Current Affairs Sectionwise PDF 2016 Sports(Jan - Dec) 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 Dale Steyn (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 Masters Open chess tournament Magnus Carlsen 2015 South Asian Football Federation India 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 Badminton World Federation (BWF) rankings. Men’s Singles Women’s Singles First: SirilVerma(India) First: Carolina Marin(Spain) Second:TomaJunior Popov(France) Second: SainaNehwal(India) Third: ChiragSen(India) Third: Li Xuerei(China) Ninth: KidambiSrikanth(India) Twelfth: PV Sindhu(India) FIFA rankings India – 163 2015 England Player of the Year Wayne Rooney Hilton Asian Tour Golfer of the Month MiguealTabuena 2016 with Brisbane title SaniaMirza(India) and Martina Hingis(Swiss) Qatar Open 2016 Singles Novak Djokovic (Serbia) Doubles Feliciano Lopez (Spain) Marc Lopez (Spain) Hopman Cup Nick Kyrgios (Austrlaia) Brisbane International Victoria Azarenka WTA title Sloane Stephens 2016 Chennai Open title StanislasWawrinka from Switzerland 1 | Page Follow Us - FB.com/AffairsCloudOfficialPage Copyright 2016 @ AffairsCloud.Com Current Affairs Sectionwise PDF BWF Ranking Marcelo Melo of Brazil, followed by HoriaTecau of Man Double Ranking Romania and Netherlands Jean-JulienRojer. Novak Djokovic of Serbia ahead of Andy Murray of Men’s Singles Great Britain and Swiss Roger Federer. Sania and Martina Women’s Double Bopanna - 9th Coach of Pune 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 Denmark’s sportsperson of 2015 Rene HoltenPoulsen International Tennis Hall of Fame Marat Safin 2015 German Player of the Year MesutOzil Sydney International Title 2016 SaniaMirza and Martina Hingis 7000 ODI runs after AB de Villers ViratKohli 2016 Apia international title Men’s Singles Viktor Troicki Women’s Singles Svetlana Kuznetsova Men’s Doubles Jamie Murray of UK/Bruno Soares of Brazil Women’s Doubles Martina Hingis of Switzerland/SaniaMirza 1.India ICC Test Rankings 2.Australia 3.South Africa Delhi International Open chess title Ivan Popov(Russia) 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 Chris Gayle Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy Uttar Pradesh Grand Slam Singles title Roger Federer – 300th win Malaysia Masters Grand Prix Men’s Singles Lee Chong Wei (Malaysia) Women’s Singles P. V. Sindhu (India) Men’s doubles Kevin SanjayaSukamuljo (Indonesia) & Markus Fernaldi Gideon (Indonesia) Women’s doubles Ayaka Takahashi (Japan) &MisakiMatsutomo (Japan) Mixed doubles ZhengSiwei (China) & Li Yinhui (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, Sushil Kumar, Robin Mangar, Rohit Kumar) 2 | Page Follow Us - FB.com/AffairsCloudOfficialPage Copyright 2016 @ AffairsCloud.Com Current Affairs Sectionwise PDF Lt wt coxless fours All India Police (DharmendraChoudhary, Nitesh Kumar Lall, Ravinderjit Singh, Jagsir Singh) Pairs Gurwinder Singh &Karamjeet Singh (Pun) Australian Open 2016 Men’s Singles Novak Djokovic (Serbia) Women’s Singles Angelique Kerber (Germany) Men’s Doubles Jamie Murray (UK)/Bruno Soares (Brazil) Women’s Doubles Martina Hingis (Switzerland)/SaniaMirza (India) Mixed Doubles Elena Vesnina (Russia)/Bruno Soares (Brazil) Retired from International Cricket Pakistan - Imran West Indies Chanderpaul(all form) BWF ranking P V Sindhu – 11th 12th Sub-Junior National Snooker 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 batting Rohit Sharma 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 Sayaka Sato from Japan Men’s doubles category Goh V Shem and Tan Wee Kiong from Malaysia Women’s doubles category Jung Kyung-eun and Shin Seung-chan from South Korea Mixed Doubles Title Indonesian pair Praveen Jordan 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) Mumbai International Open Chess tournament Title Swapnil S Dhopade ICC suspended for three months Yasir Shah Retired from One-Day Internationals New Zealand cricketer Brendon Barrie McCullum(100th consecutive Test) Fastest cricketer to make 10 ODI centuries De Kock of South Africa Women’s World Cup Final In 2017 Lord BCCI bans for 5 years Pakistani umpire AsadRauf St. Petersburg Ladies Trophy SaniaMirza and Martina Hingis 3 | Page Follow Us - FB.com/AffairsCloudOfficialPage Copyright 2016 @ AffairsCloud.Com Current Affairs Sectionwise PDF ICC U-19 Cricket World Cup 2016 West Indies 12th South Asian Games 1.India, 2. Sri Lanka 3.Pakistan Buenos Aires Title Dominic Thiem Rio Olympic Games 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 Warriors Asian Wrestling Championship Iran – 1st and India – 7th (9medals) 7th WTA career title Francesca Schiavone Chief coach of Sri Lanka Graham Xavier Ford Wawrinka won Dubai ATP Tennis Title 2016 Women’s Singles Sara Errani from Italy Men’s Doubles Simone Bolelli and Andrea’s seppi Women’s Doubles Chuang Chia – Jung from Chinese Taipei and DarijaJurak from Croatia 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 Ukraine March Name of the Sport Events Name of the Winners All India Open Invitational Snooker Championship 2016- Rahul Sachdev Aurangabad Aaron Phangiso Suspended from bowling in Domestic cricket for suspect bowling action. Asia Cup title Indian Team (6th time) Amity Polo Cup trophy Jindal Panther World Golf 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 –Thailand JituRai(India)- Gold Pang Wei(China) - Silver Wang Zhiwei(China) - Bronze Asia title -professional Vijender Singh 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 - Swiss Open HS Prannoy Hero Indian Open title SSP Chawrasia 2016 World Chess Candidates Tournament Sergey Karjakin BNP Paribas Open titles 2016 4 | Page Follow Us - FB.com/AffairsCloudOfficialPage Copyright 2016 @ AffairsCloud.Com Current Affairs Sectionwise PDF Men’s Singles Serbian Novak Women Singles Victoria Azarenka of Belarus Men’s Doubles Pierre Hugues Herbert and Nicolas Mahut of France Women’s Doubles US Pair Bethanie Sands and Coco Vandeweghe Paralympic Games - 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 Table Tennis Championship – Malaysia Women’s Table Tennis India Men’s Table Tennis India 2016 All England Badminton title Men’s Singles Lin Dan Women’s Singles