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S.No Contents Page Number

1 Famous Sports persons in India and their Related 3
Sports
2 Sports Terminologies 15
3 Sports Field Names 16
4 Number of Players of Various Sports 17
5 List of Sports Cups and Trophies 18
6 Major Sports Events 19
7 List of Stadiums in India 20
8 List of Countries and their National Games 24
9 One Liners 26
10 National Sports Awards 2020 30

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Famous Sports Persons in India and their Related Sports

Famous Badminton Players of India:

• Anup Sridhar
• Prakash Padukonea
• Saina Nehwal
• Aparna Popat
• Chetan Anand
• Pulella Gopichand
• Parupalli Kashyap
• Dipankar Bhattacharya
• P. V. Sindhu
• Nandu Natekar
• Ashwini Ponnappa
• Jwala Gutta
• Srikanth Kidambi
• Pranav Chopra
• Prannoy Kumar
• Gadde ruthvika shivani

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Famous Boxing Players of India:

• Mary Kom
• Dingko Singh
• Shiva Thapa
• Vijender Singh
• Akhil Kumar
• Amit Panghal
• Mohammed Ali Qamar
• Nikhat Zareen
• Manoj Kumar
• Naman Tanwar
Famous Archery Players of India:

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• Dola Banerjee
• Jayanta Talukdar
• Limba Ram
• Tarundeep Rai
• Deepika Kumari
• Bombayla Devi Laishram
• Atanu Das
• Pravin Jadhav
• Laxmirani Majhi
Famous Indian Athletes:

• Ashwini Nachappa
• Jyotirmoyee Sikdar
• KM Beenamol
• Soma Biswas
• Anju Bobby George
• Milkha Singh
• P.T.Usha
• Shiny Abraham

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• Hima Das
• Dutee Chand
Car Racing:

• Narain Karthikeyan
• Armaan Ebrahim
• Karun Chandhok
• Aditya Patel
• Gaurav Gill
Squash:

• Joshna Chinappa
• Ritwik Bhattacharya

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• Saurav Ghosal
• Mahesh Mangaonkar
• Utkarsh Baheti
• Dipika Pallikal Karthik
Famous Table Tennis Players of India:

• Achanta Sharatha Kamal

• Mouma Das
• Poulomi Ghatak
• Chetan Baboor
• Manika Batra
• Sathiyan Gnanasekaran
• Soumyajit Ghosh
• Anthony Amalraj
• Harmeet Desai
• Sanil Shetty
• Sutirtha Mukherjee
• Madhurika Patkar
• Pooja Sahasrabudhe

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• Manika Batra
Famous Indian Swimmers:

• Bula Choudhury
• Mihir Sen
• Srihari Nataraj
• Virdhawal Khade
• Sajan Prakash
Famous Indian Shooters:

• Vijay Kumar
• Abhinav Bindra
• Anjali Bhagwat
• Gagan Narang
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• Jaspal Rana
• Samresh Jung
• Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore
• Ronjan Sodhi
• Jitu Rai
• Apurvi Chandela
• Heena Sidhu
• Manu Bhaker
• Saurabh Chaudhary
• Tejaswini Sawant
• Rahi Sarnobat
• Omkar Singh
• Shreyasi Singh
• Om Prakash Mitharwal

Famous Golf Players in India:

• Gaurav Ghei
• Jeev Milkha SIngh
• Jyoti Randhawa
• Shiv Kapur
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• Arjun Atwal
• Aditi Ashok
• Shubhankar Sharma
Billiards and snooker:

• Geet Sethi
• Pankaj Advani
• Aditya Mehta
Famous Hockey Players in India:

• Dilip Tirkey
• Gagan Ajit Singh
• Leslie Claudius

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• Pargat Singh
• Dhanraj Pillay
• Dhyan Chand
• Manpreet Singh
• Suraj Karkera
• Krishan Pathak
• Lalit Upadhyay
• Akashdeep Singh
Famous Chess Players in India:

• Dibyendu Barua
• Krishnan Sasikiran
• Pentala Harikrishna
• Parimarjan Negi
• Sandipan Chanda
• Koneru Humpy
• Viswanathan Anand
Famous Lawn Tennis Players in India:

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• Ramesh Krishnan
• Rohan Bopanna
• Vijay Amritraj
• Leander Paes
• Mahesh Bhupathi
• Ramanathan Krishnan
• Sania Mirza
• Somdev Devvarman
Famous Wrestling Players in India:

