in Auckland in 2020 • David Warner - Australian batter
• Earlier, former Indian wicketkeeper-
batsman Dinesh Karthik announced his retirement

Dinesh Karthik Announces Retirement

from All Forms of Cricket

• Warner is only second to former captain Ricky

Ponting's tally for most Centuries for Australia in
ODIs.

England cricketer James Anderson

announced retirement

• He made his India debut when he was 19 in an ODI

against England at Lord’s in 2004. He announced
retirement on his 39th birthday.
• He has played in 6 IPL teams since the
tournament’s inception in 2008.
• He last played for Royal Challengers Bengaluru in
the IPL 2024 Eliminator on 22 May.
• Having represented the country in 180 games
across three formats - scored 3463 runs with a
• England pace legend James Anderson’s
lone Test hundred and 17 half-centuries
international career that has lasted close to 22
• Karthik also had 172 dismissals to his credit, most
years, having made his England debut in 2002.
of them behind the stump
• He became the first fast bowler ever to take 700
wickets in Test cricket.

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• Overall, Anderson is the third highest wicket-taker Dawid Malan, England’s former top-
in Test cricket history. The two bowlers above him
ranked T20 batter, retires from
are spinners:
➢ Muttiah Muralitharan - 800 international cricket
➢ Shane Warne - 708

Kenyan Allrounder Collins Obuya Retires

from Cricket Career

Cricketer Shikhar Dhawan announces

retirement from International and
Domestic Cricket
• Obuya had made his international debut in 2001
against the West Indies retired from a 23-year old
international career

Mohammad Nabi to Retire from ODI

Cricket After ICC Champions Trophy 2025
• The 38-year-old represented the national team in
all three formats since making his international
debut in 2010 in an ODI against Australia in
Visakhapatnam.
• He created a world record by scoring the fastest
century by a debutant in a Test match, an 85-ball
hundred against Australia in Mohali in the 2013
Afghanistan all-rounder Mohammad Nabi has Test match.
announced that he will retire from One-Day • He is one of the eight batsmen in the ODI with
Internationals over 5000 runs at a 40-plus average and a 90-plus
strike rate. The list includes Rohit Sharma and Virat
Seasoned pacer Siddarth Kaul announces Kohli.
• In the IPL, Shikhar Dhawan is the second-highest
retirement from Indian cricket run-scorer after Virat Kohli.

Ace off spinner R Ashwin announces

retirement from international cricket

• Represented the country in three ODIs and as

many T20s in 2018-19.
• was a member of India’s U-19 World Cup winning
campaign in 2008
• Kaul is the highest wicket-taker in Vijay Hazare
Trophy history as well as in the Syed Mushtaq Ali
Trophy
• India’s premier spinner Ravichandran Ashwin
• His last appearance in competitive cricket was in
announced his immediate retirement after the 3rd
the Ranji Trophy earlier this month.
Test in ongoing Border-Gavaskar Trophy, in
Brisbane.
• Debut in 2010. 14-year career

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• He is India’s second-highest Test wicket-taker. He • Ashwin was the first bowler to record 100 World
scored 537 wickets in 106 games; Anil Kumble Test Championship wickets and is currently the
took 619. highest-wicket taker with 195 scalps from in 41
• The 38-year-old bagged 37 Test five-fors, only matches, followed by Australia’s Nathan Lyon
second to Muttiah Muralidaran (67). (190).
• A five-for, also known as a five-wicket haul or fifer, • He was part of India’s ODI World Cup-winning team
is when a bowler takes five or more wickets in a in 2011.
single innings of a cricket match
• The Tamil Nadu spinner bagged 765 wickets across
formats, the second-highest behind Anil Kumble’s
956 scalps and the 11th-highest overall.

World Cup
ICC announces groups for T20 Men's Cricket
1. T20 Men's Cricket World Cup 2024 World Cup 2024
2. Women’s T20 World Cup
3. Usain Bolt as T20 World Cup ambassador
4. Yuvraj Singh as ICC Men’s T20 World Cup
2024 Ambassador
5. ‘Official Sponsor’ of Sri Lanka for T20
World Cup

• 9th edition
• will be jointly hosted by - the West Indies and the United States
• Kick-start from 1st June.
• Final on June 29 in Barbados
• A total of 20 team will play 55 matches across 9 venues (3 in USA 6 in the Caribbean)

List of ICC T20 Cricket World Cups ICC announced Women’s T20 World Cup
No Year/Host Winner Runner up Schedule
1. 2007/South Africa India Pakistan
2. 2009/England Pakistan Sri Lanka
3. 2010/ West Indies England Australia
4. 2012/Sri Lanka West Indies Sri Lanka
5. 2014/Bangladesh Sri Lanka India
6. 2016/India West Indies England
7. 2021/UAE & Australia New
Oman Zealand
8. 2022/Australia England Pakistan
9. 2024/ USA & West - - • 9th Women's T20 World Cup 2024 will be held in
Indies Bangladesh from October 3-20
10. 2026/ India & Sri - - • 23 matches featuring the top 10 women’s teams in
Lanka the world from 3 to 20 October in Bangladesh
• CEO of the ICC - Geoff Allardice
• Group A: Australia, India, New Zealand, Pakistan,
Sri Lanka
• Group B: Bangladesh, England, South Africa, West
Indies, Scotland

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BCCI announces 15-member squad for

upcoming ICC Men’s T20 World Cup
• Chairman of Selection Committee, Mr Ajit Agarkar
• ICC Men’s T20 World Cup 2024 will be hosted in
the West Indies and USA
• Rohit Sharma will be leading the team
• Hardik Pandya has been named the vice-captain.
• Wicketkeeper-batter Rishabh Pant
• India will begin their World Cup campaign against

Shahid Afridi Appointed as ICC Men’s T20

World Cup Brand Ambassador

Ireland on June 05 in New York.

• Former Pakistan captain Shahid Afridi was
unveiled as the latest ambassador for the ICC
ICC ropes in Usain Bolt as T20 World Cup
Men’s T20 World Cup 2024, set to be held in the
ambassador Unites States and the West Indies from June 1.
• Afridi joins Yuvraj Singh, Chris Gayle and Usain
Bolt among the ambassadors chosen by the
International Cricket Council (ICC) for the maiden
20-team T20 World Cup.

ICC T20 World Cup 2024: Amul to sponsor

• The International Cricket Council (ICC) named USA’s cricket team
sprint legend Usain Bolt as the ambassador of the
upcoming T20 World Cup to be played in the West
Indies and USA from June 1 to 29.
• Jamaica-born Bolt had created history at the 2008
Olympic Games in Beijing where he won the
100m, 200m and 4x100m races in world record • Amul is set to sponsor the USA and South Africa in
times. the upcoming T20 World Cup in June
• An eight-time Olympic gold medallist, Bolt is the • Amul was associated with the South Africa team
only sprinter to win Olympic 100 m and 200 m in the 2019 ODI series and 2023 ICC Cricket World
titles at three consecutive Olympics (Beijing 2008, Cup
London 2012 and Rio 2016). • Amul has a history of sponsoring cricket teams,
with the Netherlands, South Africa, and
Yuvraj Singh Named ICC Men’s T20 World Afghanistan among their previous beneficiaries.
• As co-hosts of this major ICC event, the USA will
Cup 2024 Ambassador
make its debut appearance in this global
• Yuvraj joins West Indies icon Chris Gayle and eight-
championship.
time Olympic Gold Medalist Usain Bolt as first
• Managing Director of Amul - Jayen Mehta
ambassadors to be revealed

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KMF to sponsor Scotland and Ireland • T20 World Cup: Organised by International Cricket
Council
cricket teams during T20 World Cup
• Current champion: England (2nd title)
• Host: USA and West Indies.

India won the T20 World Cup for the

second time

• The Karnataka Milk Federation, the dairy

cooperative from the State which sells various
dairy products under the brand name Nandini, will
be sponsoring Scotland and Ireland cricket teams’ • India beats South Africa by 7 runs and lifts ICC T20
jerseys in the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup (to be co- World Cup 2024 at Barbados' Kensington Oval
hosted by the West Indies and the United States in • Player of the match – Virat Kohli (India)
June 2024) • Player of the tournament – Jasprit Bumrah (India)
• Karnataka Milk Federation (KMF) aims for global • Afghanistan’s Rahmanullah Gurbaz finished the
recognition through sponsorship, also introducing tournament with most runs – 281
‘Nandini Splash’ energy drink in the US during the • highest wicket-taker Afghanistan’s Fazalhaq
tournament. Farooqi along with India’s Arshdeep Singh – 17
• The sponsorship is estimated at Rs 2-2.5 crore per wickets.
team • The Trophy was made of silver and rhodium
metals.
Amul appointed as ‘Official Sponsor’ of Sri
T20 World Cup Winners List from 2007 to 2024
Lanka for T20 World Cup
Year Winner Runner Up Host Country
2007 India Pakistan South Africa
2009 Pakistan Sri Lanka England
2010 England Australia West Indies
2012 West Indies Sri Lanka Sri Lanka
2014 Sri Lanka India Bangladesh
• Previously Amul sponsored both the USA and 2016 West Indies England India
South African cricket teams for the upcoming 2021 Australia New UAE/Oman
World Cup Zealand
2022 England Pakistan Australia
Andre Russell becomes highest wicket- 2024 India South USA and West
Africa Indies
taker for WI in T20 WC History
• Andre Russell surpassed Dwayne Bravo to become
the highest wicket-taker for Suryakumar Yadav takes the Best Fielder
West Indies in T20 World award from Jay Shah
Cup history with 29 • Suryakumar Yadav received the coveted 'Best
wickets. Fielder' award from the BCCI secretary Jay Shah for
• The previous best was held his magnificent catch to dismiss the dangerous
by Bravo who had a total of David Miller which turned out to be the decisive
27 wickets. moment in the final triumph.
• India fielding coach: T Dilip
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Indian Premier League (IPL)

Etihad Airways becomes “principal sponsor” of
1. principal sponsor of Chennai Super Chennai Super Kings
Kings.
2. highest IPL total of all time
3. First wicketkeeper to complete 300
dismissals in T20 cricket
4. first bowler with 200 IPL wickets
5. KKR Lifts Their Third Trophy In IPL
6. youngest player to get IPL contract
7.
Abu Dhabi-headquartered Etihad Airways - in September 2023, had signed up Bollywood star, Katrina Kaif, as the
brand ambassador

CEAT picked as official partner for IPL 10 teams are

• Chennai Super Kings,
• Delhi Capitals,
• Gujarat Titans,
• Kolkata Knight Riders,
• Lucknow Super Joints,
• Mumbai Indians,
• Punjab Kings,
• Rajasthan Royals,
• CEAT has been selected as the official partner of
• Royal Challengers Bangalore,
this year's IPL. The company will spend about ₹240
• Sunrisers Hyderabad.
Crore over five years.
• BCCI reportedly sold 4 IPL sponsorship slots for a
cumulative sum of ₹1,485 crore to Ceat,
My11Circle, Angel One and RuPay.

Ruturaj Gaikwad takes over Chennai Super

Kings captaincy from Dhoni

Sunrisers Hyderabad record for highest IPL

total of all time

• Chennai Super Kings has named Ruturaj Gaikwad

as the new captain of the franchise for the 2024 IPL
season.
• 17th edition of the Indian Premier League (IPL)
kicks off on March 22, 2024.
• The event is organised by the Board of Cricket
Council of India (BCCI) and TATA is the official
sponsor.
• Sunrisers Hyderabad scored 277/3 in 20 overs in
Hyderabad against Mumbai Indians to break the
record of RCB's total of 263/5 in 2013

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Royal Challengers Yuzvendra Chahal becomes first bowler

Bangalore Lift with historic 200 IPL wickets
Women’s Premier
League Title
• In the Final of the TATA
Women’s Premier
League (WPL) Cricket,
Royal Challengers
Bangalore (RCB) beat Delhi Capitals by 8 wickets at
Arun Jaitley Stadium in New Delhi.
• The leg-spinner accomplished the milestone in
Player of the seriesDeepti Sharma (UP Warriorz)
Rajasthan Royal’s match against Hardik Pandya’s
Most runs Ellyse Perry (Royal
Mumbai Indians.
Challengers Bangalore) (347)
Most wickets Shreyanka Patil (Royal
Challengers Bangalore) (13)
Marcus Stoinis registers highest individual
• Total teams: 5 (Delhi Capitals, Gujarat Giants, score during run-chase in IPL history
Mumbai Indians, Royal Challengers Bengaluru, UP
Warriorz )
• Format: Twenty20 cricket
• First edition: 2023; winner – Mumbai Indians
• WPL is owned and operated by Board of Control
for Cricket in India.

MS Dhoni becomes first wicketkeeper to

complete 300 dismissals in T20 cricket
• Australia and Lucknow Super Giants (LSG) all-
rounder Marcus Stoinis registered the highest
individual score ever during a run-chase in the
Indian Premier League (IPL)
• made an unbeaten 124* in 63 balls
• Chris Gayle, holds the record of highest individual
score in IPL cricket - 175* runs of 66 ball. Gayle
made the record as a part of the Royal Challengers
Bangalore against Sahara Pune Warriors in IPL
2013.

• Chennai Super Kings’ wicket-keeper MS Dhoni

made also history by becoming the first Indian
Sunrisers Hyderabad recorded the highest
keeper to score 7,000 runs in T20 cricket. runs of the Indian Premier League History
• The 42-year-old veteran achieved this feat during a
match against Delhi Capitals (DC) in the Indian
Premier League (IPL).
• Most dismissals by a wicketkeeper in T20s
➢ 300 - MS Dhoni
➢ 274 - Dinesh Karthik
➢ 274 - Kamran Akmal

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• Sunrisers Hyderabad broke their record of scoring Sunrisers Hyderabad enter IPL record
the highest runs in the IPL, as they hammered 287
books for most sixes in single season
runs in 20 overs again Royal Challengers
Bengaluru
• Their previous record was scoring 277 runs against
Mumbai Indians.
• Their 287 for 3 was also the second highest in all
men's T20 cricket, and included the most sixes (22)
in an IPL innings
• The only one higher is 314 for 3 by Nepal against
Mongolia in the Asian Games.
• The Hyderabad-based franchise achieved the
landmark of striking 100 sixes in just their 8 match
in the ongoing IPL season.

KKR Lifts Their Third Trophy In IPL

• Travis Head of Sunrisers Hyderabad hits 4th fastest

• In Cricket, Riders (KKR) lifted their third trophy in
IPL century – 39 balls
the Indian Premier League (IKolkata Knight PL)
• Fastest hundreds in IPL history - Chris Gayle (RCB) -
with a crushing eight-wicket win over Sunrisers
30 balls - 2013
Hyderabad (SRH) .
• Mitchell Starc was declared Player of the Match
Highest successful IPL, T20 run chases: (KKR).
Punjab Kings set world record in 262 chase
vs Kolkata Knight Rider Emerging player of the Nitish Reddy (SRH)
season
Purple cap Harshal Patel (24
wickets, PBKS)
Orange cap Virat Kohli (741
runs, RCB)
Most valuable player of Sunil Narine (482 runs
the season and 17 wickets, KKR)
Fairplay award Sunrisers Hyderabad

• Punjab Kings broke the world record for the 13-year-old Vaibhav Suryavanshi becomes
highest successful chase in T20 history, chasing youngest player to get IPL contract
down a mammoth 262-run target against Kolkata • Vaibhav Suryavanshi, a 13-year-old cricketer from
Knight Riders Bihar, entered history books as he became the
• Punjab not only registered highest successful run youngest-ever player to be bought at an IPL
chase in IPL but also set a new world record for the auction.
highest run chase in the history of T20 cricket • Rajasthan Royals bought Suryavanshi for ₹1.10
crore.

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Rankings and Records

Rohit Sharma tops list of batters with most
1. list of batters with most hundreds in T20I hundreds in T20I
2. first Indian to hit 500 T20 sixes
3. first batsman to hit 200 Sixes in T20Is
4. First Indian to Score 12,000 T20 Runs
5. first Indian pacer to reach No. 1 in ICC
Test rankings
6. 2nd Indian to take 500 Test wickets.
7. Fastest woman double centurion in Test
cricket
8. first Sri Lankan to smash ODI double
century
9. Women’s ODI rankings
10.

• Indian cricket team captain Rohit Sharma has created history by becoming the first
batsman to score five centuries in T20 Internationals (T20Is).
• This milestone was achieved during the third T20I match against Afghanistan in
Bengaluru on January 17, 2024.
• Rohit Sharma surpassed fellow cricketers like Suryakumar Yadav and Australia’s
Glenn Maxwell, who each have four T20I hundreds.

Rohit becomes first Rohit Sharma becomes 2nd player to play

Indian to hit 500 250th game in IPL
T20 sixes

• India and Mumbai

Indians star batter Rohit Sharma became the first
Indian to smash 500 sixes in T20 cricket.
• He achieved this milestone during Indian Premier
League (IPL) match against Chennai Super Kings • The match against Punjab Kings (PBKS) in
(CSK) at Wankhede Stadium. Chandigarh was Rohit's 250th in the Indian Premier
• Rohit's six tally has gone up to 502 sixes. League.
• Only Chris Gayle, Kieron Pollard, Andre Russell, • He became the only 2nd player in the league's rich
Colin Munro have more T20 sixes to their name. history to reach the mark after Chennai Super
Kings' legend Mahendra Dhoni.

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• Dinesh Karthik (249) and Virat Kohli (244). Tanmay Agarwal Smashes Fastest Triple
• Rohit also reached 6500 runs in the IPL, becoming
Century In First-Class Cricket
the only fourth batter.
• Virat Kohli - 7624
• Shikhar Dhawan - 6769
• David Warner - 6563

Rohit Sharma became first batsman to hit

200 Sixes in T20Is • Hyderabad’s Tanmay Agarwal scored an
unbeaten 323 off just 160 balls against Arunachal
Pradesh in the Ranji Trophy.

Jasprit Bumrah becomes first Indian pacer

to reach No. 1 in ICC Test rankings,
replaces Ravichandran Ashwin
• He also becomes first-ever
bowler to reach No.1 in all
• during the T20 World Cup 2024 Super Eight three formats in his career
Group 1 match against Australia at the Daren • Rankings is credited to his
Sammy National Cricket Stadium in St. Lucia outstanding performance in the
• Sharma broke several records: second Test against England in
➢ most sixes by an Indian in a T20 World Cup Vizag, where he claimed match
match (8) figures of 9/91
➢ first-ever player to smack 600 sixes across • Bumrah is only the fourth from India to attain
formats. number one position.
• Ashwin, Ravindra Jadeja and Bishan Singh Bedi
are the other Indians who have been at the top of
the charts.

R. Ashwin becomes 2nd Indian to take 500

Test wickets
Virat Kohli Becomes First Indian to Score
12,000 T20 Runs

• Kohli achieved this remarkable feat during the

• Senior off-spinner Ravichandran Ashwin became
Indian Premier League (IPL) 2024 opening clash
the second Indian bowler after former skipper Anil
between Chennai Super Kings (CSK) and Royal
Kumble to take 500 Test wickets during the third
Challengers Bengaluru (RCB)
Test against England in Rajkot.
• With this, Kohli is now among the world's six
• Having made his Test debut in 2011.
players after T20 stalwarts Chris Gayle, Shoaib
Malik, Kieron Pollard, Alex Hales, and David Warner
to achieve this record.

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Shabnim Ismail bowls fastest delivery in • Mandhana also equalled Mithali Raj for the most
ODI centuries among
women's cricket
Indian women
• Most ODI hundreds
among women Suzie
Bates (New Zealand) – 12
• Most ODI hundreds for
India (women)
• 7 – Mandhana
• 7 – Mithali Raj
• 6 – Harmanpreet Kaur

• South African pacer Shabnim Ismail created history India claims top spot in ICC Test rankings,
by bowling the fastest delivery ever recorded in now No. 1 in all three formats
women's cricket,
• breaching the 130kph barrier for the first time
since the introduction of speed guns.
• Playing for Mumbai Indians in their Women's
Premier League (WPL) match against Delhi
Capitals at the Arun Jaitley Stadium, Ismail
shattered the record by clocking 132.1km/h
(82.08mph) • The Indian cricket team, under the leadership of
• only retired from international cricket Rohit Sharma, has ascended to the top of the ICC
Test rankings
Shafali Verma becomes fastest woman • India now leads the World Test Championship
(WTC) standings and boasts the top position across
double-centurion in Test cricket
all three formats – Test, ODI, T20I

India retains top spot in white-ball

formats, Australia reclaims world no. 1
rankings in Tests

• Against South Africa.

• Shafali also became the second Indian after former
skipper Mithali Raj to hit a double century in Test
cricket.

Smriti Mandhana becomes first Indian

• India have retained their top position in ODIs and
woman to hit consecutive ODI hundreds, T20Is but slipped to the second position in the
equals Mithali Raj’s century tally men’s Test Team Rankings in the latest ICC annual
• Smriti Mandhana became the first Indian woman ranking
to record two consecutive ODI hundreds during
the second ODI against South Africa at the M
Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bengaluru

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Pathum Nissanka becomes first Sri Lankan quickest man to reach the milestone in T20
Internationals.
to smash ODI double century

• He broke Nepal’s Kushal Malla’s record of the

fastest T20I hundred which the latter scored off 34
• Nissanka scored the Sri Lanka's first-ever double balls against Mongolia last year.
century in the ODI format against Afghanistan in
Pallekele.
• He also became the player who now has the
highest individual score in Sri Lanka's ODI history
(210*), surpassing the iconic 189 scored by Sanath
Jayasuria against India in 2000.
• Pathum Nissanka is now the third-fastest double-
ton in ODI history (136 balls).
• Fastest double-ton - Ishan Kishan against
Bangladesh in 2022 (off 126 balls). Second -
Maxwell (201* against Afghanistan came off 128
deliveries). Pakistan’s Babar Azam becomes quickest
• 210* Nissanka's score in Pallekele is the highest for
any batter in ODIs against Afghanistan, bettering
to 10,000 runs in T20s
Glenn Maxwell's 201* at the Wankhede during the
2023 ODI World Cup.

Nepal's Dipendra Singh Airee created

history to hit 6 sixes in an over
• Pakistan batter Babar Azam has created by
becoming the fastest to reach 10,000 T20 runs,
going past former West Indies batter Chris Gayle
and India's Virat Kohli in the list.
• Babar has reached the 10K-run mark in his 271st
innings while Gayle had done so in 285th innings
and Kohli in 299th.

