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2015 Sports (Jan - Dec)

Name of the Sport Events

Name of the Winner

ATP World Tennis Championship

Andy Murray.
Chennai Open Tennis Title Winners
Switzerlands Stanislas Wawrinka.
Brisbane International final
Roger Federer-1000th victory.
World record in swimming in 1 degree temperature
Bhakti Sharma.
at Antarctic Ocean.
Sydney Doubles Title
Sania Mirza and Bethanie Mattek-Sands.
National Billiards Championship
Pankaj Advani(7th ).
Fastest one-day international ton
AB de Villiers of South Africa.
Syed Modi Grand Prix Gold championship
Saina Nehwal.
6th Australian Open Singles Womens Title
Serena Williams.
35th National Games
Best Performing Men
Sajin Prakash (Kerala), Swimmer.
Best Performing Women
Aakanksha Vora (Maharastra), Swimmer.
First Place
SSC.
Second Place
Kerala.
Third Place
Haryana.
1.Hashim Amla - South Africa.
2.Brendon McCullum - New Zealand.
3.Kumar Sangakkara - Sri Lanka.
4.Virat Kohli India.
5.AB de Villiers - South Africa.
People's XI list for World Cup 2015
6.Steve Smith Australia.
7.Shakib Al Hasan Bangladesh.
8.James Faulkner Australia.
9.Mitchell Johnson Australia.
10.Dale Steyn - South Africa.
11.Lasith Malinga - Sri Lanka.
Best player in the Premier League
Cristiano Ronaldo.
Australian Open mens title
Siberias Novak Djokovic.
Australian Open mixed doubles title
Leander Paes and Martina Hingis.
th
5 World Handball Title
France.
Indian Open Golf Title
Anirban Lahiri.
Delhi Open Title
Somdev Devvarman.
World Cup 2015
Double century in a World Cup
Chris Gayle.
Indian batsman to score century in a World Cup
Virat Kohli.
against Pakistan
Fastest 150 in ODI History
Ab de Villiers.
Dubai ATP Tennis Championship 2015
Mens Singles Title
Roger Federer.
Womens Singles Title
Simona Halep.
Mens Doubles Title
Rohan Bopanna and Daniel Nestor.
Womens Doubles
Tmea Babos and Kristina Mladenovic.
Argentina Open 2015 Title
Rafael Nadal.
nd
2 Cricketer to Cross 14K ODI Runs
Kumar Sangakkara.
All England Badminton Championship
Carolina Marin.
th
4 consecutive ton in the World Cup 2015 series
Kumar Sangakkara.
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Hero Hockey World League Round 2
Indias Womens Hockey Team.
th
69 Santosh Trophy Football title
Services team.
Swiss Grand Prix Gold Championship title
Kidambi Srikanth.
Australian Grand Prix
Lewis Hamilton.
2015 Indian Open Title
Michael White.
Ranji Trophy
Karnataka.
st
1 Indian Woman to reach World number One
Saina Nehwal.
Ranking
India Book of Records
Cherukuli Dalli Shivani.
2015 BNP Paribas Open
Mens Singles Title
Novak Djokovic.
Womens Singles Title
Simona Halep.
Mens Double Title
Vasek Pospisil and Jack Sock.
Womens Double Title
Sania Mirza and Martina Hingis.
ICC Cricket World Cup
Australia-5th time.
Man of the Series Award
Mitchell Starc (Australia).
Most Runs
Martin Guptill (New Zealand).
Most Wickets
Mitchell Starc and Trent Boult (New Zealand)
Man of the Match
James Faulkner (Australia).
India Open Super Series Badminton 2015 Title
Mens Singles Title
Srikanth Kidambi.
Mens Doubles Title
Chai Biao and Hong Wei.
Womens Singles Title
Saina Nehwal.
Womens Doubles Title
Misaki Matsutomo and Ayaka Takahashi.
Mixed Doubles Title
Yixin Bao and Cheng Liu.
Malaysian Grand Prix 2015 title
Sebastian Vettel.
Miami Open Titles 2015 Winners
Mens Singles Title
Novak Djokovic.
Womens singles Title
Serena Williams.
Mens doubles Title
Bob Bryan and Mike Bryan.
Womens doubles Title
Sania Mirza and Martina Hingis.
Womens World chess championship 2015
Dronavalli Harika.
Sultan Azlan Shah Hockey Tournament 2015
Winner
New Zealand.
Bronze medal
India.
Chinese Grand Prix of Formula One
Lewis Hamilton.
No 1 in WTA Tennis Doubles Rankings
Sania Mirza.
ISSF World Cup
Gold Medal
Jin Jongoh(South Korea).
Bronze Medal
Jitu Rai(India).
Silver Medal
Naung Ye Tun(Malaysia).
1st Shenzhen International Golf Tournament 2015
Kiradesh-Aphibarnrat.
7th Hawkes Bay-Cup Hockey
Indian women-hockey team.
Monte Carlo Masters Title 2015
Singles Title
Novak Djokovic.
Double event
Bob Bryan and Mike Bryan.
Presidents Cup Open International Boxing Tournament
Championship
India.
Gold medals(Womens)
Pinki Jangra and Shamjetsabam Sarjubala Devi.
Gold medals(Mens)
Rakesh Kumar and Harpal Singh.
Bronze Medal
Manish Kumar
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Shamkir Chess Tournament 2015

