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Name Of the Sports Points to Remember Person January 2015 Saina Nehwal Badminton She won Syed Modi Grand Prix Gold Championship held at Lucknow Jimjang Deru Weightlifiting Jimjang Deru created National record in weightlifting in 56-kg category South African cricket player AB de Villiers hit fastest century in ODIs AB de villiers Cricket against West indies Pankaj Advani Billiards He won 7th National Billiards Title Brett lee Cricket Brett Lee announced his retirement from all forms of Cricket Bhakti set world record by swimming 1.4 miles in 52 minutes in the Bhakti sharma Swimming Antarctic Ocean Golfer Anirban Lahiri voted Asian Tour’s 2014 Players’ Player of the Anirban Lahiri Golf Year Roger Federer Tennis Roger Federer won Brisbane International Tennis title Pakistan Captain Misbah-ul-Haq announced to retire from ODIs & T20 Misbah-ul-Haq Cricket after Cricket World Cup 2015 Sri Lanka batsman Kumar Sangakkara became the fastest runs score Kumar Sangakkara Cricket 12000 reach in Test cricket Andy Murry Tennis He won ATP World Tennis Championship in Abu Dhabi Stanislas Wawrinka He Won Chennai Open Title held in Chennai December 2014 Mahendra Singh Cricket Dhoni announced retirement from International Test Cricket Dhoni Pragyan Ojha Cricket BCCI banned spinner Pragyan Ojha from bowling in competitive cricket Rory McIlroy won 2014 Race to Dubai European Tour Golfer of the Rory McIlroy Golf Year David Warner Cricket Australian Cricketer David Warner completed 1000 runs in 2014 Sarita Devia Boxer Boxer Sarita Devi accepted the Bronze Medal. US football team goalkeeper Tim Howard won 2014 US Player of year Tim Howard Football award Volleyball Team Volleyball Indian Women's team won 1st South Asian Volleyball championship Arjun Atwal Golf He won the Dubai Open Title Kabaddi Team Kabaddi Indian Men & Women Won Kabaddi World Cup 2014 2 | P a g e

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Anand Won London Classic Chess Title after defeating British Grand Viswanathan Anand Chess Master Michael Adams PV Sindhu Badminton Sindhu won Macau Grand Prix Gold Trophy . November 2014 14 yrs old player Yan won men's title in IBSF World Snooker Yan Bingtao Snooker Championship Roger Federer Tennis He won Davis Cup Finals after beat France Richard Gasquest Boxer Manoj Kumar received Arjuna Award by Union Sports Minister Manoj Kumar Boxer Sarbananda Sonowal at a function in . Australian cricketer Phillip Hughes 2014 died after being into induced Phillip Hughes Cricket coma Rohit Sharma Cricket Indian cricketer Rohit Sharma scored the highest ODI score of 264 runs. Indian cricketer Virat Kohli became the fastest cricketer in the history to Virat Kohli Cricket reach 6000 in international one-day, during his 53-run knock in 's third ODI against Sri Lanka Cristiano Ronaldo Football Cristiano Ronaldo received 2013-14 European Golden Boot award. Bhuvneshwar Cricket Bhuvneshwar Kumar won LG People’s Choice Awards Kumar Indian women team won 3rd SAFF(South Asia Football Federation) held Indian Women's Football in Islamabad Novak Djokovic Tennis He Won Barclays ATP World World Tour at O2 Arena in London October 2014 Pankaj Advani won IBSF World Billiards Championship (Point Format) Pankaj Advani Billiards in Bangalore. Serena Williams of the US won the Singles title of BNP Paribas WTA Serena Williams Tennis Finals Singapore 2014. Para-swimmer Sharath Gayakwad broke 28-year old record of P T Usha Sharath Gayakwad Para-swimmer at Asian Para Games. Football Club player Luis Suarez received European Golden Boot Award Luis Suarez Football 2014 Sania Mirza & Zimbabwe Cara Black Win WTA doubles Final at Sani Mirza Tennis Singapore. MC Mary Kom boxer Mary Kom voted as India's Most Valuable Player in Asian Games 2014 Mahendra Singh He became the co-owner of the Indian Super League franchise Cricket Dhoni Chennaiyin FC The Olympic champion was suspended from all competition for six Michael Phelps(US) Swimming months. 3 | P a g e

