Current Affairs - February 2021

Month February 2021 Type Sports

10 Current Affairs were found in Month - February 2021 for Type - Sports

Sports 1. 2021 Tennis - This was 109th Edition of this Grad slam tournament, hosted at Melbourne Park. Winners - Men's Singles - Novak Djokovic (Serbia). He defeated Daniil Medvedev (Russia). Women's Singles - Naomi Osaka (Japan). She Defeated Jennifer Brady (US). Men's Doubles - Ivan Dodig (Croatia) AND Filip Polášek (Slovakia) Women's Doubles - Elise Mertens (Belgium) AND Aryna Sabalenka (Belarus) Mixed Doubles - Barbora Krejčíková (Czech Republic) AND Rajeev Ram (US) 2. 2021 Phillip Island Trophy Women's Tennis (Melbourne, Australia) - Singles - (Russia) Doubles - (India) AND Kamilla Rakhimova (Russia) 3. 2021 IHF World Men's Handball Championship (27th edition), hosted by - Denmark won the Title (as its 2nd title win), defeating Sweden. 4. 2020 FIFA Club World Cup (17th edition) won by German Club Bayern Munich (2nd title), defeating Mexican Club Tigres UANL in Final. It is FIFA-organised international club football tournament between winners of 6 continental confederations, as well as host nation's league champions. 5. Russia Defeated Italy in final to win 2021 ATP Cup, 2nd edition of ATP Cup Tennis Title. It was held with 12 teams at Melbourne Park in Australia. 6. Jorden van Foreest (Netherlands) won the Tata Steel Chess Tournament 2021 (83rd edition). This annual chess tournament is held in January in Wijk aan Zee (Netherlands). It was called Hoogovens tournament from its creation in 1938, until sponsor Koninklijke Hoogovens merged with British Steel to form Corus Group in 1999, after which it was called Corus chess tournament. Corus Group became Tata Steel Europe in 2007. 7. Manika Batra won women’s singles and G. Sathiyan won Men's singles title at 82nd Senior National Table Tennis Championship, in Panchkula (Haryana). 8. Misc. Sports Events (February 2021) - India topped tally at first-ever Asian Online Shooting Championship, organised by Kuwait Shooting Federation, winning total 11 medals. Former Australian Cricketer Merv Hughes has been inducted into Australian Cricket Hall of Fame. English Cricketer Joe Root became first player to score a double century in his 100th Test match, played against Sri Lanka. Indian Cricketer batsman Rishabh Pant won inaugural ICC Player of the Month award 2021, along with South Africa’s Shabnim Ismail. Ishant Sharma became 6th Indian bowler to take 300 wickets in Test cricket. Ravichandran Ashwin became fourth Indian bowler to pick up 400 Test wickets and 2nd fastest after Sri Lanka's Muttiah Muralidharan. Karnataka will host 2nd Khelo India University Games (KIUG) later in 2021. Indian women boxers won 10 Medals (Including 5 Gold) overall for a top finish, at 30th Adriatic Pearl Tournament in Budva (Montenegro). Gold Medals - Babyrojisana Chanu (51kg), Arundhati Choudhary (69kg), Alfiya Pathan (81kg), Vinka (60kg) and T Sanamacha Chanu (75kg). British woman Jasmine Harrison became youngest woman to row solo across Atlantic Ocean, at 21 years age. She achieved this by finishing top in 2020 Talisker Whisky Atlantic Challenge. Indian boxer won 12 medals, including five golds, at 30th Adriatic Pearl Tournament in Budva (Montenegro), finishing 2nd on overall tally behind Uzbekistan. 9. President Ram Nath Kovind performed Bhoomi Pujan at huge sports enclave in Ahmedabad (Gujarat), named after Bharat Ratna Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel. It will be largest sports enclave in country, to be built on 233 acres of land. Mr. President also inaugurated world's largest Cricket stadium named Narendra Modi Cricket Stadium, as part of Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel sports complex. It has capacity of 1.32 lakh spectators, much more than 1 Lakh capacity of MCG (Australia), which was previous largest. 10. Sports Ministry restored recognition of Gymnastics Federation of India (GFI) as the National Sports Federation (NSF), upto December 31, 2021. Top

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