Magnus Carlsen.
World Team Chess Championships
Gold medals
Georgia beat,China.
Silvermedals
Dronavalli Harika.
Bronze medals
Koneru Humpy.
Mens World Team Chess Championships
Gold medals
China.
Silvermedals
Ukraine.
Bronze medals
America.
ICC ODI rankings.
Australia topped,India-2nd .
100 metres breaststroke world record
Britains Adam Peaty.
Asian junior championship
Indias Y Pranjala.
National Youth record in hammer throw
Ashish Jakhar.
Top ten of junior TT rankings
Mudit Dani-3rd Indian.
Claro Open Colsanitas tennis tournament
Brazils Teliana Pereira.
Bahrain Grand Prix
Lewis Hamilton.
3-match ODI series against winner
Bangladesh.
th
5 Senior Mens National Hockey Championship
Railway Sports Promotion Board.
2015 Asian Indoor Rowing Championship
Gold in the 2000 mens light weight pair category
Dushyant Singh and Succha Singh.
Bronze in the 2000 mens open-pair event
Om Prakash and Rajesh Verma.
ITF (International Tennis Federation) doubles title
Prarthana and Harriet.
FA Cup(world's oldest knockout competition)
Arsenal.
Archery World Cup- Bronze medal
Deepika Kumari.
International wrestling tournament-Gold medal
1.Yogeshwar-65kg.
(Indians)
2.Praveen Rana-70kg.
3.Amit Kumar -57kg.
4.Narsingh Yadav-74kg.
5th quota place in shooting for the 2016 Rio
Gurpreet Singh.
Olympics
Shot-putter qualifies for Rio Olympics
Inderjeet Singh.
Clinch Premier League title
Chelsea.
TEB BNP Paribas Istanbul Open Mens singles title Roger Federer.
5th National Hockey Championship title
Railway Sports Promotion Board (RSPB).
ITTF rankings
Sharath Kamal-32nd Rank.
International Shooting Competition
Gold Medal
Abhinav Bindra, Gagan Narag and Chain
Singh.
Bronze medal
Gagan Narag.
International Speed Skating Championships
Star performer
Kushi Shah.
14 medals-seven were gold
India.
Asian Wrestling Championships-Bronze medal
Geeta Phogat.
All England Open Badminton Championship
Winner
Carolina Marin.
Runner
Saina Nehwal.
Times Of India Sports awards
TOISA sportsperson of the year
Jitu Rai.
Life time Achievement Of The Year
Milkha Singh
Popula Choice Awards.
Pankaj Advani.
Upcoming or emerging player award
Malaika Goel, Sanjitha Channu.
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Best cricketer award in mens category
Virat kohli.
Best cricketer award in Womens category
Harmanpreet Singh.
Federation Cup national senior athletic championship
First Place
Indian Army Team.
Second Place
Tamil Nadu
Overall Womens championships
First Place
Kerala.
Second Place
Karnataka.
Third Place
Tamil Nadu.
Best athlete award in the mens category
Inderjeet Singh.
Best athlete award in the Womens category
Srabani Nanda.
Asian Youth Athletics Championships.
Silver medal
Ashish Bhalothia(boys shot put)
Bronze medal
Anumol Thampi (girls 3000m race) and Seema
Sangwan (girls discus throw).
Asian Wrestling Championship
Bronze medal
Sakshi Malik(60kg) and Lalita(55kg).
$50,000 Challenger tennis tournament doubles title
Yuki Bhambri and Adrian Menendez.
Spanish Grand Prix
Nico Rosberg.
Madrid Open Trophy 2015- Mens doubles Title
Rohan Bopanna and Florin Mergea.
Countrys No 1 doubles player
Rohan Bopanna.
BRICS U-17 football tournament
Held in India.
Sacramento State Open- mens hammer throw event Kamalpreet Singh.
12th Jamaica International meet
First
Vikas Gowda.
Second
Chad Wright.
Third
Jared Schuurmans.
World school chess championship(U -15)
Gold medal
Tejaswini Sagar.
Silver medal
Barbayenka.
Bronze medal
Nur Shanti.
ISSF world cup
Gold medal
Micheal Mc Phail.
Silver medal
Kristian Ole Bryhn.
Bronze medal
Gagan Narang.
4th Italian Open title
Men Singles Title
NovakDjokovic.
Women Singles Title
Maria Sharapova.
Womens Title
Timea Babos & Kristina Mladenovic.
th
8 Edition of TCS World 10 Thousand metre run
Mens category
Mosinet Geremew.
Womens category
Mamitu Daska.
Indian Mens category
Suresh Kumar
Indian Womenens category
Suriya Loganathan.
Thailand Open table tennis tournament -Bronze
Archana Kamath.
Paragliding World Cup 2015
Held in Himachal Pradesh.
132 world ranking
Yuki Bhambri
172 world ranking
Somdev Devvarman.
196 world ranking
Saketh Myneni.
12th South Asian Games 2015
Held in Kerala
th