• Dalip Singh Rana

• Dara Singh
• Gobar Goha
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• Palwinder Singh Cheema
• Panne Lal Yadav
• Yogeshwar Dutt
• Sakshi Malik
• Sushil Kumar
• Vinesh Phogat
• Babita Kumari
• Bajrang Punia
• Rahul Aware

Famous Kabaddi Players in India

• Ajay Thakur
• Manjeet Chillar
• Dharamraj Charlatan
• Rahul Chaudhari
• Deepak Niwas Hooda
• Pawan Kumar Sehrawat

Famous Gymnastics Players in India

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• Dipa Karmakar

Famous Weight Lifting Players in India

• Karnam Malleswari
• Saikhom Mirabai Chanu
• Gururaja Poojary
• Khumukcham Sanjita Chanu
• Punam Yadav
• Ragala Venkat Rahul
• Sathish Sivalingam

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SPORTS TERMINOLOGIES

Sports Terminology
Cricket LBW, Maiden over, Stumped, Hat-trick, Leg Bye, follow on, Googly,
Gulley, Silly Point, Duck, Run, Drive, no ball, Cover point, Leg
Spinner, Wicket Keeper, Pitch, Crease, Bowling, Leg-Break, Hit –
Wicket, Bouncer, Stone-Walling, Ashes, Hook, Late-Cut, Leg-Break,
Yorker, Follow-On, Gulley.
Golf Bunker, Hole, Bogey, Put, Stymie, Caddie, Tee, Links, Putting the
green
Football Baseline, Bick, Comer Defender, Dribble, Foul, Free-Kick, Goal,
Hand-Ball, Hat trick, Head, Left-Out, Move, Off-Side, Pass, Penalty,
Penalty Kick, Rebound, Right-Out, Side back, Stopper, Throw-In,
Drop Kick.
Kho-Kho Chaser, Foul, Out, Pole-By, Runner.
Kabaddi Bonus-Line, Corner, Cover, Raid, Tackle
Hockey Bully, Hat-Trick, Short corner, Stroke, Striking Circle, Penalty corner,
Under cutting, Scoop, Centre forward, Carry, Dribble, Goal, Carried,
Stick, Tie-Breaker, Sudden-Death.
Polo Bunder, Chukker, Mallet
Badminton Service, Deuce, Smash, Drop, Let, Game, Love, Double Fault, Feint,
Layup.
Boxing Hook , Jab, Kidney Knock-Out, Punch, Uppercut, and Kidney Punch.
Shooting Plug ,Bag, Skeet, Bull's eye
Wrestling Freestyle, Illegal Hold, Near fall, Clamping
Volleyball Antennae, Attack-Hit, Block, Blocking, Deuce-Booster, Dribbling,
Libero, Service, Service, Set-Up, Smash

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Table Tennis Let, Service, Smash, Drop, Deuce and Spin
Chess Gambit, Checkmate, Stalemate, Check, Bishop and Castle.
Lawn Tennis Smash, Service, Back-hand-drive, Let, Advantage, Deuce, Double-
Fault, and Drop-Shot.
Basketball Common-Foul, Dunk, Free-Throw, Front, Held-Ball, Layup, Over
Head, Pivot, Rebound, Steal, Technical-Foul, Traveling.
Baseball Diamond, Bunting ,Pitcher, Strike, Home Run, Put Out
Billiards Jigger, Break, Scratch, Cannons, Pot, Cue, In Baulk, Bolting, Baulk.
Shooting Skeet ,Bag, Plug, Bull's eye
Horse Racing Win, Protest, Punter, Jockey, and Place.

SPORTS FIELD NAMES

Sports Play Ground name

Athletics Track
Cycling Velodrome
Cricket Pitch
Golf Course
Table Tennis Board
Baseball Diamond
Swimming Pool
Polo Arena
Tennis, Badminton. Court
Handball, Volleyball, Squash. Court
Football Field
Hockey Field

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Ice Hockey Rink
Curling Rink
Boxing Ring
Judo, Karate Mat
Basketball Court
Kabaddi Court

NUMBER OF PLAYERS OF VARIOUS SPORTS

Sports Number of players

Badminton Single - 1 player & Double - 2 players
Baseball 9
Basketball 5
Cricket 11
Chess 1
Football (Soccer) 11
Hockey 11
Kabaddi 7
Kho Kho 9
Volleyball 6
Water Polo 7
Netball 7
Polo 4
Bridge 2
Tennis Single - 1 player & Double - 2 players
Table Tennis Single - 1 player & Double - 2 players

