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2018 SPORTS (Jan - Apr)

January Name of the Sport Events Name of the Winners Ranji title Vidarbha has won for 1st time by defeating Delhi Royal Cup golf ’s Shiv Kapur won the title in Thailand India's highest ranked player in latest ITTF G Sathiyan ranks 49th position at the world level rankings First to score three T20 centuries in Cricket Colin Munro Head coach of IPL team Delhi Daredevils Ricky Ponting Head coach of Pakistan Hockey team Hasan Sardar & win Hopman Cup for Switzerland Second most expensive transfer in the world Brazilian football player Philippe Coutinho soccer history British Junior Open squash Winner : England's Sam Todd Runner : India,s Neel Joshi Kolkata Open 2018 International Invitation Aditya Mehta Snooker Championship Chef De Mission for Winter Olympics Games Harjinder Singh 2018 First Indian to win an international medal in Aanchal Thakur won bronze medal in the Alpine Ejder 3200 skiing Cup National Women’s Boxing Championship Sarjubala Devi won gold medal and the best boxer trophy in Rohtak, Haryana World’s highest ranked Test bowler Kagiso Rabada 8th Sub-junior National Hockey Winner: Assam Championship Runner : Rajasthan Premier League 3 Winner: Hunters oureducation.inRunner : Bengaluru Blasters legend Ronaldinho Brazilian winner has retired from football. Sir Garfield Sobers Cricketer of the year, ICC Virat Kohli Cricketer of the Year 2017 and ICC ODI cricketer of the year 2017 awards ICC T20I performance of the year award. Yuzvendra Chahal ICC T20I performance of the year award. 1. 2.Brazil 102. India Blind 2018 Winner : India Runner : Pakistan Host : Sharjah Cricket Stadium, in UAE 8th Hockey India Sub Junior (Women) Hockey Haryana defeated Madhya Pradesh National Championship 2018 (A Division) 15th edition of Marathon Ethiopia’sSoloman Deksisa Junior International Series Siddharth Singh won over Denmark’s Christophersen 2018

1 | P a ge U-18 TT Rankings 1.Li Hsin-Yang 2.Manav Thakkar 33rd Women Senior National Weightlifting Rakhi Halder created record by lifting 128kgs in the clean Championships and jerk for a total of 230kgs in the 63kg women's category in Mangaluru Newport Beach Challenger trophy in USA and James Cerretani have won the men’s doubles title Indonesia Masters Badminton final Winner : Tai Tzu Ying Runner : National Men's singles Table Sharath Kamal Winner : Delhi Runner :Rajasthan West Indies to host 2018 Women's World T20 in November 2018 Jammu and Kashmir to host international martial arts event Goldberg inducted into WWE’s 2018 Hall of Fame class ASSOCHAM-Football Delhi MoU to strengthen commercial profile BCCI bans all-rounder Yusuf Pathan for five months after failed dope test Elite Women's National Boxing Championship held in Haryana Meghalaya signs host city contract for 39th National Games in 2022 Khelo India anthem launched by sports minister Rajyavardhan Rathore i. Mascots of Khelo India School Games are ‘Vijay the tiger’ and ‘Jaya the black buck’. ii. “Aur khelna chahte hain hum……” the anthem of Khelo India School Games 2018 Category Winner Runners-up Men’s Singles Roger Federer (Switzerland) Marin Cilic () Women’s Singles () (Denmark) Men’s Doubles () and Juan Sebastian Cabal (Colombia) and Mate Pavic (Croatia) (Colombia) Women’s Doubles Timea Babos () and () and () (Russia) Mixed Doubles () Timea Babos (Hungary) and and Mateoureducation.in Pavic (Croatia) (India)