Jos Buttler becomes first England player to

• Nepal's Dipendra Singh Airee became only the make 3,000 T20I runs
third batter to hit 6 sixes in an over in a men's T20I
match after India's Yuvraj Singh and West Indian
Kieron Pollard
• In Kamran Khan’s over during Nepal’s match
against Qatar at the ACC Men’s Premier Cup, in
Oman

Namibia batter Jan Nicol Loftie-Eaton

smashes fastest-ever T20I hundred
• Namibia batter Jan Nicol Loftie-Eaton hit a hundred
off just 33 balls against Nepal, making him the
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• Buttler reached this milestone against West Indies. • The duo of Snehal Kauthankar and Kashyap Bakle
• The highest-run-scorer in T20I cricket - Virat Kohli scored triple centuries and recorded the highest
(4,037 runs) partnership in Ranji Trophy's history, adding 606
runs against Arunachal Pradesh in their plate group
Estonia's Sahil Chauhan beats Chris match
Gayle's Fastest T20 Century Record
Women’s ODI rankings: Harmanpreet Kaur
rises to ninth, Smriti Mandhana remains
fourth

• Australia and England are at the top

• India are placed in third position in the ICC
Women’s Championship standings released in
Dubai

Hardik Pandya reclaims top spot as

• Estonia's Sahil Chauhan scored 100 runs in just 27 world’s no. 1 all-rounder in ICC Men’s T20I
balls against Cyprus. rankings
• Chauhan broke the record set by West Indies batter ICC Top 5 T20
Chris Gayle, who reached 100 from 30 balls during batters
the Indian Premier League in 2013. 1. Travis Head
• Chauhan's unbeaten 144 included 18 sixes, also 2. Philip Salt
setting the record for the most sixes in a men's 3. Tilak Varma
T20I innings. 4. Suryakumar
Yadav
5. Babar Azam

ICC Top 5 T20 bowlers

Goa's Kauthankar, Bakle set record for 1. Adil Rashid
2. Wanindu Hasaranga
highest-ever partnership in Ranji history 3. Adam Zampa
4. Akeal Hosien
5. Maheesh Theekshana

Eden Gardens to rename stand in honour

of Jhulan Goswami

• India bowling legend Jhulan Goswami was

honoured by the Eden Gardens in Kolkata after the
Cricket Association of Bengal (CAB) announced

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that a stand will be renamed in her honour at the
iconic venue.
• The stand will be officially unveiled on January 22,
2025, when the India men’s team will take on
England in a T20I.

Pace Bowler Jasprit Bumrah Reclaims

Number One Spot in ICC Test Rankings
• Cassell broke the 2016 record of 6 for 16 of South
African paceman Kagiso Rabada on his debut
against Bangladesh.
• Apart from Rabada, West Indies pacer Fidel
Edwards also had taken 6 for 22 on his ODI debut.

Harmanpreet Kaur Surpasses Smriti

Mandhana To Become India’s Highest T20I
Run-Getter

• India pacer Jasprit Bumrah rose to the top of ICC

Test rankings for bowlers after picking eight
wickets in the first Test against Australia at Perth.
• Indian batter Yashasvi Jaiswal, moved up to
second amongst batters, just 78 behind England’s
Joe Root who is at the No. 1 spot.
• This milestone was achieved during India’s
Women’s Asia Cup T20 match against the UAE in
Ben Stokes achieved Historic Doubles in Dambulla.
Test and International Cricket
Hardik Pandya becomes first Indian to
occupy top spot in ICC T20I all-rounders'
rankings

• Ben Stokes became the third player and first

England cricketer to achieve over 6,000 runs and
200 wickets in Test cricket, joining Garry Sobers
and Jacques Kallis. Smriti Mandhana moves to third in ICC
ODI rankings
Scotland’s Charlie Cassell Sets ODI Record;
Takes 7 Wickets For 21 Against Oman
• In the ICC Men’s Cricket ODI World Cup League 2,
Scotland fast bowler Charlie Cassell scripted
history on his debut breaking an all-time ODI
record by taking 7 wickets for 21 against Oman, in
Dundee.

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• India vice-captain Smriti Mandhana has jumped 1587 – Shivnarine Chanderpaul (49)
one spot to third in the latest ICC ODI rankings for 1552 – Rahul Dravid (56)
women
• Mandhana, is the top-ranked Indian batter in the Afridi Becomes Youngest to Achieve 100
50-over format while skipper Harmanpreet Kaur
Wickets in All Formats
retained her ninth position.
• Mandhana also held on to her fourth spot in the
T20 rankings.

Hardik Pandya most Searched Indian

Sportsperson

• Shaheen Afridi, 24, became the youngest bowler

overall and the first bowler from Pakistan to
complete 100 wickets in all three formats of
international cricket
• After he took three wickets in the first T20I against
South Africa in Durban

• According to the Google Year in Search 2024,

cricketer Hardik Pandya was the most searched
Indian sportsperson across the globe.
• Overall, he was ranked the seventh most searched
sportsperson in the world in 2024.
• The list was topped by the female Algerian boxer
Imane Khelif, who won a gold medal in the 2024
Paris Olympics.

Joe Root breaks Sachin Tendulkar’s record

to become highest 4th innings run-scorer
in Test history

• England batter Joe Root surpassed the legendary

Sachin Tendulkar for most runs in Test run chases
during his team’s win against New Zealand

Most 4th innings runs in Test cricket:

• 1630* – Joe Root (49 innings)
1625 – Sachin Tendulkar (60)
1611 – Graeme Smith (41)
1611 – Alastair Cook (53)

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Trophy
1. Under-19 Men's World Cup
Australia lifts Under-19 Men's World Cup beating
2. Ranji Trophy 2024
3. Senior Women’s T20 Trophy
India in South Africa
4. Women's Asia Cup Final 2024
5. World Championship of Legends 2024
6. Sir Richard Hadlee Medal

• In Cricket, Australia have won the Under 19 Men's ODI World Cup
beating India by 79 runs in the final at Benoni in South Africa.

Mumbai Wins Ranji Trophy 2024 After

Beating Vidarbha

Awards
• Jagravi Pawar of Mumbai -Player of the match
• Humairaa Kaazi - Player of the Series.

• Mumbai won record extending 42nd Ranji Trophy Women's Asia Cup Final 2024: Sri Lanka
title as they defeated Vidharbha by 169 runs in the beat India in Finals
final at Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai.

Ranji Trophy winners and runner-ups

Season Champion Runner-up
2023-24 Mumbai Vidharbha
2022-23 Saurashtra Bengal
1934-35 (first Bombay Northern India
edition)

Mumbai beats Bengal to win Senior

Women’s T20 Trophy for second time in a • The host Sri Lankan women's cricket team lift their
maiden Women’s Cricket Asia Cup.
row • the 9th Women’s Cricket Asia Cup was played at
• Humaira Kazi led her Mumbai team to thier the Rangiri Dambulla International Stadium in
second Senior Women’s T20 trophy title by beating Dambulla, Sri Lanka, on 28 July 2024
Bengal in the final by 10 wickets. • India is the only team that has played in the finals
• The final of the 16th Senior Women’s T20 trophy of all the Asia Cups and has been the most
was played at the Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai, successful team, with 7 title wins.
Maharastra on 12 November 2024. • Player of the Series- Chamari Athapaththu
• The Senior Women’s T-20 Trophy is organised by
the BCCI (Board of Control for Cricket in India) and
was first held in 2008-09.
• Mumbai is now the only team to win consecutive
titles after Railways, which has won the
tournament 11 times

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India Champions Triumph in World

Championship of Legends 2024

Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy

India Champions emerged victorious over Pakistan • The Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy is India’s domestic
Champions in the 2024 World Championship of T20 cricket tournament, organised annually by the
Legends final held in Birmingham. Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI).
• Initially played as the Inter-State T20 Twenty-20
Ravindra becomes youngest recipient of Tournament in the 2006-07 season, ahead of the
Sir Richard Hadlee Medal franchise-based Indian Premier League (IPL), which
began in 2008.
• Renamed in 2010 to honour Syed Mushtaq Ali,
India’s first overseas Test centurion and a domestic
cricket stalwart.

Indian U19 team lifts inaugural T20 Asia

Cup Title

• The Sir Richard Hadlee Medal is an annual award

introduced in 2011 by New Zealand Cricket to
recognise the best New Zealand men's cricketer of
the previous year.
• It is named in honour of New Zealand cricketer, Sir
Richard Hadlee.

Short News
Bangladesh win U19 men's Asia Cup (cricket), defeat
India in final to retain title.
• The Under-19 Asia Cup is being organized since • In Women’s Cricket, India clinched the inaugural
1989 Under-19 ACC Women’s T20 Asia Cup title at Kuala
• Team India has won the Under-19 World Cup title Lumpur, Malaysia, after defeating Bangladesh
in the years 2000, 2008, 2012, 2018 and 2022
• Bangladesh has won the Under-19 Asia Cup 2023
title

Mumbai wins Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy

2024, beats Madhya Pradesh
• Mumbai wins its second Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy
title.
• Tamil Nadu max wins - has won the tournament
thrice.
• TN also won the first edition held in 2006-07
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Coach / Umpire

1. Pakistan appointed Gary Kirsten coach Pakistan appointed Gary Kirsten as ODI and T20I
2. first ICC-appointed female neutral head coach
umpire
3. India’s First Female Pitch Curator
4. Indian Men’s Cricket Team Head Coach
5. Head of the National Cricket Academy
(NCA)
6. Chairman of ICC
7. New president of the Bangladesh
Cricket Board (BCB)

• The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) has appointed World Cup-winning Gary Kirsten as their head coach for ODIs
and T20Is, while former Australian pacer Jason Gillespie will take over that role in Test cricket.
• Gary Kirsten, former South Africa opener, was the head coach of the Indian cricket team which won the 2011
World Cup under MS Dhoni.

Sue Redfern to be the first ICC-appointed Sharfuddoula Ibne Shahid became the first
female neutral umpire in bilateral series Bangladeshi Umpire to be inducted into
• England's Sue Redfern is the ICC Elite Panel of Umpires
the first female neutral
umpire appointed by the
International Cricket
Council (ICC) to work in a
bilateral series.
• She will officiate in the
upcoming ICC Women's Championship and T20I
matches between Australia and South Africa

Uganda name Abhay Sharma as Head

coach ahead of T20 World Cup • The Elite Umpires' Panel is responsible for umpiring
most men's Tests and One-Day Internationals
• India's Nitin Menon entered the top panel for an
unprecedented 5th time.

Jacintha Kalyan India’s First Female Pitch

Curator

• Uganda has booked its place in the competition

for the first time and will be among 20 teams at
the tournament
• Abhay Sharma has previous coaching stints with
India A and India Under-19s, as well as the Indian
women's cricket team and the Delhi Ranji Trophy
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• India's first woman curator Jacintha Kalyan will be • Gautam Gambhir, India’s head coach, confirmed
overseeing pitch preparations for the Bengaluru leg that he will have two new assistants in Abhishek
of the Women's Premier League, starting at the M Nayar and Ryan ten Doeschate
Chinnaswamy Stadium
• Jacintha Kalyan walk into the Karnataka State Ajinkya Naik becomes Mumbai Cricket
Cricket Association (KSCA) for the first time in
Association youngest-ever President
1994.

Ravi Shastri and Wasim Akram among 54

named as Cricket Australia’s Multicultural
Ambassadors

• Ajinkya Naik, at 37, has become the youngest

president of Mumbai Cricket Association

Royal Challengers Bengaluru announced

the recently retired Dinesh Karthik as its
• Former India coach Ravi Shastri and legendary
Pakistan cricketer Wasim Akram has been named batting coach and mentor
as Cricket Australia’s Multicultural Ambassadors,
among others, for two years.

Gautam Gambhir Appointed As Indian

Men’s Cricket Team Head Coach

PCB Chairman Mohsin Naqvi set to

• The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) has become next ACC President
appointed former batter and World Cup winner
Gautam Gambhir as the new head coach of the
senior men’s team.
• replaced Rahul Dravid as head coach.

Gambhir confirms Nayar and Ryan Ten

Doeschate as assistant coaches

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• Pakistan Cricket Board’s incumbent chairman
Mohsin Naqvi is set to become the next president
of the Asian Cricket Council (ACC) later this year as
per its rotation policy, for a two-year term.
• BCCI secretary Jay Shah is the incumbent ACC
president, having got one-year extension in
January this year for a third consecutive term.

Former India cricketer VVS Laxman is set

to extend his term as the Head of the
National Cricket Academy (NCA)
• He will take over from New Zealand’s Greg Barclay
on December 1.
• He was elected unopposed as the BCCI secretary in
October 2019.
• Since 2021, he has also been serving as the Asian
Cricket Council Chairperson.

Suryakumar Yadav named India T20I

captain;
• VVS Laxman is the current chief of the NCA.
• The current campus of NCA, located in
Chinnaswamy Cricket Stadium in Karnataka
• Established in 2000 as a cricket facility of BCCI to
train young cricketers identified as potential
members of the Indian Cricket Team in future.
• It is also used for rehabilitation when players go
through an injury

Former South African pacer Morne Morkel

has been appointed as India's new • The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) has
confirmed the passing of the captaincy baton to
bowling coach. star batter Suryakumar Yadav succeeded Rohit
Sharma to become the new T20I captain.

Former cricketer and chief selector

Faruque Ahmed has replaced Nazmul
Hasan Papon as the new president of the
Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB)

He has been appointed till the end of the 2027 ODI

World Cup in South Africa.

Jay Shah Elected Unopposed as

Independent Chair of ICC
• Jay Shah, the incumbent secretary of the Board of
Cricket for Cricket in India (BCCI), is set to become
the youngest chairman (age 35) of the
International Cricket Council (ICC).

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Alexandersson named India women’s U- • Saikia will remain Board of Control for Cricket in
India (BCCI) acting secretary till elections are
20, U-17 coach
hosted for the post in September 2025.
• replacing Jay Shah, who has taken over as
International Cricket Council’s new chairman from
1 December 2024.
• Recently Sri Lanka's Shammi Silva had taken over
as the president of the Asian Cricket Council (ACC),
succeeding India's Jay Shah

• Swede Joakim Alexandersson was appointed chief

coach of the India women’s U-20 and U-17 national
teams by the All India Football Federation.

Jay Shah takes over as new ICC chairman

• The BCCI's outgoing secretary Jay Shah (December

1, 2024) took charge as the chairman of the
International Cricket Council, becoming the fifth
Indian to head the global body.
• Replaced New Zealand attorney Greg Barclay

Shammi Silva Takes Over as ACC President

• Sri Lanka's Shammi Silva has taken over as the

president of the Asian Cricket Council (ACC),
succeeding India's Jay Shah, who recently became
the chairman of the International Cricket Council
(ICC).
• Mr. Shah had vacated the position after three
terms as ACC President.

BCCI appoints Devajit Saikia as BCCI Acting

Secretary

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Miscellaneous
Sony Sports Secures Rights for All ACC
1. Rights for All ACC Tournaments (2024 -
2031)
Tournaments (2024-2031)
2. ICC lift Sri Lanka Cricket's ban
3. India’s first hybrid pitch
4. BCCI Awards
5. ICC Men’s Awards 2023
6. Naman Awards ceremony 2024
7. Men’s Asia Cup Cricket in 2025
8. new T20 international record with 39-
run over

• The Asian Cricket Council (ACC) announced that Sony Pictures Networks India (SPNI) (Culver Max Entertainment
Private Limited) has secured the exclusive media rights for all ACC tournaments from 2024 to 2031.
• The deal encompasses all editions of the Men’s and Women’s Asia Cups, the Men’s and Women’s Under-19 Asia
Cups, and the Men’s and Women’s Emerging Teams Asia Cups.

Asian Cricket Council awards exclusive Historic Day-Night Women’s Ashes Test at
Asia Cup sponsorship rights to TCM Sports MCG
Management until 2031

• TCM Sports Management (TCM) has been awarded

exclusive commercial sponsorship rights for all • In a historic move, the Melbourne Cricket Ground
Asian Cricket Council (ACC) Asia Cup tournaments (MCG) will host a day-night Test match between
through 2031. the Australian and English women’s cricket teams.
• This will be the first time a pink-ball Test is played
ICC lift Sri Lanka Cricket's ban at the iconic venue.
• The four-day match is scheduled from January 30
to February 2, 2025.
• 100,000-capacity Melbourne Cricket Ground is
Australia’s largest stadium
• It will be the first women’s Test match at the MCG
since 1949, and the first day-night Test at that
historic ground.

• On 10 November 2023, Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) were

suspended for violation of responsibilities as an ICC
Dharamsala to get India’s first ‘hybrid
Member pitch’
• The ICC lifted the ban after Colombo promised to
end political interference in the board's
administration.
• But the ongoing U19 Men's Cricket World Cup was
moved to South Africa

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• Himachal Pradesh Cricket Association (HPCA) • Shastri, 61, represented India in 80 Tests and 150
stadium has become the first BCCI-accredited ODIs.
venue to install a state-of-the-art 'hybrid pitch'
and future international and IPL matches will be
held on this track.
• The Netherlands-based 'SISGrass', a part of the SIS
Pitches group of companies, has been roped in for
the first-ever hybrid pitch installation.
• this cutting-edge technology will transform the
game by providing a more durable, consistent, and
high-performing playing surface.“
Virat Kohli wins ICC Men's ODI Cricketer of
ICC Imposes Five-Year Ban On West Indies the Year Award for fourth time
Cricketer Devon Thomas For Anti-
Corruption Breaches

• This is the seventh individual ICC award won by

Kohli during his glittering career, and his fourth in
the ODI category after previous wins in 2012, 2017
and 2018.

• The International Cricket Council imposed a five- Suryakumar Yadav named ICC T20I Player
year period of ineligibility from all cricket on West of the Year for 2023
Indies player Devon Thomas after he accepted
breaching 7 counts of the anti-corruption codes of
Sri Lanka Cricket , the Emirates Cricket Board and
the Caribbean Premier League .
• This period of ineligibility has been backdated to
May 23, 2023

BCCI Awards • Big-hitting batter was named the T20I Player of the
• Former India all-rounder and Head Coach Ravi Year for a second consecutive time by the
Shastri will be honoured with BCCI's Lifetime International Cricket Council (ICC)
Achievement Award.
• Shubman Gill will be presented with Cricketer of ICC Men’s Awards 2023
the Year award Category Winner
• The BCCI awards will be held for the first time since Cricketer of the Year 2023 Pat Cummins
2019 (Sir Garfield Sobers Trophy) (Australia)
ODI Cricketer of the Year 2023 Virat Kohli (India)
Test Cricketer of the Year 2023 Usman Khawaja
(Australia)
T20I Cricketer of the Year 2023 Suryakumar Yadav
(India)
Emerging Cricketer of the year Rachin Ravindra
2023 (New Zealand)

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ICC Women’s Awards 2023 • Polly Umrigar Award for Best Men’s Cricketer of
Category Winner the Year: Shubman Gill (2022-23), Jasprit Bumrah
Cricketer of the Year Nat Sciver-Brunt (2021-22), Ravichandran Ashwin (2020-21),
2023 (England) Mohammed Shami (2019-20).
(Rachael Heyhoe Flint • Best International Cricketer, Women: Deepti
Award) Sharma (2019-20, 2022-23), Smriti Mandhana
(2020-21, 2021-22).
ODI Cricketer of the Year Chamari Athapaththu
2023 (Sari Lanka) • Best performance in domestic tournaments:
Mumbai (2019-20).
T20I Cricketer of the Year Hayley Matthews (West
2023 Indies)
Emerging Cricketer of Phoebe Litchfield BCCI Announces Massive Prize Money Of
the year 2023 (Australia) 125 Crore Rupees For Team India After
Winning T20 World Cup 2024
Category Winner
ICC Umpire of the Year Richard Illingworth
2023 He had previously won
(David Shepherd Trophy) this award in 2019 and
2022.

ICC Honoured Six Nations In Associate

Cricket With ICC Development Award For
2023
The International Cricket Council (ICC) has honoured:
• Mexico, the South American country known for its
excellence in the world of football, for its
excellence in Cricket.
Naman Awards ceremony 2024 • Oman, the Netherlands, the United Arab
Emirates, Nepal, and Scotland for their efforts in
the sport during the last calendar year.
• The ICC Development Award was started in 2002
to recognise the efforts and achievements of ICC
associate member nations.

Sri Lanka Cricket set to host ICC Annual

Conference from July 19 to 22
• The Naman Awards ceremony, also known as the
Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI)
Awards,
• was held on January 23, 2024 in Hyderabad.
• The Naman Awards ceremony is an annual award
ceremony. The ceremony returned for the first
time since 2019.
• Col CK Nayudu Lifetime Achievement award: Ravi
Shastri, Farokh Engineer (2019-20).

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• The International Cricket Council (ICC) is set to • The CEAT Cricket Awards started in 1995-96, is
make history as it holds its Annual Conference in sponsored by RP Goenka Group company CEAT
Sri Lanka from July 19th to 22nd, 2024. Tyres.
• This marks the first time the prestigious event will • Lifetime Achievement Award: Rahul Dravid
be hosted in the Asian region • International Cricketer of the Year: Rohit Sharma
• The theme of this year's conference, "Capitalizing
on the Olympic Opportunity" Performance in Test Match (Men’s)
➢ Test Batter of the Year: Yashashvi Jaiswal
International Cricket Council (ICC) ➢ Test Bowler of the Year: Ravichandran Ashwin
• Formation – 15 June 1909
• Headquarters – Dubai, UAE Performance in ODI (Men’s)
• Chairman – Greg Barclay (New Zealand) ➢ Batter of the Year: Virat Kohli
• Membership – 108 members ➢ Bowler of the Year: Mohammad Shami

India to Host Men’s Asia Cup Cricket in Performance in T20 (Men’s)

➢ Batter of the Year: Phil Salt (England)
2025
➢ Bowler of the Year: Tim Southee (New
Zealand)

Performance in Domestic Cricket (Men)

➢ Cricketer of the Year: Sai Kishore. Left-arm
spinner from Tamil Nadu.

Best Indian Women cricketer

• Asia Cup 2025 in India will be held in T20 format ➢ Batter of the Year: Smriti Mandhana
• It will serve as a precursor to the T20 World Cup ➢ Bowler of the Year: Deepti Sharma
2026.
• ICC Men's T20 World Cup is a biennial Twenty20 Memento
International cricket tournament, organised by the ➢ Fastest Double Century in Women's Test
International Cricket Council (ICC) every 2 years Match: Shafali Verma
• The 2027 Asia Cup will be held in ODI format in
Bangladesh as the 50-over World Cup is scheduled Other Award
in South Africa in the same year. • Excellence in Sports Administration: BCCI Secretary
Jay Shah.
Rohit Sharma Virat Kohli honoured at the
Dinesh Karthik joins Paarl Royals;
26th CEAT Cricket Awards
becomes first Indian player in the South
African league
• Former wicketkeeper
batter Dinesh Karthik
signed by Paarl Royals for
the third season of the
SA20.
• Making him the first
Indian cricketer to
participate in the South
African league.
• 26th CEAT Cricket Awards ceremony held in • Karthik, 39, retired from
Mumbai . all forms of cricket in
• It is one of the most prestigious awards in cricket. June this year and since then he has been roped in
It honours the exceptional performance of as a mentor-cum-batting coach by IPL side Royal
cricketers worldwide. Challengers Bengaluru.