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List of Sports Cups and Trophies

Sports Trophies/ Cups

Cricket Ashes Cup , C.K. Naidu Trophy, Deodar Trophy,

Duleep Trophy, Border Gavaskar Trophy, G.D. Birla
Trophy, ICC World Cup, Irani Trophy, Jawaharlal
Nehru Cup, Rani Jhansi Trophy, Ranji Trophy, Vijay
Hazare Trophy, Vijay Merchant Trophy, Wills
Trophy.
Hockey Sultan Azlan Shah Cup, Aga Khan Cup, Maharaja
Ranjit Singh Gold Cup, Dhyanchand Trophy, Nehru
Trophy, Sindhia Gold cup, Murugappa Gold Cup,
Guru Nanak Cup, Gyanuati Devi Trophy, Lady Rattan
Tata Trophy, Murugappa Gold Cup, Stanley Cup.
Football Rovers Cup, Santosh Trophy, Durand cup, Vittal
Trophy, UEFA Champions League, Sir Ashutosh
Mukherjee Trophy, kalinga cup, B. C. Raj Trophy.
Badminton Malaysian Open, Thomas Cup (men) Uber Cup
(women), Amrit Diwan Cup, Asia Cup, Chaddha Cup,
European Cup,Sophia Cup.
Table Tennis Travancore Cup (women), swathing cup
Bama Belleck Cup
Lawn Tennis Davis Cup, Australian Open, French Open,
Wimbledon, US Open, Heineken Cup

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Golf Canada Cup, Ryder Cup, Walker Cup, Muthiah Gold
Cup
Polo Radha Mohan Cup, Prithi Singh Cup, Winchester Cup
Rowing Wellington Trophy

MAJOR SPORTS EVENTS

Tournament Venue & Year
Summer Olympics Japan (2021);
Paris (2024);
Los Angles (2028)
Winter Olympics Russia (Sochi)(2014)
Pyeongchang, South Korea(2018);
Beijing China (2022)
Italy's Milan-Cortina (2026)
Youth Olympic Games (summer) Singapore(2010)
Nanjing, China(2014)
Buenos Aires, Argentina(2018)
Dakar ,Senegal (2026)
Asian Games Jakarta, Indonesia (2018);
Hangzhou, China (2022)
Common Wealth Games Gold Coast, Australia (2018);
Birmingham, England(2022)
FIFA Football World Cup Russia (2018)(Winner-France)
Qatar (2022)
Canada, Mexico, United States (2026)

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FIFA (women's) world cup 2019 (France) (Winner-USA)
2023 (Australia, New Zealand)
ICC Men Cricket World Cup 2019 (England)(Winner-England)
2023(India)
ICC Women's Cricket World Cup 2017(England)(Winner-England)
2022 (New Zealand)
ICC Men T20 World Cup India(2021)
Australia(2022)
8th T-20 women World Cup [2022] South Africa
Men Hockey World Cup India(2018)(Winner-Belgium)
India(2023)
South Asian Games Kathmandu (Nepal)(2019)
Lahore (Pakistan) (2021)
Southeast Asian Games Phnom Penh, Cambodia(2023)

List of Stadiums in India

State Name of the stadium Place Purpose of the Stadium
Feroz Shah Kotla Delhi Cricket
Delhi Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium Delhi Football
Dhyan Chand Delhi Hockey
National Stadium
International Hockey Rajnandgaon Hockey
Stadium
Chhattisgarh Shaheed Veer Narayan Singh Raipur Cricket
International Cricket
Stadium

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M A Chidambaram Stadium Chennai Cricket

Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium Chennai Athletics, Football

Tamil Nadu Mayor Radhakrishnan Chennai Hockey

Stadium
Dr.Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy Visakhapatnam Cricket
Andhra ACA-VDCA Stadium
Pradesh Y S Raja Reddy Stadium Kadapa Cricket
Dr. Bhupen Hazanka Cricket Guwahati Cricket
Stadium
Assam Indira Gandhi Athletic Guwahati Athletics, Football
Stadium
Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium Guwahati Multi-purpose stadium
Satindra Mohan Dev Silchar Football
Stadium
Eden Garden Kolkata Cricket
West Bengal Salt Lake Stadium(Or) Kolkata Football
Vivekananda Yuba Bharati
Krirangan
Bihar Moin-ul-Haq Stadium Patna Cricket
Chandigarh Sector 42 Stadium Chandigarh Hockey
Fatorda Stadium or Margao Football,cricket
Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium
Goa Dr Shyama Prasad Taleigao Sports and Games
Mukherjee Indoor Stadium
Duler Stadium Mapusa Football

