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S P O R T S PARALYMPICS at Paralympics Indian athletes have participated in 11 Summer PIB Paralympics from 1968-2016. They have won 12 medals over the years – 4 gold, 4 silver and 4 bronze medals in athletics, powerlifting and swimming events.

Most gold medals at one Games India won two gold medals in athletics at the 2016 Rio Summer Paralympics in September 2016. won the gold in the men’s F42 on Sept 9, 2016. B won in men’s javelin F46 on Sept 13, Most medals at Paralympics 2016. India won four medals – two gold, one silver and one bronze – at the 2016 Summer Paralympics WR: Farthest mark in javelin held in from Sept 8-18, 2016. B Devendra Jhajharia (b June 10, 1981) covered a Earlier in the 1984 Stoke Mandeville and New width of 19.498 m (63.97 ft) in the F46 category York Summer Paralympics, India had won four at the 2016 Rio Summer Paralympics breaking his medals – two silver and two bronze. own record on Sept 13, 2016. He had achieved a width of 18.943 m (62.15 ft) in the F46 category at Most golds at Paralympics (career) the 2004 Summer Paralympics in . B Devendra Jhajharia has won two gold medals in men’s javelin F46 category in his Paralympics career. He won the first gold in Athens in 2004 setting a world record and the latest in the Rio Paralympics in 2016. IMAGES

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First woman to win a medal in Paralympics became the first Indian woman to win a silver in F53 in the 2016 Rio Paralympics on Sept 12, 2016. Deepa’s best throw of 4.61m from her six attempts won her the medal.

First participation India first participated in six disciplines at the 1968 Summer Games held in Tel Aviv, Israel.

First medal at Paralympics participated in five Paralympics – 1996, 2000, won the first medal and the first 2008, 2012 and 2016. gold in the 50 m freestyle 3 swimming event at the 1972 Paralympics at Heidelberg, Germany. First and only participant in lawn bowls He set a world record in speed by clocking Digambar Mehendale represented India in the 0:37.33 sec. He is also the first and only swimmer men’s singles LB1 lawn bowl event at the 1988 from India to win a Paralympics medal. Summer Paralympics held in , .

Most medals won by an individual DWARF GAMES (career) Joginder Singh Bedi won three medals, one silver First women participants and two bronze, at the 1984 Summer Nalini Arunachalam, Ruhi Satish Shingade and Paralympics in New York. Sarika Gundetti were the first women participants in the 6th World Dwarf Games held at Michigan, First medal in powerlifting USA. Rajinder Singh Rahelu won a bronze medal in men’s up to 56 kg event at the Paralympics First National Games Summer Games held in Athens in 2004. The first National Dwarf Athletic Championship was organised by the Dwarf Sports Association of Only shooter at Paralympics India at the Sree Kanteerava Stadium in Bengaluru Naresh Kumar Sharma, a paraplegic shooter, is from Dec 12-13, 2015. Around 80 athletes from the only one to have represented India in various across the country participated in the event. The shooting events at the Paralympics. He has Games had only events.

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Most individual gold in World Dwarf Games Joby Mathews won five gold medals at the 6th World Dwarf Games at Michigan, USA from August 3- 10, 2013. He won the medals in (singles and doubles), shot put, javelin throw and . He won the medal in STD-01 category – Standing Dwarf with heights below 120 cm. First participation in World Dwarf Games Most medals in World Dwarf KY Venkatesh was the first Games and only athlete to represent The Indian squad won 23 medals – India at the 4th edition of the 12 gold, seven silver and four bronze World Dwarf Games in – and was ranked 6th on the medal Rambouillet, France in 2005. tally at the 6th World Dwarf Games He won six medals at the in Michigan, USA held from August Games – two gold, one 3-10, 2013. silver and three bronze.

ASIAN PARA GAMES First gold at Jagseer Singh won a gold medal in men’s F46 category at the inaugural Asian Para Games held at , in December 2010. The Asian Para Games replaced the Far East and South for the Disabled or the FESPIC Games which was first held in Oita, from June1-3, 1975. The 9th and final FESPIC Games were held in , in 2006.

