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2017 Sports (Jan - Dec)
January
Name of the Sport Events Name of the Winners
Russian rhythmic gymnast, Yana Alexeyevna announced her retirement at the age of 19, following
Kudryavtseva, several leg injuries
Cue sports Ace Pankaj Advani . clinched the 3rd Kolkata Open National Invitation Snooker
Championship 2017
The Indian 7’2” basketball player Satnam Singh Shown interest in the World Wrestling Entertainment
Bhamara (WWE).
The 14th Standard Chartered Mumbai Marathon - First position in men’s elite category while Kenya’s Bornes
Mumbai. Kitur won the women’s title
The Minister of State (I/C) for Youth Affairs and Sports Inaugurated the Khelo India National level
Shri Vijay Goel Competitions on various sports for Under-14 and Under-17
children in New Delhi.
The NCR Punjab Royals Won the Pro Wrestling League Season 2 defeating
Haryana Hammers at the K D Jadhav Indoor Stadium,
New Delhi.
Formula One player Valtteri Bottas Mercedes named the new One world champion in place of
Nico Rosberg
Tajikistan’s chess player Grandmaster (GM) Farrukh won the 15th Parsvnath Delhi International Chess
Amonatov tournament
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) and entered into a long-term partnership through 2028. This
Chinese e-commerce firm Alibaba Group makes Alibaba the worldwide sponsor of OlympicGames
through 2028.
International Olympic Committee (IOC) Taken away the Olympic gold medals from three Chinese
women weightlifters for doping at 2008 Beijing Games
Roberto Bautista Agut of Spain Men’s singles title of the 2017 Chennai
Open defeating Daniil Medvedev.
Mumbai youngster, Shreyas Mehta Won the Scottish Junior Open Squash
championship at Edinburgh.
Indian pair of RohanBopanna and Won men’s doubles title defeating India’s
JeevanNedunchezhiyan DivijSharan and Purav Raja in Chennai Open.
Rising Indian squash star winning the first-ever all-Indian Boys’ Under-19
Velavan Senthilkumar. final at the British Junior Open in Sheffield
Sergey Karjakin of Russia Defeated Norway’s Magnus Carlsen in a tie-
breaker to win Gold in the World Blitz Chess
Championship title in Doha, Qatar
Robert Marchand (105) Made a record by cycling 22.547km (14 miles) in 1
hour. In 2012 he had already set a record of cycling
26.927km in 1 hour.
Yoga Sports Ministry derecognizes Yoga after 15 months
being declared a sport.
Arjun Bhati . Won the first position in the Kids Golf World
Championship in Malaysia
Shiva Keshavan, - India, won his third gold in Asian Luge Championship at
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Nagano, Japan
Sixteen-time world champion, PankajAdvani bagged the National title in 6-red Snooker, the shorter
format of the game.
Valtteri Bottas Mercedes named the new teammate who replaced
Nico Rosberg
St. Petersburg 2020 Euro Cup football tournament The official emblem was unveiled
in St.Petersburdepicts the Palace Bridge.
Dhruv Sunish . Won ITF Juniors title at the Dakshin Kalikata Sansad
clay courts
Ronnie O’Sullivan Won a record seventh Masters title against Joe Perry
10-7 in the final at London’s Alexandra Palace.
The All India Football Federation (AIFF) launched its first ever Indian Women’s League (IWL)
Japan based sumo wrestler Kisenosato Promoted to the highest rank of the
wresting, "Yokozuna"
Jamaican sprinter, Usain Bolt Have to hand back one of his nine
Olympicgold medals won in the 4x100m relay event
at the 2008 Beijing Olympics due to his Jamaican
team-mate Nesta Carter who was tested positive for a
banned substance.
The Tokyo Olympic Committee Announced that Son Goku, a cult anime character
from Dragonball Z, will serve as one of its brand
ambassadors.
The TOP Committee has been reconstituted To identify and support potential medal prospects for
2020 and 2024 Olympic Games under the “Target
Olympic Podium” scheme.
Siliguri based Abul Hossain won the Kolkata Full Marathon
The Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports Constituted an 8-membered committee on January 30,
2017 that would work to prepare an action plan for
the next three Olympic Games to be held in 2020,
2024 and 2028.
Top seeded Ace cue Pankaj Advani Won his seventh national title in the finals of Manisha
National Billiards and Snooker Championship
FOOTBALL
Atletico de Kolkata. wins 2016 Hero Indian Super League beating Kerala
Venue: Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium in Kochi Blasters 5-4
Match Awards: 1.Club award: Atlético de Kolkata
2.ISL Emerging Player of the Match: LalrindikaRalte
(Atlético de Kolkata)
3.Hero of the Match: Henrique Sereno Fonseca
(Atlético de Kolkata)
Argentina topped in the FIFA’s Team of the 2016 However India jumped two places to finish 2016 at
Year title with 1634 points. 135.
Indian football team jumped six places up The top 3 positions remain unchanged with Argentina,
to 129th in January 2017 which is the best FIFA Brazil and Germany
ranking in over a decade.
Indian Women Football Team won their fourth consecutive (South Asian Football
Federation) SAFF Women’s Championship
title defeating Bangladesh 3-1 in the finals at
the Kanchenjunga Stadium in Siliguri, West Bengal
MohunBagan and Chennaiyin Nominated as the ‘2016 All India Football Federation
FC striker JejeLalpekhlua (AIFF) Player of the Year.
