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January Name of the Sport Events Name of the Winners ICC ranking Steve Smith (Aus) 899 points Top-3 Test batsmen Kane Williamson (NZ) 889 Joe Root (Eng) 888 RavichandranAshwin (Ind) 871 points Top-10 Test bowlers (SA) 867 Stuart Broad (Eng) 859 RavichandranAshwin (Ind) 406 points Top-3 Test all-rounders Shakib Al Hasan (Ban) 384 Stuart Broad (Eng) 326 National Wrestling Championship Men’s 65kg First Bajrang Second Rajneesh Third Manoj and Bhagat Singh Men’s 57kg Gold SandeepTomar Silver Ravinder Women’s 48kg Gold RituPhogat Silver AprnaBishni Bronze Pooja and Nirmal Qatar Open 2015 South Asian Football Federation P T Rajan Gold Cup Rajsamman World record by scoring 1009 runs at school level PranavDhanawade tournament Chandela (Gold) Swedish Air-Rifle Championship Astrid Steffensen (Silver) Stine Nielsen(Bronze) 26th LalBahadurShastri Hockey tournament Oil and Natural Gas Corporation(ONGC) MCL Title sponsors Oxigen Wallet Junior World Federation (BWF) rankings. Men’s Singles Women’s Singles First: SirilVerma(India) First: Carolina Marin() Second:TomaJunior Popov() Second: SainaNehwal(India) Third: ChiragSen(India) Third: Li Xuerei() Ninth: KidambiSrikanth(India) Twelfth: PV Sindhu(India) FIFA rankings India – 163 2015 Player of the Year Wayne Rooney Hilton Asian Tour Golfer of the Month MiguealTabuena 2016 with Brisbane title SaniaMirza(India) and (Swiss) Qatar Open 2016 Singles () Doubles Feliciano Lopez (Spain) Marc Lopez (Spain) (Austrlaia) Brisbane International WTA title 2016 Open title StanislasWawrinka from 1 | Page Follow Us - FB.com/AffairsCloudOfficialPage Copyright 2016 @ AffairsCloud.Com

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BWF Ranking of , followed by HoriaTecau of Man Double Ranking and Jean-JulienRojer.

Novak Djokovic of Serbia ahead of of Men’s Singles and Swiss .

Sania and Martina Women’s Double Bopanna - 9th Coach of IPL team Stephen Fleming Queen Elizabeth Commemoration Cup Queen’s Turf ICC Event Partner MoneyGram World Record by Sania-Martina as they win 29th match SaniaMirza and Martina Hingis on trot 2nd-fastest 50 in T-20 Colin Munro ’s sportsperson of 2015 Rene HoltenPoulsen International Hall of Fame 2015 German Player of the Year MesutOzil International Title 2016 SaniaMirza and Martina Hingis 7000 ODI runs after AB de Villers ViratKohli 2016 Apia international title Men’s Singles Women’s Singles Men’s Doubles of UK/ of Brazil Women’s Doubles Martina Hingis of Switzerland/SaniaMirza 1.India ICC Test Rankings 2. 3. International Open chess title Ivan Popov() 2016 Dafabet Masters UK’s Ronnie O’Sullivan Badminton League Champion Delhi Acers Life time ban by ICC IPL player AjitChandila First England bowler in ICC top Bowler Stuart Broad after Steve Harminson Lady Wigram Trophy JehanDaruvala T20 Fifty Record Trophy Uttar Pradesh Singles title Roger Federer – 300th win Masters Grand Prix Men’s Singles (Malaysia) Women’s Singles P. V. Sindhu (India) Men’s doubles Kevin SanjayaSukamuljo () & Markus Fernaldi Gideon (Indonesia) Women’s doubles () &MisakiMatsutomo (Japan) Mixed doubles ZhengSiwei (China) & (China) women’s world indoor pole vault record JennSuhr 34th National Rowing Championship Open single sculls NavneetKaur (Pun) Double sculls HarpreetKaur&NavneetKaur (Pun) Coxless fours Odisha (PramilaPravaMinz, PratimaPuhana, Sanjukta Dung, ManjulaXess) Pairs Sanjukta Dung &ManjulaXess (Odi) Senior Men Single sculls Sandeep Kumar (All India Police) Lt wt double sculls G. Vishnu Prasad &Arjun B. Panicker (Ker) Coxless four Punjab (Lachhman Singh, , Robin Mangar, )

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Lt wt coxless fours All India Police (DharmendraChoudhary, Nitesh Kumar Lall, Ravinderjit Singh, Jagsir Singh) Pairs Gurwinder Singh &Karamjeet Singh (Pun) 2016 Men’s Singles Novak Djokovic (Serbia) Women’s Singles () Men’s Doubles Jamie Murray (UK)/Bruno Soares (Brazil) Women’s Doubles Martina Hingis (Switzerland)/SaniaMirza (India) Mixed Doubles (Russia)/Bruno Soares (Brazil) Retired from International - Imran West Indies Chanderpaul(all form) BWF ranking P V Sindhu – 11th 12th Sub-Junior National championship Ishika Shah Olympic quota with gold medal HeenaSidhu 2015 FIH Awards Player of the Year (Men) Robert Van der Horst Player of the Year (Women) LidewijWelten Rising Star of the Year award (Men) Chrisopher Ruhr Rising Star of the Year award (Women) Lily Owsley Goalkeeper of the Year award (Men) David Harte Goalkeeper of the Year award (Women) Joyce Sombroek ITTF World Junior Circuit Finals IzumoTakuto and Zhu Chengzhu Blind T20 Asia Cup India Fifth spot in ICC National Billiards Championship Sourav Kothari

February Name of the Sport Events Name of the Winners 2016 Syed Modi Badminton Title Men’s singles category Indian KidambiSrikanth Women’s singles from Japan Men’s doubles category and from Malaysia Women’s doubles category Jung Kyung-eun and Shin Seung-chan from

Mixed Doubles Title Indonesian pair and Deby Susanto 2021 World Aquatics Championships Fukuoka 2015 MRF Challenge Formula 2000 PietroFittipaldi No 1 batsman in T20 Internationals ViratKohli ` National Snooker Championship 2016 Men’s final Aditya Mehta women’s final VidyaPillai women’s billiards final KeerathBhandaal 61st National School Athletics championship Kerala World No. 9 in latest BWF ranking K.Srikanth ICC Permanent member status India, England and Australia (removed) International Open Title Swapnil S Dhopade ICC suspended for three months Yasir Shah Retired from One-Day Internationals cricketer Brendon Barrie McCullum(100th consecutive Test) Fastest cricketer to make 10 ODI centuries De Kock of South Africa Women’s Final In 2017 Lord BCCI bans for 5 years Pakistani umpire AsadRauf St. Petersburg Ladies Trophy SaniaMirza and Martina Hingis