Medals won in IX FESPIC Games India won 32 medals – 5 gold, 8 silver and 19 bronze at the IX FESPIC Games held in Kuala Most medals at Asian Para Games Lumpur, Malaysia from Nov 25 – Dec 1, 2006. The Sharath Gayakwad won six medals in swimming at the Asian Para list of gold medallist were: Nir Bahadur Gurung in Games held at , South Korea in 2014. He won a silver in the discus F53, Devender in javelin F46, Balwan 200 m individual medley, bronze medals in 100 m butterfly, 100 m Singh in 200 m T42, Naresh Kumar in R6 50 m breaststroke, 100 m backstroke, 50 m freestyle and 4 x 100 medley free rifle prone/SH1, Kanchanmala in 100 m relay. backstroke/S11 event.

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sports a-c 2017.pmd 282 23-03-2017, 14:57 S P O R T S Double success at Asian Para Games Sharad Kumar won the gold medal in the men’s high jump at the in Incheon, South Korea on Oct 20, 2014. He also broke a 12-year-old Asian record by clearing a height of 1.80 m in the F42 category and reclaimed his world No 1 position. Amit Kumar won gold in the men’s club throw F51 at the Asian Para Games held in Incheon, South Korea on Oct 20, 2014 and with his throw First medal in powerlifting of 21.31 width he set a game record too. Farman Basha won a bronze medal in the 48 kg category at the inaugural Asian Para Games held in Guangzhou, China in December 2010.

COMMONWEALTH GAMES – PARA SPORTS PIB

First medals in powerlifting Rajinder Rahelu (pic) won a silver medal in the men’s bench press para sport – heavyweight and Sakina Khatun won a bronze in the women’s brench press para sport – lightweight at the Games held in , Scotland on August 2, 2014.

First medal in swimming First participation Prasanta Karmakar won a bronze medal in 50 m Indian athletes first participated in four events in freestyle para sport S9 completing the race in Para-Sports at the 2006 27.48 sec at the Games held in New in (CWG) held in , from March 2010. He is also the only Indian swimmer to win a 15-26, 2006. Ranjith Kumar Jayaseelan won a medal in Commonwealth Games and the World bronze medal, a first for India, in the discus throw Swimming Championship in 2003. event with a throw of 29.88 m.

INTERNATIONAL WHEELCHAIR & AMPUTEE SPORTS (IWAS) GAMES First International medal in wheelchair race Shernaz Pradip Poonekar (nee) Kermani (b Oct 26, 1949) won the first international bronze medal in 100 m wheelchair race at the International Stoke Mandeville Games in UK in 1974.

Most medals at IWAS Games India won 110 medals – 32 gold, 38 silver and 40 bronze – and was ranked second in the medal tally at the International Wheelchair and Amputee Sports (IWAS) Games held at Bengaluru from Nov 24-Dec 1, 2009.

First medal in wheelchair fencing Suresh Joseph Jelestin won a bronze medal in men’s fencing sabre category at the International Wheelchair & Amputee Sports (IWAS) Games held at in September 2007.

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Double success at IWAS Games 2011 Amit Saroha won the gold medal in men’s wheelchair discus throw F51 category and set a new Asian record with a throw of 9.44 m. Deepa Malik won the gold and set a new Asian record in women’s wheelchair shot put F53 category with a throw of 3.57 m at the 2011 IWAS Games in Sharjah, UAE. She also set an Asian record in the women’s wheelchair javelin throw F53 category (7.66 m) at the Games.

First gold in badminton Rakesh Pandey and Satyam Janapa Reddy won a gold medal in the men’s doubles BMSTU5 category event at the IWAS Games held in Chinese Taipei in September 2007. The duo also clinched the silver (Rakesh) and the bronze (Satyam) medals in the men’s singles BMSTU5 category.

