SPORTS List of Arjuna Awards Winners 2016 Name/ Sports Amit Kumar- Wrestling Ajinkya Rahane- Cricket Apurvi Chandela- Shooting Shiva Thapa- Boxing Gurpreet Singh- Shooting Sandeep Singh Maan- Para Atheletics Ritu Rani- Hockey Sourav Kothari- Billiards & Snooker Soumyajit Ghosh- Table Tennis Raghunath Vokkaliga- Hockey Subrata Pal- Football Rajat Chauhan- Archery Virender Singh- Wrestling Vinesh Phogat- … Read more
Sports 1-SSP Chawrasia was the winner of 2016 Hero Indian Open golf title. 2-2016 Swiss Open Grand Prix Gold badminton Men’s Singles tournament was won by HS Prannoy by defeating Marc Zwiebler of Germany by 21-18 21-15 in the final. 3-Services team has won the 70th edition of Santosh Trophy Football Championships title 2016 … Read more
Sports 1- SV Sunil named the Asian Hockey Federation (AHF) Player of the Year 2016 . 2-Argentina Player Lionel Messi has been banned from their next 4 competitive internationals. 3- Srinath Narayanan, Chennai has become the India’s 46th Grandmaster after winning Sharjah Master 2017 chess Tournament. 4– Brazil is qualified for the 2018 FIFA … Read more
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Sports 1-Leander Paes won a singles bronze medal at the 1996 Olympics. 2- Sania Mirza is the most notable Indian woman tennis player, having won a WTA title and breaking into the Top 30 WTA rankings, also winning three Grand Slam doubles events, the first at Wimbledon in 2015. 3-On the men’s side, … Read more
Sports 1-The history of sports in India dates back to the Vedic era. 2-India hosted the Asian Games in New Delhi in 1951 and 1982. 3- The Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports was initially set up as the Department of Sports in 1982 at the time of organization of the IX Asian … Read more
SPORTS – WINNERS Of ICC Awards 2016 – * Sir Garfield Sobers Trophy for ICC Cricketer of the Year- Ravichandran Ashwin (India) *ICC Test Cricketer of the Year award is bagged by Ravichandran Ashwin (India) *ICC ODI Cricketer of the Year goes to Quinton de Kock (South Africa) *ICC Women’s ODI Cricketer … Read more
Sports 1- In 1924 the first winter Olympics was held in France 2-Krishna Poonia is associated with Chess 3-The term Googly is associated with Cricket. 4-World’s most ancient game is Wrestling 5-Beighton cup is associated with Hockey 6-The game of hockey originated in France 7-Who is Master Blaster ?- Sachin Tendulkar 8-The head quarters of … Read more
Sports 1-Wilson Jones was the first Indian to win the World Amateur Billiards title 2-Ravi Shastri played for Glamorgan.Ravi Shastri once hit spinner Tilak Raj for 6 sixes in an over in a First Class match. 3-Sri Lanka was the 1st non Test playing country to beat India in an international match.Sri Lanka got the … Read more
GK Sports 1-Deepak Lathore is related to Weightlifting 2-First woman who was to be inducted in ICC umpires panel belongs to New Zealand 3-Take of Board is related with LONG JUMP. 4-Bonus Line is related with Kabaddi 5-NIIF stand for National Investment and Infrastructure Fund 6-Itthipat Buranatanyarat won his 2nd Asian Development Tour title on … Read more