FIFA ranking The top 3 positions remain unchanged with Argentina,
Brazil and Germany & Indian football team jumped
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six places up to 129th .

Indian footballer Jayesh Raimalani signed a deal through Indo-Spanish football
venture called Spaindia to join the Spanish Football
Team
CRICKET
Karun Nair Scores triple century in test against England, He is
the second Indian to do so after VirendraSehwag.
Lord’s Cricket Ground has 4 Indians got place in the Released its top 20 players for this calendar year. Indian
ranking. test skipper Virat Kohli got the number 1 spot.
Shaheed Vijay Singh Parthik(SVSP) Sports ICC has granted approval for conducting International
Stadium in Greater Noida cricket matches between full time member countries of the
game.
India has been ranked as the No.1 Team in the ICC Test Championship after posting
a 4-0 wins over England in the five-match series.
The side at the topof the rankings on April 1, 2017
will receive USD 1 million.
Rajasthan Cricket Association Accepted all the reforms recommended by the Lodha
Committee as per Supreme Court directive.
Cricket icon Kapil Dev Inducted into Legends Club ‘Hall of Fame’ at the Cricket
Club of India
Pakistani batsman Babar Azam Became the fastest player in Pakistan’s One Day
International (ODI) history to score 1,000 runs in 21
innings
Gujarat won its maiden Ranji Trophy title Beating Mumbai at the Holkar Stadium in Indore. Man of
the Match: Parthiv Patel.
Kane Williamson and ViratKohli Two batsmen to feature in the top 5 of the ICC
rankings in all three formats of the game.
The former Australian Captain Ricky Ponting Australia’s coaching staff as an assistant to coach
the team for next month’s home Twenty20 series
against Sri Lanka.
Australian Cricketer Arthur Morris Inducted into ICC Cricket Hall of Fame. Morris,
(Posthumously) who became the 82nd player to be inducted into
the ICC Cricket Hall of Fame
Indian Cricketer, Mahendra Singh Dhoni . Stepped down as the captain of the Indian team in
limited over formatsViratKholi Replaced Him.
India beat hosts Sri Lanka Cinched the Under-19s Asia Cup title on December 23,
2016 at the R Premadasa Stadium, Srilanka.
Two of Australia’s batsmen, David Boon and Inducted into the Australian Cricket Hall of Fame
Matthew Hayden, and the brilliant women’s (ACHoF
all-rounder Betty Wilson
The International Cricket Council (ICC) 4 women to be inducted in the strong group of B to conduct
the ICC Women’s World Cup Qualifier 2017 in February
2017 in Colombo.
Under-19 Cooch Behar Trophy 2016-17 season Bengal won against Delhi in the final at the Feroz Shah
Kotla Stadium in New Delhi.
Virat Kohli Fastest batsman in the world to score 1,000 runs as captain
in One-Day Internationals (ODIs
Rajasthan Cricket Association in an Emergent General Accepted all the reforms recommended by the Lodha
Meeting (EGM) Committee
Cricket icon Kapil Dev Inducted into Legends Club ‘Hall of Fame’ at the Cricket
Club of India
Pakistani batsman Babar Azam Fastest player in Pakistan’s One Day International (ODI)
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history to score 1,000 runs in 21innings during the 3rd ODI

against Australia.
Ranji Trophy Gujarat won its maiden title by 5 wickets after beating
Mumbai at the Holkar Stadium in Indore. Man of the
Match: Parthiv Patel.
TENNIS
China’s Grand Slam Champion Li Xiaoxia Announces Retirement from Table Tennis
Australian Open - 2017 Overview The 105th edition of the Australian Open tournament
2017 was held at Melbourne Park in Melbourne, Victoria,
Australia from January 16 to January 29, 2017.
Men’s Singles Roger Federer Rafael Nadal
Women’s Singles Serena Williams Venus Williams
Men’s Doubles Henri Kontinen /John Bob Bryan/Mike Bryan
Peers
Women’s Doubles BethanieMattek- Croatia’s Ivan Dodig/Sania
Sands /Lucie Mirz
Safarova
Mixed Doubles Abigail Spears /Juan Andrea Hlaváčková/Peng
Sebastián Cabal Shuai
Qatar Open
Men’s Singles Novak Djokovic (Serbia) United Kingdom Andy
Murray
Men’s Doubles French pair JérémyChardy Canada VasekPospisil / Czech
and Fabrice Martin Republic RadekŠtěpánek,
HOCKEY
India surpassed South Korea Finishes with the bronze medal at the 4th Women’s U18
Asia Cup 2016 hockey tournament in Bangkok
India Beat Belgium Wins 2016 FIH Junior Hockey World
Cupat Lucknow’s Major Dhyan Chand Stadium and
reclaimed the crown after 15 long years.
The Captain of Indian men’s Hockey Team, PR Selected as a member of International Hockey Federation
Sreejesh (FIH) Athletes’ Committee by the FIH Executive Board.
BOXING
Boxer-Sarita Devi First ever female boxer from India to step into the world of
professional boxing.
The Indian Women’s boxing team Placed third at the 6th Nations Cup held in Vrbas,
Serbia on January 15, 2017. India won total six medals.
Kazakhstan won the tournament at first spot.
AbbuAmmaz (8) A class 2 student from Jammu and Kashmir has
bagged the gold medal in Thai Boxing Championship
AIBA has voted unanimously to grant full membership to the recently-formed Boxing Federation of India (BFI)
Indian boxing star Vijendrasingh Defeats Francis Cheka to Retain WBO-Asia Pacific
Super Middleweight Title in New Delhi.