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Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel Ahmedabad Cricket
Stadium (Motera Stadium)
Gujarat The Arena Ahmedabad Football
Saurashtra Cricket Rajkot Cricket
Association Stadium
Mahabir Stadium Hisar Sports and games
Haryana Tau Devi Lal Stadium Gurgaon Cricket, Football
Bakhshi Stadium Srinagar Football
Jammu and Sher-i-Kashmir Stadium Srinagar Cricket
Kashmir
M.Chinnaswamy Stadium Bangalore Cricket
Karnataka Bangalore Football Stadium Bangalore Football
Birsa Munda Athletics Ranchi Athletics
Stadium
JSCA International Cricket Ranchi Cricket
Jharkhand Stadium
JRD Tata Sports Complex Jamshedpur Football
Dilip Tirkey Stadium Ranchi Hockey
Birsa Munda Football Ranchi Football
Stadium
Trivandrum International Thiruvananthapuram Sports and Games
Stadium
EMS Stadium Kozhikode Football
Kerala Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium Kochin Cricket, Football
Lal Bahadur Shastri Stadium Kollam Football, Athletics
International Hockey Kollam Hockey

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Stadium
Holkar Cricket Stadium Indore Cricket
Madhya Nehru Stadium Indore Cricket
Pradesh Captain Roop Singh Stadium Gwalior Cricket
Wankhede Stadium Mumbai Cricket
Brabourne cricket stadium Mumbai Cricket
DY Patil Stadium Mumbai Cricket
Maharashtra Cricket Gahunje, Pune district Cricket
Maharashtra Association Stadium
Vidarbha Cricket Nagpur Cricket
Association Stadium
Cooperage Football Stadium Mumbai Football
Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium Pune Cricket
Manipur Khuman Lampak Main Imphal Football
Stadium
Mizoram Hawla Indoor Stadium Aizawl Basketball
Nagaland Nagaland Cricket Dimapur Cricket
Association Stadium
Biju Patnaik Hockey Rourkela Hockey
Odisha Stadium
Barabati Stadium Cuttack Cricket
Kalinga Stadium Bhubaneswar Hockey
War Heroes Stadium Sangrur Hockey
Punjab Cricket Association Mohali Cricket
IS Bindra Stadium
Punjab Guru Gobind Singh Stadium Jalandhar Football

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Guru Nanak Stadium Ludhiana Football
Guru Nanak Stadium Kapurthala Hockey
Rajasthan Sawai Mansingh Stadium Jaipur Cricket
Sikkim Paljor Stadium Gangtok Football
Baichung Stadium Namchi Football
Lal Bahadur Shastri Stadium Hyderabad Cricket
Telangana G. M. C. Balayogi Athletic Hyderabad Cricket and Athletics
Stadium
Uttarakhand Rajiv Gandhi International Dehradun Cricket
Cricket Stadium
Green Park Stadium Kanpur Cricket
Dhyan Chand Astroturf Lucknow Hockey
Uttar Pradesh Stadium
Buddh International Circuit Greater Noida Auto Racing
Dr Sampurnanda Stadium Cricket, field hockey, Varanasi
football

List of Countries and their National Games

Country National Games / Sports

Afghanistan Buzkashi
Antigua And Barbuda Cricket
Argentina Pato
Australia Cricket
Bangladesh Kabaddi
Barbados Cricket

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Bhutan Archery
Brazil Football
China Table Tennis
Cuba Baseball
Colombia Tejo
England Cricket
Estonia Basketball
France Football
Hungary Water polo
Haiti Football
Iceland Handball
India Field Hockey
Indonesia Badminton
Israel Football
Italy Football
Iran Wrestling
Jamaica Cricket
Japan Sumo Wrestling
Mauritius Football
Lithuania Basketball
Nepal Volleyball
New Zealand Rugby union
Pakistan Field Hockey
Poland Football
Philippines Arnis
Russia Bandy

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Scotland Golf
Sri Lanka Volleyball
Turkey Oil Wrestling
United States Of America Baseball
Venezuela Baseball
Slovenia Skiing