6 most marketable athlete by British magazine
Virat Kohli.
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Doha Boxing Tournament
Gold medal
1.L Devendro Singh(49kg).
2.Shiva Thapa (56kg).
3. Manish Kaushik (60 kg).
4. Manoj Kumar(64kg).
Silver medal
Gaurav Bidhuri(52kg).
Bronze medal
1.Mandeep Jangra(69kg)
2.Vikas Krishan(75kg)
AIBA Womens Junior/Youth World Boxing Championships
Gold medal
1.Savita(50kg).
2. Mandeep(52kg).
3.Sakshi(54kg).
Silver medal
1.Soniya(48 kg).
2. Niharika Gonella(70 kg).
Bronze medal
Jamuna Boro(57 kg).
IPL 2015
Winner
Mumbai Indians (MI).
Player of the Tournament
Andre Russell (KKR).
Orange Cap award
David Warner (Sunrisers Hyderabad).
Purple Cap awarded
Dwayne Bravo (CSK).
Emerging Player of the Season
Shreyas Iyer (Delhi Daredevils).
Most Valuable Player
Andre Russell (KKR).
Monaco grand prix,2015
First
Nico Rosberg.
Second
Sebastian Vettel.
Third
Lewis Hamilton.
Hockey Test series 3-0 Winner
India.
th
4 Indian shooter to qualify for 2016 Rio Olympics
Abhinav Bindra.
Europa League title
Sevilla FC.
Oldest woman to finish marathon in Record book
Harriette Thompson(92).
Asian Football Confederation (AFC) U-16 final
Host in India.
FIFA Rankings
India
155th
Argentina
First position.
Germany
Second Position.
Belgium
Third position.
Colombia
Fourth position.
Brazil
Fifth position.
21st Asian Athletics Championship-India(3rd )
Gold medal
1.Inderjeet Singh(Shotput).
2. Lalita Babar, Vikas Gowda(Disc throw).
3. Tintu Luka-800m.
4. Vikas Gowda Discus Throw.
Silver medal in womens 200m finals
1.Machettira Raju Poovamma-400m Sprint.
2.Lakshmanan Govindan -10,000m.
3. Liksy Joseph Heptathlon.
4. Jinson Johnson 800m.
5. Jisna Mathew, Tintu Luka, Debashree Majumder,
MR Poovamma relay womens.
Bronze in 800m
1.Dharambir Singh 200m
2. Lakshmanan 5,000m
3. Purnima Hembram Heptathlon
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4. Sarbani Nanda 200m
South African cricketer of the year
De Villiers.
2015 French Open
Womens Single Title(3rd )
Serena Williams(20th Grand Slam title).
Womens doubles Title
Lucie Safarova and Bethanie
Mattek-Sand
Mens doubles Title
Ivan Dodig and Marcelo Melo.
Mens Singles Title
Stan Wawrinka.
Mixed Doubles Title
Bethanie Mattek-Sands and Mike Bryan.
Champions league trophy
Barcelona(5th time).
Canadian Grand Prix
Lewis Hamilton.
Indonesia Open Mens title
Kento Momota.
Indonesia Open Womens title
Ratchanok Intanon.
th
7 International junior shotgun Cup
Gold medal
Anantjeet Naruka(Star Performer)-2 gold medals.
Silver medal
Akash Saharan, Kismat Chopra and Lakshay
Bronze medal
Angadvir Singh Bajwa.
5th Youth Delphic Games in Feb 2016
Host in Goa.
CPL T20 team Trinidad & Tobago
Acquired by Shah Rukh Khan.
Indian Basketball Players Association
launched in New Delhi.
Forbes magazines 100 highest-paid athletes in the
Mahendra Singh Dhoni.
world
Forbes magazines 1st highest-paid athletes in the
Floyd Mayweather.
world
Latest cricketer to be inducted into the ICC Cricket
Sir Wesley Hall.
Hall of Fame
ITF Womens tennis Doubles Title
Sowjanya Bavisetti.
9th highest wicket-taker in Test matches
Harbhajan Singh.
ODI series Winner
New Zealand.
2018 FIFA World Cup qualifier
Guam(33rd rank).
1st Indian to score 50 International goals
Sunil Chhetri.
Stuttgart Open Title
Rafael Nadal.
Under-20 World Cup
Brazil.
th
BWF ranking-12
HS Prannoy.
South Asian Junior and Cadet Table Tennis Championships
Team title winner
Indian paddlers.
In Junior Boys category
Silver
Sri Lankas Junior Boys.
Bronze
Pakistan team.
In Cadet Girls category
Silver
Sri Lanks Cadet Girls
Bronze
Nepal team.
Austrian Grand Prix
Nico Rosberg.
ATP Halle tournament
Roger Federer(86th).
Aegon Championships
Andy Murray.
2015 FIFA U-20 World Cup
Serbia.
Nongfu Spring World Cup
Chinas Zhou Yuelong and Yan Bingtao.
ICC Test rankings
India-4th Spot.
European Team Athletics Championships 2015
Russia.
US Open 2015
Jordan Spieth.
Best Test player of 21st century
Sachin Tendulkar.
Top 10 bowlers in ODI
Ravichandran Ashwin-10th.
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Asian Athletics Grand Prix(Gold medal)
Assen MotoGP
Copa America Cup.
ICC ODI Rankings