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September 2014 Optimist He is the youngest sailor to represent India at the Asian Games 2014, Chitresh Tatha Dinghy held in , Saeed Ajmal Cricket ICC suspended Pakistan's Saeed Ajmal for illegal bowling action Pankaj Advani snooker Pankaj Advani announced to retire from professional snooker Women’s Ritu Rani was selected to lead Indian women's hockey team in Asian Ritu Rani Hockey Games 2014 Anita Wlodarczyk of Poland set world record in the Women’s hammer Anita Wlodarczyk Hammer throw throw at the Internationales Stadionfest (ISTAF) Berlin August 2014 Yohann Diniz broke 50 km Walk World Record at the European Yohann Diniz Athletics Athletics Championship held in Zurich, Switzerland. She created a World Record in Women's 1500 Meter Freestyle at at the Katie Ledecky Athletics Pan Pacific championships, Gold Coast, Australia Athletics Federation of India (AFI), was appointed as the Chef-de- Adille Sumariwala Athletics Mission for Asian Games on 18 August 2014. Board of Cricket Control India (BCCI) appointed Ravishankar Jayadritha Ravi Shastri Cricket Shastri as the Director of Indian Cricket Team Kush Kumar became the first Indian player to reach the semi-final of Kush Kumar Squash World Junior Squash Championship held in Windhoek, Namibia. Kapil Dev Nikhanj was selected as the Chairperson of the Arjuna Kapil Dev Cricket Awards Selection Committee He became the third Indian to win Gold medal in Badminton at Parupalli Kashyap Badminton (CWG) held in , Vikas won a gold medal in discus throw in Men's Track events at 2014 Vikas Gowda Discus throw Commonwealth Games at Glasgow, Scotland. She became the first Indian woman gymnast and second person of the Dipa Karmakar Gymanstic country to win a medal at the Commonwealth Games. July 2014 She created a record of fastest serve (131 miles per Hour) in the women’s Sabine Lisicki Tennis tennis. Jacques Kallis, the South African all-rounder on 30 July 2014 announced Jacques Kallis Cricket his retirement from all-formats of International cricket. Sania Mirza Tennis Sania Mirza appointed as Brand Ambassador of Telangana Rahul Dravid Cricket He was elected as the member of Laureus World Sports Academy. Mahela The former skipper of Sri Lankan cricket team, announced his retirement Cricket Jayawardene from Test cricket 4 | P a g e

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Sim Bhullar became the first basketball player of Indian origin to join the Sim Bhullar Basketball National Basketball Association (NBA). June 2014 Mohammad He (Former Captain of Bangladesh)was banned for eight years by the Cricket Ashraful disciplinary panel set up by the Bangladesh Cricket Board. He joined the Mudgal Committee on IPL spot-fixing as an expert on Sourav Ganguly Cricket cricketing affairs Wrestlers Yogeshwar Dutt and Sushil Kumar won Gold and Silver Yogeshwar Dutt respectively at the International wrestling tournament held in Sassari city and Sushil Kumar of Italy May 2014 He was selected as the goodwill ambassador of 35th National Games that Sachin Tendulkar Cricket is scheduled to be held in Kerala from January-February 2015. Kisan Tadvi Distance runs won silver in boys 3000 m race in 2014 Youth Olympics Asian Chitra Magimairaj was nominated for Arjuna awards 2014 announced by Chitra Magimairaj Snooker the Billiards and Snooker Association of India (BSFI) Three-time Formula One world champion died on 19 May 2014 at his Sir Jack Brabham F1 home in Australia after a long illness. Elena Baltacha Tennis The former British Tennis player died due of liver cancer Dipika Pallikal was ranked No 10 in Women’s Squash Association Dipika Pallikal Squash (WSA) Manavjit Singh Trap shooter She ranked at third spot in ISSF World Ranking Sandhu April 2014 He won Bronze Medals in the 200 m Individual Medley (2:44.06 Paralympic Sharath Gayakwad seconds) and the 100 m Butterfly (1:09.67 seconds) and won the Silver swimmer Medal in the 100 m Breaststroke held at IDM Berlin 2014 Harendra Singh Hockey Hockey India Appointed Harendra Singh as coach of junior team Heena Sindhu shooter Sidhu clinched World's No. 1 spot in 10 m air pistol event Japanese boxer on 6 April 2014 was awarded with an honorary Iwao Hakamada Boxer championship belt by World Boxing Council (WBC). Viswanathan Anand Chess Anand raises to No. 3 in FIDE world chess rankings March 2014 Hsieh Su-Wei & Tennis Won Women’s doubles final of the BNP Paribas Open Peng Shuai She won the Gold medal in the Women’s Air pistol event at the 7th Heena Sidhu Air pistol Asian Air Gun Championship in Kuwait 5 | P a g e

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Heena Sishu along with Shweta Chaudhary and Harveen Srao won the