February Name of the Sport Events Name of the Winners SpiceJet Boxing Mary Kom, Pinki Rani , LovlinaBorgohain, Sanjeet, Manish Tournament Kaushik Clinches Gold, India Bag 10 Medals Highest-ranked Indian squash player Saurav Ghosal (ranks 14 ) in PSA rankings U-19 Cricket World Cup, in New India defeated Zealand. Maybank Golf Championship Shubhankar Sharma India Open 2018 (Badminton) Winner : 2 | P a ge Runner : PV Sindhu Senior Women Hockey champions CRPF First Indian golfer to qualify for Sharmila Nicollet LPGA Tour world's youngest and first Asian Rohan More swimmer to complete Ocean 7 Challenge Australia's Border Medal Stevan Smith 13th edition of National Chess 'A' KishanGangolli won Championship for Blind World's first robot ski competition hosted the event 8th edition of Theatre Olympics India to host Theme ‘“Flag of Friendship”. 8th Senior National Women's Hockey Railway Sports Promotion Board (RSPB) Championship title 23rd Senior Women's National Tamil Nadu Football Championship title Sponsor Indian National Hockey Odisha government teams for 5 years First player in Champions League Cristiano Ronaldo history to score 100 goals for one club First batsman ever to score 500 runs ViratKohli in bilateral ODI series Oldest world No 1 in tennis history Roger Federer Open ATP Challenger Australia's Open title Roger Federer beats GrigorDimitrov First Indian to take a 5-wicket haul in Bhuvneshwar Kumar all three formats in international cricket 60m sprint indoor world record Christian Coleman of US First Indian to cross 900 points in ViratKohli ICC ODI player rankings 5th Commonwealth Nations Bridge Indian "A" team won gold Championship in Gold Coast, Australia oureducation.in Austrian Open International ParupalliKashyap Challenge (badminton) 1st Indian to win individual medal at ArunaBudda Gymnastics World Cup 69th Strandja Memorial boxing VikasKrishan wins gold, adjudged best boxer tournament in Marathon titles GopiThonakal and Monika Athare won titles in the men’s and women’s category IOA enters partnership with Edelweiss Group for 2018 CWG, Asian Games, 2020 Olympic Games Cricket Canada announces ICC-approved T20 league “Global T20 Canada” Indian Golfer Shubhankar becomes World No. 72, surpasses AnirbanLahiri JhulanGoswami 1st woman in the world to take 200 ODI wickets First Khelo India School Games • Mascots of Khelo India School Games were ‘Vijay the tiger’ and ‘Jaya the black buck’. • “Aurkhelnachahtehain hum…...” was the official anthem of Khelo India School Games. • Haryana topped the overall medal tally with 38 gold medals. Haryana was followed by Maharashtra

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Winter Games held inPyeongchang, South Korea • Motto of PyeongChang Winter Olympics 2018 was “Passion.Connected” • Soohorang, a white tiger, and Bandabi, an Asiatic black bear were the official mascots for this event. • topped the medal tally at PyeongChang Winter Olympics 2018 by winning 14 Gold, 14 Silver and 11 Bronze.

March Name of the Sport Events Name of the Winners Snooker Team World Cup in , Qatar Indian duo of Pankaj Advani and Manan Chandra ISSF World Cup in , Mexico Indian golfer Shahzar Rizvi 11th Tal Memorial chess in , Viswanathan Anand Russia ISSF World Cup in Guadalajara, Mexico Sultan Azlan Shah Cup 2018 Australia title,Malaysia 2018 Formula One Grand Prix of Ferrari's Sebastian Vettel Australia Youngest captain in international cricket Rashid Khan(19) 2017-18 ,Himachal India B team defeated team Pradesh Cricket Association Stadium in Dharamsala One-Day International (ODI) status for Nepal cricket team the first time. Banned from playing for Australia by Steve Smith and David Warner Cricket Australia Captain of Zimbabwe team Brendan Taylor Coach-cum-mentor of Jammu and Irfan Pathan Kashmir Cricket Association oureducation.in FIFA lifted its three-decade ban on Iraq hosting international football matches, allowing Arbil, Basra and Karbala cities to host official matches Russia has got back its Olympic membership, following its suspension from 2018 Pyeongchang Olympics Prasanta Karmakar was suspended for 3 years by the Paralympic Committee of India (PCI) due to allegations of recording videos of female para-swimmers at the National Championships 2017 in Jaipur. Jockey Cup International Youth Invitational Football Tournament in Hong India U-16 football team Kong Interstate national tennis championship Maharashtra women's team 2018 held in Chhattisgarh 80th Senior National Table Tennis Host - Odisha Championships in Cuttack Announced retirement from professional of Germany tennis I-League title at the Tau Devi Lal Minerva Punjab FC beat Churchill Brothers FC 1-0 Stadium in Panchkula