Asian games Bronze-Medallist boxer, Sarita Devi First ever female boxer from India to step into the world of
professional boxing.
The Indian Women’s boxing team coached Placed third at the 6th Nations Cup held in Vrbas,
by Gurbax Singh Sandhu Serbia
BADMINTON
Syed Modi International Grand Prix
women’s singles title PV Sindhu Gregoria Mariska
Men’s Single Sameer Verma B Sai Praneeth
mixed doubles Pranaav Jerry Ashwini Ponnappa/ B
Chopra /N Sikki Reddy Sumeeth Reddy
2017 Malaysia Masters Grand Prix
Men’s Singles Ng Ka Long(Hong Kong) Lee Hyun-il(South Korea)
Women’s Singles Saina Nehwal(India) Pornpawee
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Chochuwong(Thailand)
Men’s Doubles Berry Angriawan & Goh Sze Fei & Nur
Hardianto9 Indonesia) Izzuddin(Malaysia)
Women’s Doubles Jongkolphan Kititharakul Poon Lok Yan & Tse
&Rawinda Ying Suet(Hong Kong)
Prajongjai(Thailand)
Mixed Doubles Tan Kian Meng & Lai Pei Goh Soon Huat & Shevon
Jing9 Malaysia) Jemie Lai(Malaysia)
February
CRICKET
Jamaican cricketer Andre Russell Banned from all cricket for a year over a doping code
violation
India defeated England by 75 runs to clinch the Twenty20 International series 2-1 at M.Chinnaswamy Stadium,
Bengaluru.
Yuzvender Chahal (23) First Indian bowler to record a five-wicket haul in t20 in
the history of Indian cricket.
Alastair Cook Resigned as England Test captain after a record 59 matches
Indian off-spin specialist Ravichandran Ashwin Fastest cricketer to take 250 wickets in Test matches. He
achieved this feat in his 45th test match.
India defeated Pakistan to clinch the T20 World Cup for Blind tournament at M.
Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bangalore.
Pakistan-- Nasir Jamshed Suspended from all forms of cricket by the Pakistan Cricket
Board (PCB) for violating its anti-corruption code.
Joe Root New England’s Test captain
Australian cricketer Adam Voges Retire from all formats of international cricket
Legendary Pakistani cricket Shahid Afridi. retired from all forms of international cricket
ICC batswomen’s rankings. The top batter Harmanpreet Kaur was placed in
the tenth spot.
Former Sri Lankan cricketer Kumar Sangakkara 16th player worldwide and 2nd Asian Batsman to
play 1000 matches across all forms of Cricket.
Virat Kohli First Indian sports person had signed an eight-year deal
worth Rs 100-crore endorsement deal with a sports apparel
brand Puma
Mohammad Nabi - Sunrisers Hyderabad For the first time in the history of Indian Premier League
Rashid Khan - Mumbai Indians (IPL) Auction, two Afghanistan players were selected
Ravichandran Ashwin Surpassed India’s former legendary allrounder Kapil
Dev to become the highest wicket-taker in a home Test
season. He scored 67 wickets from 10 Tests in 2016-17
Virat Kohli First player to score double century in four
consecutive Test series
Cheteshwar Pujara Took his season tally to 1,605 in just 21 innings
21-year-old Mohit Ahlawat First batsman in the world to score a 300 in a T20 match in
Delhi.
Virat Kohli Tops T20 batsman list in the Latest ICC rankings
BADMINTON
Indian badminton player Lakshya Sen Created history after he attained World No. 1 Rank in the
latest Junior Badminton World Federation (BWF) ranking
Sourabh Verma and Rituparna Das Clinch the Men’s Singles and women’s Sigles title in the
81st Senior National Badminton Championships held in
Patna
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Indian ace shuttler PV Sindhu Achieved her career best Badminton World
Federation (BWF) women’s single ranking by being placed
at 5th spot
Indian Badminton ace Saina To represent the panel of International Olympic
Committee’s Athletes’ Commission (AC) in the Badminton
World Federation (BWF).
Indian shuttler duo Tarun Kona and Alwin Francis Won the Men’s Double title at the 2017 Uganda
International Series by defeating Aatish Lubah and Georges
Julien Paul of Mauritius
TENNIS
Veteran Achanta Sharath Kamal and Madhurika won the men’s singles title after defeating Soumyajit
Patkar Ghosh and won the women’s singles title inTable
TennisNationals held at the Manesar Sports Club in
Haryana
Frenchman Jo-Wilfried Tsonga won the 44t edition of the ABN AMRO World Tennis
Tournament in Rotterdam.
Second-seeded French tennis player Jo-Wilfried Won the finals of Open 13 Marseille in France on
Tsonga. February 26, 2017. This was his 14th career title at the
indoor event and 2nd title of the year 2017
Bangalore has been chosen to host the next Davis Cup Asia-Oceania Zone group-1 tie
against Uzbekistan from April 7 to 9, 2017.
FOOTBALL
English professional footballer Frank Lampard Announced his retirement from professional soccer.
The official Mascot for the 2017 FIFA U17 World A clouded leopard named Kheleo with young and
Cup India charismatic face has been launched as the Mascot.