Silver medal in team Event Pooja Ghatkar Air rifle She won the Gold medal in women’s air rifle event South African cricket team Captain on 4 March 2014 announced that he Graeme Smith Cricket will retire from international cricket Arvind Bhat Badminton He won the men’s singles German Open Grand Prix title February 2014 P V Sindhu was ranked ninth in the Badminton World Federation (BWF) P V Sindhu Badminton women’s singles ranking Bubba Watson Golf He won Northern Trust Open Peng Shuai of was ranked World Number 1 in the latest Women’s Peng Shuai Tennis Tennis Association (WTA) Doubles ranking Li Na of China was ranked World Number 2 in the latest Women’s Li Na Tennis Tennis Association (WTA) singles ranking Serena Williams Tennis Serena Williams of USA was ranked world Number 1 in singles Ranking Yuvraj Singh, the Indian cricketer cancer foundation named YouWeCan Yuvraj Singh Cricket joined its hand with an NGO Navbharat Sewa Samiti Yulia Lipnitskaya is the youngest Russian to win gold medal in Winter Yulia Lipnitskaya Skating Olympics Abhinav Bindra, the Indian shooter on 8 February 2014 won his third Abhinav Bindra Indian shooter gold-medal in the Inter-Shoot Tri-series Shooting in the Air Pistol event He became second cricketer to hit triple century and a century in same Kumar Sangakkara Cricket match January 2014 Abhijeet Gupta Chess He won the Parsvnath International Grandmasters chess tournament Vijay Zol Cricket Captain of India to lead the Under-19 Cricket World Cup Mahesh Mangaokar squash game He won Open du Gard squash title Nikhat Zareen won gold medal at the third Nations Cup International Nikhat Zareen Boxing Boxing Tournament Aditya Joshi Badminton Aditya Joshi became world no. 1 junior shuttler

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Famous Indian Sport Stars Archery Boxing Squash Rajat Chauhan MC mary Kom - Women's Fly(48-51KG) Saurav Ghosal Sandeep Kumar Vikas Krishan - Men's Middle(75Kg) Harinder Pal Singh Sandhu Abhishek Verma Satish Kumar - Men's Super Heavy(91Kg+) Mahesh Mangaonkar Trisha Deb L sarita Devi - Women's Light (57-60Kg) Kush Kumar Purvasha Shende Pooja Rani - Women's Middle(69-85kg) Dipika Pallikal Jyothi Vennam Rowing Joshana Chinnappa Athletics Swarn Sing - Men's Single Sculls Anaka Alankamony Dushyaht Dushiant - Lightweight Men's Single Priyanka Pawar(Running) Aparajitha Balamurukan Sculls Tintu Luka(Running,Women's Sailing Tennis 800m) Mandeep Kaur(Running) Chitresh Tatha Sania Mirza Varsha Gautham & Aishwarya Nedunchezhiyan Poovamma Machettira(Running) Saketh Myneni - Women's Two Person Dinghy Seema Punia(Women's Discus Shooting Sanam Singh Throw) Khushbir Kaur(women's 20km Jitu Rai - Men's 50M Pistol Yuki Bhambri Race Walk) Vikas Gowda(Men's Discus Pemba Tamang - Mens 25m Centre Fire Pistol Divij Sharan Throw) Manju Bala(Women's Hammer Gurpreet Singh - Men's 25m Centre Fire Pistol Ankita Raina Throw) Rajiv Arokia(men's 400m) Vijay Kumar - Men's 25m Centre Fire Pistol Rohan Bopanna Poovamma Maachettira(women's Shweta Chaudhry - Women's 10m Air Pistol Wrestling 400m) Lalita Babar ( women' 3000m Suchil Kumar - Men's Rahi sarnobat - Women's 25m Pistol Team Steeplechase) 66Kg Freestyle Yogeshwar Dutt - Men's OP jaisha(Women's 1500m) Anisa Sayyed - Women's 25m Pistol Team Freestyle 65kg Naveen Kumar(Men's 3000m Bajrang - Men's Freestyle Heena Sidhu - Women's 25m Pistol Team Steeplechase) 61kg Shagun Chowdhary - Women's Double Trap Vinesh - Women's Inderjeet Singh(Men's Shot Put) Team Freestyle 48kg Annu Rani(Women's Javelin Shreyasi Singh - Women's Double Trap Team Geetika Jakhar - Women's

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Throw) Freestyle 63kg Narsingh Yadav - Men's Badminton Vasha Varman - Women's Double Trap Team Freestyle 74kg Ashwini Ponnappa Abhinav Bindra - Men's 50m Air Rifle Wushu Narender Grewal - Men's PC Thulasi Chain Singh - Men's 50m Rifle 3 Positions Sanda 60kg Santhoi Devi - Women's Tanvi Uday Ravi Kumar - Men's 10m Air Rifle Team Sanda 52kg Pradnya Gadra Sanjeev Rajput - Men's 10m Air Rifle Team Saina Nehwal Samaresh Jung - Men's 10m Air Pistol PV Sindhu Prakash Nanjappa - Men's 10m Aor Pistol Sikki Reddy

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