Top 5 ODI Batsman

Top 5 Bowlers

ODI series winner

3rd ODI Winner

Inderjeet Singh, Jinson Johnson.

Valentino Rossi.
Eduardo Vargas.
1.Australia
2.India
3.New Zealand
4.South Africa
5.Sri Lanka
1.AB de Villiers South Africa.
2.Kumar Sangakkara Sri Lanka
3.Hashim Amla South Africa
4.Virat Kohli India
5.Tillakaratne Dilshan Sri Lanka
1.Mitchell Starc Australia
2.Trent Boult New Zealand
3.Sunil Narine West Indies
4.Dale Steyn South Africa
5.Imran Tahir South Africa
Bangladesh
India.
Junior Asian championship

Mens Freestyle category

Gold
Silver
Bronze
Greco-Roman category
Gold
Silver
Bronze
Female Wrestling category
Silver
Bronze

Ravi Kumar in 55kg division.

Bharat Patil (50kg) and Vikas (66kg)
Amit (60kg), Dinesh (74kg), Parveen (84kg), Rubal
Jeet (96kg) and Manjeet (120kg).
Ravinder (60kg) and Mehar Singh (120kg).
Manish (55kg).
Rahul (84kg).

Sarita (59kg)
Manisha (63kg), Divya Kakran (67kg) and Pooja
(72kg).
Wimbeldon 2015
Womens double title
Sania Mirza and Martina Hingis.
Mens Singles title
Novak Djokovic.
Womens Singles Title
Serena Williams.
Mixed doubles
Leander Paes,Martina Hingis
Guinness World Records for spending 804 days on
Gennady Padalka
ISS
New Zealand series Winner
Indian womens cricket team.
World University Games Gold medal
Inderjeet Singh .
Welterweight world title
Floyd Mayweather Jr.
World Police and Fire games
India -156 medals, including 89 gold and 50 silvers.
1.US.
2.Canada finished second 430 medals.
Rio 2016 Olympic torch
Braslia.
British Grand Prix
Lewis Hamilton .
South Asian Basketball(SABA) Championship title
Sports.
2015 FIFA Women's World Cup
US.
Copa America
China.
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19th Commonwealth Chess Championship.
Guinness Book of World Records
2015 Mens Cricket World Cup
2019 Mens Cricket World Cup
2023 Mens Cricket World Cup
2017 Womens Cricket World
2017 Mens ICC Test Championship
2021 Mens ICC Test Championship
2016 ICC Mens World Twenty20
2020 ICC Mens World Twenty20
2016 ICC Womens World Twenty20
2016 Summer Olympics & Paralympics
2020 Summer Olympics & Paralympics
2018 Winter Olympics & Paralympics
2015 Special Olympics World Summer Games
2014 Summer Youth Olympics
2018 Summer Youth Olympics
2016 Winter Youth Olympics
2018 Asian Games
2017 Asian Winter Games
2018 Commonwealth Games
2022 Commonwealth Games
2018 FIFA World Cup
2022 FIFA World Cup
2015 FIFA U 20 World Cup
2017 FIFA U 20 World Cup
2015 FIFA U 17 World Cup
2017 FIFA U 17 World Cup
2017 FIFA Confederations Cup
2015 FIFA Women's World Cup
2015 AFC Asian Cup
2019 AFC Asian Cup
2015 Copa America
2019 Copa America
2023 Copa America
2016 Copa America Centenarian (100 years)
UEFA Euro 2016
UEFA Euro 2020
2018 Men's Hockey World Cup
2018 Women's Hockey World Cup
2016 Men's Hockey Champions Trophy
2018 Men's Hockey Champions Trophy
2016 Women's Hockey Champions Trophy
2018 Women's Hockey Champions Trophy
32nd sub junior and 42nd Junior National Aquatics
Championship
Paraguay
201415 Womens FIH Hockey World League
British Grand Prix
2015 South Asian Basketball Championship
32nd sub junior and 42nd Junior National Aquatics
Championship
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Abhijeet Gupta
World Hand washing Day-MP.
Australia and New Zealand.
England and Wales.
India.
Ireland.
England and Wales.
India
India
Australia
India
Rio- de Janeiro, Brazil.
Tokyo, Japan
Pyeongchang, South Korea.
Los Angeles, USA.
Nanjing, China
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Lillehammer, Norway
Jakarta, Indonesia.
Sapporo, Japan.
Gold Cost, Queensland, Australia.
Durban, South Africa (Yet to be confirmed).
Russia.
Qatar.
New Zealand.
South Korea.
Chile.
India.
Russia.
Canada.
Australia.
UAE.
Chile.
Brazil.
Ecuador.
USA.
France.
Pan Europe
Bhubaneswar, India
London, England.
Argentina.
Netherlands.
United kingdom.
Argentina.
Shree Shiv Chhatrapati Sports Complex in Balewadi,
Pune.
Lionel Messi (Argentina)
Netherlands
Lewis Hamilton
India
Pune
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WBO welterweight belt