HOCKEY
Kalinga Lancers beat Dabang Mumbai Won their maiden Hockey India League title in Chandigarh
Hockey Stadium. Fuerste Moritz - ‘Man of the Match’
OTHER SPORTS
Olympic game medals will be made from recycled mobile phones for the year 2022 to promote sustainability said
by 2020 Olympic Games organizers, Japan.
Indian Squash Team outclassed Rival Pakistan At the 18th Asian Junior Team Squash Championship 2017
in Hong-Kong.
Indian cueist Pankaj Advani clinched his 29th Indian National Snooker
Championship titleat the PYC Hindu Gymkhana, Pune.
Sports Minister Vijay Goel laid the foundation stone of the India’s first Center of
Excellence for Para Sportsin Gujarat
India will host FIBA Women’s Asia Cup basketball tournament in July 2017 in Bengaluru. India also set to host
the FIBA U-16 Women’s Asian Championship from October 22 to 28 in Hyderabad
India’s boy team defeated Malaysia to clinch the gold medal at the Asian Junior Squash
championshipin Hong Kong
Iran lifted up the ban it had imposed on United States Wrestlers, thus allowing them to participate in the Freestyle
World Cup to be held in Iran.
The Billiards and Snoooker Federation of India (BSFI) Will host the World Billiards Championship for the next
four years.
The International Association of Athletics Russia has been barred from the 2017 summer World
Federations (IAAF) Announced Athletics Championships in London.
Ethiopia’s Genzebe Dibaba Created the world’s record by becoming the fastest athlete
to complete the women’s indoor 2,000 metres at the indoor
The Minister of State (I/C) for Youth Affairs and Launched the Mission XI Million, the biggest school sport
Sports Shri Vijay Goyal outreach programme, in New Delhi
National Basketball Association (NBA) creating a brand new e-sports league called NBA 2K e-
League in partnership with Take-Two Interactive
Software Inc
Netherland’s Germaine de Randamie Claimed UFC Women’s Featherweight Champion at the
UFC 208 in Brooklyn, New York.
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Jehan Daruvala First ever Indian to claim the New Zealand Grand
Prix at the Chris Amon Circuit in Manfeild, New Zealand
Haryana defeated Railway to win the first edition of the three-day Pandit Deen
Dayal Updhyay All India National
style Kabaddi Championship held at Haryana
Mumbai based Kush Bhagat awarded the Candidate Master (CM) title by the World
Chess Federation body, FIDE
India Women’sRugby Team won the silver medal at the Asian Rugby Sevens
Trophyheld at Vientiane, Laos. South Korea won gold
medal by beating India 29-0 in the finals
Akhil Kumar and Jitender Kumar stepping up to enter professional boxing.
Athelete Sandeep Kumar of Haryana won the gold medal in the Men’s 50km event of
the National Race Walking Championships held in New
Delhi
India will be hosting the Combined World Cup for shooting in 2019.
German Sportswear giant Adidas Ties up with FIFA U-17 World Cup Local Organising
Committee for the Mission XI Million programme.
Union Sports Minister Vijay Goel announced that the first Gramin Khel Mahotsav will be
held from March 25-31, 2017 in New Delhi.
Team 61 Cavalry Won the Army Polo Championship by
defeating ArmyService Corps (ASC) at the Delhi Cantt’s
Army Equestrian Centre Polo Ground.
India made historic start at the sixth Asian Para-Road Cycling Championship by winning all the three
medalsat Bahrain.
Rio Olympian Thanackal Gopi and Monika Athare from Won the Men’s and Women’s Full Marathon title in the
Nashik second edition of the IDBI Federal Life Insurance New
Delhi Marathon
March
TENNIS
Russian Tennis star Maria Sharapova Granted wild card Italian Open as makes her return from
a doping ban.
Rafel Nadal Miami open tournament won against 31st seeded player,
German veteran Philipp Kohlschreiber. With this win he
has registered a win in his 1000th match which is very
big achievement in his career.
Swiss Professional Tennis Player Roger Federer Won his fifth BNP Paribas Open Tennis
Tournament crown
Rio Open 2017 Winner List
Title Winner Runner
Men’s Single Dominic Thiem (Austria) Pablo CarrenoBusta (Spain)
Men’s Double (Spain) Pablo Juan Sebastián Cabal / Robert Farah (Colombia)
CarrenoBusta/Pablo Cuevas
(Uruguay)
2017 Dubai Tennis Championships
Category Winner Runner
Men’s Singles Andy Murray (United Kingdom) Fernando Verdasco(Spain)
Women’s Singles ElinaSvitolina(Ukraine) Caroline Wozniacki(Denmark)
Men’s Doubles Netherlands Pair Rohan Bopanna (India) / Marcin Matkowski (Poland)
Jean-Julien Rojer / Romania
HoriaTecău
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Women’s Doubles Ekaterina Makarova(Russia) / Andrea Hlaváčková (Czech Republic) / Peng Shuai (
Elena Vesnina(Russia) China)
2017 Brasil Open – Overview
Singles Uruguay Pablo Cuevas Spain Albert Ramos Viñolas
Doubles Brazil Rogério Dutra Silva / New Zealand Marcus Daniell / Brazil Marcelo
Brazil André Demoliner
2017 Mexican Open – Overview
Men’s singles Sam Querrey (United States) Rafael Nadal (Spain)
Women’s singles LesiaTsurenko (Ukraine) Kristina Mladenovic (France)
Men’s Doubles Jamie Murray / Brazil Bruno John Isner / Spain Feliciano López, (United States Pair)
Soares (United Kingdom Pair)
Women’s Doubles DarijaJurak (Croatia) / Anastasia VerónicaCepedeRoyg (Paraguay) / Mariana Duque
Rodionova (Australia) Mariño (Colombia)
FOOTBALL
Argentinean footballer Lionel Messi Received a 4-match ban after using insulting words at
an assistant referee in the match against Chile
The Bakshi Stadium in Srinagar To be transformed into modern football stadium
In the latest FIFA ranking for the month Indian Football team dropped two places and is now
ranked at 132nd spot as compared to 130 in
February FIFA ranking..Argentina is at the top
Punjab defeated Railways by a 2-1. Group B final round league match of the 71st Santosh
Trophy football tournament
Portugal’s Luis Norton de Matos The All India Football Federation (AIFF) appointedas
the head coach of the India U-17 World Cup team
Santosh Trophy West Bengal beat Goa (1-0) to clinch the 71th title
record 32nd time at the GMC Bambolim Stadium, Goa.
