The 16-year-old from Gujarat, who became the first Indian woman shuttler to claim the world no. 1 status in u-19 singles, beat second seed Susato 21-11, 11-21, 21-7 in 51 minutes.
En route to the title, Tasnim defeated Iran’s Nazanin Zamani, Armenia’s Lilit Poghosyan, Iran’s Fatemeh Babaei, India’s Samayara Panwar before outwitting top seed and World Number 71 Martina Repiska in the semifinals.
India’s veteran Indian field hockey Goal Keeper PR Sreejesh wins the award of ‘World Games Athlete of the year 2021.
Winning this makes Kerala’s PR Sreejesh the First Indian Man to Win this honour.
Sreejesh beat competition from sport climber Alberto Gins Lopez of Spain and Italy’s wushu player Michele Giordano for the award.
The men’s doubles title was Rohan Bopanna’s 20th on the tour and the first for Ramkumar Ramanathan.
The Indian pair defeated the top-seed pair of Ivan Dodig and Marcelo Melo in the final on Sunday, January 09th, 2022
Hapreet ‘Polar Preet’ Chandi, an Indian-origin British Army Captain created history by becoming the first Indian-Origin woman and the first woman of colour trekking on a solo expedition of 700 miles (1127 Km) to reach the South Pole in just 40 days.
She is a trained Physiotherapist and part of the medical regiment of the British Army.
India wins Sri Lanka by 9 wickets in the final show down in Dubai, December 31st, 2021
JANUARY 01st, 2022 – Saturday
Prithvi Shaw scored 546 runs in a little over 4 sessions of school cricket in ‘The Lord Harris Shield’ inter-school tournament making him the highest scorer ever in India’s school cricket fixtures.
14 year old, 5’1″ Prithvi Shaw, a school boy re-wrote history by scoring 546 runs (367 minutes, 330 deliveries, 85 fours and 5 sixes) for his school Rizvi Springfield at Bandra, Mumbai whilst playing aginst D’Assisi School at the Azad Maidan on Wednesday – November 20th, 2013.
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Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar became the first sports person from India to win the coveted ‘Bharat Ratna ‘ award.
The announcement was made by the Government of India within hours of Sachin Tendulkar’s retirement from cricket , on Saturday, November 16th, 2013.
The Bharat Ratna – is the highest civilan honour bestowed on an Indian citizen.
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Arjun Singh Atwal is the first Indian professional golfer, born in India, to become a member, and later win a tournament on the U.S.based PGA Tour.
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Archana Sardana, a home maker became India’s first civilan woman BASE jumper, officially one of the worlds riskiest extreme sports that involves jumping off Buildings, Antennae, Spans and Earth with a small parachute.
Born in Jammu the adventure seeking, 40 year, wife of a naval officer and mother of 2 school-going children has several firsts to her credit.
Archana Sardana has completed 290 jumps and has a ‘C’ licence from the ‘United States Parachute Association’. She is a ‘Demonstration Skydiver’ and is the first Indian woman to fly the Indian Tricolour in US skies.
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Sachin Tendulkar becomes the first Indian and first cricket player from Asia to reach and cross 50,000 runs in all formats of competitive cricket. With this feat he also becomes the 16th player ever to reach this landmark. October 05th, 2013.
Event: CLT20 : Mumbai Indian’s beat Trindad and Tobago : In the semi-final, on Saturday Oct 05th, Mumbai Indians beat Trinidad and Tobago by 6 wickets and 5 balls to spare. Chasing 154 for victory the IPL Champions rode on a brilliant half century from Dwayne Smith 59, and an elegant 35 from Tendulkar.
In this knock Sachin Tendulkar the master blaster reached yet another landmark and became the 16th player and the first in Asia and the first Indian to reach 50,000 runs in cricket.
The 40-year old Tendulkar now has 50,000 runs in 953 competitive matches, which include 551 List A matches, 307 first-class matches and 95 T20 games.
Coming Up: The maestro is also standing on the cusp of another rare feat of becoming the first player in the history of the game to play 200 Test Matches.
The complete records of Sachin Tendulkar : coming up soon.