Floyd Mayweather

World Junior Golf Championship

ICC World Twenty20
WWP Heavyweight Championship

Shubham Jaglan
India
Sangram Singh
Wimbledon Championships 2015
Mens Singles Title
Novak Djokovic
Womens Singles Title
Serena Williams
Mens Doubles Title
Jean-Julien Rojer (Netherlands) and Horia Tecu
(Romania)
Womens Doubles Title
Sania Mirza and Swiss partner Martina Hingis
Mixed Doubles Title
Leander Paes and Swiss partner Martina Hingis
Boys Doubles Title(Junior)
Sumit Nagal
2022 Winter Olympics.
Beijing (China)
7th Gold Cup title
Mexico
102nd edition of the Tour de France
Chris Froome(Britain)
Hungarian Grand Prix 2015
Sebastian Vettel (Germany)
10,000-run mark in ODIs
Tillakaratne Dilshan(4th)
Kazakhstan Presidential Cup
Indian Women Wrestling Team(Silver)
Kazakhstan(Gold)
Mangolia(Third)
Volvo Invitational U-21 hockey tournament
India(3rd), Netherlands (1st) and England(3rd)
IJGA World Stars of Junior Golf event 2015
Shubham Jaglan
Junior Title At US Powerlifting Championship
Amitoj Chhabra
Professional Squash Association(PSA)
Mens rankings
Saurav Ghosal (2Oth ), Egyptian Mohamed EI
Shorbagy(1st).
Womens rankings
Malaysian-Nicaol David, Jodhana Chinappa 28th rank and Dipika Pallikal - 18th rank.
Special Olympics World Games.
Golfer
Ranveer Singh(Gold) 1st Indian
300m and 500m Roller Skating
Prabhroop Sekhon(2 Gold)
World Archery Championship
Indian womens archery team(Deepika Kumari,
Laxmirani Majhi and Rimil Buriuly)- Silver
Russia Gold
Womens Squash Title
Joshna Chinappa(10th WSA Title)
world swimming championship(Break record in
Sarah Sjostrom (Swedan)
100m Butterfly)
Asian Championships
Dipa Karmakar( Bronze) India
Yan Wang(Gold) - China
Sae Miyakawa(Silver) - Japan.
World Swimming Championship(Break record 3 min Ryan Murphy, Kevin Cordes, Kendyl Stewart and
42.33 sec)
Lia Neal.
Olympic world Summer games 2015
India(47 gold, 54 silver and 72 bronze in 14
disciplines)
World Championships(50m butterfly-younger)
Alzain Tareq
63rd Nehru Trophy Boat Race
Jawahar Thayankari of Vembanad Boat
Club,Kumarakom.
World Championship
Saina, Srikanth
Ashes 2015
England winner, Australia- Runner.
Asian Youth Football Festa 2015
India 2nd
China - 1st
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All India Junior (U-17 and U-19) Ranking
Badminton tournament
ISSF World Cup- 8th position
Kabaddi 2016
IBSF 6 Reds World Championship
World Championship
PGA Championships.
European series
First in Test history to take eight catches
World Cup (50m rifle )
World Badminton Championship
Archery World Cup
South Zone National-ranking table tennis
championships
97th Professional Golfers Association (PGA)
Championship
Mens Trophy
Womens Trophy
Womens Doubles trophy

Gayatri(Youngest player)
Prakash Nanjappa(52nd rank)
Poland
Pankaj Advani(9th world title)
Srikanth(Badminton)
Anirban Lahiri(Long Drive Competition )
Indian Men hockey(1st )
Spain(2nd)
Ajinkya Rahane
Chain Singh(3rd)
Saina Nehwal
Abhishek Verma
Junior Girls: Final:Archana Kamath
Junior Boys: Final:Ronit Bhanja
Anirban Lahiri
Rogers Cup
Andy Murray
Belinda Bencic
Caroline Garcia(France) and Katarina
Srebotnik(Slovenian)
Bob and Mike(US)
Aditi Chauhan(1st Indian to play)
Bangladesh

Mens Doubles trophy

English league football.
16 South Asian Football Federation (SAFF)
championship title 2015
Indias second youngest International Master (IM)
Aryan Chopra
Indian Touring Cars race
Deepak Paul Chinnappa(5th)
MRF Formula Ford 1600 series
Karthik Tharanisingh
British Amateur stroke play golf championship
Aditi Ashok(1st Indian)
Western & Southern Open of 2015
Mens Singles finals
Roger Federer
Womens Singles finals
Serena Williams
Open Era Mens Doubles champions
Nestor of Canada and Edouard Roger-Vasselin of
France
Open Era Womens Doubles champions
Chinese Taipei duo Chan Hao-ching and Chan
Yung-jan
Worlds championship(100m)
Usain Bolt
Pro KabaddiLeague 2015
Mumbai
World Athletics Championships(3000m
Lalita Shivaji
steeplechase)
International Cricket Council (ICC) rankings.
Rahane(20th), Mishra(39th)
ICC rankings for the ODI batsmen
Virat Kohli(4th)
Belgian Grand Prix championship.
Lewis Hamilton
Weightlifting Championships(1st time in India)
Pune
Fastest 8000 ODI runs
AB de Villiers broke Sourav Gangulys record
Guru Tegh Bahadur Hockey title
Air India
Pakistan Super League (PSL)
Doha, Qatar Feb,2016
Euro Hockey Championships
Indian womens hockey(going to final & qualified
for Rio Olympics)
World Cadet Championship(50kg)
Anil(Gold)
15th IAAF World Championships in Athletics
1.Kenya(16 medals)
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2. Jamaica 12 medals) and
3.SA (18 medals).
Buchi Babu Memorial Trophy of Cricket
Mumbai
First test-series
India
ICC Test rankings
Cheteshwar Pujara (20th),Virat Kohli (11th)
and Ishant Sharma- 18th in the bowler list
2022 Commonwealth Games
Durban,South Africa.
2018 Commonwealth Games
Gold Coast, Australia
Womens 10 meters air rifle event
Apurvi Chandela(Silver)
Mens 50m Rifle prone shooting category in Asia
Gagan Narang 1st
Jitu Rai(well known as Pistol King) 2nd
Abhinav Bindra 5th
Asia Championships
Vikas Krishan silver medal in 75 kg
2015 Italian Grand Prix of Formula One
Lewis Hamilton
Sushant Chipalkatti Memorial India Junior International Badminton Championship
Womens singles titles
Ruthvika Shivani Gadde
Mens singles titles
Lakshya Sen
Mens doubles
Krishna Prasad Garaga and Satwiksairaj
Rankired(India)
NSCI Open JSW Indian Squash Circuit 2015
Joshna Chinappa
Presidents Cup team
Ace golfer Anirban Lahiri(Qualified)
Commonwealth Youth Games
Weightlifter Deepak Lather - gold medal(138 kg)
Asian Amateur Boxing Championship 2015 1.Kazakhstan, 2.Uzbekistan, 3.Thailand
Silver medal
Vikas Krishnan - 75kg
Bronze medals
Satish Kumar (95 Kg)
L Devendro (49Kg)
Shiva Thapa (56Kg)
US Open Tennis Championships 2015
Mens Singles
Serbian Novak Djokovic
Womens Singles
Italian Flavia Pennetta
Mens Doubles
French pair of Pierre-Hugues Herbert and Nicolas
Mahut
Womens Doubles
Indias Sania Mirza and Switzerlands Martina
Hingis
Mixed Doubles
Indias Leander Paes and Switzerlands Martina
Hingis pair
Thailand Amateur championship
Golfer Aditi Ashok
New Asian Football Technical Ranking
India 22nd
Commonwealth Youth Games 2015
India 19(9gold, 4 Silver and 6 Bronze)
Gold
1. Prachi Singh (women) -Archery
2. Prachi Singh Pantelides Thomas (Mixed) Archery
3. Sasi Kumar Mukund (Men singles)-Tennis
4. Dhruthi Tatachar Venugopal (Women singles)Tennis
5. Sasi kumar Mukund Dhruthi Tatachar
(Mixed)-Tennis
6. Deepak Lather-Weightlifting
7. Jamjang Deru -Weightlifting
8. Tejaswin Shankar (High Jump-Men)Athletics
9. Mohd Hadeesh (Javelin Throw-Men)
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Silver