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ICC U-19 2016 West Indies 12th South 1.India, 2. 3.Pakistan Title Rio Qualifier ShortDena Bank’s Sridhar National Chess Team Championship Indian Railways Clothing supplier for WC T20 Numero Uno Indonesia’s first Formula1 Driver Rio Haryanto World Rabk 6th in chess Suhaanialohi 2016 Hockey Title Japee Punjab Asian Wrestling Championship – 1st and India – 7th (9medals) 7th WTA career title Chief coach of Sri Lanka Graham Xavier Ford Wawrinka won ATP Tennis Title 2016 Women’s Singles from Men’s Doubles and Andrea’s seppi Women’s Doubles Chuang Chia – Jung from Chinese and DarijaJurak from 2016 Qatar Total Open Singles JelenaOstapenko of Latvia

Doubles Taipei Chan Hao-ching / Taipei Chan Yung-jan of China Ranji trophy Mumbai – 41st time Record: seven better Olympic qualification time Gurmeet Singh ICC Test rankings 1.Austrlia 2. India 3, South Africa 2016 Nagjee International Club Football Tournament Dnipro Reserves of

March Name of the Sport Events Name of the Winners All Invitational Snooker Championship 2016- Rahul Sachdev Aurangabad Aaron Phangiso Suspended from in Domestic cricket for suspect bowling action. Asia Cup title Indian Team (6th time) Amity Polo Cup trophy Jindal Panther World Championship AnirbanLahiri(India) - 28th Golfer Adam Scott(Australia) – 1st Bubba Watson(USA) – 2nd Irani Cup Cricket Title Rest of India Pro Kabaddi title Patna Pirates CK Nayudu Trophy 2015-16 title Mumbai U 23 Unbeaten 35-Game Record Lionel Messi ISSF World cup – JituRai(India)- Gold (China) - Silver Wang Zhiwei(China) - Bronze Asia title -professional Santosh Trophy football title 2016 -Nagpur Services Llyod Pro-Am Championship trophy Delhi Miss India title ShwetaRathore Australian Grand Prix NicoRosberg Street Child Games - 100-metre dash Chennai girl Hepziba – Gold Dr.GnaniLaksumanan Memorial Cup Quick Enough Men’s singles title - HS Prannoy Hero title SSP Chawrasia 2016 World Chess Candidates Tournament BNP Paribas Open titles 2016 4 | Page Follow Us - FB.com/AffairsCloudOfficialPage Copyright 2016 @ AffairsCloud.Com

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Men’s Singles Serbian Novak Women Singles Victoria Azarenka of Men’s Doubles Pierre Hugues Herbert and of France Women’s Doubles US Pair Bethanie Sands and Coco Vandeweghe - Arunachal Pradesh Wheelchair race Techi Talla Boys’ 100 meter race Tabam Tatak Girls’100 meter race LiterOri Men’s 100 meter race Thasang Ajay World Championship – Malaysia Women’s Table Tennis India Men’s Table Tennis India 2016 All England Badminton title Men’s Singles Women’s Singles NozomiOkuhara Men’s Doubles Ivan AndreyevichSozonov of Russia with compatriot VladimirIvanov Mixed Doubles Indonesia pair Praveen Jordan and his partner Race walk National Championships – Jaipur 50km walk rcae Junior Women category of 10 Km Race BasantBahadur Singh Rana (Gold) Walk Neena(gold) Chandan Singh (Silver) BhawnaJat(Silver) Jitender Singh Rathore (Bronze) Priyanka Patel(bronze) Asian 20km walking race Men’s India’Gurmeet Singh - Gold Japan’s Isamu Fujisawa - Silver ’s GeorgiySheiko - Bronze

Women’s China’s Rui Liang - Gold Japan’s Kumiko Okada - Silver South Korean Jeongeun Lee - Bronze

ICC T20 rankings Number One T20 Batsman ViratKohli kept Number one Bowler Number One Team India 2022 National Games Meghalaya 2017 FIFA Under-17 World Cup India Retrired from International cricket after World T20 Shane Watson Qualifies for Rio Olympics YogeshwarDutt Second fastest player to reach 1,000 T20 runs

Second player to hit in 2016 T20 World Cup Chris Gayle Promoted as International Umpire Napoleon Singh tech partner for Marathon TCS Suspended after failing drug test at Australian Open (Russia) Suspended from bowling in international cricket left-arm spinner Arafat Sunny and pacer Taskin Ahmed

April Name of the Sport Events Name of the Winners Women’s &Men’sWorld Twenty20 West Indies world title with record free skate score EvgeniaMedvedeva– Gold 40th Aprathon 2016 Kenya’s VisilineJepkesho and Cyprian Kotut 2016 Bahrain Grand Prix Mercedes driver NicoRosberg 5 | Page Follow Us - FB.com/AffairsCloudOfficialPage Copyright 2016 @ AffairsCloud.Com

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Chinese Grand Prix NicoRosberg WLBS World snooker championship ChitraMagimairaj - Gold VarshaaSanjeev – Gold Asian Nations Cup Chess tournament, India

Hawke’s Bay Cup, New Zealand India beat

Miami Open 2016 Men’s Singles Novak Djokovic Women’s Singles Victoria Azarenka (Belarus) Men’s Doubles Pierre Hugues (France) And Herbert Nicolas (France) Women’s Doubles BethanieMattek-Sands (USA) and LucieŠafářová(Chezh Republic) BWF RankingsFIFA World Rankings 2016 KidambiSrikanth 14 ParuPalliKashyap 18 SainaNehwal 8 Pusarla V Sindhu 10 19 B Sumeeth Reddy JwalaGutta 15 AshwiniPonnappa BWF RankingsFIFA World Rankings 2016 Rank(Men’s) Country Rank(Men’s) Country 1 1 Argentina 2 2 Belgium 3 Chile 3 Chile 4 4 Colombia 5 Germany 5 Germany Malaysian Open 2016 Men’s Singles Lee Chong Wei ( Malaysia) Women’s Singles RatchanokIntanon (Thailand) Men’s Doubles Kim Gi-Jung( South Korea ) and Kim Sa-rang ( South Korea) Women’s Doubles (China) and (China) Mixed Doubles Tontowi Ahmed ( Indonesia) and LiliyanaNastir ( Indonesia ) world International Boxing Federation title Anthony Joshua, America US Masters golf 2016 Danny Willett - First Briton WTA rankings Women’s Singles Women’s Doubles Rank (USA) Aprtina Hingis (Swiss) 1 AgnieszkaRadwanska (POL) SaniaMirza (India) 2 Angelique Kerber (GER) BethanieMattek- Sands 3 (US) GarbineMuguruza (ESP) YaroslavaShvedova (Kzh) 4 Hilton Asian Tour Golfer of Month S.P. Chawrasia of India Asian KhoKho Championship Title, MP India’s men’s and women’s teams WTA rankingsWisden’s top five cricketers of 2015 Player Country Jonny Bairstow England Brendon McCullum New Zealand Steve Smith Australia Ben stokes England