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Afghanistan cricketer Ihsanullah Jannat • Telangana Government has resolved to sanction

Group-I posts of Deputy Superintendent of Police
banned for 5 years for match-fixing
cadre to Boxer Nikhat Zareen and cricketer
Mohammed Siraj in appreciation of their
outstanding performance in their respective
sports fields.
• The State Government has amended the Telangana
(Regulation of appointments to public services
and rationalisation of staff pattern and pay
structure) Act, 1994 to facilitate the appointments.
• Afghanistan international cricketer Ihsanullah • Nikhat Zareen won the World Championship Gold
Jannat has been banned from all forms of cricket medal at Istanbul in 2022 and New Delhi-2023 IBA
for five years for match-fixing, the Afghanistan Women’s World Boxing championships
Cricket Board (ACB) • Mr. Siraj represented the country in prestigious
• Jannat breached ICC's Anti-Corruption Code tournaments including World Test Championship,
during the second season of the Kabul Premier One Day International world cup finals.
League this year , Involves improper influence or • Recently, the country had won the T-20 world cup
efforts to fix the result, after 13 years and Mr. Siraj was the only cricketer
from Telangana who was part of the T-20 winning
squad
First-ever Women’s Test match between
India and England to be played in 2026 at Samoan batter Darius Visser sets new T20
Lord’s Cricket Ground international record with 39-run over

• In the World Cup East Asia-Pacific Region Qualifier

Telangana government to give Group-I in the capital city of Apia.
posts of DSP cadre to Nikhat Zareen and • Previous record - 36 runs in an over
Mohd. Siraj
India spinner Ashwin questions RTM (The
Right to Match) rule ahead of IPL 2025
auction
• RTM is a rule through which franchises can retain a
player, who represented them in the previous
season and whom they didn’t retain before the
auction, if they match the highest bid placed by a
franchise during the auction.
• The RTM rule was first introduced in 2014 and has
not been used in IPL auctions since 2018.

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The 9th ICC Women’s T20 World Cup 2024 Champions Trophy 2025: PCB confirms
venue has been shifted to the United Arab UAE as neutral venue
Emirates (UAE) from Bangladesh. • The Pakistan Cricket Board has chosen the United
Arab Emirates as a neutral venue to host India’s
games at next year's Champions Trophy.
• India had refused to travel to tournament host
Pakistan for the eight-team, 50-over Champions
Trophy, amid its security concerns.
• Pakistan will not play in India in ICC events in the
2024-27 cycle.
• Pakistan will also go to a neutral venue when India
hosts the 2025 Women’s World Cup and co-hosts
Short NEWS the 2026 men’s T20 World Cup with Sri Lanka.
• Andhra Cricket Association
(ACA) appoints Mithali Raj as ICC Nominates Smriti Mandhana &
Mentor of Women’s Cricket Arshdeep Singh for Cricketer of the Year
Operations for 3 years
Award 2024
• Indian Pacer
India to host first ever women's T20 World Arshdeep Singh has
Cup for Blind in 2025 been named among
the nominees for
the T20I Cricketer of
the Year award.
• Jasprit Bumrah was
nominated for the
ICC Test Cricketer of
the Year award
• In the Women’s Emerging Cricketer of the Year
category India’s Shreyanka Patil is nominated.
• while Smriti Mandhana is nominated for the
• Hosting rights were granted to India last year, but Women’s ODI Cricketer of the Year award.
the event gains significance after India withdrew • The ICC Awards 2024 comprises 12 individual
from the Men’s T20 Blind Cricket World Cup in awards
Pakistan due to security concerns. • Winners of the ICC Awards will be announced in
late January, next year.
Lok Sabha Speaker XI wins TB Mukt Bharat
Awareness Cricket Match, defeats Rajya Sachin Tendulkar Accepts Prestigious
Sabha Chairman XI MCC’s Membership
• Indian batting great Sachin Tendulkar has accepted
an invitation to
become an
honorary member
of the Melbourne
Cricket Club (MCC).
• MCC is one of the
• In a friendly cricket match organised to create oldest sports clubs
awareness of tuberculosis (TB), the Lok Sabha in Australia and is responsible for managing the
Speaker XI defeated the Rajya Sabha Chairman XI Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG).
in New Delhi. • Earlier in 2012, the Indian batter was awarded the
• BJP MP from Himachal Pradesh Anurag Singh Order of Australia, one of the country’s highest
Thakur was the man of the match honours.

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CHESS
Gukesh Secures Spot in Men's Chess Candidates
1. Men's Chess Candidates2024 2024 T ournament
Tournament
2. India's number one Chess player
3. International Chess Federation Awards
4. 2024 Superbet Rapid & Blitz Poland
5. India’s 85th Chess Grandmaster
6. Leon Masters Chess title
7. U8 World Cadets Chess Championship

• The prestigious Candidates tournament will take place in Toronto, Canada from April 2 to 25, 2024.
• Gukesh became the third Indian to make the Candidates tournament, joining R Praggnanandhaa and Vidit
Gujrathi.
• This is the first time in history that three Indians are playing the Candidates.
• The winner gets the chance to take on China’s Ding Liren in the next World Chess Championship.

Rameshbabu Praggnanandhaa surpasses IIT Madras to host the 6th Shaastra Rapid
Viswanathan Anand to become India's FIDE Rated Chess Tournament
number one Chess player
• India Chess Wizard R
Praggnanandhaa defeated
World Chess Champion Ding
Liren in the Tata Steel
Masters in the Netherlands.
• As a result of this victory,
Praggnanandhaa became
only the second Indian after Vishwanathan Anand
to defeat a reigning champion. • An International Chess Federation (FIDE)-rated
• He also overtook Anand to become India's new Rapid Chess Tournament will be hosted on March
number one Chess player in terms of live ratings. 30 and 31, 2024.
• The '6th Shaastra Rapid FIDE Rated Chess
Tournament’ will witness the participation of 6
Praggnanandhaa the only player in recent
Grandmasters, 16 International Masters, 3 Women
times to have beaten both world Grandmasters and a Women International Master.
champions in open and women’s
categories India's Gukesh D Makes History, Becomes
• Grandmaster R. Praggnanandhaa defeated the Youngest To Win Candidates Chess
reigning and four-time women's world champion
Tournament
Wenjun Ju from China in the ninth round of the
Tata Steel Masters.
• Just a week ago in the same tournament, the
Indian ace had beaten Ding Liren of China.
• The Tata Steel Chess Tournament is an annual
chess tournament taking place from Jan 12-28 in
Wijk aan Zee, the Netherlands.
• It is a single round-robin tournament, with 14
players facing off against each other once.
• It is open to both men and women.

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• D Gukesh, the 17-year-old from Chennai has International Chess Federation Awards
become the youngest ever winner of the
Grandmaster Title To Indian Chess Prodigy
prestigious Candidates tournament (which will also
make him the youngest ever to compete at the Vaishali Ramesh Babu
World Chess Championship) after his draw against
Hikaru Nakamura in the final round of the
Candidates chess tournament.
• D Gukesh will take on reigning world champion,
China's Ding Liren, for the crown later this year
• D Gukesh became only the second Indian after the
great Viswanathan Anand to win the Candidates.
Five-time world champion Anand's triumph came
in 2014.
• Indian Chess Prodigy, Vaishali Ramesh Babu, has
Arjun Erigaisi replaces Viswanathan Anand officially been awarded the title of Grandmaster
to become India's No. 1 in latest FIDE by FIDE, the International Chess Federation.
Rankings • This makes Vaishali the third Indian female
Grandmaster, joining Koneru Humpy and Harika
Dronavalli.
• She and her brother, Rameshbabu
Praggnanandhaa, became the world’s first
Grandmaster brother-sister duo.
• Vaishali is the 84th Indian grandmaster. In January,
she was presented with the Arjuna Award.

Some Prominent Indian Chess Grandmasters (Requires

• India has a new number 1 in the latest chess Elo rating of above 2500):
rankings: Arjun Erigaisi was the top-ranked Indian • 1987 – Vishwanathan Anand, Tamil Nadu
in the latest FIDE rankings • 2002 – Koneru Humpy, Andhra Pradesh
• Erigaisi is ranked 9th in the world. • 2011 – Harika Dronavalli, Andhra Pradesh
• Following him is five-time world champion • 2023 – Vaishali Rameshbabu, Tamil Nadu
Viswanathan Anand, who is the second ranked
Indian on the FIDE list. Note: Woman Grandmaster (WGM) Requires a
minimum Elo rating of 2300
Praggnanandhaa beats World No. 1 • Subbaraman Vijayalakshmi - first to claim the WGM
Magnus Carlsen For First Time In Classical title in India 2001.
• Jayshree Khadilkar – first Woman International
Event At Norway Chess 2024 Master (WIM) title in India in 1979

GM Arjun Erigaisi Triumphs in Stepan

Avagyan Memorial 2024

• The 18-year-old Indian prodigy took down the

World No. 1 in the 3rd round of Norway Chess
2024.

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• Indian GM Arjun secured victory in the Stepan • Divya Deshmukh won the World junior girls’ chess
Avagyan Memorial 2024 held in Jermuk, Armenia, championship after beating Bulgaria in the final
with a round to spare. round at the Gift City Club.
• Erigaisi, India’s highest-rated chess player at 20
years old, achieved this feat by defeating Russian Sports Minister handed over Chess
GM Volodar Murzin in 63 moves during the
Olympiad Torch to Budapest
penultimate round.
• Placing him at a career-high 4th spot in live chess
ratings.

Magnus Carlsen Wins 2024 Superbet

Rapid & Blitz Poland

• Union Minister for Youth Affairs and Sports, Anurag

Singh Thakur, along with International Chess
Federation FIDE president Arkady Dvorkovich,
handed over the Chess Olympiad Torch to
Budapest, Hungary, the host of the 45th edition of
the Chess Olympiad.
• The transfer of the torch took place at the Major
Dhyanchand National Stadium in New Delhi.
• The 44th edition of the Chess Olympiad held in
Chennai in 2022

P Shyaamnikhil of Tamil Nadu becomes Winners:

India’s 85th Chess Grandmaster • Uzbekistan team won the gold medal in open
event
• Ukraine won the gold medal in the Women's event
• India won Bronze in both events

Viswanathan Anand Wins Leon Masters

Chess title for the 10th time
• R Vaishali was the 84th Indian GM.
• Vishwanathan Anand was the first Indian to
become the Grandmaster in 1988.
• There are three female Indian Grandmasters
Koneru Humpy, Dronavalli Harika and R. Vaishali.

Divya Deshmukh Wins World Junior Girls’

Chess Championship
• Five time world champion Viswanathan Anand
defeated Jaime Santos Latasa of Spain
• The Leon Masters chess tournament is held in the
Leon city of Spain. The tournament features four
players.

About Viswanathan Anand

• At the age of 15 years he became the youngest
Indian to earn the International Masters (IM)
norms.

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• India’s first chess Grand Master in 1988. • The International Chess Federation, known by its
• world chess champion five times, FIDE World French acronym FIDE, the world’s governing body
Chess Champion. for chess
• Anand, in April 2006 became the fourth player
after Garry Kasparov, Vladimir Kramnik and Veselin World No 1 Magnus Carlsen wins Tata
Topalov, to pass the 2800 Elo rating marks.
Steel Chess India Blitz event
• He has been a world number ranked player for 21
months.

IIT Madras Aims to Make India Global

Chess Powerhouse

• IIT Madras Centre of Excellence in Sports Science • securing both the rapid and blitz titles.
and Analytics (CESSA) unveiled plans to make India • This victory marks Carlsen’s second double win in
a global chess powerhouse using technology- Kolkata, having previously achieved the same feat
driven tools. in 2019.
• The initiative is aimed at enhancing fan • In the women’s section, grandmaster Kateryna
engagement, providing solutions for federations to Lagno emerged victorious in the blitz section
flag cheating and chess training programmes to • In the women's rapid event, GM Aleksandra
further grow the sports at the grassroots level, the Goryachkina emerged champion.
institute said.
• This was revealed at the Sports Tech Start Up Divith Reddy (Hyderabad) becomes World
Conclave' being organised in New Delhi by IIT Champion in U8 World Cadets Chess
Madras CESSA.
Championship, in Montesilvano, Italy.
• The conclave is sponsored by Dream Sports,
Vedanta and SFA Play.

Anish Sarkar Becomes Youngest-Rated

FIDE Chess Player Globally

Arjun Erigaisi makes history by climbing to

No. 2 on FIDE World Chess Rankings
• Indian Grandmaster Arjun Erigaisi jumped to the
world No.2 in the live chess ranking and is now
• Anish Sarkar of Kolkata, West Bengal, has become only behind five-time world champion Magnus
the youngest-rated FIDE chess player in the world. Carlsen.
• At the age of three years, eight months, and 19 • The 21-year-old Arjun Erigaisi, who hails from
days, Anish secured a FIDE rating of 1555. Warangal in Telangana , had last month created

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history by becoming the youngest Indian and only Arjun Erigaisi becomes 2nd Indian to
the second Indian player to cross the 2800 Elo
breach 2800 ELO rating in chess
rating mark in live ratings.

• The great Viswanathan Anand was the first Indian

chess player to cross the 2800 barrier. • Grandmaster Arjun Erigaisi became the second
Indian after legendary Viswanathan Anand and
Karthik Venkataraman Clinches Second 16th worldwide to reach the gold-standard ELO
rating of 2800, while also occupying the fourth
Indian National Title
spot in the latest rankings.

9-Year-Old Aarit Kapil Stuns Chess

Grandmaster

• Karthik Venkataraman won the 61st edition of the

Indian National Championship at the event
organised by the Haryana Chess Association. • Nine-year-old Delhi boy Aarit Kapil has become the
youngest Indian to beat a chess Grandmaster as he
Pranav Venkatesh wins FIDE World U-18 emerged victorious against Raset Ziatdinov of
Youth Rapid & Blitz Chess titles in Slovenia United States in the ninth and penultimate round
of the KIIT International open tournament
• At 9 years, 2 months and 18 days, Aarit is the
youngest Indian and third in the world to beat a
GM under the classical time control.

Indian Grandmaster D. Gukesh becomes

youngest World Chess Champion

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• Gukesh Dommaraju became the youngest world Koneru Humpy is World rapid champion
champion in chess history, beating Ding Liren • Indian Chess Grandmaster Koneru Humpy won her
(China) in the World Chess Championship 2024 in second Women’s World
Singapore. Rapid Chess
• The 18-year-old from Chennai broke the record Championship title,
held by the Russian Garry Kasparov for nearly four beating Irene
decades. Sukandar of Indonesia.
• This was the first-ever World championship match • Her first title in 2019 at
contested by two Asian countries. And it was a Georgia.
match between the players from India and China • The top ranked Indian is
• Gukesh is only the third Asian to win the World only the second player
championship. after China's Ju Wenjun to clinch the title more
• Viswanathan Anand, who is now a mentor for than once.
Gukesh, was the first, and Ding Liren the second. • Humpy is India’s first female grandmaster (in 2002)
• The top three youngest players to beat a • GM Volodar Murzin from Russia won the 2024
Grandmaster: 1. Ashwath Kaushik (Singapore) – 8 FIDE World Rapid Chess Championship
years 2 months 2. Leonid Ivanovic (Serbia) – 8
years 11 months 3. Aarit Kapil – 9 years 2 months.

FOOTBALL
1. All India Governor’s Gold Cup
40th All India Governor’s Gold Cup International
International Football Tournament Football Tournament concluded in Gangtok
2. Premier League
3. Women's Asian Cups
4. 36th La Liga title
5. FIFA World Cup 2026
6. Santosh Trophy
7. Durand Cup Trophy 2024
8. 16th Copa America title
9. AFC President’s Recognition Award
10.
• NorthEast United FC emerged victorious
• The Sikkim Gold Cup, known as the All India Governor's Gold Cup, is an Indian football tournament held in
Sikkim and organized by the Sikkim Football Association (SFA).

U.S. goalkeeper Alyssa Naeher retiring Manchester City wins historic fourth in
row title at Premier League

• She was the starting goalkeeper as the US won the

World Cup in 2019, as well as Olympic gold in Paris
this summer.

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• Manchester City won its fourth straight Premier • Brazil was declared the host of the 2027 Women’s
League title, making it the first team to achieve World Cup at the FIFA Congress
this feat. • to become the first South American country to
• Manchester City’s earlier three consecutive hold the tournament.
Premier League titles: 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024
• The Premier League is the top professional Spanish football club Real Madrid wins
football (soccer) division in England and is widely
36th La Liga title
regarded as one of the most competitive and
popular football leagues in the world.

Lionel Messi's Iconic No.10 Argentina

Jersey to be Retired

The La Liga is a professional men’s club-based football

championship in Spain.

Mumbai City FC regain the Indian Super

Australia and Uzbekistan to host AFC League crown over Mohun Bagan SG
Women's Asian Cups

• Mumbai City FC beat Mohun Bagan Super Giant at

the Salt Lake Stadium to emerge as the Indian
Super League (ISL) 2023-24 Cup Winners at the
final in Kolkata.

ISL 2023-24 Season Awards

• Golden Glove – Phurba Lachenpa (Mumbai City FC)
• Golden Boot – Dimitrios Diamantakos (Kerala
• Australia and Uzbekistan have been confirmed as Blasters FC)
hosts for the 2026 and 2029 Asian Football • Player of the League – Dimitrios Petratos (Mohun
Confederation (AFC) Women’s Asian Cups, Bagan Super Giant)
respectively
• This marks Australia’s second time hosting after About Indian Super League (ISL):
2006 and makes Uzbekistan the first Central Asian • It is a professional football league in India.
nation to host the event. • The league was officially founded in 2013.
• AFC President - Shaikh Salman • It operates on a franchise system
• AFC Current champions: China • The league was established through a partnership
between the All India Football Federation (AIFF),
Brazil to Host 2027 Women’s World Cup Reliance Industries, and Star Sports.
Soccer • ISL is recognized by the Asian Football
Confederation (AFC) and global governing body
FIFA

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India Draws 0-0 With Kuwait In Chhetri’s • FIFA President Gianni Infantino
• FIFA world cup Qatar 2022 : Argentina winning the
Last Match: FIFA World Cup 2026 qualifier
final against the title holder France
• Indian star football player
• The first football FIFA World Cup for men was held
Sunil Chhetri’s last game
for India ended in a
goalless draw against
Kuwait.
• It was a FIFA World Cup
2026 qualifier match at
the Vivekananda Yuba
Bharati Krirangan (Salt
Lake Stadium) in Kolkata.
• Sunil Chhetri retires as India’s highest goal scorer
with 94
• Sunil Chhetri, the Indian football captain, had
announced his retirement from international
football after playing his last match against Kuwait
on 6 June 2024

Awards and Achievements

Trophies • AFC Challenge Cup: 2008
• SAFF Championship (4): 2011, in 1930 while the women’s tournament debuted in
2015, 2021, 2023 1991.
• Nehru Cup (3): 2007, 2009, 2012 • The men’s Brazil football team has the most FIFA
• Intercontinental Cup (2): 2018, World Cup wins (5 times)
2023 • In the women’s FIFA World Cup, the USA are the
• Tri-Nation Series: 2023 most successful nation (4 times)
National • Dhyan Chand Khel Ratna Award:
Awards 2021
• Padma Shri: 2019
Hyderabad to host FIFA World Cup 2026
• Arjuna Award : 2011 qualifiers between India and Kuwait on
Awards • AIFF Player of the Year (7): 2007, June 6
and 2011, 2013, 2014, 2017, 2018–19,
Accolades 2021–22
• FPAI Indian Player of the Year (3):
2009, 2018, 2019
• SAFF Championship Player of the
Tournament (4): 2011, 2015, 2021,
2023
• SAFF Championship Top Scorer (3):
2011, 2021, 2023
• Football Ratna Award (first • FIFA World Cup is set to take place from June 11 to
recipient) by Football Delhi: 2019 July 19, 2026.
• It will be jointly hosted by 16 cities in three North
FIFA World Cup 2026 schedule revealed American countries: Canada, Mexico, and USA
• Mexico will play the World Cup opener at Estadio
Azteca on June 11. Education Ministry ties up with FIFA to
• New York New Jersey's MetLife Stadium will host promote sporting culture through football
the World Cup final on 19 July • The Education Ministry and FIFA have partnered to
• Co-hosted by the USA, Canada and Mexico, the promote football in schools across India.
FIFA World Cup will be played across 16 host cities
in three countries.

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• The joint initiative aims to distribute 11 lakh • The deal makes Aramco FIFA’s Major Worldwide
footballs to more than 1.5 lakh schools, making the Partner and gives it sponsorship rights at the 2026
sport accessible to students nationwide. FIFA Men’s World Cup being hosted in the U.S.
Mexico and Canada, as well as the 2027 Women’s
World Cup.

Santosh Trophy: Services beats Goa to lift

title for seventh time

• under the Footballs for Schools (F4S) programme,

footballs to be distributed in Odisha, Goa,
Maharashtra, Gujarat, Dadra and Nagar Haveli, and
Daman and Diu in a phased manner.
• In the 77th National Football Championship,
Services lifted the Santosh Trophy for the seventh
National Football League bans Hip-Drop
time
Tackle in 2024 • beating Goa 1-0 in the Santosh Trophy final at the
• In 2024, the NFL banned the hip- Golden Jubilee Stadium at Papum Pare District in
drop tackle during its annual Arunachal Pradesh.
meeting in Orlando, Florida.
• The decision was driven by
Real Madrid Wins Against Barcelona in
concerns over player safety, as
the hip-drop tackle had been Spanish Super Cup
linked to numerous player
injuries over the years.
• NFL is the major American
professional football
organization.

Ivory Coast win Africa Cup of Nations

• It took place in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

• Supercopa de Espana or Spanish Super Cup is an
annual club tournament in Spanish football.
• Barcelona are the most successful team in the
competition with 14 titles.
• It is contested between four teams which included
the winners and runners-up of the Copa del Rey
and La Liga.
Aramco And FIFA Forge Global Partnership

• Aramco, the Saudi state-owned oil and gas major,

agreed a four-year global partnership with FIFA,
global soccer’s governing body.