Bronze

2016 Rio Olympic - Qualified

Shanghai Challenger
Archery World Cup
2022 Asian Games
Belgium International Challenge championship
55th National Open Athletics Championship
2024 Summer Olympics

2016 Rio Olympics

Honorary life membership by Cricket Club of India
(CCI).
2015 Singapore Grand Prix F1 Championship
2015 Beijing Marathon
5th International Pars Wushu Cup

1.
2.
3.
4.

Gourav Solanki - Boxing (52 Kg)

Nishant Kumawat (Boys Individual) - Archery
Jisna Mathew (400m) - Athletics
Velavan Senthil Kumar Harshit Jawanda
(Mixed) -Squash
1. Bhimchand Singh Leichombam - Boxing (49
Kg Men )
2. Prayag Chauhan - Boxing (64 Kg Men )
3. Anamika Das (Shot-put Women) - Athletics
4. Velavan Senthil kumar (Singles Men) Squash
5. Chandan Bauri (400m Men) - Athletics
6. Abitha Mary Manuel (800m Women)Athletics
Wrestler Narsingh Pancham Yadav(1st Indian)
Indian tennis player Yuki Bhambri
India(Bronze)
Hangzhou, China
Sumeeth Reddy and Manu Attri - Mens double title
Shot putter Manpreet Kaur - 6th title
Los Angeles US
Paris France
Rome Italy
Budapest Hungary and
Hamburg Germany
Shooter Mairaj Ahmad Khan(Qualified)
Ajinkya Rahane

Ferraris Sebastian Vettel

Kenyan veteran Kipchumba
India 12 medals(1gold, 4 silver and 7 bronze
medals)
Elite Panel of ICC Match
Richie Richardson
AFF(Asian Football Federation) Championship
Goa
Japanese Grand Prix 2015
Lewis Hamilton
IBSF World Billiards Championship
Pankaj Advani 14th title
16th Asian Rowing Championships
India(five silver and two bronze)
Guangzhou Open title 2015
Womens Double
Sania Mirza and Martina Hingis
Womens Single
Jelena Jankovic
8th Asian Air Gun Championship
10m Air Pistol Women Final Results
Name
Country
Medal
Heena Sidhu
India
Gold
Shweta Singh
India
Silver
Seon A Kim
Korea
Bronze
10m Air Pistol Men Final Results
Name
Country
Medal
Sepehr Boroujeni Safari
Iran
Gold
Gurpreet Singh
India
Silver
Jitu Rai
India
Bronze
10m Air Rifle Women Final Results
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Name
Jasmine Wei Xian Ser
Elaheh Ahmadi
Ayonika Paul