SHOOTING
List of Winners of the ISSF Shooting World Cup 2017.
Rank Country Gold Silver Bronze Total
1 China 6 6 0 12
2 Italy 2 3 0 5
3 Australia/Japan 2 0 1 3
5 India 1 2 2 5
ISSF Shooting World Cup
Jitu Rai and Heena Sidhu Bagged the first ever gold medal in the newly
included 10m pistol
India’s PoojaGhatkar. Clinched bronze medal in the women’s 10m air rifle
India’s Deepak Kumar. Gave an impressive performance in the Men’s 10m Air
Rifle at the ISSF World Cup in New Delhi
Jitu Rai. Won gold medal in the 50-metre free pistol event on
March 1, 2017 in the ISSF World Cup
CRICKET
India stayed strong in its No.1in ICC Rankings India clinched its final test series in home against
Australia this season and retained its ICC Test
Championship Maze.
Pakistan bowler Mohammad Irfan Banned for 1 year for bookie Link
Tamilnadu State cricket team Won the Deodhar Trophy by beating India Red.
Shaun Tait Australian fast bowler officially announced
his retirement from the Game
Indian Cricketer Cheteshwar Pujara(29) First Indian batsman to face 500 balls in the second
innings of the 3rd Test against Australia at
Ranchi. Pujara has played 525 balls in his 202 run
India’s spin-bowler Ravindra Jadeja Attained the top spot in the list of the Test bowlers as
per the latest ICC Test Ranking
Tamil Nadu Won the Vijay Hazare Trophy 2017 at the Feroz Shah
Kotla, Delhi on March 16, 2017 by beating Bengal
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Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) The Mumbai Cricket Association and the Saurashtra
Cricket Association which were Full Members earlier
were downgraded to Associate membership.
Australian women cricketer Sarah Coyte Announced her retirement from all forms of cricket
Chinese smartphone manufacturer OPPO Mobiles Sponsorship rights for a five-year period for INR 1079
crore
HOCKEY
Bhubaneswar To host the 2017 Men’s Hockey World League Final as
well as the Men’s World Cup in 2018 at the Kalinga
Stadium.
Indian women’s hockey team beat Belarus 3-1 in their fifth test to clinch the five-match Test series 5-0 in Bhopal.
MISCELLANEOUS
Chris Bertish, a South African surfer and a sailor First person in the worldto cross the Atlantic Ocean
Top seeded Lee Chong Wei Won All England Championship in men’s singles event
by beating Shi Yuqi from China
SSP Chawrasia Only Indian Golfer to retain his Hero Indian Open title
for the second time
The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) confirmed a lifetime ban on Sergei Portugalov from sports for his role in
providing illicit substances to Russian athletes.
Olympic gold medallist Joanna Rowsell Shand. Announced her retirement from international cycling
India’s Billiards Champion Vidya Pillai Settled for silver medal in the 2017 World Women
Snooker Championship held in Safra Toa
Payoh, Singapore
India’s KT Irfan Won the bronze medal in men’s 20km race walk event
at the Asian Race Walking Championships in Nomi,
Japan
Indian shooter Ankur Mittal Won the gold medal at the International Shooting Sport
Federation Shotgun World Cup in the men’s double
trap event at Acapulco, Mexico
The 9th edition of Fazza International IPC Athletics Grand Prix Competition began in Dubai, UAE
Indian team. Finished in a high note in the 2017 Special Olympics
World Winter Games with a triumphing 73 medals
held in Austria (tally of 37 gold, 10 silver and 26
bronze with total tally of 73 medals.)
Ferrari's Sebastian Vettel. Win the 2017 Formula 1 Rolex Australian Grand Prix
in Melbourne
The Indian shuttle players Purva Barve and Varun Kapur. Bagged double delight by winning in the Li Ning-Israel
Open 2017 which was held at Sports Hall, RishonLe
Zion in Israel.
GaurviSinghvi 14 year old Udaipur girl became the first to swim
across BandraWorli Sea Link to the Gateway of India
route in Arabian Sea in a record time of 6 hours and 30
minutes.
Srinath Narayanan 46th Grandmaster in the history of this sport
defeating GM David Anton Guijarro from Spain at the
Sharjah Masters 2017 chess tournament.
Elvan Abeylegesse, Turkish long-distance runner stripped of Two Olympic
silver medals and One Championship medal after she
was found positive in re-analysis of an in-competition
doping test
22nd Asian Athletics Championships will be hosted by Bhubaneswar which is going to be conducted.