First gold in powerlifting Farman Basha won the gold medal in the men’s powerlifting 48 kg event at the IWAS Games at Chinese Taipei in 2007.

Most gold medals in one edition Niranjan Mukundan won seven gold medals in various swimming event at the IWAS World Junior Games in Netherlands from July 6-7, 2015.

Most medals in one edition Niranjan Mukundan won 10 medals in swimming – 7 gold and 3 silver – and was crowned Junior World Champion at the IWAS World Junior Games held in Stadskanaal, Netherlands in July 2015. He won gold medals in 50 m backstroke S8, 400 m freestyle, 100 m freestyle, 50 m butterfly S8, 200 m S8, 100 m backstroke S8 and 200 m medley SM8.

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sports a-c 2017.pmd 284 23-03-2017, 15:00 S P O R T S OTHER EVENTS First medallist in Satish Kumar (b Oct 15, 1955) won a bronze medal Most Asian records in a year (swimming) in the men’s 10,000 m race at the Deaflympics held Prasanta Karmakar set three Asian records in the in Koln, Germany completing the race in 30:55.57 IPC Swimming meets in 2010. He completed on July 24, 1981. It was also the first medal in the men’s 50 m backstroke S9 (long course) athletics. Satish followed it up with a silver in the swim in 32.12 min on June 18, 2010; the men’s men’s 25 km race on July 28, 1981. 50 m breaststroke SB9 (long course) race in 35.99 min on June 19, 2010 and men’s 50 m First gold medal in Deaflympics butterfly S9 (long course) in 29.84 min. He is the Rajeev Bagga (b April 6, 1967) won a gold medal in only swimmer to create three records in one the men’s badminton singles and the duo of Rajeev edition of a competition. Bagga and Sandeep Singh Dhillon won a gold in men’s badminton doubles at Christchurch, New Zealand on Jan 17, 1989.

Youngest medallist in First gold in in Deaflympics Deaflympics Virender Singh (b April 1, 1986) won a gold Rohit Bhaker (b Oct 26, medal in men’s freestyle 84 kg event defeating 1984) won his first medal Mustafa Dede of at the Deaflympics in a gold in badminton team Melbourne, Australia on Jan 13, 2005. He again event (mix) when he was won a gold medal in men’s freestyle 74 kg just 12 yr 8 month at the category in the Games held at Sofia, in Deaflympics in , 2013. Denmark on July 19, 1997.

First woman wheelchair Most medals in player (international) swimming meets Bagri (b March 4, 1975) is Differently-abled Sharath the first woman Gayakwad from Bengaluru player to represent India in has won 55 medals at international tournaments. She national meets and 39 participated in her first international medals till international tournament in August 2015. He is also women’s singles at the the first to achieve Cup held in from August qualifying time for the 20-22, 2013. She currently holds a 2012 Paralympics. world ranking of 161.

First to compete twice in longest First medal in Championship swimming competition Boniface Prabhu won a bronze medal in the men’ discus F53 sporting Prasanta Karmakar participated and completed the event at the Disability World Athletics Championship held in 81 km National Swimming Competition organised by Birmingham, UK in August 1998. the Murshidabad Swimming Association. He first participated in the competition and completed the First gold in World Athletics Championship 81 km swim in river Bhagirathi from Jangipur B Devendra Jhajharia won the gold medal setting a new Barrage to Gorabazar Ghat in 12 hr 30 min (7th championship record with a throw of 57.04 m in the men’s javelin position) on August 31, 2003. He completed the throw F42 category event at the IPC Athletics Championship held at second swim from Ahiron Barrage to Gorabazar Ghat Lyon, France in July 2013. in 12 hr 6.20 min (8th position) on August 24, 2008.

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sports a-c 2017.pmd 285 23-03-2017, 15:00 S P O R T S First National training camp The first national training camp for winter games were held in Narkanda, Himachal Pradesh in February 2007. This was done to ensure that participation in the World Winter Games increased. From 1993-2005 India had only been participating in Floor Hockey. The most recent training camp was held at Narkanda from March 4-9, 2016 with a participation of 113 athletes and 39 coaches from six states.