Country
Medal
Singapore
Gold
Iran
Silver
India
Bronze
10m Air Rifle Men Final Results
Name
Country
Medal
Abhinav Bindra
India
Gold
Yuriy Yurkov
Kazakhstan
Silver
Jaechul Yu
Korea
Bronze
10m Air Pistol Men Junior Final Results
Name
Country
Medal
Sumedh Kumar
India
Gold
Hemendra Kushwah
India
Silver
Mohamad Ahmed
Bangladesh
Bronze
Combined shotgun/rifle/pistol World Cup in 2017
India
2015 Commonwealth Youth, Junior & Senior weightlifting championships
Gold medal
Punam Yadav (63kg)
Silver medal
G Lalitha (63kg)
ICC team ranking
Indian womens cricket team 4th
Australia -1st
England 2nd
Wuhan Open womens doubles trophy
Sania Mirza and Swiss Martina Hingis
Hero MTB Himalayan Edition 2015
Luis Leao Pinto
2015 FIBA Asian Basketball Championship Won
China
Malaysian Open 2015
David Ferrer (Spain) -25th
Taiwan Cup
Deborah 5 medals
T-20 International match
South Africa
World Military Games
Dheeraj Rangi Lightweight (60 kg) boxer - Silver
2016 World Cup, 2019 Presidents Cup golf
Melbourne, Australia
tournaments
Wild card for the 2016 Delhi Open
N Sriram Balaji(Tennis)
Dutch Open Grand Prix
Mens singles
Shuttler Ajay jayaram
Under-17
Krishna and Satwik
Mens doubles
B. Sumeeth Reddy & Manu Attri
Beighton cup of Hockey
Punjab National Bank
Russian Grand Prix title of Formula One
Lewis Hamilton
China Open (Tennis) 2015
Mens singles
Novak Djokovic (Serbia)
Womens Singles
Garbine Muguruza (Spain)
Mens Doubles
Vasek Pospisil (Canada)
And Jack Sock (US)
Womens Doubles
Sania Mirza (India)
and Martina Hingis (Switzerland)
Commonwealth Youth, Junior and Senior Weightlifting Championships
Senior men (77 Kg)
S Sathish Kumar
Senior women (48Kg)
S Mirabai Chanu
Junior men (85 Kg)
R V Rahul
Junior women (53kg)
Pramila Krisani
Youth girls (48kg)
Mohini Chavan
Youth boys (69kg)
Lalu Taku
21st edition of Fenesta Open National Tennis championship
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Under 16 Titles: Boys
Nitin K Sinha
Under 16 Titles: Girls
Sabhyata Nihalani
Under 14 Titles: Boys
Mann Maulik Shah
Under 14 Titles: Girls
Sanya Singh
17th Edition of Himalayan Motorsport Raid de
Raj Singh Rathore (co-driver Amber Udasi)
Himalaya title
Shanghai Masters Championship
Novak Djokovic 9th title
36th National Archery Championship
Compound Men (Ranking Round)
1.Abhishek Verma(Delhi)
2.Ch. Jignas (Ser)
3.Anil Kumar (ITBP) 698
Women (Ranking Round)
1.V. Jyothi Surekha (PSPB)
2 .Swati Dudhwal (Raj)
3 .Lily Chanu Paonam
Mixed Team
1. Rajasthan (Swati Dudhwal, Sarvesh Pareek)
2 .Maharashtra (Jayalakshmi Sarikonda, Swapnil
3 .Delhi(Divya, Adlakha, Abhishek Verma)
Denmark Open Title of Badminton 2015
Xuerui Li(China)
5th Sultan of Johor Cup (SOJ Cup)
Great Britain
National Cadet Corps National Games 2015
Punjab, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh and Chandigarh
Vietnam Open Tennis Trophy
Saketh Myneni
WTA No. 1 doubles ranking
Sania Mirza and Martina Hingis
Rugby World Cup
New Zealand beat Australia
16th national women boxing championship
Nikhat Zareen defeated Vanlal Duati
2015 Mexican Gand Prix title of Formula One (F1)
Nico Erik Rosberg
2015 Swiss Indoors Basel Title
Roger Federer
69th senior National Aquatic Championships
Overall Team Championship in Swimming
State
Point
Karnataka
233 points(28 medals)
Maharashtra
232 points
Railways
188 points
Overall Team Championship in Diving
Services
32 points
Railways
32 points
World Rankings
6th Vikas(75kg), 7th- Satish Kumar(+91kg boxers), 13th L Devendro Singh(49kg) 18th - Sumit Sangwan (81kg),
37th-Gaurav Bidhuri (52kg) and 58th -Mandeep
Jangra(69kg)
Melbourne Cup
Michelle Payne,first female rider
2015 Paragliding World Cup
Julien Wirtz-1st , Vidic Jurij of Slovenia-2nd and Torsten
Siegel of Germany-3rd
13th Asian Shooting Championship South Korea, India, China
10m air rifle junior mens event
Gold
Xuechao Qian of China
Silver
Akhil Sheoran of India
Bronze
Prashant of India
Team silver
Akhil, Prashant and Pratik Borse of India
Team bronze
Satyajeet Kandhol, Gajendra Rai and Babu Mithiliesh of
India
Junior Womens 50m Rifle Prone Event
Gold
Fatemeh Karamzadeh of Iran
Silver
N Gayathri of India
Bronze
Najmeh Khidmati of Iran
Team Silver
Gayathri, Srinithi Venkatesh and Sonika
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Indian bowler to reach 150 Test wicket
Asian Archery Championships
1st cricketer in Ranji Trophy history to notch up 10000
runs
25th All India G V Mavalankar Shooting Championship
2015 FIFA U-17 World Cup
32nd edition of Indian Oil Surjit Hockey tournament
ODI rankings
China Open Super Series Premier - Single
160 club Members
Brazilian Grand Prix
Singles
Doubles