SPORTS ONE LINER

• India won the first Olympic Hockey gold at Amsterdam, Netherlands

• The Olympic Museum and the Olympic park are located at Lausanne, Switzerland
• The theme of the 2016 Rio Olympics is “World peace and Environment”. It is the 31st edition of
Summer Olympic Games
• The first modern Olympics were held in Athens, Greece, in 1896
• First Winter Olympics was held in 1924 in Chamonix, France
• The Sports Authority of India is the apex national sports body of India, established in 1984 by the Ministry of
Youth Affairs and Sports of Government of India for the development of sport in India.
• Queensberry rules is associated with Boxing
• The Wimbledon Grand Slam Tennis tournament started in 1877
• FIFA headquarter is located in Zurich, Switzerland
• Shiva Thapa is associated with Boxing
• First commonwealth games were held in 1930 at Hamilton, Canada
• Pranav Dhanawade has scored 1000 runs in one innings
• Neeraj Chopra is related to Javelin throw
• P V Sindhu is the first Indian to become the Badminton World Champion.
• Karnam Malleshwari is the first Indian woman to win an individual Olympic medal

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• Beighton cup is related to Hockey
• Ace Against Odds is the autobiography of
• The term Dolphin Kick is associated with Swimming
• The National Dope Testing Laboratory functions under Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports
• Lasith Malinga (Sri Lanka) has become the first bowler in the world to claim five international hat-tricks
• Karnam Malleswari Won Bronze Medal in Sydney, 2000
• The summer Olympics of 2028 will be organized at Los Angeles
• Mohan Kumarmngalam Stadium is located at Bokaro
• The Brabourne Cricket Stadium is situated in the Indian State of Maharashtra
• Anjum Chopra is the first woman cricketer from India to be awarded an honorary life membership of the
Marylebone Cricket Club
• Mithali Raj is the first woman cricketer scored 6000 runs in ODIs
• West Indies batsman Brian Lara has the highest individual score in Test cricket: he scored 400 not out against
England in 2004 to surpass the innings of 380 by Matthew Hayden
• India played their first ever ODI against England in 1974 at Headingley in Leeds
• All Sher, an Arjuan award winner is associated with Golf
• Mudassar Nazar holds the record of slowest century in Test cricket.
• The Indian Football team made its first appearance at Olympics in 1948
• First Asian games were held at New Delhi in 1951
• Ramanathan Krishnan Was the first Indian to reach the semifinal in Wimbledon Tennis Championship
• Thailand is the nation who has hosted the Asian Games for the maximum number of times
• Harbhjan Singh became the first Indian Cricketer to take hat-trick in test cricket. He took hat-trick against
Australia in 2001
• Bachhendri Pal was the first Indian woman to scale the Mount Everest
• Virender Sehwag has become the first Indian to score a triple century in Tests
• Regatta is associated with Rowing
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• Mahendra Singh Dhoni made his ODI debut at Chittagong on Dec 23, 2004. The match was between
Bangladesh and India
• Football was inducted as a competitive game in Olympics in 1908.
• Westchester Cup belongs to Polo
• The first test match began on 15 march 1877 between Australia and England at Melbourne
• The popping crease is 4 feet (1.22 m) in front of and parallel to the bowling crease.
• The Distance between the Wickets is 20.12 metres.
• The 31st Olympic games held in brazil
• The 32nd Olympic games will be held in Tokyo, Japan
• The 18th Asian Games are organized in the Jakarta and Palembang cities of the Indonesia. In the 18th Asian
Games 8 new games have been added, so total number of games increased to 40.Motto of 18th Asian Games
is "Energy of Asia"
• The 19th Asian Games will be held in Hangzhou City, China in 2022.
• Every year on August 29 India celebrates its National sports day. The day is celebrated to honor the legendary
hockey player Major Dhyan Chand Singh
• Sandy storm” is the autobiography of Sandeep Patil
• The famous football player Maradona belongs to Argentine
• The term “Tee” is used commonly in Golf
• Karnam Malleshwari is the First Indian Women to get an Olympic Medal
• Grand Slam is used in Lawn Tennis
• The Shilaroo Hockey Stadium is a hockey stadium located in Shilaroo, Himachal Pradesh, India. This
Stadium is the world's highest altitude hockey stadium.
• Wisden is known as “Bible of Cricket”
• Yuba Bharti Stadium is the other name of Salt Lake Stadium
• C. K. Nayudu served as India’s first Test Captain
• Pen Holder grip is used in Table Tennis
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• Feroz Shah Kotla stadium, Delhi in India was the first to Host a Test match in Independent India
• Commonwealth games were previously called ‘British Empire Games’
• Kookaburras is the nickname of Hockey Team of Australia
• “Magnus Carlsen” is a player of Chess
• The terms “Technical foul” and “Flagrant Foul” are associated with Basket Ball
• Manish Pandey was the first Indian Batsman to score a century in the IPL
• Australia open is played on a synthetic hard court
• Sachin Tendulkar hit his 100th international century against Bangladesh
• Sachin Tendulkar and Yuvraj Singh are only two Indian who have won ‘Man of the Tournament’ award.
Sachin was the first Indian player who won it first time in 2003.
• Mohinder Amarnath was declared “Man of the Match” award in the final of the ICC World Cup 1983
• Kapil Dev was the captain of the Indian cricket team in the ICC World Cup 1983
• England has hosted the ICC World Cup 5 times
• The duration of a kabaddi match for men shall be 2 halves of 20 minutes each. For women and juniors there
will be 2 halves of the duration of 15 minutes each. There shall be an interval of 5 minutes between both the
halves
• A football match consists of two halves and each half is 45 minutes long
• The 36th National Games of India will be held between 20 October and 4 November 2020 in Goa, India
• Khelo India School Games, which are a part of the Khelo India programme was held at 2018 in New Delhi
• The second edition of Khelo India School Games rechristened as Khelo India Youth Games held at 2019 in
Pune, Maharashtra.
• The Third edition of Khelo India Youth Games was held at 2020 in Guwahati, Assam
• Rohit Sharma became the first cricketer who scored 5 centuries in a single ICC Cricket World Cup event.
• The maximum permitted length of cricket bat is 38 inches
• First Captain for Indian ODI team is Ajit Wadekar(1974)
• First Captain for Indian T20 team is Virender Sehwag (2006)
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• Five new sports have been added to the Tokyo Olympic Games in 2020. They are baseball/softball, karate,
skateboarding, sport climbing and surfing
• Miraitowa is the official mascot of the 2020 Summer Olympics
• Someity is the official mascot of the 2020 Summer Paralympics