Chirag Shetty and Satwiksairaj Rankireddy the Indian men doubles team won the title at the Vietnam International
Challenge Badminton tournament at Hanoi.
2017 World Women’s Youth Boxing Championship will be hosted by India in November for the first time since
2010.
Kripa Shankar Bishnoi Appointed as an international match referee by United
World Wrestling (UWW), the sport’s global governing
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body.
The Indian men’s Rugby team, Piped Pakistan by 14-12 to claim the 7th rank at the
Asia Men’s Rugby Sevens Trophy held at Aspire
Rugby Field in Doha, Qatar.
April
CRICKET
MashrafeMortaza(33) - Bangladesh Announced retirement from T20Is
New Zealand all-rounder Grant Elliott Confirmed his retirement from international cricket
A right handed Indian international Named as the Leading Cricketer in the World for the year
cricketer ViratKolhi(28) 2016 by Wisden India Almanack.
Ellyse Perry of Australia Named as Leading Woman Cricketer in the World
The IPL team owned by Royal Challengers Sports Announced online cricket game named RCB Star
Private Ltd, Royal Challengers Bangalore(RCB) joined Cricket on April 7, 2017
with the gaming entity Nazara Games
Former captain of the Pakistan cricket team Younis Announced to retire from international cricket
Khan(39)
Former Ranji cricketer TusharArothe Appointed as the coach of the Indian women’s cricket
team
Cricket, Skateboarding, Sambo and Surfing Removed from the 2018 Asian Games to be held
in Jakarta .Total number of events has been reduced
from 493 to 431.
Chris Gayle The first cricketer to score 10,000 runs in T20 cricket.
SouravGanguly and former Australian Cricket Commentators for the upcoming Champions Trophy,
Team Captain, Ricky Ponting scheduled to be held in England from 1-8 June
2017.—ICC
Sandhya Agarwal, former captain of the Indian Offered honourary life membership of ‘Marylebone
women’s Test Cricket Team Cricket Club’ (MCC)
GRAND PRIX
Sebastian Vettel (Ferrari) won a Baharain Grand Prix
Mercedes team Driver Lewis Hamilton wins Formula 1 Chinese Grand Prix for Mercedes
FOOTBALL
Indian football team has risen to 101st from 132nd in 2017. Brazil retained its top position.
the latest FIFA rankings
The US, Mexico and Canada Announced the details for a joint bid for the 2026 FIFA
World Cup
BANDMINTON
Sai Praneeth. Won the Men’s Single at Singapore Open Badminton
championship defeating K Srikanth in Singapore.
Rio Olympics silver medallist P V Sindhu . Achieves a career-best world number two ranking in the
latest Badminton World Federation (BWF) rankings list
…Chinese Taipei’s Tai Tzu Ying stayed at first position.
PullelaGopichand a National Badminton coach won both single and double crown at the
daughter Gayatri teamed up with Samiya Pembangunan Jaya Raya Junior Grand Prix in Jakarta.
Five Indian Badminton players have been upgraded in the latest BWF rankings released on April 20, 2017.
Notably PV Sindhu: Moved to number 3 position.
Rio Olympics silver medalist P V Sindhu won championship in India Super Series tournament
defeating the Olympic champion Carolina Marin
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2017 Malaysia Super Series Premier –Overview

Men’s Singles Lin Dan Lee Chong Wei
Women’s Singles Tai Tzu-Ying Carolin Marin
Men’s Doubles Marcus Fernaldi Gideon & Fu Haifeng& Zheng Siwei
Kevin SanjayaSukamuljo
Women’s Doubles Yuki Fukushima &Sayakahirota Huang Yaqiong& Tang Jinhua
Mixed Doubles Zheng Siwel& Chen Qingchen Lu Kai & Huang Yaqiong
HOCKEY
The Indian School team Beat Malaysia to lift the title at the Fifth Asian School Hockey
Championship in Bhopal at the Aishbagh Stadium.
MISCELANEOUS
JoycilineJepkosgei of Kenya Broke three world records by winning the Prague Half
Marathon in Czech Republic
US based National Basketball Association (NBA) launched its first basketball school in Mumbai
Indian boxer K Shyam Kumar (49kg) won a gold medal for The Indian camp finished the Thailand International
the second time Tournament with two medals includes 1 gold medal
and 1 bronze medal in Bangkok.
Indian Chess Team Finished Top in Asian Youth Chess Championship in
Tashkent,
Uzbekistan.
The Indian Olympic Association (IOA) has granted affiliation to the Boxing Federation of India (BFI), a long-standing
tie made between the two bodies.
Marouane Fellaini (Belgian professional) First Muslim to captain Manchester United. He is the
world’s most expensive player.
Pankaj Advani Won his 7th Title by defeating Sourav Kothari in
the Asian Billiads Championship held in Chandigarh
Visually impaired Indian runner Sagar Baheti completes historic Boston Marathon
Olympic Council of Asia (OCA) Launched a new feature called Video gaming as a
full sport at the 2022 Asian Games which is
scheduled to be held in Hangzhou, China
101-year-old Man Kaur won Gold Medal for 100 metres sprint at the World
Masters Games in Auckland
Indian shot putter Manpreet Kaur Clinched gold in the Asian Grand Prix Athletics
Meet. It was held in Jinhua, China.