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Kane Willamson New Zealand Sultan Azlan Shah Cup,Malaysia. Australia Monte Carlo Masters title Rafael Nadalfrom Spain withdraw from Sultan of Johor Cup Hockey India First champion of the Asian Tennis Tour (ATT) Vishnu Vardhan SidharthRawat Rio shooting World Cup JituRai – 6th Spot OlehOmelchuk of Ukraine Gold Wang Zhiweiof China – Bronze First Indian participant at World Kickboxing Tajamul Islam Championship Baecelona Open 49th cup and equaled the record with Guillermo Vilas Doubles Winners & Stuttgart Grand Prix tournament Women’s doubles title Garcia-Mladenovic and Women’s singles title Angelique Kerber ISSF World Cup AprcusSvennson - Gold Mairaj Ahmad Khan - Silver TaAprroCasandro - Bronze FPAI Indian Player of the year Award JejeLalpekhlua PFA Player of the Year RiyadMahrez - first African First woman rider – TVS Shreya Sunder Iyer Equals the world record in the woman’s recurve event at DeepikaKumari World Cup in . Commonwealth Judo Championship GarimaChaudhary– Gold RajwinderKaur - silver Australia’s bowling coach – South Africa New Zealand’s Kane Williamson Sri Lanka Cricket’s Chief Selector SanathJayasuria Cricket Association of Suspended by ICC World Championshipbrand ambassadors MC ApryKom International Hockey Umpire Durga Thakur Rio 2016 Olympic Qualifier Paddlers SoumyajitGhosh, ManikaBatra Wrestler SandeepTomar Indian Rower DattuBhokanal Sprinter Judok Player Avatar Singh and ThoudamKalpana Devi First Indian Gymnast to Qualify for Olympics DipaKarmakar

Kansai Nerolac Gujarat Lionsassociate sponsor Mother Dairy Delhi Daredevils principal sponsor ShahidAfridi Pakistan’s T20 captain Asian/Oceania Qualifying Tournament Shiva Thapa - silver medal Retired from international cricket Australia Cricketer Clint McKay Retired from international cricket England Cricketer James Taylor Retired from ODIs, T20Is Sri Lankan veteran cricketer RanganaHerath all-rounderIrfan Ahmed Suspended by the International Cricket Council (ICC) for two and a half years First Day /Night Test India 7 New Zealand BCCI decided to waive off the financial penalty of West Indies Cricket Board USD 97 million 2018 Commonwealth Judo Championships India

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May Name of the Sport Events Name of the Winners 2016 UEFA Champions League Real FC International Sports expo(Pune) Rohit Sharma Premier League title English football club Leicester city FC 2016 Asia Kabaddi Championship Cup Pakistan defeated India World Snooker Championship defeated Ding Junhui NBA’s Most Valuable Player Stephen Curry Bats for 51 hours straight - Guinness record Rwanda captain Eric Dusingizimana The Europa League Football club Sevilla IAAF World Challenge(China) Women’s 4x100m relay team breaks national record – 4th position China Team - First 2016 China - First South Korea - Second India - Third Asian Youth Championships tournament (Kazakhstan) Kazakhstan – First Uzbekistan - Second India - Third AnkushDahiya (60 Kg) Silver AshishKulhirya (64kg) Silver ReyalPuri (81kg) Silver Manjeet Singh (+91kg) Bronze Monaco Grand Prix Lewis Hamilton Russian Grand Prix NicoRosberg 14th Fed Cup title(Ghuwati) MohunBagan badminton tournament(China) Denmark defeated Indonesia Asian 6-Red Snooker title(Abu Dhabi) PankajAdvani First in the world to hold both world and continental titles at the same time First English batsman to score 10,000 runs in test England Test captain Alastair Cook matches First Indian to feature in a top-tier league match in Goalkeeper Gurpreet Singh Sandhu 2016 Athletics Championship (Paris) Amit Kumar Saroha- gold medal in men’s club throw Asian Team Championship campaign(Taipei) Malaysia – Gold India - Silver (Shanghai, China) 1.Silver - Women’s team comprising DeepikaKumari, and LaxmiraniMajhi 2.Bronze - Deepika and Atanufrom 3.Bronze - Indian men’s recurve team of , JayantaTalukdar and Mangal Singh Champia Fifth consecutive knockout win Vijender Singh Formula One’s youngest race winner Max Verstappen(18) ICC Test Team Rankings 1 Australia 2 India 3 Pakistan 4 England 5 New Zealand Test bowlers ranking Rank Bowler Batsman All Rounders 1 Stuart Broad Steve Smith R Ashwin 2 R. Ashwin Joe Root Shakib Al Hasan 3 James Anderson Kane Williamson Stuart Broad 4 Yasir Shah HashimAmla Ben Stokes

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5 DayleSteyn Younus Khan Vernon Philander IPL Session Vivo- title Sunrisers Hyderabad(Chinnaswamy Stadium in ) IPL Winner Award Team Name: Sunrisers Hyderabad IPL Runner Up Team Name Royal Challengers Bangalore Orange Award Most Runs Scored : ViratKohli (RCB) Purple Cap Award (Most ) Bhuvneshwar Kumar (SRH) Most Valuable Player ViratKohli (RCB) Emerging Player of the Season MustafizurRahman (SRH) ISSF Junior World Cup – , Germany Gold Men’s 25m standard pistol – Rituraj Singh, ShivamShukla and Arjun Das Gold Women’s 50m Rifle – GaayathriNithyanadamSonikaandAyushiPodder Gold Men’s 25m Standard Pistol by Rituraj Singh Bronze women’s 50m rifle prone competition by GaayathriNithyanadam BWF rankings (China) First K Srikanth Men’s singles – 12th HS Prannoy Men’s singles – 21st Ajay Jayaram Men’s singles – 25th Manu Attri and B Sumeeth Reddy Men’s Doubles - 20th SainaNehwal Women’s Singles - 8th PV Sindhu Women’s Singles - 10th JwalaGutta and AshwiniPonappa Women’s Doubles – 14th 2016 Mutua Madrid Open Serbia Novak Djokovic Men’s Singles Netherlands Jean-JulienRojer / Romania HoriaTecău Men’s Doubles

Romania SimonaHalep Women’s Singles France / France Kristina Mladenovic Women’s Doubles title 2016 – UK Men’s singles final United KingdomAndy Murray Women’s Signles final United StatesSerena Williams Men’s doubles finals United States Bob Bryan United States Mike Bryan Women’s doubles finals Switzerland Martina Hingis India SaniaMirza International Shooting Competition of Hannover - Germany Men: 10m air rifle AbhinavBindra– 3rd (Bronze) 10m air pistol HeenaSidhu - 2nd-(Silver) Women: 10m air rifle ApurviChandela 11

England women’s cricketer of the year award for the England Cricketer Anya Shrubsole maiden time England’s Test and Cricketer of England Cricketer Batsman Joe Root the year award England women’s Cricket captain Charlotte Edwards retired Rio Olympics qualifiers 1.Discus thrower:SeemaPunia 2.Shuttlers: SainaNehwal& PV Sindhu JwalaGutta&AshwiniPonnappa Kidambisrikanth Manu Attri and Sumeeth Reddy 3.Wrestlers : RavinderKhatri, Hardeep Singh,

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BabitaKumariVineshPhogat, , SandeepTomar

YogeshwarDuttandNarsinghYadav 4.Archers: DeepikaKumari, Bombayla Devi and LaxmiraniMajhi 5.Boxer: M C