WR: Largest federation of registered athletes Special Olympics Bharat has 11,52,972 athletes registered across 679 districts of India under their purview as of March 2015. Special Olympics Bharat, accredited by Special Olympics Inc, specially cater to athletes who are intellectually challenged and have an IQ below 70. Air Marshal Denzil Keelor, PVSM,KC, AVSM, VrC, is the CEO of Special Olympics Bharat. In the international and national competitions, besides the gold, silver and bronze medals, athletes up to 8th place are awarded special ribbons of various colours.

Most medals at WSG Indian athletes won 247 medals – 61 gold, 65 silver and 121 bronze – in the 14th Special Olympics World Summer Games (WSG) held in Los Angeles, USA from July 25-August 2, 2015. Around 275 athletes Most sports events organised represented India in 12 disciplines. Special Olympics Bharat has been organising various sport competitions, coach training Most medals at WWG camps and unified sports event to make sure that India won 45 medals – 13 gold, 16 silver and 16 bronze – in the 10th the intellectually challenged people can also find World Winter Games (WWG) held in Pyeong Chang, South Korea their place in the society and live with their head held from Jan 29-Feb 5, 2013. held high. In the year 2016 itself SO Bharat organised around 217 events around the country First medal in with District and State level sports tournaments. India made its debut in softball during the 14th WSG held at Los It also included 16 programmes for coaches to Angeles, USA from July 25-August 2, 2015 and won the gold medal ensure that they can lead the athletes in an defeating Australia in the finals. understanding manner and help them achieve greater heights. Over the years SO Bharat athletes have brought great laurels to the country at international tournaments.

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First medal in golf in WSG Ranveer Saini, who is autistic and Monica Jajoo, his unified partner, won a gold medal at the Golf-Level 2 Alternate Shot team event during the 14th World Summer Games held at the Wilson Golf Course in Los Angeles, USA on July 31, 2015. It was a unified event which brings together persons with and without intellectual disabilities on the sports field.

Athlete of the year: Varun Chand Varun Chand (25), an athlete from Special Olympics Bharat – Telangana won three gold medal in swimming heats – 50 m, 100 m and 200 m freestyle – at the Indo Sri Lankan Master Swimmer’s meet at Colombo, Sri Lanka from March 3-6, 2016. Varun was the only athlete with intellectual disabilities to participate with other 20 mainstream swimmers. Varun was diagnosed with mild autism and moderate mental retardation at the young age of four and swimming was part of his therapy. Varun joined Special Olympics Bharat – Telangana in 2009.

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Most silver medals in World Cup is the first Indian to win four successive silver medals in the World Cup. She was runner-up at Istanbul (2011), (2012), Paris (2013) and Mexico City (2015), an unparallel achievement in consistency on the circuit.

Back-to-back medals The Indian contingent won back-to-back medals at the World Championship and World Cup Final in 2015. The women’s recurve team and Rajat Chauhan (men’s individual) won silver medal in Copenhagen Denmark in August 2015. Deepika Kumari won a silver in the women’s recurve event and Abhishek Verma won silver in men’s compound in World Cup Final in Mexico City in October 2015.

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sports a-c 2017.pmd 287 23-03-2017, 15:00 S P O R T S World Cup team bronze (men) The Indian men’s compound trio of Abhishek Verma, Kawal Preet Singh and Rajat Chauhan won a bronze medal in the World Cup stage 3 in Wroclaw, Poland on August 14, 2015.

World Cup team silver (women) Indian recurve women’s team of Deepika Kumari, and Laxmirani Majhi won a silver medal in the World Archery Championship in Copenhagen, Denmark on August 2, 2015.