Indian snooker player Pankaj Advani Won silver -Asian Snooker Championship at Doha,
Qatar. He lost the finals to China's LvHaotian
Actress Gul Panag First Indian woman to drive a Formula E racing
car. She drove the M4Electro at the Circuit de
Calafat in Catalonia,Spain.
JehanDaruvala 1st Indian to take pole in FIA F3 European
Championship in Monza, Italy.
Haryana beats Kerala At the National Youth Athletics Meet at
Hyderabad.
India has won 16 medals US Open karate Championship and grabbed 3 gold
2 silver and 11 bronze medals in Las Vegas
TENNIS
33rd edition - Miami Open 2017 at Crandon Park, Florida in USA - An Overview
CATEGORY WINNER’s RUNNER’s
Men’s single Roger Federer(Switzerland) Rafael Nadal (Spain)
Women’s single Johanna Konta (Great Britain) Caroline Wozniacki
(Denmark)
Men’s doubles ŁukaszKubot (Poland)/ Marcelo Melo (Brazil) Nicholas Monroe
(USA)/Jack Sock (USA)
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Women’s doubles Gabriela Dabrowski (Canada) /Xu Yifan (china) Sania Mirza
(India)/BarboraStrýcová
(Czech Republic)
Spain’s Rafal Nadal wins Men’s Singles and Bopanna and Cuevas Lift men’s doubles in the Monte Carlo Masters
May
TENNIS
Indian table tennis player Soumyajit Ghosh Bagged both the singles and doubles gold at
the Seamaster 2017 ITTF Challenge Chile Open in
Santiago, Chile.
Table Tennis -India Win all 10 gold medals in South Asian Junior Table
Tennis Championships held in Mount Lavinia, near
Colombia in Sri Lanka
Spain’s Rafael Nadal Beat Dominic Thiem to win Mutua Madrid Open at La
CajaMágica in Madrid, Spain. This is Nadal’s fifth
Mutua Madrid Open title win and 30th ATP World
Tour Masters 1000 crown.
Rafael Nadal Beat Dominic Thiem of Austria in the final to win the
Barcelona Open for a record 10th time.
Indian tennis player Leander Paeshas won Tallahassee Challenger Men’s Doubles title
defeating Leonardo Mayer and Maximo Gonzalez.
Italian Open 2017
Category Winner Runners-up
Men’s Singles Alexander Zverev (Germany) Novak Djokovic (Serbia)
Women’s Singles ElinaSvitolina (Ukraine) Simona Halep (Romania)
Men’s Doubles Pierre-Hugues Herbert (France) Ivan Dodig (Croatia)
Nicolas Mahut (France) Marcel Granollers (Spain)
CRICKET
Harmanpreet Kaur First Indian women cricketer to play in England’s T20
league
ICC ODI Batsman Rankings India captain ViratKholi place third in the top 10 of the
ICC Players Rankings for ODIs. The Same List topped
by AB De Villiars of SA.
ESPN World Fame 100 Rankings Indian cricketers ViratKohli(13th), Mahendra Singh
Dhoni (15th) Yuvraj Singh and Suresh Raina, have
featured in this year’s Footballer Cristiano
Ronaldo topped the list.
Diary Major Amul Will be prime sponsor of the New Zealand
cricket team in the upcoming ICC Champions Trophy
Annual update of ICC Twenty20 International team India has dropped two places to slip to fourth position.
rankings (May 1, 2017). The Rankings topped by New Zealand.
Mumbai Indians Win IPL title for third time beating Rising Pune
Supergiant (RPS) in the Grand Finale at Rajiv Gandhi
International Stadium in Hyderabad.
India retained its No.1 position In the International Cricket Council (ICC) Test team
rankings.
The International Cricket Council (ICC) Hiked the prize money for 2017 Champions Trophy by
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$500,000, making it $4.5 million with a winner’s share

of $2.2 million.
RavichandranAshwin Bagged with International Cricketer of the Year award
at the CEAT Cricket Rating (CCR) International
awards for 2017.
India women’s cricketers Deepti The first-ever pair to share a record 320-run
Sharma and Poonam Raut partnership in One-Day International in a
match against Ireland.
Indian fast bowler, JhulanGoswami Made record as highest wicket-taker in women’s one-
day international (181 wickets in 153 matches).
GRAND PRIX
Mercedes’ Finnish driver ValtteriBottas Won Russian Grand Prix
Mercedes’ Driver Lewis Hamilton wins Spanish Grand Prix
Ferrari's Sebastian Vettel won Monaco Grand Prix
Arjun Maini First Indian to Win a GP3 Race Series in Barcelona,
Spain
FOOTBALL
Football club Manchester United Won the Europa League title after defeating Ajax
Amsterdam in the final match.
Aizawl FC Script history, become first north-east club to win I-
League title beating Mohun Bagan by 1-0.
Arsenal Team beat Chelsea 2-1 to win FA Cup for 13th time. The
match was held at Wembley Stadium in London,
England.
FIFA rankings Indian football team has raised to be ranked 100th for
the first time ever in over two decades. Brazilian
Team topped the list.
Harpreet Singh Wins bronze at Asian Wrestling Championship the
K.D. Jadhav arena in the Indira Gandhi Stadium
Complex in New Delhi.
Odisha CM Naveen Patnaik Unveils logo(Olly Turtle is the mascot), Mascot for
22nd Asian Athletics Championship, It will be held
at Kalinga Stadium Bhubaneswar.