June Name of the Sport Events Name of the Winners Canadian Grand Prix Lewis Hamilton (Mercedes) 2016 European Grand Prix of F1 Nico Rosberg (Germany) AIBA Women’s World Championships Sonia Lather(57kg) – Gold First professional tennis player to earn $100 million Novak Djokovic in prize money in French Open quarter-finals Queen’s title (London) Andy Murray – 5th time FIFA rankings 1.Argentina 2.Belgium 3.Colombia Archery World Cup () South Korea – Gold India – Silver Affiliation from Commonwealth Boxing Council Indian Boxing Council (IBC) Josef Odlozil Memorial Athletics Meet(Czech Track and field athlete Tintu Luka - Silver Republic) US Open golf tournament title Dustin Johnson(US) win the 100m in 9.88 seconds at Racers Grand Prix Usain Bolt 2016 FINA women water polo world league (China) USA – First Spain - Second 2016 Copa America Football tournament Chile beat Argentina 7thFIH Champions Trophy title Argentina defeated Netherland (London) First Indian captain to lead the team in three ODI MS Dhoni series whitewashes NHL Calder Memorial Trophy Artemi Panarin (Russia) New national record, clocking 3:02.17 Indian men’s 4x400m relay team International Sprint and Relay Teams Cup () Best womens player award in the Eurasian Blitz (India) chess tournament(Kazakhstan) InternationalBoxing Association’s (AIBA) Vikas Krishan (75kg)– Bronze World Qualifying Tournament (Azerbaijan) ISSF World Cup(Azerbaijan) Felipe Almeida Wu(Brazil) - Gold (India)– Silver (men’s 50-metre rifle) – Silver Racketlon Competitions(Denmark) Navy Officer and Commodore Ashutosh Pednekar - first Indian –Gold medal Indian men’s hockey teamEnter Final for 1st Time in 36 Years at 36th Hero Champions Trophy Hockey Gold medal Australia Silver medal India Bronze medal Germany French Open 2016 Men’s Singles Novak Djokovic (Serbia) Women’s Singles Garbine Muguruza (Spain) Men’s doubles Feliciano López (Spain) / Marc López (Spain) 10 | Page Follow Us - FB.com/AffairsCloudOfficialPage Copyright 2016 @ AffairsCloud.Com

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Women’s Doubles Caroline Garcia(France) / Kristina Mladenovic (France) Martina Hingis(Switzerland)/ Mixed Doubles (India) Australian Open title 2016 - Sydney Men’s Singles HansKristianVittinghus (Denmark) Women’s Singles : SainaNehwal (India) Markus Fernaldi Gideon (Indonesia) and Kevin Men’s Doubles SanjayaSukamuljo (Indonesia) Women’s Doubles BaoYixin (China) and (China) Mixed Doubles (China) and (China)

IITF Ranking Soumyajit Ghosh 61st Achanta 69th 145th 113rd ICC Rankings for ODI Bowlers Rank Bowlers Batsman 1 (WI) AB De Villiers (RSA) 2 Trent Boult (NZ) (IND) 3 (RSA) Hasim Amla (RSA) Highest-paid female athlete Serena Williams(USA) Maria Sharapova(Russia) (USA) 2016 World’s 100 Highest-Paid Athletes Cristiano Ronaldo– Soccer Lionel Messi - Soccer LeBron James– Basketball Oldest Olympic torch bearer(Macapa) Aida Gemanque – 106yr 7thWorld Carrom Championship Host – Birmingham

Hockey Junior World Cup 2016 Host – India International Paralympic Committee (IPC) has Rao Inderjit Singh - President recognized the Paralympic Committee of India (PCI) Retirement from Sri Lankan pace bowler Nuwan Kulasekara Retirement from International Football Lionel Messi Announces Banned for seven years West Indies all-rounder Kavon Fubler Bannedfor two years by the International Tennis Maria Sharapova (Russia- Tennis player) Federation. Suspended from bowling in international cricket Sri Lanka Pacer Shaminda Eranga Goa Cricket Officials BCCI Suspends officialsfor Financial Bungling First day-night Test in India Indore – India VsNewzealand T20 Series India defeated Qualify for Rio Olympics Judoka Avtar Singh Tennis star Boxer Mary Kom Sprinter Dutee Chand ArcherAtanu Das SprinterSrabani Nanda SprinterMohammad Anas Long JumperAnkit Sharma Official sponsor for the Indian contingent to the Rio Amul Olympics 2016.

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July Name of the Sport Events Name of the Winners Paralympic Committee of India Recognised by Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports Fifth- stand in Twenty 20 cricket of 150 in 92 Proteas Opener HasimAmla balls for the West Indies All-rounder Austrian Grand Prix Title 2016 Lewis Hamilton 2016 British Grand Prix Lewis Hamilton Hungarian Grand Prix Lewis Hamilton IWAS (, ) NiranjanMukundan - 8 medals Spanish Grand Prix Wrestling championship (Madri) ErdenebatBekhbayar of Mongolia – Gold(57kg) SandeepTomar – Silver (74 kg) NarsinghYadav – Bronze(57 kg) Fide Women’s Grand Prix trophy(Chendu, China) HarikaDronavalli oldest player to score a Test century for 82 years Misbah–ul–Haq – Pakistan Euro 2016 football championship EurAsia Hockey Cup 2016 Indian Junior Men’s Team WBO Asia Pacific title() Vijender Singh FIFA rankings Argentina- 1st Belgium – 2nd Columia – 3rd India – 152nd 73rd Senior National Squash DipikaPallikalKarthik Championship(Mumbai) First Indian to clinch the most desired Mr World title RohitKhandelwal First Indian captain to score double century outside ViratKohli India World of digital gaming with the proposed launch of his official game named Sachin Saga. 1st Indian to set world record in Junior Athletics Neeraj Chopra Championship Junior World Cup in Porpetto, Italy ManavadityaRathore - bronze medal First clay court singles title by defeating Feliciano Lopez Netherland’s 100m hurdles world record of 12.20 seconds at the Kendra Harrison London meeting Second Rio Olympics-bound athlete to fail a dope Inderjit Singh test after wrestler NarsinghYadav ICC Hall of fame MuttiahMuralitharan Arthur Morris Karen Rolton George Lohmann International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) ban on Russia the weightlifters to compete in the Rio Olympics. 10th RohanBopanna Grand Prix badminton 2016 Men’s Single Title B SaiPraneeth Men’s Doubles Title Manu Attri andSumeethreddy Wimbledon 2016 Championships Men’s Singles Andy Murray (Britain) Women’s Singles Serena Williams (US) Men’s Doubles PierreHugues Herbert (France) and Nicolas Mahut (France) Women’s Doubles Serena Williams (US) and (US) Mixed Doubles (Finland) and (UK) National record with a massive 59.87m throw at the Javeline thrower Annu Rani 56th National inter-state Senior Athletics Championships