4 | P a ge Women's 8km cross country race in the 14th Asian Cross Country Championship Sanjivani Jadhav - bronze medal at Guiyang in China Hero (ISL) 2017 Chennaiyin FC F53/54 Javelin event at the World Para Deepa Malik - gold medal Athletics Grand Prix in Nidahas Trophy at the R Premadasa India beat Bangladesh Stadium, in Colomb Team USA - grabbed a total of 36 medals and topped the overall Paralympic Winter Games Pyeong Chang medal count.Oksana Masters became the female U.S. athlete to 2018 in South Korea have won the highest number of medals in PyeongChang Olympics with five medals Indian contingent’s flag-bearer at the opening ceremony of the Commonwealth PV Sindhu Games (CWG) 2018 at Gold Coast, Australia Asian Billiards Championships title Pankaj Advani in Yangon, Myanmar 8th Hockey India Senior Men National Championship 2018 (A Division) at the Hockey Punjab Padma Shri Mohammad Shahid Synthetic Hockey Stadium in , Uttar Pradesh International Shooting Sport Federation (ISSF) Junior World Cup Rifle/Pistol/Shotgun in , Australia Elavenil Valarivan along with Shreya Gold Agrawal and Zeena Khitta - Team Arjun Babuta - men's 10m air rifle Bronze Anish Bhanwala -Men’s 25m Rapid Fire Gold Pistol Junior event Muskan Bhanwala - Women’s 25m Pistol Gold event International Shooting Sport Federation (ISSF) World Cup-Guadalajara, Mexico Shahzar Rizvi 10m Air Pistol Men’s Event Gold Manu Bhaker 10m Air Pistol Women’s Event Gold Akhil Sheoran Men's 50m Rifle 3 Position Gold Om Prakash Mitharval & Manuoureducation.in Bhaker 10m Air Pistol Mixed Team Title Gold Anjum Moudgil Women’s 50m Rifle 3 Positions Silver 10m Air Pistol Men’s Event Bronze Ravi Kumar Men’s 10m Air Rifle Event Bronze Mehuli Ghosh & Deepak Kumar 10m Air Rifle Mixed Team Event Bronze Asian Wrestling Championships - Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan 50 Kg freestyle event Vinesh Phogat(Silver) defeated by Chun Lei(China) 59 Kg freestyle event Sangeeta(Bronze) defeats Jieun Um(Korea) 82 kg Greco-Roman event Harpreet Singh(bronze) defeats Khashimbekov(Uzbekistan) 55kg Greco-Roman event Rajendra Kumar(Bronze) defeats Mirakhmedov(Uzbekistan) First Indian woman wrestler to win gold Navjot Kaur become world No 2 in the women's 65kg in the Senior Asian Championships under category in the latest rankings released by the United World 65kg freestyle category Wrestling 6th edition of Wisden India Almanack 'Cricketer of the Year' KL Rahul Shantha Rangaswamy Deepti Sharma,