Best performance in India won a silver and two bronze medals in the 2010 Guangzhou Asian Games. won the first ever individual silver in a Most gold medals won men’s archery event. Men’s recurve team Deepika Kumari is the only archer who has won (, Mangal Singh Champia and two international gold medals. She won gold in ) and women’s recurve team women’s recurve event in the Commonwealth (, Deepika Kumari and Rimily Games in October 2010 and later at the Antalya Buriuly) won the bronze medals. World Cup stage 2 in May 2012.

ATHLETICS Gold medal after half a century – Commonwealth Games who is 6 ft 9 inch tall won the discus throw event in the 2014 CWG in Glasgow, Scotland with a throw of 63.64 m. He is the second Indian man to win an athletics gold medal in 56 years after won the 440 yards gold medal in the 1958 CWG.

Rare feat – Asian Games When the women’s 4x400 relay team consisting of Priyanka Pawar, , and MR Poovamma won the gold with a new games record of 3:28.68 at the 2014 Incheon Asian Games, it was for the first time that India had won an event in four successive Games. In the new millennium, Indian women are unbeaten in the women’s 4x400 m relay having won the gold medal in 2002, 2006, 2010 and 2014.

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sports a-c 2017.pmd 288 23-03-2017, 15:00 S P O R T S BADMINTON First won the bronze medal when China’s Wang Xin retired from the match after an injury with the match at 18–21, 0–1 at the London First in Olympic Olympics on August 4, 2012. final PV Sindhu the first First finalist in World Championships Indian to play in an Saina Nehwal reached the finals of the 2015 World Olympic final won a Championship in but lost to Carolina Marin silver medal in the of Spain, 16-21, 19-21 and took the silver medal. women’s singles event at the 2016 Rio First medal in Women’s World Olympics. In the final Championships which lasted 81 mins PV Sindhu won a bronze medal at the 2013 World Carolina Marin Championships in Guangzhou, China. She lost to (Spain), the World Ratchanok Inthanon of Thailand 10-21, 13-21 in the No 1 beat PV Sindhu semi-finals on August 9, 2013. She won a bronze 19-21, 21-12, 21-15 medal for the second time in the Games at on August 19, 2016. Copenhagen in 2014. She is now also the fourth Indian to bag First Asian Games medal (women) an individual silver The women’s team won the bronze medal in the medal in Olympics. team event in the at Incheon, South Korea.

Triple crown – Asian Games is the first Indian to win three successive gold medals in the women’s 4x400 m relay in the Asian Games (2002, 2006 and 2010).

Most shot put gold in Asian Championships , the burly left hander won the shot put gold medal in the 2015 Asian Championships with a throw of 20.41 m. This was a record First gold at World Athletics final eighth time that India had won the shot put gold was upgraded to gold medal in the Asian Championships. Balwinder medallist in January 2014 after Tatayana Kotova Singh had won this event twice in both 1985 and of was disqualified for her win in 1989. Other winners are Jagraj Singh (1973), the World Athletics Championships final in Monte Bahadur Singh (1975), Shakti Singh (2000), Carlo in September 2005. Anju’s leap of 6.75 m Navpreet Singh (2007) and Om Prakash Singh was her second best legal jump next to her Karhana (2009). Athens Olympics effort of 6.83 m.

The pioneer woman marathoner Sunita Godara (b Sept 18, 1959) has been a celebrated woman marathoner of the country with a string of international achievements, medals and Asian wins in the marathon as well as distance to her credit. She has run 76 full marathons to date and won 25 golds, 12 silvers and 13 bronzes, in 25 countries and covered a total of 1,10,000 km in training. She has a personal best marathon time of 2 hr 43 min 33 sec, clocked in Paris Marathon in 1993.