LIST OF NATIONAL SPORTS AWARD WINNERS 2020

Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award

1. Mariyappan Thangaveu (Para-Athletics)

2. Rohit Sharma (Cricket)
3. Vinesh Phogat (Wrestling)
4. Manika Batra (Table Tennis)
5. Rani Rampal (Hockey)

Dronacharya Award (Regular category)

1. Yogesh Malviya (Mallakhamb)

2. Jude Felix Sebastian (Hockey)
3. Jaspal Rana (Shooting)
4. Gaurav Khanna (Para badminton)
5. Kuldeep Kumar Handoo (Wushu)

Dronacharya Award (Lifetime Category)

1. Purushotham Rai (Athletics)

2. Dharmendra Tiwary (Archery)
3. Romesh Pathania (Hockey)
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4. Shiv Singh (Boxing)
5. Krishna Kumar Hoods (Kabbadi)
6. Naresh Kumar (Tennis)
7. Vijay Bhalchandra Munishwar (Para Powerlifting)
8. Om Prakash Dahiya (Wrestling)

Arjuna Award
1. Dutee Chand (Athletics)
2. Atanu Das (Archery)
3. Satwik Sairaj Rankireddy (Badminton)
4. Vishesh Bhriguvanshi (Basketball)
5. Chirag Chandrashekhar Shetty (Badminton)
6. Subedar Manish Kaushik (Boxing)
7. Ishant Sharma (Cricket)
8. Lovlina Bargohain (Boxing)
9. Deepti Sharma (Cricket)
10. Sandesh Jhingan (Football)
11. Sawant Ajay Anand (Equestrian)
12. Aditi Ashok (Golf)
13. Deepika (Hockey)
14. Akashdeep Singh (Hockey)
15. Deepak (Kabaddi)
16. Dattu Baban Bhokanal (Rowing)
17. Kale Sarika Sudhakar (Kho Kho)
18. Manu Bhaker (Shooting)
19. Saurabh Chaudhary (Shooting)
20. Madhurika Suhas Patkar (Table Tennis)
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21. Shiva Keshavan (Winter Sports)
22. Suyash Narayan Jadhav (Para-Swimming)
23. Rahul Aware (Wrestling)
24. Divya Kakaran (Wrestling)
25. Manish Narwal (Para Shooting)
26. Sandeep Para (Athletics)
27. Divij Sharan (Tennis)

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