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Manipur’s Panthoi Chanu makes history:

First Indian to play in Australian
Professional League

• She assumes her position to the Metro United Durand Cup

WFC in the esteemed South Australian Women’s • It is Asia’s oldest and the world’s third oldest
National Premier League. football tournament, in which top Indian football
clubs from across the country participate.
India has maintained its 124th position in • The inaugural edition took place in Shimla in 1888,
when it started off as an Army Cup, open only to
the latest FIFA men’s rankings
the British Indian Army troops in India.
• The tournament is named after its founder Sir
Henry Mortimer Durand.
• The Durand Cup tournament is unique where in
the winning team walks away with three trophies:
1. The Durand Cup (a rolling trophy and the
original prize).
2. The Shimla Trophy (also a rolling trophy and
first given by the residents of Shimla in 1904).
3. The President's Cup (for permanent keep and
first presented by Dr. Rajendra Prasad, India’s
first President, in 1956).
• Argentina, the reigning world champion and Copa
America winner, - at the top of the FIFA rankings. NorthEast United win maiden Durand Cup
• France maintains its position as the second-ranked title
team

President Murmu Unveils Durand Cup

Trophy 2024

• Defeated defending Mohun Bagan Super Giant, at

the Salt Lake Stadium (Vivekananda Yuba Bharati
Krirangan), Kolkata
• The Trophies unveiled include the Durand Cup, the
• Durand Cup - Asia’s oldest football tournament
President’s Cup and Shimla Trophy.
• Gurmeet Singh won Golden Glove
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• Noah Sadaoui (6 goals) won the Golden Boot Argentina defeated Colombia in the Copa
• Jithin M.S was awarded the Man of the America 2024 final at the Hard Rock Stadium in Miami
Tournament to lift its 16th title to become the most successful team
in the competition’s history.
133rd Durand Cup Expands to New Venues
Thomas Müller retired from International
Football

• Two new cities, Jamshedpur and Shillong, along

with Kolkata and Kokrajhar, will host the 133rd
edition of the Durand Cup (football). • Thomas Müller announced his retirement from
• The 133rd edition shall see 24 teams divided into international soccer, ending a 14-year career with
six groups. the German national team.
• A total of 43 matches would be played, with the • Müller was instrumental in Germany's 2014 World
finals scheduled at the iconic Vivekananda Yuba Cup victory, scoring five goals in the tournament
Bharati Krirangan (VYBK) in Kolkata. and ten goals overall in World Cups.

UEFA European Championship 2024: Spain Olivier Giroud announced International

Defeat England To Clinch Record 4th Retirement after Euro 2024
Championship Title

• France's all-time leading goal scorer, Olivier Giroud,

• In Football, Spain won its record fourth European announced his retirement from international
soccer championship after defeating England in the football
finals of Euro 2024 in Berlin. • His international career includes winning the 2018
World Cup
Argentina wins record 16th Copa America
title AIFF awards 2024, Chhangte, Indumathi
Win Top Male and Female Awards

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• The All India Football Federation (AIFF) recently • The world football governing body FIFA has
held its annual awards ceremony, recognizing selected Meghalay’s Riiohlang Dhar as an assistant
outstanding achievements in Indian football for the referee for the eighth U-17 Women’s World Cup to
2023-24 season. be held in the Dominican Republic.
• The top honours went to Lallianzuala Chhangte
and Indumathi Kathiresan, who were named the FIFA Unveils NASA-Inspired Trophy for
male and female Players of the Year respectively.
Expanded 2025 Club World Cup
Manolo Marquez Appointed Head Coach
Of Indian Men’s Football Team

• FIFA has revealed the new 2025 Club World Cup

trophy, a golden masterpiece created in
collaboration with Tiffany & Co.
• The trophy, which will be awarded at the first-ever
32-team tournament in June and July 2025.
• Its design is inspired by NASA’s 1970s Voyager
FC Goa coach Manolo Marquez will be the next Indian missions, the periodic table, and the mapping of
national men’s team head coach while continuing to celestial journeys, linking football to exploration
manage the Indian Super League side simultaneously and global unity.
for another year. • The trophy includes engravings in 13 languages,
Braille, and a world map with the names of all FIFA
Bangladesh crowns new champion of SAFF member associations.
U-20 Championship
AIFF Clinches AFC President’s Recognition
Award for Grassroots Football (Silver)

• Bangladesh has been crowned the new champion

of the SAFF (South Asian Football Federation) U-
20 Championship football tournament after
defeating hosts Nepal in the final
• This is the first time that Bangladesh has won this • The All India Football Federation (AIFF) was
Championship. conferred with the prestigious President's
• India had won SAFFU-20 in 2019, 2022 and 2023. Recognition Award for Grassroots Football (Silver)
during the Asian Football Confederation (AFC)
Riiohlang appointed Asst. Referee for 8th Annual Awards in Seoul, South Korea .
FIFA U17 Women’s World Cup • Nagendra Prasad Sarbadhakari, known as the
Father of Indian Football
• AIFF President - Kalyan Chaubey

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Vinícius Júnior and Aitana Bonmati win Real Madrid won Intercontinental Cup
FIFA best player of the year 2024 awards title against Pachuca

• Spain’s FIFA Women’s World Cup 2023 winner

Aitana Bonmatí has been named The Best FIFA • final at the Lusail Stadium in Qatar
Women’s Player • FIFA restarted the Intercontinental Cup this year,
• Brazil’s Vinícius Jr has won The Best FIFA Men’s which features six continental club champions
Player
• at The Best FIFA Football Awards 2024 ceremony in West Bengal lifts Santosh Trophy by
Doha, Qatar. defeating Kerala

FIFA names Saudi Arabia as 2034 World

Cup host; Spain, Portugal and Morocco to
co-host 2030 edition

• West Bengal clinched the title for a record 33rd

time with a 1-0 win against Kerala in the final of
the 78th edition at the GMC Balayogi Stadium,
Hyderabad.
• Saudi Arabia has been officially confirmed as host • Santosh Trophy is India’s premier football
of the 2034 FIFA World Cup in men’s soccer competition for states and union territories.
• Spain, Portugal and Morocco will co-host in a six- • Started in 1941
nation project, with Argentina, Paraguay and • West Bengal, then named Bengal, went on to win
Uruguay the inaugural Santosh Trophy title in 1941-42 after
• Saudi Arabia will become the second nation from beating Delhi
the Middle East to host the mega football event,
12 years after neighbours Qatar staged the 2022 Award winners:
edition, where Argentina defeated France. • Winners - West Bengal, Santosh Trophy, and a
• FIFA President Gianni Infantino. cash prize of Rs 5 Lakhs.
• 2026 FIFA venue - Canada, Mexico, and the United • Runners Up - Kerala, Kamla Gupta Trophy, and a
States cash prize of Rs 3 lakhs.
• The Santosh Trophy is named after the former
Maharaja of Santosh (now in Bangladesh), Sir
Manmatha Nath Roy Chowdhury, a legendary
figure in Indian football.

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TENNIS
Grand slam
Jannik Sinner won his maiden Grand Slam title,
1. Jannik Sinner won his maiden Grand defeating Daniil Medvedev
Slam title
2. Aryna Sabalenka first woman to defend
singles title in a decade
3. Rohan Bopanna wins Australian Open
Doubles
4. Wimbledon 2024
5. US Open 2024
6. Miami Open 2024
7. Monte-Carlo Masters singles • Italy’s Jannik Sinner won the Australian Open final in
8. Novak Djokovic breaks Federer's record Melbourne, his maiden Grand Slam title, defeating Daniil
to be Oldest No.1 Player Medvedev from Russia
9. India No.1 TT player • Italy's first men's singles winner since 1976
10. Cincinnati Open titles • Most Australian Open titles:
11. 2025 Tennis Hall of Fame Class Men's singles Novak Djokovic 10
Women's singles Serena Williams 7
12. Billie Jean King Cup
13.

Aryna Sabalenka first woman to defend French Open: Iga Świątek & Carloz Alcaraz
singles title in a decade Win Singles Title

• Iga Swiatek (Poland) won her third consecutive

• Aryna Sabalenka defeated China’s Zheng Qinwen French Open championship and fourth in five
to successfully defend her Australian Open title. years.
• The world No.1 became the third player in the
Rohan Bopanna wins Australian Open Open Era, after Monica Seles (1990 to ’92) and
Justine Henin (2005 to ’07) to win the French Open
Doubles
women’s singles title three years in a row.
• Swiatek also won the French Open in 2020 and the
U.S. Open in 2022 .
• After Serena Williams in 2013, she’s only the
second woman to win the Madrid, Rome and
Roland Garros titles in the same year.
• Carlos Alcaraz beats Alexander Zverev to win first
French Open title and become the youngest man
to win Grand Slam titles on all three surfaces.
• Bopanna and his Australian partner Matthew
Ebden beat the Italian pair of Simone Bolelli and
Andrea Vavassori to clinch the men's doubles final.
• At 43, Bopanna became the oldest man to win a
Grand Slam doubles title in the Open Era.

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Wimbledon 2024: Barbora Krejcíkova and

Carlos Alcaraz Winners

• Barbora Krejcikova (Czech Republic) defeated

Jasmine Paolini (Italy) to win her maiden
Wimbledon women’s singles title in London.
• Carlos Alcaraz (Spain) defended his Wimbledon
title as he defeated Novak Djokovic (Serbia) US Open 2024
• Roger Federer has won most 8 Wimbledon titles.

Grand Slam tournaments, also called majors, are the

four most important annual tennis events.
The Grand Slam itinerary consists of :
1. The Australian Open in mid-January,
2. The French Open in May - June,
3. Wimbledon in June–July
4. The US Open in August–September.
• The 2024 US Open, held from August 19 to
• The Australian and United States tournaments are September 8 at Flushing Meadows, Queens, New
played on hard courts, the French on clay, and York City.
Wimbledon on grass. • Jannik Sinner of Italy and Aryna Sabalenka of
• Wimbledon is the oldest, founded in 1877, Belarus emerged as champions, each claiming their
followed by the US in 1881, the French in 1891, first US Open title and adding to their growing list
and the Australian in 1905. of Grand Slam achievements.
• As of July 2024, Novak Djokovic held the record for
the most men's tennis Grand Slam titles, with a Event Winner Runners-UP
total of 24. (Nationalities) (Nationalities)
• As of February 2024, Margaret Court holds the Men’s Jannik Sinner (Italy ) Taylor Fritz (USA)
record for the most Grand Slam tournament Single
victories by a woman with 24. Women’s Aryna Sabalenka Jessica Pegula
Single (Belarus) (USA)
Men’s Max Purcell and Kevin Krawietz
Double Jordan Thompson and Tim Puetz
(Both Australian) (Both from
Germany)
Women’s Lyudmyla Kichenok Kristina
Double (Ukraine)and Jelena Mladenovic
Ostapenko (Latvia) (France) and
Zhang Shuai
(China)
Mixed Sara Errani and Donald Young and
Doubles Andrea Vavassori Taylor Townsend
(Both from Italy) (Both American)

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2024 Madrid Open Italian open 2024

Title Winner
Title Winner
men’s singles Andrey Rublev (Russia)
Men’s singles Alexander Zverev
women’s singles Iga Swiatek (Poland)
Women’s singles Iga Swiatek
Qatar Open Iga Swiatek
Barcelona Open 2024 Mexican Open 2024 Alex De Minaur
San Diego Open Katie Boulter
Mumbai Open 2024 Jessica Pegula

Prithvi Shekhar won the title in Slovenia

Deaf Tennis Open
Title Winner
Men’s singles Casper Ruud
women’s singles Elena Rybakina

Miami Open 2024

• Prithvi Shekhar won the title in the Slovenia Deaf

Tennis Open by winning the title in the men's
singles category.
Title Winner • Earlier he claimed a singles title at the Australian
Men’s singles Jannik Sinner Open Deaf Championship.
Women’s singles Danielle Collins
men's doubles Rohan Bopanna and his Sumit Nagal becomes First Indian Man in
Australian partner Matthew
Ebden
35 Years to Beat Seeded Player at
Australian Open

• He secured his spot in the second round of the

Australian Open after defeating world number 27
Alexander Bublik of Kazakhstan.

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Sumit Nagal lifts Chennai Open ATP Tennis: India’s Sumit Nagal Clinches
Challenger trophy Heilbronn Neckarcup Challenger In
Germany

• In the Tennis Chennai Open ATP Challenger finale,

India's top-ranked Sumit Nagal emerged victorious • He defeated Alexander Ritschard of Switzerland in
and wins his 5th Challenger Title. the men’s singles title clash.
• He defeated Luca Nardi of Italy • This is his 6th ATP Challenger title.
• The Chennai Open is the first in a series of ATP • With this victory, Sumit virtually qualified for the
Challenger 100 events to be held in India. upcoming Paris Olympics. He also achieved an all
time high World Ranking of 77 in the Live ATP
Sumit Nagal attains career-high ATP ranking.
ranking of 95
• Ace Indian tennis Arjun Kadhe and Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan
player Sumit Nagal clinch ATP Challenger Tennis Tournament
achieved a career-high
ranking of 95 in the
in Mexico
ATP singles chart.
• He recently won the
Chennai Open, an ATP
Challenger series event.
• Nagal made headlines in January after he made it
to the main draw of the Australian Open and also
became the first Indian to beat a seeded player
(Alexander Bublik of Kazakhstan) in the same
• ATP Challenger Tour is a series of international
Sumit Nagal becomes first Indian to win men's professional tennis tournaments that are a
rung below the ATP Tour
Monte-Carlo Masters singles main draw in
42 years Rohan Bopanna becomes oldest player to
• Sumit Nagal
created history,
hold No. 1 men’s tennis doubles ranking
becoming the first
Indian to record a
main-draw win at
Monte Carlo
Masters, beating
Italy’s Matteo
Arnaldi in the first
round
• He is only the third Indian to feature in the main
draw in Monte Carlo after Vijay Amritraj (1977) and
Ramesh Krishnan (1982)
• Nagal is also the first Indian to win an ATP Masters
1000 match on clay since the series began in 1990.

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Carlos Alcaraz & Iga Swiatek Indian Wells • 25-year-old tennis player Stefanos Tsitsipas of
Greece defeated Casper Ruud of Norway to win
title champions
his third ATP Monte Carlo Masters 1000 title.
• He also won the title in 2021 and 2022.

Sreeja Akula surpasses Manika as India

No.1 TT player

• He defeated Daniil Medvedev for the second

straight year in the BNP Paribas Open (Indian Wells
Open) final.
• Iga Swiatek won the women's title defeating Maria
Sakkari • CWG mixed doubles champion Sreeja Akula
• The Indian Wells Open is an annual professional became the top-ranked Indian woman table tennis
tennis tournament held in Indian Wells, California, player after rising to career-high rank of 38 in
United States. It is played on outdoor hardcourts latest ITTF Chart, replacing Manika Batra.
at the Indian Wells Tennis Garden, and is held in • Manika Batra slipped two places to 39
March • Sreeja had won the mixed doubles gold medal at
• BNP Paribas Open is on ATP Masters 1000 and the 2022 CWG alongside veteran Sharath Kamal.
WTA 1000 tournaments each year.
Sreeja Akula creates history by winning
Novak Djokovic breaks Federer's record to WTT Contender singles title
be Oldest No.1 Player

• Novak Djokovic became the oldest World No. 1 in

ATP Rankings history, a record previously held by
Roger Federer.
• Serbia’s Djokovic, male tennis player in the Open Star paddler Sreeja Akula on Sunday scripted history as
era with 24 Majors, is 36 years and 321 days old. she won the World Table Tennis (WTT) Contender
He already holds the record for most weeks (419) singles title in Lagos, becoming the first Indian to win
spent as the top-ranked male player with second- the singles crown.
placed Federer (310 weeks) way behind.
• Djokovic first became World No. 1 on July 4, 2011
India's Paes, Amritraj make history joining
at the age of 24
Tennis Hall of Fame
Stefanos Tsitsipas wins Monte Carlo
Masters 1000 for third time

• Former doubles world number one Leander Paes

and tennis broadcaster, actor and player Vijay

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Amritraj became the first Asian men inducted into Rohan Bopanna announces retirement
the International Tennis Hall of Fame
from Indian tennis after Paris Olympics
• Leander Paes and Vijay Amritraj made India the
28th nation represented in the Hall of Fame in exit
Newport, Rhode Island.
• Amritraj played from 1970 until retiring in 1993,
winning 15 ATP singles titles and 399 matches and
being ranked as high as 18th in the world and
helped India to the Davis Cup finals in 1974 and
1987.
• Paes was an 18-time Grand Slam champion in
doubles and mixed doubles who was selected in
the player category after honing his trade in an
Amritraj youth academy.
• India's campaign in tennis at the 2024 Paris
• Paes won the bronze medal at the 1996 Olympic
Olympics ended after both Sumit Nagal and the
Games in Atlanta to become India’s first, and so
pair of Rohan Bopanna and N Sriram Balaji lost
far, the only medallist in tennis at the Summer
their respective opening-round matches
Games.
• Bopanna confirmed his retirement from Indian
tennis, thus ruling himself out from the 2026 Asian
Yuki Bhambri, Albano Olivetti Clinch Men’s Games in Japan.
Doubles Title At ATP Swiss Open • He will, however, continue to represent India in
ATP Tour events.
• Asian Games 2022 (Hangzhou): Bopanna clinched
a gold medal in the mixed doubles event,
partnering with Rutuja Bhosale.
• Asian Games 2018 (Jakarta): Rohan Bopanna and
Divij Sharan had won gold medal in the men's
doubles

Grand Slams:
• At the start of 2024, Bopanna, at the age of 43
• India’s Yuki Bhambri and his French partner years and 9 months, became the oldest man to
Albano Olivett clinched the men’s doubles title at win a Grand Slam title in the Open Era of tennis.
the Swiss Open ATP Tour tennis tournament • This remarkable feat was achieved when he and
his partner Matthew Ebden won the men’s
doubles event at the Australian Open.
Nuno Borges Beat Nadal To Lift Swedish • French Open 2017: Bopanna secured his first
Open Men’s Singles Trophy Grand Slam title in the mixed doubles event.

Jannik Sinner and Aryna Sabalenka win

Cincinnati Open titles

• Nuno Borges of Portugal defeated Spaniard Rafael

Nadal in the final to win the men’s singles tennis
title at Bastad in Sweden.
• It was Borges’s first ATP Tour title.
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Sharapova, Bryan Brothers Inducted into

2025 Tennis Hall of Fame Class

Men's Grand Slam Title Winners

YEAR TOURNAMENT WINNER RUNNER-UP
• Sharapova became the first Russian woman to
2024 U.S. Open Jannik Taylor Fritz
reach the world number one ranking in 2005.
Sinner
• She also won a silver medal at the 2012 London
2024 Wimbledon Carlos Novak
Olympics.
Alcaraz Djokovic
• The Bryans won 16 Grand Slam men’s doubles
2024 French Open Carlos Alexander
titles together and were the world’s top-ranked
Alcaraz Zverev
team for a record 438 weeks.
2024 Australian Jannik Daniil
• They won Olympic gold at London 2012
Open Sinner Medvedev

Aryna Sabalenka WTA World No. 1

Coco Gauff of the US wins the 2024 WTA
women's tennis player for 2024
Finals
• World No.
3 Coco Gauff of
the United States
won her first
WTA (Women
Tennis
• 26-year-old Aryna Sabalenka of Belarus was Association) Finals by beating world number
confirmed as the World No. 1 women's tennis 7 Zheng Qinwen of China
player for 2024 by the Women's Tennis Association • The doubles title was won by the pair of - Gabriela
(WTA). Dabrowski and Erin Routliffe
• She won the 2024 Australian Open singles title • Saudi Arabia's Capital city of Riyadh hosted the
and the 2024 US Open singles title. 2024 WTA Finals from 2-9 November 2024.
• She also won the WTA 1000 - Cincinnati Open and • The WTA Finals is the season-ending tournament
the Wuhan Open. of the WTA, which has been held every year since
1972.
• The top eight ranked women’s singles and doubles
Jannik Sinner ends 2024 as World number players participate in the WTA Finals.
one in Men’s Tennis • The WTA finals are organised by the professional
• Sinner from Italy won the Australian women's tennis global governing body Women
Open and U.S. Open for his first two Grand Slam Tennis Association (WTA).
titles. • The WTA has signed a three-year deal under which
Men's Grand Slam Title Winners Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, will host the 2024, 2025, and
YEAR TOURNAMENT WINNER RUNNER-UP 2026 WTA Finals.
2024 U.S. Open Jannik Taylor Fritz
Sinner Jannik Sinner defeats Taylor
2024 Wimbledon Carlos Novak
Fritz to win ATP Finals
Alcaraz Djokovic
• World number one Jannik
2024 French Open Carlos Alexander
Sinner became the first Italian
Alcaraz Zverev
to win the ATP Finals title
2024 Australian Jannik Daniil
• Defeated American Taylor Fritz
Open Sinner Medvedev

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N Sriram Balaji and Rithvik Bollipalli clinch • From Chennai

• won singles bronze in the 2018 Jakarta Asian
Men’s Doubles title at ATP Challenger Tour
Games,
in Italy • rose to world No.75 in the ATP rankings in 2019,
• Gunneswaran also competed in all four Grand
Slams
• He won only a title in the doubles — Egypt F25,
Sharm El Sheikh (ITF Futures Tour) -- in 2018 with
his Egyptian partner Issam Haitham Taweel.

Rafael Nadal retires from tennis with loss

in Davis Cup
Anders Antonsen becomes first Dane to
clinch China Masters 2024

• Retiring tennis superstar Rafael Nadal lost to

Netherlands' Botic van de Zandschulp in a Davis
• Young An Se of South Korea won women’s singles Cup quarterfinal in Málaga, Spain
final in the China Masters 2024 • 22 Grand Slam titles, 4 Davis Cup victories, and 2
Olympic golds
Italy beat Slovakia to win Billie Jean King • Claimed his maiden title at the 2005 French Open.
• Total Titles: 22 Grand Slam titles (2nd in men’s
Cup history).
• French Open Dominance (14 titles at Roland
Garros),
• Won 4 consecutive French Opens twice (2005–
2008 and 2017–2020).
• Other Slams:
➢ 2 Australian Open titles (2009, 2022).
➢ 2 Wimbledon titles (2008, 2010).
➢ 4 U.S. Open titles (2010, 2013, 2017, 2019).
• Italy won the Billie Jean King Cup for the fifth time • 2 Olympic Golds
• The Billie Jean King Cup (or the BJK Cup) is the ➢ Singles (2008, Beijing)
premier international team competition in ➢ Doubles (2016, Rio).
women's tennis, launched as the Federation Cup in
1963 to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Zverev outclasses Humbert to win Paris
International Tennis Federation (ITF).
Masters 2024
Indian Tennis Star Prajnesh Gunneswaran
Announces Retirement

• Germany's Alexander Zverev won the Paris

Masters by defeating Ugo Humbert.

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Table Tennis
India’s Sathiyan Gnanasekaran Clinches Men’s
1. World Table Tennis Feeder
2. WTT Youth Contender in Italy
Singles Title At World Table Tennis Feeder
• In Table Tennis, India’s Sathiyan Gnanasekaran has clinched
the Men’s Singles title at WTT Feeder Beirut tournament in
Lebanon.
• Sathiyan defeated compatriot Manav Vikas Thakkar
• Sathiyan became the first-ever Indian to win a men's singles
title at a WTT Feeder Series event.
• Diya Chitale-Manush Shah won mixed doubles

Table Tennis: Syndrela Das clinches U-15 Aryna Sabalenka of Belarus voted WTA
Girl’s Singles title at WTT Youth Contender Player of the Year 2024
in Italy • Sabalenka also
finished the
year as the top-
ranked female
player for the
first time in her
career having won the Australian Open and US
Open
• The Italian doubles duo of Sara Errani and Jasmine
Paolini - Doubles Team of the Year.
Team Asia of Manika Batra wins inaugural • The duo won Italy’s first Olympic tennis gold at
TT Waldner Cup 2024 in Norway Paris 2024, and helped Italy to their fifth Billie Jean
King Cup triumph in Málaga, Spain
• Women's Tennis Association (WTA) was founded
by legendary tennis player Billie Jean King in 1973.
• It is the world governing body of women tennis
professional players.