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Olympians Association of India (OAI) Shiva Keshavan (luge),VirenRasquinha (hockey),MalavShroff (sailing),AdilleSumariwalla (athletics),AshwiniNachappa (athletics),SainaNehwal (badminton),HakimuddinHabibulla (swimming) and MC Mary Kom (boxing) Badminton World Federation Rankings SainaNehwal - 5th NozomiOkuhara – 6th P V Sindhu – 10th JwalaGutta and AshwiniPonappa – 20th Manu Attri and B Sumeeth Reddy – 23rd Pranaav Jerry Chopra and AkshayDewalkar – 29th PSA World Squash Rankings JoshnaChinappa -10th Dipika – 19th Rio Olympics Qualifiers NirmalaSheoran – Athlete SajanPrakash and ShivaniKataria – Swimmers PR Sreejesh –Men’s hockey team captain SushilaChanu - Women’s hockey team captain RenjithMaheswar - Jumper Dharambir Singh- 200 meter race(First Indian) Jinson Johnson - 800 Meters race AnirbanLahiri - Golf Shiv Shankar Prasad Chawrasia - Golf Aditi Ashok- Golf Ritu Rani - Women’s hockey team captain(dropped) Official nutritional partner for Rio-Olympics HERBALIFE teams up with IOA ICC Test Ranking RavichandranAshwin – All Rounder First – Australia Second – India Third – Pakistan MRF ICC Test rankings Pakistani Wrist spinner Yasir Shah has reached the number one spot Dhyanchand Hockey Ground in Rajkot Recognised by the International Hockey Federation (FIH). 39th Associate Member of the International Cricket Saudi Arabia Council (ICC) Kabaddi World Cup 2016 In October India New record by diving from 25 000 feet without Luke Aikins parachute

August Name of the Sport Events Name of the Winners 2016 German Grand Prix of F1 Lewis Hamilton Belgian Grand Prix 2016 title Nico Rosberg Season 4 Pro Kabbadi League Patna Pirates defeating Jaipur Pink Panthers. Coach of Cricket Australia Darren Lehman World Karate Champion(Australia) VivekTeja MRF Formula 1600 category VikashAnand Bronze upgrade to silver for London Olympic Wrestler YogeshwarDutt ICC bowler rankings First - England Speedster James Anderson 20th Commonwealth Chess championship PSG Trophy in Basketball ONGC team beat the Tamil Nadu 64th Nehru Trophy KarichalChundan Honorary life membership of the Marylebone Cricket VirenderSehwag Club Hilton Asian Tour Golfer of the Month for July, 2016 Thongchai Jaidee Gold medal in the 100-metre dash Mann Kaur from -100 year old at the American Masters Games in Vancouver

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Canada ATP title 2016() Men’s doubles pair DivijSharan and Purav Raja defeated Israeli-British pair of Jonathan Erlich and Ken Skupski Men’s Singles Ivo Karlović defeated Spain’sFelicianoLópez, Australian Open Crowns 2016 Men’s Australian Open 2016 Abdulla Mohd Al Tamimi (Qatar) defeated Campbell Grayson (New Zealand) Women’s Australian Open 2016 DipikaPallikalKarthik (India) defeated MayarHany (Egypt) Rio 2016 Olympics will be granded with 500 gms India Bullion and Jewellers Association (IBJA) Sovereign Gold Bonds and silver Indian Railways announces cash awards for its The gold Medalist – 1 crore athlete who wins medal at Rio Olympics The silver medallist – Rs 75 lakh Bronze winner – Rs 50 lakh. Athletes who manages a top-8 finish – Rs 30 lakh For mere participation Rs 5 lakh. IOA announces cash award for winning athlete in 50 lakh - gold medal Rio Olympics Rs 30 lakh – silver Rs 20 lakh – bronze 271 Russian athletes to compete in Rio Games 120 athlete, finally 118 athlete went for Rio Olympics 2016 Rogers Cup Men singles Novak Djokovic defeated K. Nishikori Women Singless S. Halep defeated M. Keys Men Doubles I. Dodig and M. Melo defeated J. Murray and B. Soares Women Doubles E. Makarova and E. Vesnina defeated S. Halep and M. Niculescu ICC Rankings 1 India 2 Pakistan 3 Australia 4 England 5 New Zealand ICC Test rankings Batsman Bowler Position Nationality Name Name Nationality 1 Australia Steve Smith Dale Steyn South Africa 2 England Joe Root James Anderson England 3 New Zealand Kane Williamson Ravi Ashwin India 4 South Africa Stuart Broad England 5 Pakisthan Younus Khan Sri Lanka BWF Rankings Rank Name 1 Carolina MARIN 2 Li Xuerui 3 4 5 6 7 Tai Tzu Ying 8 Sung Ji Hyun 9 10 Pusarla V. Sindhu Rio Medal Tally-2016 Country G S B Total United States(1) 46 37 38 121 Great Britain(2) 27 23 17 67

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China (3) 26 18 26 70 Russia (4) 19 18 19 56 Germany (5) 17 10 15 42 India (67) 0 1 1 2 India’s first medal at the Rio Olympics Sakshi Malik bronze in the 58kg category First Indian woman to win an Olympic silver medal Pusarla Venkata Sindhu in the Women Singles badminton Event First Indian to qualify for the apparatus finals of artistic Gymnastics at the Rio 2016 Olympics Women’s doublestitle at Connecticut Open in the U.S with of Romania 82nd All India Railway athletic Championship Western Railway Task force formed by PM Modi To make various suggestions to the roadmap for the next three quadrennial Games 2020 (), 2024 and 2028 Indian Men Hockey Team slipped to sixth First – Australia, Fifth –Brazil Retire from illustrious international career after ongoing ODI series against Australia Chairman of a five-member National Rifle Association of AbhinavBindra India review committee to probe the shooters’ dejected show in the Rio Games Banned four-year by Court of Arbitration for NarsinghYadav Sports following an appeal by WADA Four South African cricketers have been banned for PumelelaMatshikwe, EthyMbhalati, allegedly involving in fixing the matches GoolamBodi and Jean Symes Banned a four-year by Court of Arbitration for NarsinghYadav Sports following an appeal by WADA Asian Tennis Tour 2016 Hos – Bhutan ISL 2016 Opening Ceremony Host - Guwahati Kabaddi World Cup Host Gujarat

September Name of the Sport Events Name of the Winners Italian Grand Prix Lewis Hamilton Grand Prix Nico Rosberg Quadrangular one-day series India A Honorary life member of the Marylebone Cricket Club Bangladesh batting guru ITF events 2016 Sriram Balajifrom India defeated Seong Chan Hong of Korea Asian Karting Championship Shahan Ali Mohsin – First Indian Record in the Women’s Hammer Throw at the 65th Minakshi of CISF All India Police Athletics Championship in Hyderabad. 6 Red Snooker World Championship Pankaj Advani - bronze medal Football Title Army Green beat Neroca FC Manager of Pakistan team Wasim Bari World Martial Arts Mastership 2016 Sushmita Rai - bronze MCC Murugappa Gold Cup Hockey Tournament Indian Railways Team defeated champion Indian Oil Corporation 2016 Calcutta Football League East Bengal 1st World Deaf Shooting Championships - , Priyesha Deshmukh - Bronze