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sports a-c 2017.pmd 289 23-03-2017, 15:00 S P O R T S BOXING Most medals in the career (women) The International Boxing Association has dubbed Ambassador for World Championship the five-time world champion MC as MC Mary Kom became India’s first woman boxer ‘Magnificent Mary’ for her unprecedented gold to be named as Ambassador for medal count. MC Mary Kom has won a record five Boxing World Championship. World Championships (2002, 2005, 2006, 2008 AIBA declared eight and 2010), a bronze medal at the 2012 London ambassadors for the 2016 Olympics, gold at four Asian Championships women’s boxing (2003, 2005, 2010 and 2012), a gold at the 2009 championship on April 14, Indoor Asian Games, a bronze at the 2010 Asian 2016. The Championship Games and a gold at the 2014 Asian Games. was held in Astana, in May 2016.

First Olympic medal (women) The five-time world women’s champion MC Mary Kom won a bronze medal (51 kg) in the 2012 London Olympics.

Asia-Pacific title India’s first Olympic boxer joined the professional boxing ring in 2015. He won the World Boxing Organisation Super Middleweight Pacific title defeating Kerry Hope in on July 17, 2016.

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Grand Masters of India Gupta and D Harika won the open and girls The list of Indian grandmasters has now increased to 44 and the new sections. claimed the silver to give additions in 2015-16 are , Murali India a rare 1-2 finish in the open section. Karthikeyan, Ashwin , , SL Narayanan - 2015; Shardul Gagare, and - 2016. Only winner of Asian Junior and Sub- Junior titles WR: Golden sweep in World Junior Championship Tejas Bakre is the only Indian to hold the Asian India became the first country in the history of the game to win both Junior and Asian Sub-junior titles at the same time, the World Junior titles in a single edition at the World Junior in 1998. Championship held in Gaziantep, Turkey in August 2008. Abhijeet

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sports a-c 2017.pmd 290 23-03-2017, 15:00 S P O R T S Most World titles Pankaj Advani added another feather in his cap by winning the IBSF World Championship battling past his Chinese opponent Zhua Xintong at Hurghada, on Nov 21, 2015. Bengaluru’s ‘Golden Boy’ is the only cueist to own 15 world titles.

Asian Billiards title World No 3 Siddharth Parikh defeated Aung Htay of Myanmar 4-2 in Billiards 100 Up event to Under 21 win (men) clinch the gold medal at the inaugural Asian S Shrikrishna defeated the national U-21 champion Billiards Sports Championship 2016 at Al Ishpreet Chadha to win the Under 21 IBSF World Fujairah, UAE in September 2016. The Billiards Championship in Adelaide, Australia on Championship was organised by Asian Sept 27, 2015. He also represented the country in Confederation of Billiard Sports. the first Under 18 World Snooker Tournament held in Petersburg, Russia in October 2015.

Best performance at the Asian Billiards Sports India won a gold, a silver and three bronze medals in the inaugural Asian Billiards Sports Championship held at Al Fujairah, UAE from Sept 24 - Oct 2, 2016. Siddharth Parikh (Billiards 100 Up) won the gold medal and Vidya Pillai (pic) won the silver (6-Red women). The bronze medallist were Sourav Kothari (Billiards 100 Up), Kamal Chawla (6- Red men), Amee Kamani & Arantxa Sanchis (6-Red women), Manan Chandra, Sundeep Gulati and Ishpreet Singh Chadha (team snooker).

Gold win at WLBS Snooker Championship Women cueist’s Chitra Magimairaj and Varshaa Sanjeev won the senior gold medal and Under-21 gold medal respectively at the World Ladies Billiards and Snooker (WLBS) Championship held in Leeds, UK in April 2016.

Rare feat Pankaj Advani became the first player in the world to hold both World and Continental titles in 6-Red snooker at the same time. He is also the only player to have won World titles in both 15 – red and 6 – red snooker.

Indians in the top-10 list For the first time, the World ranking lists for men and women had two Indians in the top-10 list. (7th) and P Hari Krishna (10th) among men while (4th) and Dronavalli Harika (6th) in the ladies list as of November 2016.

Most World titles Koneru Humpy won the World U-10 (1997), U-12 (1998), U-14 (2000) and U-20 (2001) titles.

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