Youngest Brazilian Joao Fonseca wins 2024

• Team Asia, led by six-time Olympic gold medallist
Ma Long (China) won the inaugural Waldner Cup
Next Gen ATP Finals
2024 Table Tennis tournament, defeating Team • In Tennis, Joao Fonseca
World. of Brazil defeated
• Manika Batra was the only Indian player to be Learner Tien of the
included in the Team Asia team. United States to win
the 2024 Next Gen ATP
About the Waldner Cup Finals title in Jeddah,
• The Waldner Cup has been instituted by Swedish Saudi Arabia.
table tennis great Jan-Ove Waldner. • At just 18 years old,
• It was an invitational tournament approved by the Fonseca ranked world No. 145, was the youngest
Norwegian Table Tennis Association. participant in this year’s tournament.
• The Waldner Cup was held in Oslo, Norway, from • His win makes him the second-youngest champion
13-15 December 2024. in the tournament’s history, following Jannik
Sinner’s victory in 2019.
• With the win, Fonseca became the first Brazilian to
win the title and the lowest-ranked player to do
so in the tournament’s seven-year history.

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Squash: Anahat Singh won Western India SHORT NEWS

Slam 2024 • Russian Tennis Star
Deniil Savelev
Banned For 2 Years
Over Doping

• Indian squash sensation Anahat Singh won her 9th

PSA Challenger title in 2024 - the Western India
Slam 2024 women’s singles in Mumbai.

BADMINTON
Chirag Shetty and Satwiksairaj finished second in
1. India Open title 2024 the India Open title 2024
2. French Open doubles title
3. India Open 2024
4. Badminton Asia Team Championships
title
5. BWF Rankings
6. Saint-Denis Reunion Open 2024
7. Asian U-15 champion

Winner – Korea
Venue - at the KD Jadhav Indoor stadium, New Delhi
Recently Chirag Shetty and Satwiksairaj finished second best at the Malaysia Super 1000

Satwik-Chirag win French Open doubles Yathiraj, Pramod, Krishna win gold at Para
title Badminton World Championships
• Suhas Yathiraj, Pramod Bhagat, and Krishna Nagar
secured gold medals in the men’s singles at the
Para Badminton World Championship.

Tai Tzu Ying Clinches Victory In India Open

2024 Women’s Singles
• Tai Tzu Ying - the
legendary player
from Taiwan
• Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty lifted the • Men’s Singles
French Open badminton crown for the second winner – China
time with a dominating straight game win over • Satwik-Chirag 2nd
Taiwan (Chinese Taipei) in Men’s doubles
• The world No. 1 Indian pair had won the title in • The 2024 India Open
2022. badminton
tournament took place from January 16–21 at the
K. D. Jadhav Indoor Stadium in New Delhi.

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Indian Shuttlers Anupama Upadhyaya, M India beat Thailand to win first ever
Tharun Clinch Their Singles Titles At Badminton Asia Team Championships title

• The Badminton Asia Team Championships 2024

was held from February 13 to 18 in Shah Alam,
Malaysia.
Kazakhstan International Badminton
• Led by PV Sindhu and youngster Anmol Kharb, the
Challenge Tournament Indian women’s team won a historic gold medal at
the Badminton Asia Team Championships
2024 after beating Thailand
• The Indian men’s team was defeated in the
quarterfinals.
• This was India's first-ever gold medal at the
Badminton Asia Team Championships. The Indian
men's team had previously won two bronze - in
2016 and 2020 - but this was the first time the
women made the podium.

Thomas & Uber Cup 2024: China secure

both men’s and women’s crowns
In Spain Masters 2024 Badminton
Tournament, Kean Yew Loh Of Singapore
Wins The Men’s Title

• In the Thomas Cup final, the host nation (China)

defeated 14-time champions Indonesia to secure
their 11th title.
• In Spain Masters 2024 Badminton tournament, • China also defeated Indonesia to lift their 16th
Kean Yew Loh of Singapore has won the Men’s women’s team title in the Uber Cup.
title. • Held in Chengdu from 27 April to 5 May
• In the Women’s Singles, Ratchanok Intanon of • Men's Badminton Team Championship is
Thailand has lifted the crown. popularly known as Thomas Cup
• Women's Badminton Team Championship is
popularly known as Uber Cup
Indian shuttler B Sai Praneeth announces
retirement from international badminton
• He won World Championships bronze medal in
2019, secured the Singapore Open title in 2017,
and represented India at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.
• Praneeth reached a career pinnacle with a world
ranking of number 10 in 2019.
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Badminton: Satwik-Chirag Reclaim World • India’s only gold medal in the junior major came
that year when Saina Nehwal defeated Sayaka Sato
No. 1 Spot In BWF Rankings
to become world champion.
• The 2026 edition of the BWF Thomas and Uber
Cup Finals go to Denmark.
• BWF President: Poul-Erik Høyer Larsen

• Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty have

regained their top spot in the latest Badminton
World Federation (BWF) Rankings after a
remarkable victory at the Thailand Open Super
500 in Bangkok .
• HS Prannoy highest-placed Indian in men’s singles -
world No. 9
• PV Sindhu - world No. 15 in women’s singles
• India’s top women’s doubles pair of Tanisha Crasto
and Ashwini Ponnappa - world No. 19
Malaysia’s Lee Zii Jia crowned Australian
Open badminton champion
Khelo India athletes emerged as
outperformers in Li Ning Sri Lanka
International Badminton Challenge 2024

• The Sri Lanka Badminton Association conducted Badminton: India’s Tasnim Mir & Tharun
the Li Ning International Badminton Challenge Mannepalli Clinch Singles Titles At Saint-
2024
Denis Reunion Open 2024
• Isha Rani Baruah won a Gold medal in the
• Men’s singles- India’s Tharun Mannepalli
women's singles category.
• While in women’s singles, World No. 75, India’s
• Over 200 players from 14 countries took part in the
Tasnim Mir
challenge, which will be followed by the Li Ning Sri
Lanka International Badminton Series 2024.
Indian badminton star Ashwini Ponnappa
India to host BWF World Junior announces retirement after playing her
Badminton Championships 2025, ‘last Olympics‘
Guwahati
• The tournament will be played at the newly-
christened National Centre of Excellence.
• The World Juniors were last held in India
in Pune in 2008.
• Ashwini’s badminton journey began long ago, with
her first national title coming in 2001

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Partnership with Jwala Gutta (lasted until 2017). This Para shuttler Promod Bhagat suspended
duo achieved several milestones:
for breaching anti-doping regulations
• Gold medal at the 2010 Delhi Commonwealth
Games
• Bronze medals at the Uber Cup (2014 and 2016)
and Asian Championships (2014)
• In 2011, Ashwini and Jwala made history by
becoming the first Indian pair to win a medal – a
bronze – at the World Championships.
• Ashwini and Jwala competed together in two
Olympics (2012 and 2016)

Lakshya Sen becomes first Indian male

shuttler to reach semifinals of Olympics
• Para shuttler Pramod Bhagat has been suspended
by the Badminton World Federation for a period of
18 months for breaching the anti-doping
regulations.
• Now, Pramod will miss the Paris 2024 Paralympic
Games.

Syed Modi International Tournament: PV

Sindhu and Lakshya Sen clinch singles
titles
• Lakshya Sen beat Chinese Taipei’s Chou Tien Chen
in the quarterfinal.
• India has won two bronze medals in badminton
through Saina Nehwal (2012) and PV Sindhu
(2021)
• Saina Nehwal became the first Indian badminton
player to win an Olympic medal by winning bronze
in women's singles in 2012 London Olympics .

Shuttler Tanvi Patri crowned Asian U-15

champion

• India's Tanvi Patri (Odisha) clinched the under-15

girls singles title at the Badminton Asia U-17 & U-
15 junior championships in China .
• Indian badminton stars PV Sindhu and Lakshya Sen
secured singles titles at the Syed Modi India
International badminton tournament in Lucknow.

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Sathish Karunakaran win Guwahati • With an eye on 2026 Asian Games and 2028 Los
Angeles Olympics
Masters 2024 badminton Singles title
• Tan Kim Her previously worked in India from 2015
to 2019.

Rithvik Wins Maiden Super 100 Title at

Odisha Masters

• Indian badminton player Sathish Karunakaran won

the BWF Super 100 Guwahati Masters
2024 badminton singles titles.
• The $100,000 lakh prize money BWF Super 100
Guwahati Masters 2024 was held in Guwahati,
Assam, from 3 to 8 December 2024.
• It was the second BWF Super 100 Guwahati • India's Rithvik Sanjeevi Satish Kumar claimed his
Masters after the inaugural edition of 2023. maiden BWF Super 100 title after defeating
• At the Guwahati Master 2024, India and China won compatriot Tharun Mannepalli in the men's singles
two titles each, while Malaysia won the men’s final at the Odisha Masters.
doubles title.
Events Winner Runners-Up Lakshya Sen Wins Bronze at Inaugural King
Men’s Satish Karunakaran Zhu Xuan
Cup International Badminton Open 2024
Singles (India) Chen( China)
Women’s Cai Yan Yan (China) Anmol
Singles Kahrab
(India)
Men’s Chia Weijie/Lwi Huang Di/Liu
Doubles Sheng Hao (Malaysia) Yang (China)
Women’s Ashwini Li Hua
Doubles Ponnappa/Tanisha Zhou/Wang
Crasto (India) Zi Meng
(China)
• This tournament is launched by two-time Olympic
Mixed Zhang Han Yu/Bao Li Rory champion Lin Dan of China, at Shenzhen, China
Doubles Jing (China) Easton/Lizzie • The tournament features a men’s singles
Tolman competition with eight players in the fray.
(England) • Lakshya Sen, who made the semi-finals at the Paris
2024 Olympics, was India’s only representative in
Tan Kim Her Returns as India’s Doubles the invitational tournament.
Badminton Coach, Targets Asian Games &
Olympics

• The Badminton Association of India (BAI) has

appointed Malaysian doubles specialist Tan Kim
Her to work with the Indian national team
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SQUASH
Next Generation Of Squash Players Inducted In
1. TOPS SCHEME TOPS With Eye On LA 2028 Olympic Games
2. Goodfellow Classic squash
3. 2023 Scottish Junior Open Girls' Under-
19 Squash Title
4. Saurav Ghosal Retires from
Professional Squash
5. Asian Doubles Squash Championships

• The Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports’ Mission Olympics Cell (MOC) has inducted next generation squash
players Anahat Singh, Abhay Singh and Velavan Senthilkumar into the Development Group of the Target
Olympic Podium Scheme (TOPS).
• The squash players have been inducted into TOPS with a focus on 2028 Los Angeles Olympics as the sport is set
to debut in that edition.
• For years, Saurav Ghosal, Dipika Pallikal and Joshna Chinappa have kept the flame burning in India and are now
passing the baton to the next generation of players.

TOPS SCHEME Anahat Singh Clinches 2023 Scottish Junior

• In order to improve India’s performance at
Open Girls' Under-19 Squash Title in
Olympics and Paralympics, the Ministry of Youth
Affairs and Sports (MYAS) started the Target Edinburgh
Olympic Podium Scheme (TOPS) in September
2014. This was revamped in April 2018 to establish
a technical support team for managing the TOPS
athletes and providing holistic support.
• The Scheme looks to add a premium to the
preparations of these athletes so that they can win
medals in the Olympics.
• This includes foreign training, international
competition, equipment and coaching camp
besides monthly stipend of Rs. 50,000/- for each Velavan Senthil Kumar Wins His Eighth
athlete. Professional Squash Association (PSA)
Tour Title In Paris
Indian Squash player Abhay Singh wins
Goodfellow Classic squash in Toronto
• Indian Squash player
Abhay Singh (from
Chennai) clinched the
Goodfellow Classic
PSA Challenger Tour
Title in Toronto, • India’s Velavan Senthilkumar won his eighth
Canada. Professional Squash Association (PSA) Tour title by
• With this win, the Asian Games Gold medalist has winning the Batch Open, a PSA Challenger event in
won his 8th PSA World Tour title. Paris.
• Future World Champions and World No.1s
compete for glory on the PSA Challenger Tour
• The Goodfellow Classic is a squash event on the
PSA Challenger Tour
• PSA - Professional Squash Association

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Saurav Ghosal Retires from Professional • The Indian team won the men’s doubles and mixed
doubles titles at the recently concluded Asian
Squash
Squash Doubles Championship 2024 held at the
Arena Emas in Johor, Malaysia.
• Asian Games medallist Abhay won the men’s
doubles crown along with Velavan Senthilkumar.

World Team Squash Championship 2024

• He will continue to play for India. The PSA World

Tour is a professional circuit for squash players,
similar to the ATP and WTA in tennis.
• During his career, Ghosal won 12 Professional
Squash Association (PSA) titles and multiple
medals at the Commonwealth Games (CWG) and
Asian Games.
• He the only Indian man to enter the top 10 in the
World squash rankings.
• The nine-time Asian Games medallist - gold • held in Hong Kong from December 9-15
medals in the teams event at 2014 and 2022 Asian • The Indian men's team achieved fifth place
Games. Winner : Egypt
• Ghosal has to his name 13 national titles, and • Indian women secured seventh place
three CWG medals. • Winner : Egypt
• He has also won the World Doubles
Championships gold medal with Dipika Pallikal
Karthik in the mixed event at the 2022 Glasgow
competition.
• He also became the first Indian male player to
secure a CWG squash medal in a singles
competition.

Asian Doubles Squash Championships:

Abhay Singh Wins Both Men’s Doubles
And Mixed Doubles Titles

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PICKLEBALL
1. India’s first-ever professional pickleball India set to get first-ever professional pickleball
league ‘WPBL’ league ‘WPBL’
2. Asian Open Pickleball Championships
3. World Pickleball Championship.

• Arjuna Awardee Gaurav Natekar is set to launch the World Pickleball League
(WPBL)
• WPBL professional pickleball league is envisaged by Natekar Sports and Gaming (NSG) and Sony Entertainment
Talent Ventures India (SETVI).
• The inaugural edition of the World Pickleball League will witness six franchises compete for the title. Each team
will have five to eight players including international stars.
• Arvind Prabhoo: President of All India Pickleball Federation

India Clinches 3 Gold, And 2 Bronze • India hosted the 2024 World Pickleball
Championship (WPC) in Mumbai from November
Medals At Asian Open Pickleball
12–17.
Championships In Vietnam • Team India stood out as the top-performing
• Pickleball - an American nation, clinching an
game resembling tennis, impressive total of, 28
in which players use medals including 11
short-handled bats to hit golds.
a perforated plastic ball • the brand ambassador of
over a net. pickleball in India,
Mandira Bedi.
India secures 28 medals at World
Pickleball Championship.
• World Pickleball Championship (WPC) Series
hosted by the All India Pickleball Association
(AIPA).

WRESTLING
India wins its first Gold medal at Zagreb Open
1. Zagreb Open 2024 2024
2. Grand Prix De France 2024
3. U23 Asian Wrestling Championship
4. U17 Wrestling World championship

• The Asian champion Aman Sehrawat won the Gold medal in

Men’s 57kg at the Zagreb Open 2024 Wrestling Tournament
• in Croatia.
• He defeated China

Wrestler Ravi Kumar Dahiya Claims Bronze • at the

prestigious Grand Prix
Grand Prix De France 2024
De France Henri
• Tokyo Olympic silver medallist Ravi Kumar Dahiya
Deglane wrestling
secured a bronze medal in 61 kg freestyle
tournament held in
wrestling
Nice, France.

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Bajrang Punia Provisionally Suspended by U17 Wrestling World championship:

Wrestling Authorities Ronak Dahiya wins bronze
• NADA (National Anti • Ronak Dahiya bagged a
Doping Agency) had bronze medal in the 110kg
suspended Bajrang on Greco-Roman category of the
April 23 for his ‘refusal’ to U17 World Wrestling
give his sample during the Championship. Ronak, ranked
selection trials for second in the world.
Olympic qualifiers in • World Wrestling
Sonipat on March 10. Championships in Amman,
• As per United World Jordan.
Wrestling (UWW) records, Bajrang has been
suspended until December 31, 2024, for “being Indian women clinch first-ever team title
provisionally suspended” by NADA “for alleged
at U-17 Wrestling World Championships in
anti-doping rule violation (ADRV).”
Jordan
India finishes Asian Wrestling • Under-17 World
Wrestling
Championship Championship in
2024 with nine Amman, Jordan,
medals Indian women win its
Indian wrestlers finished first-ever team title
the Asian Wrestling with 185 points.
Championships 2024 in • Indian women signed
Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan with off with 8 medals, including 5 gold, one silver, and
nine medals - four two bronze.
silvers and five bronze • India won a total of 10 medals in the
championship, with two bronze medals coming in
Greco-Roman wrestling.
India Finishes On Top At U23 Asian
Wrestling Championship In Jordan Short News
• In wrestling, India
• The National Anti-Doping Agency (NADA) has
finished on top at the
suspended Tokyo Olympics bronze medallist
Under 23 Asian
wrestler Bajrang Punia for four years for refusing
Wrestling
to provide a dope test sample during the national
Championship 2024,
team selection trials on March 10, 2024.
in Amman, Jordan.
• Indian clinched a total
of 8 medals in freestyle wrestling, including 4 India Shines at Junior World Pencak Silat
gold, 2 silver and 2 bronze medals. Championship: Nusrath Fatima Wins Silver
• Kazakhstan took second place while Kyrgyzstan for Nation
won third.

Vinesh Phogat Wins

Gold Medal in Grand
Prix of Spain
• India's two-time Olympian • Nusrath Fatima from Sankoo, Kargil, representing
Vinesh Phogat won the India, clinched a silver medal at the 5th Junior
gold medal in the women's World Pencak Silat Championship, held in Abu
50kg category in the Grand Prix of Spain Dhabi from December 18 to 22.
international continental wrestling championship • Competing in the 58 kg Junior category

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BOXING
BFI Agrees to Become a Member of World Boxing
1. BFI to Become a Member of World
Boxing
2. Mary Kom announces retirement
3. intercontinental title in U.S
4. Youth World Boxing Cup

• The Boxing Federation of India (BFI) has agreed to join the World Boxing, the newly-formed governing body.
• World Boxing was launched in April 2023.
• It was formed after the International Olympic Committee (IOC) refused to recognize the International Boxing
Association (IBA).
• IOC had said once again reiterated that National Federations affiliated with the IBA would not be allowed to
feature at the Olympic Games LA28.

Nikhat Zareen And Minakshi Clinch Gold ➢ Bronze medal in the London 2012 Olympic
Games
Medals At Elorda Cup In Kazakhstan
➢ Gold medal at the 2014 Asian Games
• In Boxing, Nikhat
➢ Commonwealth 2018 Gold
Zareen and another
boxer Minakshi
Awards of Mary Kom
clinched gold medals
• 2009 - Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna
at the Elorda Cup 2024
• 2006 - Padma Shri
in Astana, Kazakhstan.
• 2013 - Padma Bhushan.
• Nikhat in the women’s
• 2020 - Padma Vibhushan
52 kg category
• Former Member of Parliament - Mary Kom was
• Minakshi in the women’s 48 kg event.
inducted into the Rajya Sabha in 2016 following a
• The Indians concluded their Elorda Cup 2024
nomination by the then Indian President Pranab
campaign with 12 medals, including two gold, two
Mukherjee.
silver and eight bronze medals.

Indian boxer Mandeep Jangra wins

Star India boxer Mary Kom announces
intercontinental title in U.S
retirement
• Indian boxer Mandeep Jangra
• Six-time World
won US Based National
Champion and 2012
Boxing Association’s(NBA)
Olympic medalist
intercontinental super
Mangte Chungneijang
featherweight title in
Mary Kom on January 24 announced her
Washington.
retirement from boxing.
• Mandeep Jangra had won a
• Mary Kom hung her boxing gloves as the
Commonwealth Games silver medal in the 2014
International Boxing Association’s (IBA) rules
Glasgow edition.
allow male and female boxers to fight in elite-level
competition only till the age of 40.
Amit Panghal and Sachin
Achievements of Mary Kom Siwach bag Gold medals
• Mary (born 24 November 1982) is the first female at Strandja Memorial
boxer in boxing history to have captured six world
tournament in Bulgaria
titles (2002, 2005, 2006, 2008, 2010, 2018)
Nikhat Zareen and three other
• First Indian female boxer to win:
Indians signed off with silver medals at the 75th
Strandja Memorial tournament in Bulgaria.
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Team India clinch 26 medals including 5 strategic partner for development of Professional
Boxing in India.
gold in Youth World Boxing Cup
Team India clinched 26
medals including 5 gold, 9 World Boxing forms new Asian body with
silver, and 12 bronze medals BFI Chief Ajay Singh as Board member
as it finished as the runner-
up at the Youth World
Boxing Cup Adriatic Pearl
2024 in Montenegro
Nikita Chand was named
'Best Boxer' of the tournament. First place went to
Russia with 8 gold medals

Chandru G Wins WBC India Cruiserweight

Championship • World Boxing has added Asia as its newest member
• Tamil Nadu’s Chandru G • Tokyo Olympic medallist Lovlina Borgohain has
clinched the WBC India been included in the Athletes' Commission while
Cruiserweight six Boxing Federation of India (BFI) officials,
Championship title in including President Ajay Singh, will be board
Boxing members.
• In August 2021, World
Boxing Council
announced the formation
of the WBC India
Committee with the Indian Boxing Council as its

F1 RACING
Grand Prix 2024
1. Grand Prix 2024 Grand Prix Winner
2. 24 Hours of Le Mans Bahrain Max Verstappen
3. 2025 edition of MotoGP Bharat Saudi Arabia Max Verstappen
4. First female racer ever to win at Rotax Japan Max Verstappen
Challenge China Max Verstappen
5. India’s first-ever night street racing Emilia-Romagna Max Verstappen
event Canada Max Verstappen
6. Kolkata Royal Tigers Racing Team Spain Max Verstappen
7. First Indian Woman Racer to Win Brazil Max Verstappen
National Championship Qatar Max Verstappen
Great Britain Lewis Hamilton
Belgium Lewis Hamilton
Mexico Carlos Sainz
Australia Carlos Sainz
Miami Lando Norris
Netherlands Lando Norris
Singapore Lando Norris
Abu Dhabi Lando Norris
Monaco Charles Leclerc
Italy Charles Leclerc
United States Charles Leclerc
Las Vegas George Russell
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Austria George Russell

Hungary Oscar Piastri
Azerbaijan Oscar Piastri

Spanish Grand Prix to move from Max Verstappen wins 3rd straight
Barcelona to Madrid in 2026 Canadian Grand Prix for 60th Formula 1
victory

• Formula One has announced that Madrid will host

the Spanish Formula One Grand Prix from 2026 to
• Max Verstappen won the Canadian Grand Prix for
2035
the third straight year for the Red Bull
• It has been traditionally held in Barcelona since
• Sixth victory from nine races this season and the
1991.
60th of his Formula One career.