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Russia FIBA Asia Challenge India – 7th ITF women’s doubles title Ankita Raina with Emily Webley defeating Hanyu Guo and Xinyu Jiang of China ICC Test Championship mace Received by Pakistan Test captain MisbahulHaq Obaidullah Khan Heritage Cup Hockey Tournament BPCL defeated Railway U-19 Asian Junior Individual squash championship - Velavan Senthilkumar , Malaysia 13th leg of the womens Professional Golf Tour Vani Kapoor 30th World Amateur Team Championship (WATC) 1.Australia 2.US Indians finished 31st India made a historic win in the 500th test match against New Zealand at Kanpur Second fastest bowler to claim 200 Test wickets BRICS football tournament logo Union Minister of Sports and Youth Affairs Vijay Goel unveiled logo in Goa 2016 FIA Asia Pacific Rally Championship Gaurav Gill -4th time Belgium Open , Belgium Men’s singles title Sathiyan Gnanasekaran defeated Nuytinck Cedric International Thailand Open ChavviKohli defeated Thai fencer Polish Open 2016 Men’s Single Rituparna Das Women’s Single Rasika Raje Women’s doubles Sanjana Santosh and Arathi Sara Sunil defeating Natalya Voytsekh and Yelyzaveta Zharka1

ITTF Junior and Cadet Open TT Championships Junior Boys singles Manav Thakkar, Varuni Jaiswal and Ishhita Gupta Junior Boys doubles Ananth Devarajan and Manav Thakkar combined to outwit Taipei’s LaiChi-Chien and Tai Ming-Wei. Brazil Open Grand Men’s Double title Sikki Reddy and Pranaav Jerry Chopra defeated the Canadian pair of and

Men’s Single Title Anand Pawar defeated of Malaysia 6th Asian Championship - Taoyuan, Silver L Budha Chandra Singh (56Kg), Praveen Kumar (48Kg), Rajinder Singh (90Kg), K Arunpama Devi (60Kg). Bronze Y Santhoi Devi (52Kg), Pooja Kadian (65Kg), Vishakha Malik (70Kg), Rajani Deori (75Kg). 2016 US Open Men’s Singles Winner – , Runner – Novak Djokovic Women’s Singles Winner – Angelique Kerber Runner – Karolina Pliskova Men’s Doubles Winner – Jamie Murray, Bruno Soares Runner – Garreno busta, Garcia-lopez Women’s Doubles Winner – Mattek-sands, Lucia Safarova Runner – Caroline Garcia, Kristina Madenovic 16 | Page Follow Us - FB.com/AffairsCloudOfficialPage Copyright 2016 @ AffairsCloud.Com

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Winner – Croatia Mate Pavić Runner – Coco Vandeweghe United States Track Asia Cup 2016 - Indoor Cycling Velodrome at IG Sports Complex Hong Kong (18) 11 Gold 4 Silver and 3 bronze. India 16 medals) 5 gold 4 Silver and 7 bronze Rio Paralympics 2016 - , Brazil from September 7 to 18, 2016 Top 3 1.China 2.Great Britain 3.Ukraine Ankur Dhama India’s first blind athlete T42 high jump event - gold, Varun Bhati- bronze 29th spot in Women’s Individual Recurve event Pooja Khanna First Indian women to win medal – Silver Men’s javelin throw F46 event – Gold Iranian Para-cyclist has died at the last day Golbarnezhad ISSF Junior World Cup 2016 1.RUSSIA – 25 2.INDIA - 24 3. – 5 WTA Toray Pan Pacific Open Women’s Single title beat Japan’s Women’s Double Title India’s Sania Mirza with Czech partner Barbora Strycova defeating Chinese pair of Chen Liang and Zhaoxuan Yang. St Petersburg Open 2016 Men’s Single A. Zverev defeated S. Wawrinka Mens’s Double D. Inglot / H. Kontinen defeated A. Begemann / L. Paes 70th Senior National Aquatic Championship Overall championships Karnataka followed by Maharashtra Swimming Women’s championship Maharashtra Men’s championship Railways Diving championships Men’s championships Services team women’s championship Railways water polo events Men’s category Railways women’s championship Kerala Banned for 10 months by USOC US swimmer Ryan Lochte First Indian woman cricketer for honorary life membership of the MCC ICC ODI rankings for batsmen Virat Kohli - second spot Rohit Sharma – Seventh Spot Joe Root - Top five for the first time. ICC ODI Ranking Australia , New Zealand followed by India 1.AB de Villiers 2.ViratKohli 7.Rohit Sharma

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8.ShikharDhawan FIFA men’s rankings 1.Argentina 2.Belgium 3.Germany 142 .India BWF ranking Kidambi Srikanth – Top 10 Saina – 5 Sindhu – 8 Ajay Jayaram - 27 H S Prannoy -31 and B Sai Praneeth – 35 Professional Squash Association (PSA) rankings Joshna Chinappa - 10th Deepika Pallikal remained at 19th Rs 75 lakh cash reward – Maharashtra Gov Lalita Babar Rs 50 lakh cash reward - Maharashtra Gov Ayonika Paul, Prarthana Thombare, Dattu Bhonkanal, Devraj Walmiki and Kavita Raut. Banned for 10 months by USOC US swimmer Ryan Lochte India’s selection panel chairman MSK Prasad Captain of the India Cricket team MS Dhoni Indian shooter Abhinav Bindra Retirement from shooting after 2016 Summer Games Ritu Rani Retires from international hockey Chief coach of the national Tennis team Massimo Costantini 2026 Asian Games Host : Japan

October Name of the Sport Events Name of the Winners Sports Sector got the Infrastructure Status Now eligible for obtaining long term financial support from banks and other financial institutions First Indian woman javelin thrower to cross the 60m Annu Rani mark at the 56th Open National Athletics Championships Under-18 Asia Cup hockey trophy in Dhaka India defeating Bangladesh IFSC Para Climbing Cup, UK Manikandan Kumar - Gold First Indian to complete World’s toughest race, Kieren Dsouza Spartathlon 5th – Vietnam Top 3 : Vietnam , Thailand and China India at 16th place with 24 medals(2 Gold, 4 Silver , 18 Bronze) Women’s 52kg Kurash category Pinky Balhara - Bronze medal Men’s middleweight Muay Harish Banghel - Silver Women’s single, Long Ho Quyen, Vovinam event Deepa Gawale - silver medal Kabbadi India defeated Thailand - Gold badminton 2016 Men’s singles Zulfadli Zulkiffli Siril Verma Women’s singles Gadde Ruthvika Shivani Evgeniya Kosetskaya Men’s doubles Vladimir Ivanov/ Ivan Abramov K./Zinchenko A. Sozonov Women’s doubles Anastasia Chervyakova/ Olga Kosetskaya E./Polikarpova Morozova K. Mixed doubles Pranaav Jerry Chopra /N. Sikki Ivanov V./Sorokina V. 18 | Page Follow Us - FB.com/AffairsCloudOfficialPage Copyright 2016 @ AffairsCloud.Com

