Football

 Dipak Mondal, Arnab Mondal (Khel Samman award by W.B. Govt)

 Chuni Goswami (lifetime achievement award by W.B. Govt)
 Amal Dutta & P.K. Banerjee (Krira Guru Award by W.B. Govt)
 Ballon d’Or – Golden Ball in French – and confusingly the same name as the award given to
the best player of the World Cup (Leo Messi got this time) was won by Germany’s
goalkeeper Manuel Neuer
 Malanda, Wolfsburg midfielder and Belgium died on 10 jan 2015
 Messi is 4-time winner of World Player of the Year
 Portugal’s Christiano Ronaldo won the FIFA Ballon d’Or for the second year in a row and
third time in his career ahead of Messi and Neuer
 Joachim Low’s, coach Germay, earned him the Coach of the Year
 Coloumbia’s James Rodriguez won the Puskas award for the Goal of the Year
 FIFA President Sepp Blatter

Africa Cup of Nations ( 30th edition)

 In Equatorial Guinea, being played among 16 nations, started in 1957, Egypt has won most
(7) titles
 1st Afcon was played among Sudan, Egypt & Ethopia
 In 2013, Nigeria was the Champion, best player was Jonathan Pitroipa
Chess

 C.R.G Krishna defeated Alexander Evdokimov

 Abhijeet Gupta, P. Karthikeyan, Deepan Chakkravarty, GM David Alberto, M. Kunal, Sabino
Brunello, Prdeep Kumar, Ukrainian Eldar Gasanov, M.G. Gahan, Nguyen Duc Hoa,
Abhishek Kelkar and Nishant Malhotra, Ziaur Rahman and Vladimir Lazarev, Andrey
Baryshpolets, N. Srinath, Saptarishi Roy and Prasanna Roy

Parsvnath Delhi International Open Chess

 Defending champion Abhijeet Gupta

 This year won by Rakesh Gurung, 2nd Manan Rai
Tennis

Australian Open

 US Open Champion Marin Cilic (Croatia)

 Aljaz Bedene (Slovenia) defeated Roberto Bautista Agut (Spanish) in Aircel Chennai Open
 2014 Champion Li Na
 Serena Williams is currently ranked one, has won 18 Grand Slam Titles, won 5 Australian
Opens (2003, 2005, 2007, 2009, 2010), won 2 French Opens (2002, 2013), 5 Wimbledon
(2002, 2003, 2009, 2010, 2012) and 6 US Opens (1999, 2002, 2008, 2012, 2013, 2014)
 Sharapova won Australia Open in 2008 and is currently World No. 2
 Victoria Azarinka, Belarus, won Australian Open in 2012 and 2013
 Novak Djokovic has won 3 Australian Open titles in 5 years

Hopman cup

 Poland won its first ever Hopman Cup title beating USA.
 Agnieszka Radwnska defeated world no. 1 Serena Williams in Final
 The world No. 5 Agnieszka Radwnska teamed up with Hopman Debtant Jerzy Janowicz to
beat the US pairing of Serena William and John Isner
 Agnieszka Radwnska set up the win when she stunned feisty Willaims in the Women’s single
tie that opened the final, beating the World No. 1 for the 1 st time in nice meetings
 It was difficult night for Williams who was aiming to become the 1 st player of three Hopman
cup titles
 Sharapova defeated Ivanowick in the final of WTA Brisbane International
 It has been seven years since Sharapova won her only Australian Open title. Sharapova not
only beat Ivanowick in 2008 Australian open Final but both women are in devastating form
heading towards the 1st grand slam of the season starting on Jan 19
 Winning the Brisbane International provided Sharapova with her 34 th WTA career title and
her 5th in last nine months. She also captured 2 nd French Open and 1st China Open. She won
atleast one title every year since 2003, an unbroken streak of 15 years
 Roger Federer laid down a marker for Australian Open swatted away the challenge of Grigor
Dimitrov in semi final of ATP Brisbane International.
 Federer beat Milos Raonic at Brisbane TO REGISTER 1000 ATP career win. Third player to
achieve this feat.
 Federer has won 17 grand slams, 83 ATP titles and has current ranking of 2. Roger has won
titles in Melbourne, last in 2010

Chennai Open

 Stan Wawrinka (world no.4), Switzerland defended Chennai Open title defeating Aliaz
Bedene
 He won the title in 2011, 2014 and 2015 (now). This was his 8th ATP World Tour Title

Hero I-League

 Defending champion Bengaluru FC

 Indian captain Sunil Chhetri plays for this team
Table Tennis

 Men’s champion- Sourav Chakraborty (Khel Samman award by W.B. Govt)

Women’s champion – Ankita Das (Khel Samman award by W.B. Govt)
 Manika Batra, Sharath Kamal, Sutritha Mukherjee
 Table Tennis Federation of India, Secretary Dhanraj Choudhary
Squash

 Asian Games gold medallists in squash Saurav Ghosal (Khel Samman award by W.B. Govt)
Athletics

 Sushmita Singha Roy (Khel Samman award by W.B. Govt)

Archery

 Dola Banerjee (Khel Samman by W.B. Govt)

Hockey

 Gurbax Singh (lifetime achievement award by W.B. Govt)

 A street in Kolkata has been named after Hockey Olympian champion Leslie Claudius, who
has won three Olympic Gold (London 1948, Helsinki 1952 and Melbourne 1956) and one
silver (Rome 1960).
Billiards

 Former world Billiards champion Manoj Kothari (Krira Guru Award by W.B. Govt)
 Pankaj Advani is a 12 time World Champion
Cricket

 Steven Smith- 769 runs in 4 tests at 128.16, the most runs in an India-Australia series
 5,870 runs were scored in the series, the most runs in a series of four tests or less
 Arther Morris is the older living Australian Test cricketer. He was the only one to outplay
Don Bradman in a series in 20 years. When Don Bradman was out in his final test at Oval in
1948, Morris was at the other end and made 196. In the earlier Test Australia chased a record
404 led by Morris (182) and Bradman (173 not out).
 Eric Hollies bowled Bradman
 Misbah, 40, becomes Paksitan’s second most senior player after Shahid Afridi. He has made
37 half centuries in ODIs, most half centuries without scoring a hundred.
 Misbah equalled the record for fastest hundred in Test against Australia in Abu Dhabi scoring
100 off just 56 balls equalling the record of Viv Richards
 Rohit Sharma’s record of 264 runs against Sri Lanka at Kolkata
Boxing

 Olympic Bronze medallist M.C. Mary Kom may retire after 2016 Olympics in Brazil.
Golf

 Anirban Lahiri has bene voted the 2014 Player’s Player of the Year for his successful exploits
on the Asian Tour, where he won two titles and finished second on the Order of Merit.
 Venetain Macau Open
Racing