Ferrari win 24 Hours F1 Races 2024 & Winners

of Le Mans for second • Bahrain GP - Max Verstappen
year in a row • Saudi Arabia GP - Max Verstappen
• Ferrari won the 24 • Australia GP – Carlos Sainz
Hours of Le Mans for • Japan GP - Max Verstappen
the second year in a row • China GP - Max Verstappen
• The 24 Hours of Le Mans • Miami Grand Prix - Lando Norris
is an endurance-focused • Emilia Romagna Grand Prix - Max Verstappen
sports car race held • Monaco GP – Charles Lecrec
annually near the town
of Le Mans, France. Kush Maini Scores
Maiden F2 Victory at
UP govt agrees for 2025 edition of Hungarian GP
MotoGP Bharat in Noida Kush Maini achieved his first-
ever Formula 2 win at the
Hungarian Grand Prix after
Richard Verschoor, the
original sprint race winner,
was disqualified due to a
technical infringement

Atiqa Mir became

• The Uttar Pradesh government will sign a contract first female racer ever
with Spain headquartered Dorna Sports and its to win at Rotax
Indian partner, Fairstreet Sports, to organise Challenge
MotoGP event in Noida next year, and will keep • Atiqa Mir, a nine-year-
organising the annual event till 2029. old racer from Srinagar,
• Marco Bezzecchi, of the Mooney VR46 Ducati became the first female
(GP22) team had secured a win at the IndianOil racer to win a race in the
Grand Prix of India - MotoGP Bharat 2023 at the Rotax Challenge
Buddh International Circuit.
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International Trophy, achieving this feat at the
renowned Le Mans Kart International Circuit. GP 2024 Winner
• Driving for Dan Holland Racing Team in the Micro Australia Carlos Sainz
Max category Miami Lando Norris
Monaco Charles Leclerc
India’s first-ever Austria George Russell
night street Great Britain Lewis Hamilton
Hungary Oscar Piastri
racing event to
be held in Spain’s Jorge Martin
Chennai wins 2024 MotoGP
Chennai will host India’s first-ever night street racing
event, the second round of the Indian Racing Festival, World
from August 30 to September 1. Championship in
Barcelona
Ferrari driver Carlos
Sainz agrees on Kavin Quintal
two-year deal to (Chennai), the
join Williams first Indian to
Formula 1 team have
participated in
Sourav Ganguly bought Kolkata Royal the World Superbike Championship.
Tigers Racing Team
• Former Indian cricket Diana Pundole: First
captain Sourav
Indian Woman Racer to
Ganguly becomes the
owner of the Kolkata Win National
Royal Tigers Racing Championship
team Diana Pundole has become the
• Indian Racing Festival first Indian woman to win a
(IRF) third season will feature eight city-based national car racing
teams competing from August to November in the championship, in the saloon category title at the MRF
Indian Racing League (IRL) and Formula 4 Indian Indian National Car Racing Championship 2024, held
Championship (F4IC). in Chennai.

Twice MotoGP Hemanth Muddappa wins 15th National

champion Francesco Title in Motorcycle Drag
Bagnaia won the Racing
Austrian Grand Prix • at the Madras International
(motorcycle racing) Circuit (MIC).
• Hemanth Muddappa of
Mantra Racing took his tally of
Norris beats Verstappen National titles to 15, making
to Dutch GP him the country’s most
• Lando Norris became the decorated motorsport athlete.
first person to beat Max
Verstappen at the Dutch
Grand Prix

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JAVELIN THROW
Switzerland Tourism Honours Neeraj Chopra With
1. Switzerland Tourism Honours Neeraj Plaque At Jungfrau's Ice Palace
Chopra
2. Doha Diamond League 2024
3. Federation Cup
4. Javelin Throw At Taiwan Athletics Open
5. Lausanne Diamond League 2024
6. Neeraj Chopra Partners with Javelin
Legend Jan Zelezny as Coach

• India's Olympic and world champion javelin thrower Neeraj Chopra has been honoured with a plaque at the
famous Ice Palace at Jungfraujoch, known as the 'Top of Europe', in Switzerland.

India’s Star Javelin Thrower Neeraj Chopra • He has won a historic gold in the Tokyo Olympics
2020, became Diamond League champion in 2022,
Seals Second-Place Finish In Doha
world champion in 2023 and defended Asian
Diamond League 2024 Games gold in China in 2023.

World Champion Neeraj Chopra Wins Gold

In Javelin Throw At World Athletics
Continental Gold Tour In Finland

• Chopra’s spear landed at 88.36 meter, just 2

centimeters short of event topper Czech player
Jakub Vadlejch’s 88.38 meter.

Neeraj Chopra Wins Gold In Federation

• at the Paavo Nurmi Stadium in Turku, Finland.
Cup With Throw Of 82.27 Metres • He topped with a best effort of 85.97 meters.

India’s D.P Manu Clinches Gold In Javelin

Throw At Taiwan Athletics Open

• In men’s javelin throw, Olympic champion Neeraj • At the Taiwan Athletics Open 2024, DP Manu in
Chopra won the gold medal in Federation Cup Men’s Javelin throw took home the gold medal,
2024 in Bhubaneswar. while in women’s 100 metre hurdles, Nithya
Ramaraj clinched the silver medal for the country.
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Neeraj Chopra finishes second in Men’s

Javelin Throw event at Lausanne Diamond
League 2024

Neeraj Chopra Partners with Javelin

Legend Jan Zelezny as Coach
• Anderson Peters of Grenada set a new meet record
with a monster throw of 90.61m to take the first
place while Julian Weber of Germany settled for
third with 87.08m, as per Olympics.com.

Pakistan athlete Arshad Nadeem to be

honoured with Hilal-e-Imtiaz Award • Neeraj Chopra, India’s double Olympic medallist -
• The Javelin Throw gold medallist in the Paris 2020 Tokyo Olympics gold medal in the men's
Olympics 2024, javelin throw event (first Asian to do so); 2024
• Pakistan’s Arshad Nadeem is set to be honoured Paris Olympics silver
with Hilale-Imtiaz by the country’s government. • Jan Železný is a Czech former track and field
• Hilal-e-Imtiaz is the second-highest civilian award athlete.
given by the Government of Pakistan (Highest - • Zelezny is a three-time Olympic gold medallist,
Nishan-e-Pakistan) holds five of the top ten best throws of all time,
and holds the current world record of 98.48m (set
in Germany in 1996).

GOLF
Amandeep Johl Appointed CEO Of Professional
1. Amandeep Johl Appointed CEO Of Golf Tour of India
Professional Golf Tour of India
2. FCG World Junior Golf Championship
3. President of the Professional Golf Tour
of India
4. USGA’s Prestigious Bob Jones Award

• The Professional Golf Tour of India (PGTI) announced the appointment of Amandeep Johl as its new Chief
Executive Officer (CEO) from January 2025.
• Johl replaces Uttam Singh Mundy
• Kapil Dev, became PGTI President in June

14-year-old Chandigarh golfer Neil Jolly

finished as a runner-up in the FCG World
Junior Golf Championship in California

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Indian-American golfer Akshay Bhatia Tiger Woods Honored with USGA’s

wins the Valero Texas Open Prestigious Bob Jones Award

• Legendary golfer Tiger Woods has been selected

to receive the Bob Jones Award, the highest
honour bestowed by the United States Golf
Kapil Dev has been appointed President of
Association (USGA).
the Professional Golf Tour of India • recognizing his dedication to sportsmanship and
upholding golf's traditions.
• Woods was inducted into the World Golf Hall of
Fame in 2022, and he received the Presidential
Medal of Freedom from Donald Trump in 2019.

BILLIARDS
Pankaj Advani wins billiards final of Western India
1. Western India Billiards and Snooker Billiards and Snooker Championship
Championship
2. IBSF World Under-21 Women’s Snooker
Championship
3. Billiards Hall of Fame
4. 28th World Billiards title

• Defeated S. Shrikrishna in the finals

Natasha wins IBSF World Under-21

Women’s Snooker Championship Dhruv Sitwala and Anupama
Bengaluru based Natasha claimed her first World title Ramachandran win Asian billiards &
snooker championships
• Asian billards and women’s snooker titles in the
Asian championships in
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

The results (finals)

• Men: Billiards: Dhruv Sitwala
beat Pankaj Advani
• Women: Snooker: Anupama
Ramachandran beat
Panchaya Channoi
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Billiards vs Snooker Pankaj Advani bags record 28th World
Billiards title

• Table Size: Billiards (10x5 feet), Snooker (12x6 feet)

• Balls: Billiards (3 balls), Snooker (22 balls)
• Gameplay: Billiards focuses on a combination of
shots for scoring, Snooker focuses on potting balls • Ace Indian cueist Pankaj Advani clinched a historic
in a specific order 28th world title, seventh in a row, defeating
England’s Robert Hall
• at the IBSF World Billiards Championship in Doha
Pankaj Advani joins "Billiards Hall of
on November 9, 2024.
Fame“
Shruthi clinches crown in Women’s World
Billiards Championship Title

• Pankaj Advani was inducted into the Hall of Fame

at the World Billiards Museum in Shangrao City in
China.
• Last year, Pankaj Advani won his 26th IBSF (the
International Billiards and Snooker Federation) title
after beating compatriot Sourav Kothari.
• He is a 27-time International Billiards and Snooker L. Shruthi from Chennai defeated her compatriot
Federation (IBSF) world champion. Keerath Bhandaal to win the Women’s World Billiards
Championship title at Landywood Snooker Club,
Pankaj Advani claims CCI billiards classic Walsall, England.
title

• India’s most successful sportsperson in billiards

retained his CCI billiards classic title by beating
Englishman David Causier in Mumbai
• This was Advani’s fourth successive triumph at this
venue.

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PARIS OLYMPICS
1. Paris Olympics Opening Ceremony Paris Olympics Opening Ceremony
2. Paris Olympics 2024: Medals made of Eiffel
Tower
3. The ‘Phryge’, the mascot
4. INDIA @ PARIS OLYMPIC 2024
5. India’s first athlete to win two medals in
same Olympics
6. Paris 2024 Olympics closing ceremony
7. India’s Youngest Boxing Referee At Olympics
• For the first time, the Games' opening ceremony will not take place in a stadium. Instead, around 85 boats will
carry nearly 7,000 athletes on a 6km floating parade on the Seine, at the heart of Paris.
• At the Paris Olympics Opening Ceremony, athletes from every country will take part in a river parade.
• The course for the parade of nations will follow a six-kilometre course of the Seine, from east to west.
• The Parade of Nations during the Opening Ceremony helps in introducing all the competitors and competing
nations of the Olympics as they walk out one by one at the venue.
• India will be the 84th country in the Parade of Nations during the Paris Olympics 2024 Opening Ceremony.

Paris hosted the Olympic Games before • Surfing, which made its Olympic debut in the Tokyo
2020 Olympics, found a spot again in the Olympic
Paris 2024
program.
• Paris has hosted two Olympic Games in the past:
• But it is not being held in Paris.
the first one in 1900 (the second modern Olympics
• Or France, for that matter. Surfing at the 2024
held in history) and one in 1924, exactly 100 years
Olympics will take place over 9,000 miles from the
ago.
French Capital in Teahupo’o, located on the island
• This means it will join London as the only two cities
of Tahiti in French Polynesia.
to host the Olympic Games three times.
• Like surfing, skateboarding and sport climbing are
• London hosted the Olympic Games in 1908, 1948,
also back for a second time.
and 2012.
• In the Tokyo 2020 Olympics (held in 2021 due to
the pandemic), the International Olympic
How many medal events in Paris Olympics 2024?
Committee (IOC) introduced five new sports:
• In Paris 2024, there will be 329 medal events. 152
• Surfing, Skateboarding, Sport Climbing, Karate
of them will be for women. 20 will be mixed
and Baseball/Softball.
gender.
• In the Los Angeles Summer Games 2028 - Baseball
• Mario Deslauriers, who will represent Canada in
and softball will be making their Olympic return.
the equestrian events, is the oldest athlete at Paris
• New sports - flag football, cricket, lacrosse and
2024.
squash.
• At the Paris Olympics 2024, there are 32 sports
across 329 events.
How many Athletes’ Villages are there?
• Athletes at Paris 2024 will be accommodated in
What Olympic sports are being dropped in Paris
five different villages during the Games.
2024?
• The Olympic and Paralympic Village will be located
There are three sports that are being dropped from the
in Seine-Saint-Denis.
Paris Olympics, which were there at the Tokyo
• The Olympic Village in Marseille will be dedicated
Olympics in 2021: baseball, softball and karate.
to sailing.
• The Olympic Village in Lille Métropole will host
What sports have changed in Paris 2024?
basketball and then handball.
• Breaking, commonly known as breakdancing, will
• The Olympic and Paralympic Village in Châteauroux
be included at the Olympics for the first time in
will be dedicated to shooting.
Paris.
• The Olympic Village in Tahiti will be for surfing.

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Paris Olympics 2024: Medals made of • It also shows the Acropolis of Athens, a mandatory
feature on Olympic medals, joined for the first time
Eiffel Tower
by the Eiffel Tower in the Paris 2024 design.

• The Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympics medals

will feature a unique design that incorporates a
piece of the Eiffel tower. Each gold, silver and
bronze medal will have a hexagonal polished
chunk of iron taken from the iconic landmark
embedded in its centre.
• This marks the first time in Olympic history that a
host city has included pieces of a famous
monument in the medals.
• The hexagonal shape of the iron pieces represents
France, often referred to as "L'Hexagone" due to its
geographical shape.
• The medals, designed by Paris jewellery house
Chaumet, feature disks of recycled gold, silver, or
bronze surrounding the iron pieces.
• These disks are crinkled to reflect light and make
the medals shine. The ancient Greek goddess of
victory, Nike, is depicted on the other side of the
Olympic medals, along with a small representation
of the Eiffel Tower.

• The reverse side of the Olympic medal shows the

story of the Games’ rebirth in Greece.
• It features the story designed by Elena Votsi for
the Athens 2004 Olympics - the goddess of victory, • The reverse side of the Paralympic medals features
Athena Nike emerging from the Panathenaic a graphic depiction of the Eiffel Tower from an
Stadium, the site of the 1896 revival of the Olympic upward perspective, offering a rarely seen angle of
Games. the iconic monument.
• Surrounding the base of the tower are the words
“Paris” and “2024” in universal Braille, paying
homage to the French inventor, Louis Braille.
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The ‘Phryge’, the mascot INDIA @ PARIS OLYMPIC 2024

• The ‘Phryge’, the mascot of the Paris 2024 Olympic

Games. Inspired by the traditional Phrygian hats,
this mascot embodies a deep-seated symbol of
freedom [ the little red hat, known as a Phrygian
cap (or a liberty cap), is a symbol of the French
liberation].
• These caps stand for “freedom, identity and spirit
in France
• The Olympic Phryge and the Paralympic Phryge live • Mansukh Mandaviya, Hardeep Singh Puri Unveil
by the mantra — “Alone we go faster, but together Ceremonial Dress And Playing Kit For Paris
we go further”, Olympics Mansukh Mandaviya, Minister of Youth
Affairs and Sports
Paris Olympics Medal Tally 2024 • Hardeep Singh Puri, Minister of Petroleum and
Rank Country Gold Silver Bronze Total Natural Gas
1 United 40 44 42 126
States of The three kits include:
America • The playing kit designed by JSW Inspire,
2 People’s 40 27 24 91 • The ceremonial dress designed by Tarun Tahiliani-
Republic owned TASVA
of China • Performance shoe and travel gear by PUMA
3 Japan 20 12 13 45 • At the Paris 2024 Olympics, 117 athletes make up
4 Australia 18 19 16 53 the Indian contingent in 16 sports disciplines,
5 France 16 26 22 64 comprising of 70 men and 47 women.
• They competed in 69 events for 95 medals.
• Neeraj Chopra will headline a 28-member Indian
athletics contingent at the Paris Olympics. The
squad comprises 17 men and 11 women athletes

• Four-time Olympian and 2012 Olympic Games

men’s 10m Air Rifle bronze medalist Gagan
Narang was chosen by the Indian Olympic
Association (IOA) of the Indian contingent to
compete in the Paris 2024 Olympic Games.
• Two-time Olympic medallist badminton ace PV
Sindhu and 13-time Commonwealth Games
medallist table tennis veteran Sharath Kamal will

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be the flag-bearers for India at the Paris 2024 Neeraj Chopra Men’s javelin throw Silver
Olympics opening ceremony. Aman Men’s freestyle 57 Kg Bronze
Sehrawat wrestling

Position Country Gold Silver Bronze Total

Medal
1 USA 40 44 42 126
2 China 40 27 24 91
3 Japan 20 12 13 45
4 Australia 18 19 17 53

5 France 16 26 22 64
Nita Ambani, a renowned philanthropist and founder 71 India 0 1 5 6
of Reliance Foundation, has been unanimously re-
elected as a member of the International Olympic RECORDS
Committee (IOC) from India at the global olympic • India’s ace Shooter Manu Bhaker, has created
body's 142nd session in Paris. history by becoming first woman shooter to win a
She was first elected as an individual member of the medal in Olympics.
IOC in 2016 during the Rio de Janeiro Olympic Games. • She became the first Indian athlete to win two
As the first Indian woman to join the IOC medals at the same edition of the Olympics.
• Sarabjot got his first Olympic medal.
Paris Olympics 2024 concluded: India • Aman Sehrawat become India’s youngest medal
winner at the Summer Games. This is Sehrawat's
finished at 71st spot first Olympics games.
• Shuttler P V Sindhu and boxer Sushil Kumar are
the only two Indians to have won multiple Olympic
medals but in separate Olympic games.

Norman Pritchard: Colonised India’s first

athlete to win two medals in same
Olympics

• a decline from its 48th place in Tokyo 2020.

• India, with a total of 6 medals, including one silver
and five bronze medals, finished at the 71st spot in
the overall medal tally.
Athlete Event Medal
Manu Bhaker Women’s 10m air pistol Bronze
Manu Bhaker Mixed team 10m air Bronze
and Sarabjot pistol • On July 30, British-Indian Norman Pritchard was
Singh trending again when Manu Bhaker became the
Swapnil Kusale Men’s 50m rifle 3 Bronze country's first athlete in the post-independence
positions era to win two Games medals in a single edition.
India men’s Men’s hockey Bronze • Because Pritchard had done it pre-independence
hockey team in the 1900 edition, which also took place in Paris,

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by winning silver medals in 200m sprint and 200m • The Olympic Order
hurdles. originally had three
• While the International Olympic Committee (IOC) grades - gold, silver and
lists him as an Indian, bronze. But it was
• Pritchard was born in then Calcutta in 1875 and changed nine years later.
died in Los Angeles in 1929 , often described as the • The gold is reserved for
first Asian-born athlete to win an Olympic medal. the heads of state and
• The Athletics Federation of India (AFI), on its part, exceptional
has included him in the Indian athletics' 'Hall of circumstances.
Fame'. • Nelson Mandela too has been a recipient of the
• For the Indian contingent, Manu Bhaker and PR honour in the past.
Sreejesh were the flagbearers in the Parade of
Nations that featured athletes from 206
contingents – including a first-ever refugee team at
the Games.

• India’s first-ever country house at the Olympics

has been established by the Reliance Foundation
Abhinav Bindra, the first Indian to win an in partnership with the Indian Olympic Association
(IOA)
individual gold at the Olympics, has been • Inaugurated by Nita Ambani, International Olympic
honoured with the Olympic Order Committee (IOC) member and founder of Reliance
Foundation
• India House, situated at Parc de la Villette in the
Park of Nations, will operate daily throughout the
Olympics

• Abhinav Bindra became first person from India to • Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited (BPCL), a
receive the Olympic order in individual category 'Maharatna' and a Fortune Global 500 Company,
event. announces its partnership with the Indian Olympic
• former India Prime Minister Indira Gandhi was also Association (IOA) as the official Principal Partner
presented with the gold Olympic Order in 1983. for four years, starting from Paris Olympics '24
• Bindra, who clinched India’s first individual Olympic through Los Angeles Olympics ‘28.
gold medal in 2008 during the Beijing Summer • The Adani Group has launched a stirring social
Games will receive the honor on August 10 during media campaign under the banner
International Olympic Committee’s (IOC) 142nd #DeshkaGeetAtOlympics.
session.
• The Olympic Order was founded in 1975.
• It is the highest award of the Olympic Movement.
• It is specifically awarded for distinguished
contributions to the Olympic Movement.

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Social media platform ShareChat has partnered with • France will host the Winter Games for the fourth
Viacom18-owned streaming platform JioCinema to time in history, after 1924, 1968 and 1992
offer exclusive short-form multilingual content related • The next Winter Games will be Milano Cortina
to Paris Olympics 2024 from July 26 to August 11, 2026. Italian cities of Milan and Cortina d'Ampezzo
2024. will be the hosts.

Paris 2024 Olympics closing ceremony BCORE launched to give wings to India’s
• IOC President Thomas Bach officially declared the 2036 Olympic dreams
33rd Summer Games closed. • IOA President P T Usha and senior vice-president
• The Olympic flag is handed over from Paris to Los Ajay Patel inaugurated BCORE at Rashtriya Raksha
Angeles, the host of the next Summer Games in University (RRU) in Lavad, Gujarat.
2028. • The Bharat Centre of Olympic Research and
• French theatre director and actor Thomas Jolly Education (BCORE) will not only help prepare the
organized a "Records" theme through a series of country for hosting the 2036 Olympics, but will
traditional dance and music performances. also pitch for the inclusion of Indian sports such as
• “Records”: a dreamlike journey through the kabaddi, kho-kho and yoga in the Games
foundations of humanity • An independent academic and research centre to
• The "Golden Voyager," featured , represented an offer dedicated academic, research, sports and
imaginative depiction of a time extension programmes.
• Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo passed the flag to Los • It is the 71st centre globally to receive official
Angeles Mayor Karen Bass, who will host the 34th recognition from the International Olympic
Summer Games in 2028. Committee
• Tom Cruise took the Olympic Flag from Karen Bass
and symbolically carried it to Los Angeles for the Indian Olympic Association (IOA)
upcoming Games. • Established - 1927
• The Paris Paralympics will start on August 28 and • Sir Dorabji Tata and Dr. A.G. Noehren as the
will run till September 8. Founding President and Secretary General
• The 2028 Summer Olympics will be held at the • IOA is recognised by the Ministry of Youth Affairs
Memorial Coliseum in downtown Los Angeles. and Sports.

Governance:
• It is currently governed by a 32-member Executive
Council, headed by the President.
• The election for the Executive Council is held once
in every four years.