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Reddy 2016 Men’s Singles Andy Murray Women’s Singles Agnieszka Radwańska Men’s Doubles Pablo Carreño Busta / Rafael / Bernard Nadal Tomic, Women’s Doubles Bethanie Mattek-Sands / Lucie Caroline Garcia / France Šafářová Kristina Mladenovic 2016 Chinese Men’s Single Sourabh Varma Daren Liew Women’s Single Saena Kawakami Men’s Double /Muhammad Rian Hung Ling /Chen Chi-Lin Ardianto Wang Women’s Double /Japansayaka / Hirota Japankoharu Yonemoto Mixed Chun Man Tang/Hong Ryota Taohata/Koharu Kongying Suet Yonemoto ISSF World Cup 2016, Italy 50m pistol event Jitu Rai - Silver Men’s 10m air pistol event Jitu Rai – 6th International Shooting Sport Federation Jitu Rai defeated Serbia’s Damir Mikec (ISSF) Champions Trophy Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) rankings 1 Novak Djokovic (Serbia) 12.900 points 2 Andy Murray (Scotland) 10.485 3 Stan Wawrinka (Switzerland) 5.820 2016 TAFISA World Games, Indonesia India won 4 medals Naveen Kumar clinched bronze medal in 90 Kg category.Three gold medals were won by three women martial arts players from Thane. Aarti Chaudhari (29), Vishruti Waghmare (16) and Siddhi Jadhav (10) won the gold medals in JeetKune-do, a form of martial arts. First gold in Wushu after 30 years Yengkhom Jason (52 Kg category) First female Indian golfer to record 3 Aditi Ashok consecutive top 10 European Tour finishes Kabaddi World Cup 2016, Ahmedabad Pakistan not partipated India beat Iran U-16 World Chess Championship, Russia Aakanksha Hagawane 2016 FIFA U-17 Women’s World Cup North Korea 2016 NCC National Games Punjab Directorate WBC Asia welterweight title, New Delhi Neeraj Goyat out punched Australia’s Ben Kite India’s first ever senior international roller Dhanush Babu, Vikram Ingale and Nikhilesh Tabhane skating medal in the Asian Championship in China. Asian billiards 2016 Siddharth Parikh 2016 Gaganjeet Bhullar BRICS U-17 Football Tourney, Goa Brazil defeated South Africa Asian Champions Trophy India beat Pakistan (Men’s) India beat South Korea(Women’s) World Railway Shooting Championship Western Railways Team Cup, France

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IWF World Weightlifting c’ships IWF Youth (Boys & Girls) won silver and a bronze medal in the 56kg weight category 2016 Japan Grandprix Nico Roseberg 2016 Malaysian Grand Prix Daniel Ricciardo 2016 United States Grand Prix Lewis Hamilton World No.1 status for second successive Sania Mirza year FIFA Rankings Top 3: Argentina,Germany and Brazil India – 137 ICC Test rankings: India backed to No 1 after beating New Zealand at Eden Garden 2.Pakistan 3.Australia 4.England First Indian Test Captain to Score Two Virat Kohli Double Centuries ICC Test Championship mace Virat Kohli ICC Test rankings for bowlers Ravichandran Ashwin – First 50 ODI wickets in India’s 900th One Day International match Fifth Indian to cross 9000 runs, breaks MS Dhoni Sachin Tendulkar’s record of 195 sixes in ODIs Englishman to reach 10,000 Test runs Alastair Cook

World number 1 women bowler Hoogeveen International chess tournament Abhijeet Gupta First player ever to win the title twice in a row in the FIDE Open that concluded at the Dutch hamlet. First team to play 900 ODIs India 2024 Olympics Italy withdrawn its bid to stage the 2024 Games in Rome U-17 World Cup host cities Kochi, Navi Mumbai, Goa,Guwahati and New Delhi First Bionic Olympics Host – Switzerland First-ever womens World T20 2020, host by Australia Boats – Goa To boost tourist football World Boxing Organisation (WBO) Indian Boxing Council Inducted 2016 world cup mascot Zabivaka(Russia) Two-year doping ban has been reduced to Maria Sharapova 15 months following her appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport. Suspended for two matches following a Surender Kumar deliberate foul during the game against Malaysia. Former Formula One driver would retire Mark Webber from professional racing Retired from athletics Jessica Ennis-Hill Retirement after 2017 world championships Usain Bolt in London

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November Name of the Sport Events Name of the Winners Formula One championship Nico Rosberg Abu Dhabi Grand Prix Lewis Hamilton Mexican Grand Prix Lewis Hamilton Brazilian Grand Prix Lewis Hamilton Delhi Half Marathon Champion : Eliud Kipchoge from Kenya Men winners : G Lakshmanan Women winners: Monika Athare World Boxing Organization welterweight Filipino star Manny Pacquiao title Asian Air Force Club, Asian Aquatic Championship, Sri-Lanka Bastab Tapan Bordoloi – 5 gold Bahrain International Challenge Pratul Joshi Asian Tour title, SSP Chawrasia(India) defeat Nicholas Fung(Malaysia) 2016 Champions Showdown win Hikaru Nakamurain 2016 National Women Premier Chess – 3rd time Championship World record in free style swimming Mritul(9km in 3 hours) National Shooting Championship - Gold Aiba Youth World Boxing Championship, Sachin Singh – Gold Russia ATP World Tour Finals Andy Murray(Britain) defeated Novak Djokovic(Serbia) Indonesia Open 2016 Gaganjeet Bhullar defeats Jeev Milkha Hero womens Professional Golf Tour title, Smriti Mehra Uttar Pradesh Asian Champions Trophy title, Singapore Indian women’s hockey team defeated China

2016 WTA Elite Singles Trophy, China Czech Republic’s Petra Kvitova defeated Ukrainian Fastest hundred in Indian FC cricket Young Rishabh from Delhi First Arab professional golfer Maha Haddioui World Boxing Council(WBC) Ranking Neeraj Goyat – 35th ATP Rankings Andy Murray – first BWF Badminton rankings Carolina Marin(Spain) – 1st Ratchanok Intanon(Thailand) – 2nd P.V Sindhu (India)– 9th Saina Nehwal (India)– 11th Six Indian male shuttlers in Top 50 Badminton World Federation(BWF) 1.Kidambi Srikanth (12 2.Ajay Jayaram (19) 3.H. S. Prannoy (25) 4.B. Sai Praneeth (36) 5. (43) 6.Sourabh Varma (45) 8th Sanda World Cup, China Indian wushu team - four silver and one bronze Surjit trophy Mumbai’s Western Railways women’s team defeating XI 4-2 7th World Carrom Championship, UK India‘s women’s carrom team defeated Sri Lanka Ladies European Tour Aditi Ashok title Qatar Ladies Open Aditi Ashok defeated Nanna Koerstz 21 | Page Follow Us - FB.com/AffairsCloudOfficialPage Copyright 2016 @ AffairsCloud.Com