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Priyank Panchal, Hasan Ali Tamim Iqbal Retirement from all forms of Cricket.He Former England batsman Kevin Pietersen was the captain of England cricket team in 2008-09 period Asia Cup Archery Stage 1 campaign Gold 1.Promila Daimary defeated Natalia Erdynieva of Russia (Womens recurve individual) 2. Akash, Gora Ho and Gaurav Lambe defeated Mongolia's Adiyasuren Baasankhuu, Otgonbold Baatarkhuyag and Gantugs Jantsan(Indian Trio) 3. Muskan Kirar(women's compound individual section) Bronze Madhu Vedwan Muskan Kirar 2018 or 2018 BNP Paribas Open - California, United States. Men's Singles Juan Martin Del Potro Roger Federer (Switzerland) (Argentina) Women's Singles () (Russia) Men's Doubles (United States) (United States) (United States) (United States) Women's Doubles Hsieh Su-wei (Chinese Ekaterina Makarova (Russia) Taipei) Elena Vesnina (Russia) Barbora Strycova ()

April Name of the Sport Events Name of the Winners Asian Armwrestling Championship Indian arm wrestler Shrimant Jha 56th edition of International Boxing Gold medal winners,Sumit Sangwan(91Kg), Indian woman Championship at Belgrade in Serbia boxer Nikhat Zareen(51 kg), Himanshu Sharma (49 kg). Monte Carlo Masters in Monacooureducation.in Asian Youth and Junior Weightlifting Jeremy Lalrinnunga Championship at Urgench, Uzbekistan Open tennis title Rafael Nadal 2018 Chinese Grand Prix Red Bull`s Daniel Riccia Retirement from international cricket at the conclusion of South Africa-Australia test South African fast bowler Morne Morkel series Retired from football after playing a last Julio Cesar match for boyhood club Flamengo Virat Kohli and Mithali Raj, captains of Indian men and Wisden’s leading cricketers of the year women’s cricket team respectively FC Goa in collaboration with the Forca Goa Foundation FC Goa Soccer Schools to provide opportunity to more children to play football 72nd (Football) at the Salt Kerala defeated West Bengal Lake Stadium in Kolkata, West Bengal Mumbai Football Arena Host to the inaugural edition of the four-nation 6 | P a ge Intercontinental Cup, which is slated to be held from June 1 to June 10, 2018 PFA Player of the Year Mohamed Salah - first Egyptian to win this award 30th overall Copa del Rey title at the Wanda Barcelona defeated Sevilla Metropolitano, Madrid. Latest ATP Ranking Top 3 are as follows: 1.Rafael Nadal,2.Roger Federer,3.. Leander Paes - 43rd doubles win He has broken the 46-year-old record of Italian player Nicola Pietrangeli International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF) Sathiyan Gnansekaran - 46 rankings Manika Batra - 58 Australian former captain Steve Smith - First ICC Test Player Rankings Virat Kohli - Second Kidambi Srikanth - First BWF rankings First Indian male player to achieve this mark. Germany - First FIFA rankings Brazil - Second World record to double cross the Bangla Sampanna Ramesh Shelar() Channel Top-100 ATP men’s singles ranking -83 Denmark’s – First(men’s singles ranking) Kidambi Srikanth – 5th BWF rankings – April 19, 2018 PV Sindhu - Third and Saina Nehwal -12th Japan’s Akane Yamaguchi – First(women’s singles ranking)

FIBA Basketball World Cup 2019, in Son of Dreams was unveiled as official Mascot 8th South Asian Judo Championship 13-player Indian contingent won 10 golds and three bronze Kathmandu, Nepal medals in individual categories. National Muaythai Federation Cup, a martial arts competition, ended at the Indoor Stadium, Srinagar . It is also known as 'the art of eight limbs' as it is involves the combined use of fists, elbows knees and shins. Won his first singles title on the ATP Challenger circuit in the Kunming Open in Anning, China Tournoi World Cup Satellite Fencing CA Bhavani Devi - Silver Championship in Reykjavik, Iceland oureducation.in2018 Men’s Singles John Isner (United States) Alexander Zverev (Germany) Women’s Singles (United Jelena Ostapenko (Latvia) States) Men’s Doubles Bob Bryan (United States) (Russia) and and Mike Bryan (United (Russia) States) Women’s Doubles (Australia) Barbora Krejcikova (Czech and CoCo Vandeweghe Republic) and Katerina (United States) Siniakova (Czech Republic)

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