Important take away from Paris Olympics International Olympic Committee (IOC)
2024 announced Saudi Arabia as the host of the
• Paris 2024 is set to be the greenest Games in
first Olympic Esports Games 2025
history.
Saudi Arabia and IOC have announced a 12-year
• The Games’ organising committee has pledged to
agreement to host the new esports Olympics in Saudi
halve the Olympics’ carbon emissions — from
Arabia starting 2025.
roughly 3.5 million tonnes each in Tokyo 2020, Rio
• Though the Esports Games are an official Olympic
2016, and London 2012 to 1.75 tonnes this time
event under IOC purview, they will have a separate
around.
organizational and financial model from the
• Salt Lake City, Utah, was elected to host the 2034
Summer and Winter Games. They will be held
Winter Olympics and Paralympics with 83 out of
regularly, but dates, video games to be played, and
89 votes.
the qualifying process for players are yet to be
• The city, which previously hosted the Winter
finalised.
Games in 2002,
• The IOC launched its first esports pilot, the Olympic
• The 26th Winter Olympic Games 2030 will be
Virtual Series, in 2021
attributed to the French Alps.

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Indian CAPF, special forces canine squad in

France for Olympics venue security

• She was eliminated for being overweight ahead of

her final bout against USA’s Sarah Ann
Hildebrandt
• Ten specially-trained Indian CAPF and special
• Vinesh Phogat from the Women’s Wrestling 50kg
commando force dogs are in France to provide a
class, ound to be overweight by exactly 100gm
counter-terrorist cover to various venues of the
Paris Olympics
• The ten Indian K9 (canine) teams will undertake F1: Dutch Grand Prix
sniffing and patrolling duties to be terminated
• this first-ever kind of collaboration of canine after 2026
squads between the Indian and the French • Dutch Grand Prix held
government at the circuit
• The dogs are from the sturdy Belgian Malinois Zandvoort confirmed
breed that 2026 will be the
last year for the
Lt Col Kabilan Sai Ashok, India's Youngest Netherlands.
Boxing Referee At Olympics
• Lieutenant Colonel Kabilan Sai Ashok, a serving Lando Norris
Indian Army Officer, has become India’s youngest won the season-
referee to officiate the boxing events at the
ongoing Paris Olympics 2024.
ending Abu
• He is 32, is only the fourth Indian since 1904 to Dhabi Grand
officiate at the Olympics Prix
• the first to have represented the country as a
player and an official at a world championship India's Kush Maini wins historic Formula 2
event.
• He is also the first Indian to become the President Constructors' Championship in Abu Dhabi
of World Military Boxing Council
• Ashok Kumar Bhanwala, who was an Air Force
coach, is reportedly the first ever referee for
wrestling bouts at 2016 Olympics in Rio.

Vinesh Phogat disqualified from

competing in finals at Paris Olympics,
misses historic medal
• The Indian contingent was in for a shock as • Formula Two driver Kush Maini clinched the
wrestler Vinesh Phogat, who was on her way to Constructors’ Championship with Invicta Racing at
become the country’s first woman wrestler to the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix.
reach the Olympics final by defeating World and • He is the first from India to win a FIA Constructors’
Olympic 50kg champion Yui Susaki. World Championship

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PARA OLYMPICS
Sumit Antil & Bhagyashree Jadhav to be India’s
1. India’s flagbearers for opening flagbearers for opening ceremony of Paris
ceremony of Paris Paralympics 2024
Paralympics 2024
2. APC Representative for South Asia
• Mascot - Paralympic Phryge—a small red figure, inspired by
3. India @ Para Olympics the traditional Phrygian cap, a symbol of the French Republic
• Motto - Games Wide Open

Paris Olympics 2024 Indian flag bearers:

• Opening ceremony - PV Sindhu and Sharath Kamal
• Closing ceremony – Manu Bhaker, PR Sreejesh

Satya Prakash Sangwan Appointed Chef de Deepa Malik Appointed APC

Mission for India’s Paris 2024 Paralympic Representative for South Asia
Contingent

• Deepa Malik was appointed as sub-regional

representative for South Asia by the Asian
Paralympic Committee.
• She is India's first woman Paralympic medalist, -
• The largest-ever contingent of 84 players will take silver medal at the 2016 Summer Paralympics in
part in the upcoming Paris Paralympic Games this Shot Put.
year.
• The Paralympic Games will take place from the India have won 29 medals – 7 golds, 9
28th of this month to the 8th of September 2024. silvers and 13 bronze – at the Paris 2024
• Forty-seven athletes are taking part in the games
for the first time. Paralympics
• India have won 29 medals – 7 golds, 9 silvers and
13 bronze – at the Paris 2024 Paralympics
M. V. Muralikrishna, a renowned
• This achievement surpasses the 19-medal haul
badminton coach from Vishakhapatnam, from Tokyo 2020, which included 5 golds.
named coach of Indian team for • India secured the 18th position in the overall
Paralympics Games in Paris medals table
• China topped with 94 gold medals and over all 220
medals.

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14 Manish Shooting Men's Silver

Narwal 10m air
pistol SH1
15 Thulasimathi Badminto Women’s Silver
Murugesan n singles
SU5
16 Suhas Badminto Men’s Silver
Yathiraj n singles
No Athlete Sport Event Medal SL4
1 Avani Shooting Women's Gold 17 Mona Shooting Women's Bronz
Lekhara 10m air Agarwal 10m air e
rifle rifle
standing standing
SH1 SH1
2 Nitesh Badminto Men's Gold 18 Rubina Shooting Women's Bronz
Kumar n singles Francis 10m Air e
SL3 Pistol SH1
3 Sumit Antil Athletics Javelin Gold 19 Preethi Pal Athletics Women's Bronz
throw F64 100m T35 e
4 Dharambir Athletics Men's Gold 20 Preethi Pal Athletics Women's Bronz
club 200m T35 e
throw F51 21 Simran Athletics Women's Bronz
5 Harvinder Archery Men's Gold 200m T12 e
Singh individual 22 Rakesh Archery Mixed Bronz
recurve Kumar / team e
open Sheetal Devi compoun
6 Praveen Athletics Men's Gold d open
Kumar high jump 23 Deepthi Athletics Women's Bronz
T64 Jeevanji 400m T20 e
7 Navdeep Athletics Men's Gold 24 Mariyappan Athletics Men's Bronz
Singh javelin Thangavelu high jump e
throw F41 T63
8 Nishad Athletics Men's Silver 25 Sundar Singh Athletics Men's Bronz
Kumar high jump Gurjar javelin e
T47 throw F46
9 Sharad Athletics Men's Silver 26 Hokato Athletics Men’s Bronz
Kumar high jump Hotozhe shot put e
T63 Sema F57
10 Yogesh Athletics Men's Silver 27 Manisha Badminto Women’s Bronz
Kathuniya discus Ramadass n singles e
throw F56 SU5
11 Ajeet Singh Athletics Men's Silver 28 Nithya Sre Badminto Women's Bronz
javelin Sivan n singles e
throw F46 SH6
12 Parnav Athletics Men’s Silver 29 Kapil Parmar Judo Men's - Bronz
Soorma club 60kg J1 e
throw F51
13 Sachin Khilari Athletics Men's Silver
shot put
F46

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MISCELLANEOUS
1. MP's Prachi Yadav wins two gold at 2024 MP's Prachi Yadav wins two gold at 2024 ACC
ACC Paracanoe Asian Championship
Paracanoe Asian Championship
2. Taiwan Athletics Open:
• Madhya Pradesh's ace para canoer, Prachi Yadav clinched
3. Para Powerlifting World Cup 2024 two gold medals at the ACC Paracanoe Asian Championship
4. Tokyo Marathon in record time 2024, held in Tokyo, Japan
5. Paris Diamond League In France • She secured medals in the Women's KL2 and Women's VL2
6. World’s Highest Frozen Lake Marathon categories.
7. 11th Asian Indoor Athletics Championships • She received Arjuna Award in January this year.
8. Women’s Vault At Asian Championships
9. IWF World Cup 2024 Yaroslava Mahuchikh
10. Pro Kabaddi League Season 10
11. Kami Rita climbs Mount Everest for a
record 30th time
12. Srishti Khandagale Wins Silver at Asian
Championships
13. YAI Senior National Championship 2024
14. first Gulf Youth Games
15. PT Usha Honored with Lifetime
Achievement Award by SJFI and DSJA
16. World’s highest competitive swimming
pool opens
17. World Sportsman of the Year
18. Sportstar Aces Awards 2024
19. World Masters Athletics Championship
20. International Earth Sciences Olympiad • Yaroslava Mahuchikh of Ukraine broke the world record for
21. 4th National Finswimming Championship the highest jump by a woman.
2024 • The old record of 2.09 meters had stood since 1987.
• In the Paris Diamond League, she reached an amazing
22. Know Your Medicine app
height of 2.10 meters.

The inaugural BRICS Games concluded in

Kazan

• Belarus second, China third

• Most titled participant - Maryna Litvinchuk of the
Republic of Belarus won 5 gold medals in the
BRICS Games canoe sprint.
• India secured a total of 29 medals comprising 3
• The BRICS Games 2024 took place in Kazan and gold, 6 silver, and 20 bronze medals.
Moscow from 12 to 24 June. Russia hosted these • 3 Gold Medals:
competitions for the first time • Indian Wushu athlete Aparna Dahiya in the
• 27 Sports, 82 Participating Countries, 2,852 women's 48kg category in Chinese martial art
Athletes Wushu Sanda
• Bricsik the leopard - mascot of the Games. • Minakshi bagged gold in women's 48kg boxing
• Top on medal tally - Russia: 509, with 266 gold. • Anamika bagged gold in women’s 50kg boxing
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• She secured the medals in the Best Lift and Total
Lift categories.
• In the Women’s up to 67 kg event, another Indian,
Kasthuri Rajamani earned the bronze
• Earlier in the Men’s up to 65 Kg category, India’s
Ashok Malik secured the gold medal with a
Taiwan Athletics Open: India Bag 7 Medals personal best lift of 197 kg,
Including 3 Gold, 3 Silver, One Bronze • In the Men’s up to 49 kg category, Parmjeet Singh
claimed the silver

Kenya's Chebet breaks women's 5km

world record
• Her time record - 14min 13sec

Held at Taiwan's capital city Taipei.

Name Medal Category

Nayana James gold women’s long jump
Ankesh Chaudhary gold men’s 800m long jump
DP Manu gold men’s javelin throw • previous women-only world record of 14:29 set by
Ethiopia's Senbere Teferi in September 2021
Four AFMS Officers Clinch 32 Medals At
World Medical And Health Games In Kipruto, Kebede win Tokyo Marathon in
France record time
• Four Armed Forces Medical Service (AFMS) Officers
have clinched a record 32 Medals including 19
gold, in the 43rd World Medical and Health
Games held in Saint-Tropez, France, from 16 to
23rd June.
• These Officers are Lt Col Sanjeev Malik, Maj Anish
George, Caption Stephen Sebastian, and Caption
• Kenyan Benson Kipruto won the men's Tokyo
Dania James.
Marathon in 02:02:16 (two hours, two minutes and
• The World Medical and Health Games, often
16 seconds)
regarded as the ‘Olympic Games for Health
• breaking former world record holder Eliud
Professionals’ and are the World’s largest sports
Kipchoge’s
event for health professionals.
• Ethiopia's Sutume Asefa Kebede won the women's
race in 2:15:55
Para Powerlifting World Cup 2024: Sakina
Khatun Secures 2 Bronze Medals In K M Deeksha breaks 1500m National mark
Thailand in LA meet

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• K M Deeksha, from Madhya Pradesh, ran the India’s Avinash Sable Sets New National
distance in 4:04.78, bettering the previous record
Record In 3000m Steeplechase At Paris
of 4:05.39 set by Harmilan Bains in 2021
Diamond League In France
Indian Athlete Gulveer Singh Shatters
National Record By Over 20 Seconds

• Sable finished sixth at the event with a timing of

8:09.91 (8 minutes, 9 seconds, and 91 hundredths
of a second).
• The race was won by Abrham Sime of Ethiopia.

• Asian Games bronze medallist athlete Gulveer Asian Games bronze medallist Gulveer
Singh shattered a 16-year-old national record in Singh betters own NR in 10,000m in Japan
the men's 10000m to finish second in his heat at
event
The Ten in San Juan Capistrano in California.
• The record stood in Surendra Singh's name since
2008.
• However, the Asian Games Bronze medallist failed
to qualify for Paris Olympic Games as he missed
the qualification time of 27:00.00 by over 41
seconds.
• Gulveer Singh won gold in the 2024 Hachioji Long
India’s Gulveer Singh Clinches Silver Medal Distance meet in Japan.
• clocked 27 minutes 14.88 seconds to win the race
In Men’s 5000 Metre Race At Portland
• His earlier national record in the event was
Track Festival High Performance Meet In 27:41.81s
US • Singh currently holds both the 5000m and 10000m
national records.

Man Singh Clinches Gold at the Asian

Marathon Championships 2024 in Hong
Kong

• in Portland, US.
• The Asian Games bronze medallist also became
the fastest Indian in the men’s 5000-metre race. • The Asian Marathon Championships 2024 marked
• Gulveer clocked the national record timing of 13 a historic moment for Indian athletics as Man
minutes 18.92 seconds to surpass the previous Singh, a 34-year-old marathon runner from India,
record of 13 minutes 19.30 seconds, set by clinched the gold medal.
Avinash Sable last year. • Gopi Thonakal was the first Indian man to win the
• Gulveer now holds the national records in both the Asian Marathon Championships title in 2017 in
10,000-metre and 5,000-metre races. Dongguan, China.

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The second edition of the ‘World’s Highest PM Modi Lauds India’s Best-Ever
Frozen Lake Marathon Performance in International Math
Olympiad

• Bhagwan Singh and Mahesh Khurana from

Bhopal have completed the Pangong Frozen Lake • The contingent has brought home four Gold and
Marathon 2024, held in Leh-Ladakh. one Silver Medal. the team’s rank is 4 out of 108
• Bhagwan is also the first mountaineer from participating countries.
Madhya Pradesh to conquer the world’s highest • the International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO)
peak — Mount Everest. event held at Bath, United Kingdom (UK), earlier
this month

All 5 Indian Participants Bag Medals At

54th International Physics Olympiad 2024

• Endorheic (landlocked) lake situated at a height of

more than 14,000 ft (4,350 meters) in the Ladakh
Himalayas. • 54th International Physics Olympiad 2024 held
• It is the world's highest saltwater lake. from July 21 to July 29 in Isfahan, Iran.
• India holds one-third of the 135 km-long Pangong • All five Indian participants bagged medals,
lake. including 2 gold and 3 silver medals.
• One-third of the Pangong Lake lies in India and the • Rhythm Kedia from Chhattisgarh and Ved Lahoti
other two-thirds in China. from Madhya Pradesh bagged gold medals
• It is also known to change colors, appearing blue, • A total of 193 students from 43 countries
green, and red at different times. participated in the competition. In the country-
wise medal tally, India was placed in the fourth
position, jointly with Vietnam.
India Shines At 35th International Biology
• China came at the top
Olympiad 2024 In Kazakhstan
Indian Team Wins one Gold, Two Silver,
and a Bronze at 56th International
Chemistry Olympiad

• One GOLD medal and three SILVER medals.

• Vedant Sakre from Mumbai, Maharashtra won a
gold medal

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• The Competition was held in Riyadh city of Saudi medals, including 6 golds, propelling them to the
Arabia from the 21st to the 30th of this month. 6th position in the standings.
• Devesh Bhaiyya from the Jalgaon district of
Maharashtra won gold

India concludes 11th Asian Indoor

Athletics Championships with three gold,
one silver and two national records

• Asian Indoor Athletics Championships in Tehran

(Iran) held from February 17 to 19.
• Athlete Jyothi Yarraji - secured gold in women's
60-metre hurdles with a timing of 8.12 seconds, GOLD MEDALS WINNERS
which is also a new national record. Category Player
• Tajinder Singh Toor - breaking the nineteen-year- Men's High Jump T63 Mariyappan THANGAVELU
old national record and clinching gold with a throw
Men's Javelin Throw Sumit
of 19.7 metres in men's shotput.
F64
• Harmilan Bains - secured gold in the women's
Men's Shot Put F46 Sachin Sarjerao KHILARI
1500 metres
Women's 200m T12 Simran
Women's 400m T20 Deepthi JEEVANJI
India clinched 7 golds, 11 silvers and 11 Women's Club Throw Ekta BHYAN
bronze at the Asian U20 Athletics F51
Championships 2024
Nishad Kumar, Preethi Pal Win Medals At
World Para Athletics Championships

• India clinched 7 golds, 11 silvers and 11 bronze

medals to finish second at the Asian U20 Athletics
Championships 2024 held in Dubai, the United
Arab Emirates from April 24 to 27.
• The People's Republic of China topped the Asian
U20 Athletics Championships 2024 medal tally with
16 golds, 10 silvers and 3 bronze.

India’s Simran Sharma Wins Gold Medal • The Indian team picked up its first medals in the
At World Para Athletics Championship In World Para Athletics Championships in Kobe,
Japan with:
Kobe, Japan
• High jumper Nishad Kumar winning a silver and
• Simran clinched the gold in the women’s 200m
• 200 metres Runner Preethi Pal winning a bronze.
T12 event
• India concluded their World Para Athletics
Championships journey securing a total of 17
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Abha Khatua Sets National Record

Winning Gold In Women’s Shot Put At
National Federation Cup Athletics
Competition

• Karmakar also bagged a bronze medal in the

Glasgow Commonwealth Games in 2014.
• She is the first female gymnast from India to
compete in the Olympics, and at Rio 2016, where
she stood 4th in the vault event.
• Abha Khatua from Maharashtra has set a national • She also became the first Indian to ever win a gold
record and won gold medal in Women’s Shot Put medal at an international gymnastics competition
with a massive throw of 18.41 metres at National when she won the women’s vault gold medal at
Federation Cup Athletics Competition in the 2018 FIG World Cup in Mersin, Turkey.
Bhubaneswar. • Dipa Karmakar was conferred India’s highest sports
award, the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award (now
Tejaswin Shankar Clinches Gold In High Major Dhyan Chand Khel Ratna Award) 2016.
Jump At USATF Festival • She was honoured with India’s fourth highest
civilian award, Padma Shri 2017.

IWF World Cup 2024: Bindyarani Devi wins

bronze medal

• India’s Tejaswin Shankar clinched victory the men’s

High Jump event at the USATF Throws Festival in
Tucson, Arizona, USA.
• The National record holder Tejaswin secured the
top spot at the World Athletics Continental Tour –
Silver event.

• Bindyarani Devi (Manipur), the Birmingham

Dipa Karmakar Clinches India’s First-Ever
Commonwealth Games 2022 silver medallist, won
Gold Medal In Women’s Vault At Asian a bronze medal at the IWF World Cup 2024, held
Championships In Tashkent in Phuket, Thailand.
• Dipa Karmakar, is an Indian Gymnast from Tripura, • Competing in the non-Olympic women’s 55kg
scripted history , clinching India’s first-ever gold category, Bindyarani Devi lifted a total of 196kg.
medal at the Asian Championships in Tashkent, • She also won a silver medal in the clean and jerk
Uzbekistan. category.
• This is the first time that an Indian gymnast has
won a gold medal in any event at the Asian
Championships.

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India Makes New Guinness World Record • Maharashtra emerged champion in both the
men’s and women’s sections in the 56th National
In Kabaddi
kho kho championship at the Indira Gandhi Indoor
Stadium

Bronny and LeBron James to become first

father -son duo to team up in NBA history

• India made history by making a Guinness World

record with participation of 128 players, on The
World Kabaddi Day .
• The history was written at Tau Devi Lal Indoor
Stadium of Panchkula in Haryana • Bronny and LeBron will be the first father-son duo
• World Kabaddi Day is being celebrated every year to play in the league at the same time and on the
on March 24, since 2019 same team Los Angeles Lakers
• The Guinness team presented the Guinness World
record certificate to the Governor of Haryana Nepal’s Purnima Shrestha Becomes First
Bandaru Dattatreya who was the Chief Guest at Woman In World To Climb Mount Everest
the event.
Thrice In 13 Days
• Purnima Shrestha,
Pro Kabaddi League Season 10, Puneri
a 32-year-old
Paltan Clinches Maiden Title mountaineer from
Gorkha, Nepal,
and a
photojournalist by
profession has
made history as
the first woman in
the world to climb
• Defeated Haryana Steelers in at the Gachibowli
Mount Everest
Indoor Stadium in Hyderabad
three times in the
• This win marks the Pune-based team’s first-ever
same season, all in just 13 days.
title
• She has climbed Everest four times, with a prior
• Patna Pirates are the most successful team in the
summit in 2018.
league with three titles
• Puneri Paltan captain Aslam Inamdar was
awarded the Most Valuable Player (MVP) of the Nepal’s Mountaineer Kami Rita Sherpa
season Climbs Mount Everest For 29th Time

Maharashtra teams win in 56th National

kho-kho

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Nepal's Everest Man- Kami Rita climbs • Africa: Mount Kilimanjaro

• Europe: Mount Elbrus
Mount Everest for a record 30th time
• Antarctica: Mount Vinson
• Australia (and Oceania): Puncak Jaya

Jyoti Ratre, 55, becomes oldest Indian

woman to conquer Mount Everest

• A 54-year-old Nepalese climber known as “Everest

Man” reached the peak of the world’s highest
mountain for a record 30th time on three decades
after his first summit.
• Kami Rita Sherpa, who broke his own record after
climbing the 8,849-metre (29,000-foot) peak for
the 29th time earlier this month.
• Sherpa first stood on the top of Everest in 1994 • Jyoti Ratre is an entrepreneur and fitness
enthusiast from Madhya Pradesh
Mumbai girl Kaamya Karthikeyan becomes
youngest Indian to summit Mt Everest Indian Mountaineer Satyadeep Gupta
from Nepal Side Becomes First Person To Scale Mt. Everest
And Mt. Lhotse Twice In One Season

• 16-year-old Kaamya Karthikeyan is a class 12

student from Mumbai.
• She and her father Cdr S Karthikeyan successfully • This historic achievement marks the first Double
summited Mt. Everest (8,849 m) – making her the Dual Ascent of the world’s highest and the fourth
youngest Indian & the second youngest girl in the highest peaks in a single season.
world to summit Mt Everest from the Nepal side.
• Kaamya has completed 6 summits out of all seven NRI couple move mountains, become first
continents and aims to climb Mt. Vinson Massif in Sikh pair in the world to scale Mt Everest
Antarctica this December to become the youngest
girl to accomplish the ‘7summits challenge’.