8th Junior Men's Asia Cup hockey

Ravichandran Ashwin
Deepika Kumari and Jayanta Talukdar - bronze
Wasim Jaffer
Army shooters - 10 gold, 8 silver and 9 bronze medals
1st Nigeria, 2nd Mali, 3rd Belgium, 4th Mexico.
Indian Railways
1-Australia, 2 India, 3-South Africa,4- New Zealand, 5Sri Lanka,6-England, 7-Bangladesh and 8-Pakistan.
Saina Nehwal
Mitchell Starc
Nico Rosberg

ATP World Tour Finals 2015

Serbias Novak
Djokovic defeated Switzerlands Roger Federer
Netherlands Jean-Julien Rojer and
Romanias Horia Tecau defeated Indias Rohan
Bopanna and Romanias Florin Mergea

India defeat Pakistan

2015 BWF world junior championship
Boys Singles
Lu Chia-hung
Girls Singles
Goh Jin Wei
Boys doubles
He Jiting and Zheng Siwei
Girls doubles
Chen Qingchen and Jia Yifan
Boys Singles
Lu Chia-hung
Fed cup
Czech Republic over Russia
Asia Cup cycling tournament
Korea 1st ,Uzbekistan 2nd , India 3rd
All India FIDE Rating Chess tournament
Srishti Pandey
Asian Football Awards
Aditi Chauhan
IBSF World Snooker Championship
Pankaj Advani defeat Zhua Xintong
Strategic coach for the Indian mens team
Roger Van Gent
World Athletes of the Year
Genzebe Dibaba
First day-night Test match at the Adelaide Oval Cricket
Australia and New Zealand
Stadium
ICC Womens World Twenty20 Qualifier
New Zealander Kathleen, Australias Claire Polosak,
Englands Sue Redfern and West Indies Jacqueline
Williams
Macau Open Grand Prix
PV Sindhu defeat Minatsu Mitani
World heavyweight champion title
Tyson Fury after beatting Wladimir Klitschko
Under-19 Tri-Series cricket title
India defeated Bangladesh
Abu Dhabi Grand Prix
Nico Rosberg
2015 Delhi Half Marathon

Mens title
Womens title
Davis Cup
ICC Test rankings

ATP rank list

WTP rank list
'Mr World' - world bodybuilding
Hockey World League(HWL)

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Birhanu Legese from Ethiopia

Cynthia Limo from Kenya
Great Britain
James Anderson and Yasir Shah -3rd , Josh
Hazlewood - 10th
Murali Vijay - 12th position, while his captain Virat
Kohli -16th
Bhambri - 93rd, while Somdev Devavarman - 181
Sania Mirza, Martina Hingis 1st, Ankita Raina
255,Prerna Bhambri -473.
Thakur Anoop
Australia

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59th National shooting championship
10m air pistol Men
1
2
3
Juniors
1
2
3
Youth
1
2
3
Juniors
First
Second
Third
Men: 25m centre fire pistol
First
Second
Third
US Winter National Championships
Hero World Challenge
ICC Test Championship

Shahzar Rizvi 199.6 (577)

Vijay Kumar 198.2 (577)
Sib Kumar Ghosh 177.2 (580)
Achal Pratap Singh Grewal 577 (21x)
Pawan Yadav 577 (16x)
Arjun Das 575
Saurabh Choudhary 573
Dhruv Pran Singh 572 (18x)
Shainki Nagar 572 (17x)
Achal Pratap Singh Grewal 562
Shivam Shukla 558
Rushiraj Atul Barot 557

Vijay Kumar 588

Gurpreet Singh 586
Pemba Tamang 582
American swim star Michael Phelps
American professional golfer Bubba Watson
India 2nd
BWF Player of the Year award
Most Promising Player of the Year - Female Para
Zheng Si Wei
Badminton Player of the Year
Norways Helle Sofie Sagoy
Male Para-Badminton Player of the Year
Koreas Lee Sam Seop
2015 National Wheelchair Basketball Championship
Maharashtra
Badminton World Superseries Finals 2015
Mens singles
Kento Momota
Womens singles
Nozomi Okuhara
Mens doubles
Mohammad Ahsan & Hendra Setiawan
Womens doubles
Luo Ying and Luo Yu
Mixed doubles
Chris Adcock and Gabriele Adcock
British heavyweight title
Anthony Joshua
Asian Tours Order of Merit crown
Anirban Lahiri
Sportsperson of 2015
Serena Williams
London Classic chess championship
Carlsen 1st, Anand 9th
World golf rankings
Jordan Spieth 1st ,Rory McIlroy 2nd
S.S.P. Chawrasia - 211
Mentor of Pakistan Super League
Andy Flower
ICC Test rankings :Batsman Rank
Ravichandran Ashwin - top 2nd spot, while Ravindra
Jadeja - 8th spot, Brendon McCullum - 17th .
Rankings for Test bowlers
Australias Josh Hazlewood has entered the top 10,
Off-spinner Nathan Lyon - 15th
European Tour Golfer of the Year
Rory McIlroy
World Dubai Superseries
Mens Single title
Momota beat Denmarks Viktor Axelsen
Womens Single title
Okuhara overcame Yihan Wang from China
Womens doubles title
Chinese twin shuttlers Luo Ying and Luo Yu beating
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Mens double title

2015 Indian Super League

FIFA Club World Cup Japan 2015

Christinna Pedersen and Kamilla Rytter Juhl from

Denmark.
Indonesian mens doubles pair of Mohammad
Ahsan and Hendra Setiawan beat Chinas Chai Biao
and Hong Wei Mixed double final - Adcock
Chennaiyin FC
Barcelona FC

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