Sport
Events
[April
– June 2015]
Best
Sportsperson
·
World
Sportsman of the Year: Novak Djokovic (Serbia)
·
World
Sportswoman of the Year: Genzebe Dibaba (Ethiopia)
·
World
Team of the Year: German men’s football team
·
World
Breakthrough of the Year: Daniel Ricciardo (Australia)
·
World
Comeback of the Year: Schalk Burger (South Africa)
·
World
Sportsperson of the Year with a Disability: Tatyana McFadden (USA)
·
World
Action Sportsperson of the Year: Alan Eustace (USA)
·
Sport
for Good Award: Oliver Percovich (Australia)
·
Spirit
of Sport Award: Yao Ming (China)
·
Exceptional
Achievement Award: Li Na (China).
·
World
Sports Academy inductees: Sachin Tendulkar (India), Tegla Loroupe (Kenya) and
Yao Ming, Yang Yang and Li Xiaopeng (all China).
2015 World Women
Championships (Chess)
·
Winner:
Mariya Muzychuk (Ukraine)
·
Defeated
Russia's Natalia Pogonina
·
India's
Dronavalli Harika won the Bronze medal
·
Georgia
won the World’s Women Chess team champion; Russia – Silver and China – Bronze;
India at fourth position
2015 Sultan Azlan
Shah Cup (Hockey)
·
Winner:
New Zealand; second win for New Zealand in Sultan Azlan Shah Cup
·
Runner:
Australia
·
India
finished at third
WTA Family Circle
(Tennis)
·
Sania
Mirza and Martina Hingis, the top-seeded Indo-Swiss pair of Tennis won the
731000 US dollar WTA Family Circle Cup doubles title.
·
This
was third consecutive team title for the Indo-Swiss pair. Earlier, they won the
Miami Open Tennis women's doubles title and Indian Wells Open title.
·
With
this win, Sania Mirza also became the first female tennis player from India to
achieve the world number one rank in doubles. Sania is also first female player
from the country to win Grand Slam tournaments. Before Sania, only Leander Paes
and Mahesh Bhuapthi had achieved the top rank when they dominated men's doubles
circuit in the last 1990s.
Asian Youth Athletics Championships
·
First
Asian Youth Athletics Championships was held at Doha, Qatar.
·
China
topped the medals table.
·
India
stood at fifth position with two gold and five silver and bronze medals.
Federation Cup 2015
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Federation Cup –
2015
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Overall
Championships
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Men’s
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Women’s
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Army
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Army
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Kerala
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Tamil
Nadu
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Tamil
Nadu
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Karnataka
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Best
Male Athlete: Inderjeet Singh (Haryana)
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Best
Female Athlete: Srabani Nanda (Odisha)
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Century of Boxing
·
American
boxer Floyd Mayweather Jr. defeated Manny Pacquiao from Philippines to win the
unified World Welterweight title.
·
The
match termed as Fight of the Century was held at iconic MGM Grand, Las Vegas,
Nevada.
Sharath Kamal is
World No: 32
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Indian Table Tennis Players in
Top 100
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Player
|
World
Rank
|
Year
|
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Sharath Kamal
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32
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2015
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Chetan Baboor
|
68
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1999
|
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Kamlesh Mehta
|
71
|
1985
|
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Soumyajit
Ghosh
|
95
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2015
|
·
Sharath
Kamal became the only Indian to break into the top 40.
·
He
has raised the bar once again, thus, it’s fitting that his ranking at 32!.
·
Sharath
is not the only one to rise to a career-best spot as Soumyajit Ghosh has become
only the fourth Indian to break into the top 100.
·
Chetan
Baboor and Kamlesh Mehta did that back in their heyday.
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Asian Athletics Championships – 2015
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#
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Country
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Gold
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Silver
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Bronze
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Total
|
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1
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China
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15
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13
|
13
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41
|
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2
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Qatar
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7
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2
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1
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10
|
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3
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India
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4
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5
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4
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13
|
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4
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Japan
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4
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3
|
11
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18
|
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5
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Bahrain
|
3
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3
|
2
|
8
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Asian Athletics
Championships 2015
·
Asian
Athletics Championships 2015 was held in Wuhan (China).
·
China
topped the medals tally followed by Qatar, India and Japan respectively.
·
1000
athletes from 45 nations participated.
Norway Chess
Tournament 2015
·
Bulgaria’s
Veselin Topalov won the Norway Chess tournament 2015 by leaving behind
Viswanathan Anand into a quick draw.
·
Topalov
secured 6½ points while Anand ended the tournament in second place with 6
points.
ICC amends ODI rules;
suspends USA Cricket Association
·
The
changes made by ICC are:
ä
No
catchers in the first 10 overs
ä
No
batting powerplay
ä
Five
fielders outside the 30-yard circle in the last ten overs
ä
All
“no balls” and not just over-stepping by the bowlers will result in a free hit
in both ODIs and Twenty20 Internationals.
·
During
its Annual Conference the ICC board adopted these recommendations made by the ICC’s cricket committee headed by
the former India captain Anil Kumble in Mumbai
Sundaram Ravi
inducted into Emirates Elite Panel of ICC Umpires for 2015-16
·
Eminent
Indian umpire Sundaram Ravi, along with Chris Gaffaney of New Zealand, was
inducted into the Emirates Elite Panel of ICC Umpires for 2015-16.
·
Both
of them were promoted from the Emirates International Panel of ICC Umpires and
replaced New Zealand veteran Billy Bowden and Steve Davis of Australia.
·
With
the present appointment, Sundaram Ravi has become the first Indian after S
Venkataraghavan who was inducted into the elite panel in 2004.
French Open 2015
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French Open 2015
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Category
|
Winner
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Runner
|
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Men’s
Singles
|
Stanislas
Wawarinka
(Switzerland)
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Novak
Djokovic
(Serbia)
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Women’s
Singles
|
Serena
Williams
(USA)
|
Lucie
Safarova
(Czech
Republic)
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Men’s
Doubles
|
Ivan
Dodig
(Croatia)
|
Bob
Bryan
(USA)
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Marcelo
Melo
(Brazil)
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Mike
Bryan
(USA)
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Women’s
Doubles
|
Bethanie
Mattek-Sands
(USA)
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Casey
Dellacqua
(Australia)
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Lucie
Safarova
(Czech)
|
Yaroslava
Shvedova
(Kazakhstan)
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Mixed
Doubles
|
Bethanie
Mattek-Sands
(USA)
|
Lucie
Safarova
(Czech
Republic)
|
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Mike
Bryan
(USA)
|
Marcin
Matkowski
(Poland)
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Indians qualified
for 2016 Rio Olympics
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1
|
Inderjeet
Singh
|
Men’s
Shot put
|
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2
|
Manish
Rawat
|
Men’s
20 km walk
|
|
3
|
Sandeep
Kumar
|
Men’s
20 km walk
|
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4
|
Lalita
Babar
|
Women’s
3000m steeplechase
|
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5
|
O
P Jaisha
|
Women’s
marathon
|
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6
|
Lalita
Babar
|
Women’s
marathon
|
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7
|
Khushbir
Kaur
|
Women’s
20 km walk
|
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8
|
Hockey
team
|
Men’s
Hockey Team
|
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9
|
Abhinav
Bindra
|
Men’s
10 m air rifle
|
|
10
|
Gurpeet
Singh
|
Men’s
10 m air pistol
|
|
11
|
Jitu
Rai
|
Men’s
50 m air pistol
|
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12
|
Gagan
Narang
|
Men’s
50 m rifle prone
|
|
13
|
Apurvi
Chandela
|
Women’s
10 m air rifle
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