Seven Summits
The highest peaks on each of the seven continents are
known collectively as the "Seven Summits.”
• Asia: Mount Everest
• South America: Aconcagua
• North America: Denali (formerly known as Mount • US citizens and NRI couple 47-year-old Harpreet
McKinley) Singh Cheema and 40-year-old Navneet Kaur

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Cheema became the first Sikh couple in the world • In the 6th Asian Carrom championship, Indian
to reach the summit of Mt Everest. players captured both the Men’s and Women’s
doubles titles at Male in Maldives.
Indian Gymnast Srishti Khandagale Wins • In Men’s doubles - Indian duo K Srinivas and
Mohammed Ghufran
Silver at Asian Championships
• Women’s doubles - India’s Aakanksha Kadam and
• In Trampoline, India’s
Shainy Sebastian
Srishti Khandagale
scripted history by
becoming the first ever YAI Senior National Championship 2024
Indian to win a medal Concludes in Mumbai
at the Asian
Trampoline
Gymnastics
Championships.
• She clinched the silver
medal in Women’s
Individual Age group category at the 6th Asian
Trampoline Gymnastics Championship held in
Hong Kong, China.
• The Yachting Association of India (YAI) Senior
India Clinches 2 Silver, 2 Bronze Medals At National Championship 2024 concluded at the
13th European Girls’ Mathematical Indian Naval Watermanship Training Centre
(INWTC) in Mumbai. The event is held from 12-18
Olympiad 2024 In Tskaltubo, Georgia May.
• Organized under the aegis of the Yachting
Association of India (YAI) and the Indian Navy
Sailing Association (INSA)
• The championship featured all eight Olympic
classes of boats and attracted 82 participants from
10 sailing clubs nationwide. A total of 94 races,
including four medal races.
• Silver medals - Gunjan Agarwal of Gurgaon and • Teams from the Army and Navy dominated,
Sanjana Philo Chacko of Thiruvananthapuram securing the highest medal count.
• Bronze medals - Larissa from Hissar and Pune’s
Saee Patil. Tawangchu Tides International Kayaking
Championship-2024 begins in Arunachal
Indian Players Captured Both Men’s And Pradesh
Women’s Doubles Titles At Male: Asian
Carrom Championship

• The three-day Tawangchu Tides International

Kayaking Championship-2024 kick started in
Tawang District, Arunachal Pradesh.
• The event is being organized by an organization
called “SWYTCH” from 7 to 9 Feb

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• A total of 51 Kayakers from different countries are Union Sports Minister Anurag Singh
participating in it.
Thakur kicks off 1st BIMSTEC Aquatics
• The goal of this initiative is to position Arunachal
Pradesh as a global hub for kayaking, with the Championships
aspirations to host future World Championships.

Malabar River Festival to be held from July

25 to 28 in Kozhikode

• The 10th edition of the Malabar River Festival

(MRF) and the International White Water
Kayaking Championship will be held in Kozhikode
from July 25 to 28. • at Delhi’s Dr. Syama Prasad Mookerjee Swimming
• Around 20 countries, besides around 100 national- Pool Complex from 6th February to 9th February
level Kayakers, were expected to participate in the 2024
even • competitions for Under 20 age category in3
• The first edition of the Malabar River Festival, held sporting events - Swimming, Water Polo and
in August 2013 Diving events.
• The announcement for the same was made by PM
Gretchen Walsh sets a world record in the Modi during the 4th BIMSTEC Summit in 2018.
100-meter butterfly at the U.S. Olympic
Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral
trials
Technical and Economic Cooperation
(BIMSTEC)

• Gretchen Walsh set a world record in the women's

100-meter butterfly, posting a time of 55.18
seconds
• Previous record of 55.48 set by Sweden's Sarah
Sjöström at the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympics.

• Headquarters : Dhaka, Bangladesh

• Established : 6 June, 1997, in Bangkok.
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• Members : 7 countries Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, • The aim of the conclave is to hunt and nurture
Myanmar, Nepal, Sri Lanka, and Thailand. young talents so that more athletes and players
• Indra Mani Pandey - Secretary General of BIMSTEC from Mizoram could participate in the forthcoming
Olympics 2036.
Opening ceremony of first Gulf Youth • India has bid to host the 2036 Olympics
• Centre has sanctioned Rs. 60.80 lakh to upgrade
Games took place at Dubai Opera
sports infrastructure and help sportsperson in
Mizoram & NE

Ortho-One launches ‘Halt Sports Injuries’

movement

• Coimbatore-based Ortho-One Orthopaedic

Speciality Centre launched the ‘Halt Sports
Injuries’ movement to sensitise athletes to sports
injuries, and educate them on preventing injuries.
• Olympic gold-medallist shooter Abhinav Bindra
launched the movement at the ‘The Athletic Knee’
• GCC Youth Games UAE 2024 opened at Dubai
symposium.
Opera (GCC - Gulf Cooperation Council)
• featuring 3,500 athletes competing in 24 sports
with a focus on sustainability, unity, and youth. Indian hammer thrower Rachna Kumari
• from April 16 to May 2. banned for 12 years for doping
• The theme, “Our Gulf is One… Our youth are
promising.”
• Participating nations - UAE, Kuwait, Oman,
Bahrain, Saudi Arabia and Qatar

Two-Day Mizoram Sports Conclave 2024

To Begin Tomorrow With ‘Vision 2036

• The Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) has suspended

hammer thrower Rachna Kumari for 12 years for a
second anti-doping rule violation.
• Rachna had earlier served a four-year suspension
from 2015 to 2019.

• In Mizoram, a two-day State Sports Conclave

began on 13th June with the theme “Vision 2036”.

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Dutee Chand’s four-year ban stays Manika Batra becomes first Indian woman
paddler to break top-25 world rankings;
now at No. 24

• The National Anti-Doping Appeal Panel (ADAP)

has rejected 100m national record holder Dutee
Chand’s appeal against the four-year ban imposed
on her in August 2023.
• Dutee, the 100 and 200m silver medallist at the 6-year-old Takshvi Vaghan from
2018 Jakarta Asian Games and the fastest woman
at the 2019 World University Games in Italy, had
Ahmedabad made record of lowest limbo
tested positive in a dope-test in Bhubaneswar in skating
December 2022.
• The ADAP, upheld the Anti-Doping Disciplinary
Panel’s decision to ban the star sprinter for four
years.
PT Usha Honored with Lifetime
Achievement Award by SJFI and DSJA

• Takshvi Vaghan, a 6-year-old from Ahmedabad,

Gujarat, has set a new Guinness World Record for
the lowest limbo skating over 25 metres, achieving
a height of just 16 centimetres (6.29 inches).

World’s highest competitive swimming

• PT Usha - Legendary sprinter and Indian Olympic
Association (IOA) President pool opens in Bhutan
• Lifetime Achievement Award - by Sports
Journalists Federation of India (SJF I) and Delhi
Sports Journalists Association (DSJA) at the
National Sports Club of India.

Laura Kenny retires from cycling

• World Aquatics inaugurated the highest

competitive swimming pool at 8200 ft (2,400
meters) in Bhutan, under the ‘Pools for All
program’ to promote aquatic sports.
• The Global body of Swimming launched a program
• Laura Kenny, Britain’s most successful female in 2019 that aims to ensure accessible aquatic
Olympic athlete, announced her retirement from facilities for more countries and regions.
cycling. • Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck is the Druk
• The 31-year-old Kenny has won five Olympic gold Gyalpo, the monarch of the Kingdom of Bhutan.
medals • World Aquatics President- Hussein Al-Musallam.

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Novak Djokovic named Laureus World Coach of the Year Rahul Dravid
Lifetime Achievement Chandu Borde, Karnam
Sportsman of the Year for a fifth time
Award Malleswari
Sportstar of the Year Neeraj Chopra (javelin)
(Male)
Sportstar of the Year Sheetal Devi (archer)
(Female)
Best State for the Tamil Nadu
Promotion of Sport
Best PSU for the NTPC Ltd
Promotion of Sport
Best Corporate for the Tata Steel Ltd
• For the fifth time in his career, world No. 1 Novak
Promotion of Sport
Djokovic received the coveted Laureus World
Best University for the SRM Institute of Science
Sportsman of the Year award
Promotion of Sport and Technology (T.N.)
• Sportswoman of the Year Award to Spanish
Ace of Aces Award Rohan Bopanna
footballer Aitana Bonmati
International Icon Muttiah Muralitharan
Sportstar Aces Awards 2024
Nitish Singh of UP Conquered Mount
Kinabalu, Climbed It in 19 Hours And
Hoisted The Tricolor

• Tamil Nadu won the ‘Best State for the promotion

of sport’ award at the Sportstar ACES Awards 2024
• With a sports budget of over ₹770 crore, Tamil
Nadu invested heavily in national as well as • Mount Kinabalu, the highest peak in Malaysia
international competitions in 2023. • Nitish Singh has become the first Indian to climb
• IDFC First Bank Lifetime Achievement Award - the peak at the fastest speed in 19 hours.
Champion weightlifter Karnam Malleswari and
former India cricketer Chandu Borde Kiran Pahal Wins Gold Medal in Women’s
• Muralitharan was presented with the first ever
International Icon award 200m at Summer Athletics Competition
• Australian Open men’s doubles champion Rohan 2024 in Warsaw
Bopanna won the Ace of Aces award

Category Winner
Sportsman of the Year Satwiksairaj Rankireddy,
(Individual) Chirag Shetty
(badminton)
Sportswoman of the Rameshbabu Vaishali
Year (Individual) (grandmaster), Sift Kaur
Samra (shooter)
Sportsman of the Year Sumit Antil (javelin)
(Parasports)
Sportswoman of the T. Murugesan
Year (Parasports) (badminton)

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Tourism Minister to inaugurate Malabar

River Festival

• For a start, the Academy will run with 30 boys and

30 girls from the school through a nationwide hunt
for talent
• 10th edition of the Malabar River Festival at • The partner institution will provide a
Kerala from July 25-28 comprehensive academic program, nutritional
• As many as 13 international kayakers from 8 support, sports counselling, training and access to
countries, apart from other States, are taking part world class facilities for the trainees.
in the competitions to be held in upland
Kozhikode.
V Sriramulu wins 3 gold medals at World
Masters Athletics Championship in
Jiya Rai Becomes World’s Youngest &
Sweden
Fastest Female Para Swimmer To Swim
Solo Across English Channel

• Mr. Sriramulu, aged 101 years, clinched gold in

javelin, discus and shotput in the world Masters
Athletics Championship
• Jiya Rai, a 16-year-old from Mumbai with Autism
Spectrum Disorder, covered the 34 km stretch, Aahana George, Aanaya Bhavsar & Gunjan
from Abbots Cliff in England to Pointe de la Courte- Mantri select in FIBA 3×3 U18 Basketball
Dune in France, in 17 hours and 25 minutes.
• In 2022 she had become the world's youngest and
World Cup
fastest female to swim across the Palk Strait.
• Jiya Rai is a recipient of Pradhan Mantri Rashtriya
Bal Puraskar (PMB) – 2022 the highest award for
citizens below 18 years of Age.

BFI Sets Up The National Basketball

Academy In Collaboration With CAA
• The Basketball Federation of India (BFI) has set up
the National basketball academy in collaboration
• Union Minister of Youth Affairs and Sports Dr
with Corvuss American Academy in Mumbai.
Mansukh Mandaviya has congratulated Aahana
George, Aanaya Bhavsar, and Gunjan Mantri for

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their selection in the FIBA 3×3 Under-18 Basketball Indian Surfing Team secures historic First
World Cup 2024.
Quota for 2026 Asian Games
• The tournament is scheduled to begin in Debrecen,
Hungary from 26th august.

India wins CAVA Women’s Volleyball

Nations League for the second time

• 2026 Asian Games to be held in Aichi-Nagoya,

Japan.
• Both the men’s and women’s teams clinched spots
at the Asian Surfing Championships 2024 held in
the Maldives.

India won a silver medal at the Maruhaba

Cup, a team event, at the Asian Surfing
• India lifted the CAVA (Central Asian Volleyball Championships 2024 at Thulusdhoo,
Association) Women’s Volleyball Nations League
final after beating hosts Nepal 3-2 at the Dashrath
Maldives
Stadium in Kathmandu.
• This victory marked India’s second title in the CAVA
Women’s Volleyball Nations League.
Haryana to commence first-ever Global
Women’s Kabaddi League in September

• Japan won the gold medal

• India won the medal a day after securing their first-
ever quota in surfing for the Asian Games
• Both the Indian men’s and women’s surfing teams
will compete at the Asian Games 2026, set to be
hosted in Aichi-Nagoya in Japan.
• Harish Muthu also left a major mark at the Asian
Surfing Championships.

Himanshi Tokas clinches silver medal at

Asian Cadet Judo Championships in
• Organized by the Holistic International Pravasi
Sports Association (HIPSA) in partnership with Women 63 kg event
World Kabaddi.
• The GPKL will showcase teams from a diverse
range of countries, including England, Poland,
Argentina, Canada, and Italy, with athletes from
these nations expressing keen interest in
participating.

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• At the Asian Cadet and Junior Judo • India was placed in the eighth position
Championships in Mungyeong, South Korea • winner - Iran (5 golds)

India secures 4 medals including one gold Five-Year-Old Teghbir Singh Conquers
at Deaf Shooting Championship in Mount Kilimanjaro
Germany

• Anuya Prasad won gold in the Women’s 10m Air

Pistol event.

India shines at 17th International Earth

Sciences Olympiad

• India’s student team has secured three gold

medals, three bronze medals, and two silver
prestigious medals • Teghbir Singh from Ropar in Punjab has become
• at the 17th International Earth Sciences Olympiad the youngest ever from Asia to scale the 5,895-
(IESO) held in Beijing, China. metre Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania.
• It is Africa’s tallest mountain and the world’s
Team India wins 1 gold, 4 silver medals at largest free-standing mountain (which means not
part of a mountain range).
International Olympiad on Astronomy • Also called a stratovolcano, Kilimanjaro is made up
of three cones: Kibo, Mawenzi, and Shira.

• Uhuru Peak, the highest free-standing peak in

Africa, is located on the volcanic cone Kibo.
• 17 International Olympiad on Astronomy ( IOAA) • The Kilimanjaro National Park was named a
happened in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (UNESCO) World Heritage Site in 1987.
• between August 17 and 25

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An expedition team from the Ministry of Himachal Pradesh: World Paragliding

Defence, led by ‘Divyang’ Uday Kumar, Competition in Bir-Billing concludes
made history by hoisting the largest Indian
flag atop Mount Kilimanjaro, the highest
peak in Africa at 19,341 ft.

• In Himachal Pradesh, the World Paragliding

Competition in Bir-Billing, Kangra district,
concluded.
• Austin Cox from the United States secured first
place in the overall category

Arjun Vajpai Becomes First Indian to

Conquer Mt. Shishapangma

India’s Rinchen Youdol from Ladakh wins

historic Bronze at first World Para
Poomsae Taekwondo Championships in
Bahrain

• Poomsae, also known as kata or forms, are a series

of pre-arranged Taekwondo techniques that are • Fastest ascent of Mt. Shishapangma (Base Camp to
performed against an imaginary opponent. They Summit and back in under 72 hours)
are a traditional aspect of Taekwondo • First Indian to climb eight 8,000-meter peaks

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Monduro 4.0: World’s highest enduro • Emma McKeon, Australia’s most decorated
Olympian, announced her retirement from
mountain biking race begins in Tawang,
competitive swimming.
Arunachal Pradesh
Double Olympic champion Alistair
Brownlee announced his retirement from
triathlon at the age of 36

• The Monduro 4.0, the world’s highest enduro

mountain biking race and a part of the Asia Enduro
Series (AES) • Brownlee won gold medals in London in 2012 and
• Organized by the Tawang Cycling Association in Rio de Janeiro in 2016
collaboration with the Department of Tourism, • Alistair Brownlee was also a world champion in
Government of Arunachal Pradesh, 2009 and 2011 and a four-time European
• participants from India, as well eight countries champion.
abroad
• The final race on November 13 and 14.
Harbhajan Singh & Sania Mirza appointed
Dubai Sports Council brand ambassador
West Bengal Wins 4th National Fin
swimming Championship 2024.

‘Know Your Medicine’ App Launched to

• at the Syama Prasad Mookeerjee Swimming Pool Promote Clean Sports
Complex, New Delhi.
• Karnataka finished as runners-up
• Uttarakhand secured third place

Emma McKeon, 14-time Olympic medalist,

retires from swimming

• Union Minister for Youth Affairs & Sports, Dr.

Mansukh Mandaviya, has launched a nationwide
appeal to strengthen the fight against doping in
sports, urging athletes, coaches, and the entire
sporting community to embrace the National Anti-
Doping Agency (NADA) India's ‘Know Your
Medicine (KYM)’ app.

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• The app allows users to easily verify whether a • 19-22 November 2024 at the Thyagaraj Sports
specific medicine or its ingredients contain any Complex in New Delhi.
substances listed as prohibited by the World Anti- • For athletes from the Asia-Pacific with intellectual
Doping Agency (WADA). and developmental disabilities.
• 81 athletes from 12 countries participated
World’s First High-Altitude Para Sports • Inaugurated by the Vice President of India,
Jagdeep Dhankhar, on 19 November 2024.
Centre
• organised by Special Olympics Bharat and
supported by the Jindal Steel Company.
• Intellectual disability refers to a person having an
Intellectual Quotient (IQ) of 70.It means that the
person has a below-average intellectual capability.

India’s Pavan Kampelli secures Bronze

medal in e-football event at 2024 Asian
Esports Games in Bangkok
• The Ladakh Autonomous Hill Development
Council (LAHDC) in Leh has teamed up with the
Aditya Mehta Foundation (AMF) to establish the
world’s first high-altitude para sports centre.
• This facility aims to enhance the abilities and
confidence of Indian para-athletes as they prepare
for the 2028 Paralympics.
• The Leh centre will offer a comprehensive range of
para sports training, including archery, athletics,
badminton, cycling, judo, swimming, wheelchair
basketball, and more.
• Additionally, winter para sports such as alpine
skiing, biathlon, and wheelchair curling are set to • In a momentous achievement, India's Pavan
be integral parts of the programme Kampelli claimed the bronze medal in eFootball,
the country's first-ever podium finish in the event,
Special Olympics Asia Pacific Bocce & at the 2024 Asian Esports Games in Bangkok.

Bowling Competition in Delhi

Union Minister Mansukh Mandaviya
felicitates Indian Team contingent for
clinching 55 medals at 10th Asia-Pacific
Deaf Games

• Youth Affairs and Sports Minister Dr. Mansukh

• For the first time, India hosted the Special Mandaviya felicitated the Indian contingent for
Olympics Asia Pacific Bocce & Bowling clinching 55 medals at the 10th Asia-Pacific Deaf
Competition Games in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

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• The Indian team, represented by 68 members, • The mascot, “Mouli,” inspired by Uttarakhand’s
including 42 men and 26 women. state bird, the Monal.
• Secured 8 gold, 18 silver, and 29 bronze medals at • theme of the National Games as “Green Games”
these games held from the 1st to the 8th of • The tagline for the Games, “Sankalp Se Shikhar
December. Tak” (From Resolve to Zenith)
• This was the best-ever performance by an Indian • The newly designed torch incorporates motifs of
team in the quadrennial tournament since its the perennial holy river Ganga and the state
inaugural edition in 1984. flower, Brahma Kamal, also known as the “Lotus
of the Darks.”
20th Asian Women’s Handball • PT Usha announced the inclusion of traditional
sports like yoga and mallakhamb in the Games
Championship – Japan Triumphs Over
South Korea New Delhi to host 2025 World Para
• India hosted the
tournament for Athletics Championships at Jawaharlal
the first time Nehru Stadium
• India secured
sixth place at
New Delhi’s
Indira Gandhi Arena

Asian Women’s Handball Championship 2024 standings

1. Japan
2. South Korea • The world’s largest single Para sport event will take
3. Kazakhstan
place from 26 September to 5 October 2025 at
Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium, which will also host a
Uttarakhand CM Pushkar Singh Dhami World Para Athletics Grand Prix for the first time
launches logo, mascot, anthem, jersey & next March
torch for 38th National Games • New Delhi 2025 will mark the 12th edition of the
championships and the fourth time it is hosted in
Asia, following Doha 2015, Dubai 2019 and Kobe
2024.
• In the 2024 edition, India finished in the top 6 in
the table after it 17 medals, including 6 gold.
China topped

Salman Khan Named Brand Ambassador

for Kho Kho World Cup

• The Kho Kho Federation of India (KKFI) has

officially appointed Bollywood superstar Salman
Khan as the brand ambassador for the inaugural
Kho Kho World Cup, which will be held in New
• The National Games are set to take place at the
Delhi from January 13 to 19, 2025.
Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium in Dehradun
• from January 28 to February 14, 2025.

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Bihar to Host Women’s Kabaddi World Pro Kabaddi 2024 12 teams:

• Bengal Warriorz
Cup 2025
• Bengaluru Bulls
• Dabang Delhi KC
• Gujarat Giants
• Haryana Steelers
• Jaipur Pink Panthers
• Patna Pirates
• Puneri Paltan
• Tamil Thalaivas
• Telugu Titans
• U Mumba
• UP Yoddhas

Asian Youth and Junior Weightlifting Championships

2024: India concludes with 33 medals
• Asian Youth and Junior Weightlifting
• at Rajgir Sports Academy in March 2025.
Championships 2024 held in Doha, Qatar
• A total of 14 countries, including India, China,
• Indian youth lifters won 21 medals, including all
Japan, South Korea, Nepal, Pakistan, Iran,
seven golds. The junior lifters contributed 12
Indonesia, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Poland, Argentina,
medals to the tally.
and South Africa, are expected to participate.
• Bihar will host the Women's Kabaddi World
Cup for the second time, after previously hosting 17-year-old from Mumbai becomes the
the event in 2012 at the Patliputra Sports Complex youngest female in world to scale highest
in Patna. peaks on each of 7 continents

Pro Kabaddi 2024: Haryana Steelers win

maiden title after beating Patna Pirates in
final

• Kaamya Karthikeyan, a Class 12 student at Navy

Children School in Mumbai, has made history by
becoming the youngest female in the world to
scale seven highest peaks across seven
continents.
• Her outstanding accomplishments earned her the
• Haryana Steelers beat Patna Pirates and clinch Pradhan Mantri Rashtriya Bal Shakti Puraskar,
their maiden Pro Kabaddi League (PKL) in the India’s highest national honour for young achievers
Season 11. in 2021
• Held at the Shree Shiv Chhatrapati Sports Complex • Premlata Agrawal - first Indian woman
in Pune. mountaineer to scale the seven continental peaks
• Mohammadreza Shadloui - Most Valuable Player in 2013
award

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Kerala clinches Senior National Men’s

Handball Championship title

The 17-year-old adventurer has conquered :

1. Africa (Mt Kilimanjaro)
2. Europe (Mt Elbrus)
3. Australia (Mt Kosciuszko)
4. South America (Mt Aconcagua)
5. North America (Mt Denali) • Kerala defeated Chandigarh to clinch their maiden
6. Asia (Mt Everest) Senior National Men’s Handball Championship
7. and culminating the current climb in Antarctica title.
(Mt Vinson ) • in Kerala.

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