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Asian Para-Badminton Championships, Suhas LY defeating Harry Susanto China Davis cup 2016 Argentina defeated Croatia Asian Youth Karate Championships, New Hashim Mansoor – Gold Delhi 32nd National Junior Athletics Tejaswin Shankar - National senior record in high jump with Championships an effort of 2.26m World Kick Boxing Championship of Tajamul Islam – Gold Under- Eight Players Five bilateral ODI series India win against New Zealand First batsman to amass 1200 runs or more in Bairstow from England Tests in 2016 First bowler to complete 50 wickets in two Ravichandran Ashwin consecutive years ICC Player Rankings for Test Batsmen Steve Smith - First Virat Kohli - Third Four Nations Hockey tournament India beat Malaysia IBSF World Snooker Championship – Gold , Qatar - Silver Pankaj Advani - Bronze Indian cricket team new member Nuzhat Parveen 2016 NBA D-League Draft Palpreet Singh 8-year ban imposed By NADA Dharambir Singh(sprinter) World Cup top-scorer announced retirement Miroslav Klose South Africa spinner announces retirement from cricket 13th World Robot Olympiad(WRO), “High Voltage” from India (Gurugram) 2019 Under-20 World Cup India 2018 Sydney T20 Cricket World Cup for the Blind India Commonwealth Wrestling Championships Men’s Freestyle –57kg Sandeep Tomar (Gold) Men’s Freestyle – 70kg Amit Dhankhar (Gold), Vinod (Silver) Men’s Freestyle – 97kg Satyawart (Gold), Roubaljeet (Silver) Female Wrestling – 48kg RituPhogat (Gold), Priyanka (Silver) Female Wrestling 55kg: Lalita (Gold), Diyanshi (Silver) Female Wrestling 58kg: Mannu (Gold), Somali (Silver) Female Wrestling 60kg: Sarita (Silver), Manish (Bronze) Female Wrestling 63kg: Reshma (Gold), Gargi (Silver) Female Wrestling 69kg: Pinki (Gold), Kavita (Silver) Female Wrestling 75kg : Jyoti (Silver), Nikki (Bronze). Greco-Roman – 66kg: Manish (Gold), Ravinder (Silver) Greco-Roman – 75kg: Gurpreet (Gold), Dinesh (Silver) Greco-Roman – 80kg: Harpreet Singh (Gold), Ravinder Khatri (Silver) Greco-Roman – 85kg: Prabhpal (Gold), Yashpal (Silver) Greco-Roman – 130kg: Naveen (Gold), Manvir (Silver) China Open Super Series 2016 Women’s Singles India’s PV Sindhu China’s Women's Doubles South Korea pair Chang Ye - na China pair Li Yinhui and and Lee So hee Men’s Singles Denmark’s Jan Ø. Jørgensen Malaysia’s I Z Zainuddin 22 | Page Follow Us - FB.com/AffairsCloudOfficialPage Copyright 2016 @ AffairsCloud.Com

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Men’s Doubles Chinese pair of Chai B and Hong Indonesian pair of M F W Gideon and K S Sukamuljo Mixed Doubles Indonesian pair South Korean pair of and Choi S-g and Chae Y- j 2016 Hong Kong Super Series Men’s Single (Thailand) Sameer Verma(India) Women’s Single Tai Tzu-ying(Taiwan) P.V. Sindhu(India) Men’s Double & Keigo & Carsten Sonoda (Japan) Mogensen(Denmark) Women’s Double & Huang Dongping & Li (Denmark) Yinhui(China) Mixed Doubles Tontowi Ahmad & Liliyana Praveen Jordan & Debby Natsir(Indonesia) Susanto(Indonesia) 2016 BNP Paribas Open Men’s Single A. Murray J. Isner Men’s Double H. Kontinen / J. Peers P. Herbert / N. Mahut

December Name of the Sport Events Name of the Winners Magnus Carlsen of Norway defeated World Chess Championship 2016, USA Russian challenger Sergey Karjakin First Indian to Win Medal at Mr. Olympia Amateur Iqbal Sayed Event, Hong Kong World record in the 100 meter swimming South African swimmer Chad le Clos women’s Hockey Junior World Cup 2016, Chile Argentin defeated Netherlands 2016 IBSF World Billiards Peter Gilchrist of Singapore defeated Sourav Kothari 11th World Billiards Championship, Bengaluru Pankaj Advani beats Singapore’s Peter Gilchrist Vijender Singh defeated former world champion WBO-Asia Pacific Super Middleweight Title Tanzania’s Francis Cheka BBC Sports Personality of the Year Andy Murray Shiva Thapa won Gold 1st Elite Senior Men’s Nationals Championship, Guwahati -60kg Ghuwati Manoj Kumar also won a Gold medal in 69 Kg 2016 Hero Indian Super League, Kochi Atletico de defeated Kerala Blasters 5-4 2016 FIH Junior Hockey World Cup, India beat Belgium Men: Andy Murray of Great Britain 2016 ITF World Champions Women: Angelique Kerber of Germany ICC Women’s Team of the Year Smriti Mandhana (First Indian) ICC ODI and T20I Player of Year New Zealand cricketer Suzannah Wilson Asian Tour Title 2016 Mukesh Kumar(oldest golfer) Women’s Twenty20 Asia Cup, India defeated Pakistan Cricketer Completes 4,000 Test Runs and 1,000 Virat Kohli in 2016 BWF World Ranking PV Sindhu – 7th Highest score by an Aussie captain Steven Smith(equal ’s record) Goalkeeping Mentor of Indian Junior Hockey Team PR Sreejesh Retirement from racing Nico Roseberg Retirement from football Alvaro Dominguez Soto (Spain) Davis Cup match 2016 Host : Pakistan

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First ever Day and Night Ashes Host: Australia 2017 Bobsleigh and Skeleton World Championships Host: , Russia(loses) Test captain of South Africa Faf du Plessis Olympic Sports list Cheerleading and the martial art of muaythai Top 3: ICC Test Championship Ranking India, Australia and Pakistan AIBA grant full membership Boxing Federation of India(BFI) Kids Golf World Championship, Malaysia Arjun Bhati 4th Women’s U-18 Hockey Asia Cup India defeated South Korea Bangkok Top 3: FIFA 2016 Rank Argentina, Brazil and Germany Asian Luge Championship ,Japan Shiva Keshavan 2016 AIFF Player of the Year Jeje Lalpekhlua Asia Cup under-19 title, Srilanka. India defeated Sri Lanka National title in 6-red Snooker Pankaj Advani Top 3: Virat Kohli (India) Lord’s Cricket Ground 20 best players of 2016 list Jonny Bairstow (England) Ravichandran Ashwin (India) ICC accreditatio for conducting International cricket Shaheed Vijay Singh Parthik(SVSP) Sports matches between full time member countries of the Stadium in Greater Noida game. 2016 Mubadala World Tennis Championship ,Abu Rafal Nadal Defeats David Gsoffin Dhabi World’s Best Playmaker for the year 2016 Lionel Messi ITF Hong Kong F4 Futures title Yuki Bhambri defeated Shintaro Imai Captain of Cricket Australia’s ODI team of the year. Virat Kohli Scored 359 runs during Ranji Samit Gohel Trophy quarter-final against Odisha National Games 2022 Host: Meghalaya First Pakistan batsman to score a double century in a Azhar Ali Test Men’s 50M Rifle Prone event at the National Pruthviraj Ayachi Shooting Championship in Pune. National weightlifting championships Sivalingam Sathish Kumar -Gold Western Asia Youth Chess Championship , UAE Kush Bhagat – 3 Gold Indian tennis player Somdev Kishore Serbian professional tennis player Retirement Announcement Professional road and track racing cyclist Sir Bradley Wiggins

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