WRESTLING
India’s Performance at Asian Wrestling Championship, New Delhi
• Indian wrestlers bagged total 10 medals (1 Gold, 5 Silver and 4 Bronze).
• In men's freestyle category, Iran won the championship title with 71 points, followed by Japan with
55 points and Uzbekistan with 49 points. India finished at eight position with 33 points.
• Among women’s teams, Japan won the title. Indian women's team finished second.
INDIAN MEDAL WINNERS
Gold Medal Winner (Men Wrestler) BajrangPunia
Silver Medal Winners (Female Wrestlers) Sakshi Malik, VineshPhogat, DivyaKakran and Sarita
Silver Medal Winner (Men Wrestler) Sumit
Bronze Medal Winners (Female Wrestlers) Jyoti and RituPhogat
Bronze Medal Winner (Men Wrestler) Harpreet Singh and Anil Kumar
SQUASH
JoshnaChinappa First Indian to clinch the Asian Squash title with a
thrilling win over compatriot Dipika Pallikal
Karthik in the women's final held in Chennai.
Indian squash player RamitTandon Won his first professional title in squash on 14 May
2017. He beats his Indian counterpart, Kush Kumar in
the Sys Open 2017.
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HOCKEY
Great Britain wins Sultan Azlan Shah Cup beating Australia; India
finishes third. The final match was held on May 6,
2017 in Ipoh, Malaysia.
Hockey Him crowned champions of 7th Junior Women's Hockey
C'ship beating Hockey Mizoram in the 7th Junior
National Hockey Championship 2017 (Women).
Sweden won the Ice Hockey World Championship title for the
10th Time. This win is Sweden's first in four tries
against Canada.
CHESS
R.R. Laxman of Integral Coach Factory Won the All India Open Rapid World Chess
Federation (FIDE) Rating Chess Tournament.
won the women's title in the Asian Continental Blitz
India's R Vaishali Chess Championship in Chengdu, China, on May 21,
2017. She drew her final round game against Uurtsaikh
Uuriintuya of Mongolia.
Indian Grandmaster Pentala Harikrishna Registered his first win at the Moscow FIDE Grand
Prix.
Indian Grand Master Pentala Harikrishna won against RussianGM Ian Nepomniachtchi. Pentala
Harikrishna beats Ian Nepomniachtchi in 8th round was
held in Moscow.
MISCELLELANEOUS
Indian Boxer Shiva Thapa won a silver medal at the Asian Boxing
Championships in Tashkent, Uzbekistan. He lost the
final match to Elnur Abduraimov from Uzbekistan.
The National Basketball Association (NBA) -the governing body of Basketball in US inaugurated its first
ever academy in India in Greater Noida, Uttar Pradesh.
The South African government had lifted a ban on the country's rugby union after it made progress
improving racial diversity in the sport. It gets approval to bid for 2023 Rugby World Cup.
India Para Athletics Team Claimed a gold medal and a bronze medal at the World
Para Athletics Grand Prix being held in Beijing, China.
Grand Prix of Liberation Heena Sindhu wins bronze, India come back with 7
medals
Javelin thrower Devender Singh 2nd Indian javelin thrower to qualify for London
Worlds
Mohammad Anas from Kerala Breaked the national record in men's 400m race
and won a gold medal at the third leg of the
Indian Grand Prix Athletics Meet in New Delhi.
Vaishnavishone Won 2 gold medals in the first Asia level yoga
competition in Thailand. She has won in the junior
category (13 to 15 years).
Bengaluru FC Beat Mohun Bagan 2-0 to be crowned the Federation
Cup champions at the Barabati Stadium in Cuttack,
Odisha.
A High-Level Committee on 7-member Scouts and Guides has submitted its Final Report to
Minister for State (Independent Charge) for Youth Affairs & Sports, Vijay Goel with various
recommendations. A committee was headed by Harsh Malhotra.
Egyptian Omar Hegazy First amputee to swim across Red Sea's Gulf of Aqaba
South Korea Win 2017 Sudirman Cup defeating China won
badminton's Sudirman Cup for the first time in 14
years on 28th of May, 2017 in Gold Coast Australia.
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Fencer Bhavani Devi Become first Indian to win a Gold Medal in an

International fencing tournament held at Reykjavik
in Iceland.
June
CRICKET
ViratKohli Fastest to 8000 ODI runs
Yuvraj Singh Fifth Indian to play 300 ODIs
ICC Next edition of World T2O will only be held in 2020.
Wicketkeeper-batsman Luke Ronchi, Announced his retirement from the international game.
(New Zealand)
The eight top teams of the world will be competing for a winner's prize of USD 660,000 in the ICC Women's World
Cup.
India cricket coach Anil Kumble Stepped down from his position
Pakistan Team Won ICC Champions Trophy 2017 beating India.
Ireland and Afghanistan International Cricket Council (ICC) conferred Test match status
Indian captain ViratKohli Stood at world number one position in the ODI batting rankings-MRF
Tyres ICC ODI Player Rankings.
West Indies Cricket team Officially changed their name to WINDIES.
Kuldeep Yadav Become first male Chinaman bowler to represent India in One Day
Internationals (ODI).
Board of Control for Cricket in To analyse the few contentious Lodha panel reforms which are being
India (BCCI) formed a special seven- opposed by the Board's state units. The committee will be headed by Indian
member committee Premier League (IPL) chairman Rajeev Shukla
MuttiahMuralidaran becomes first Sri Lankan to be inducted into ICC Hall of Fame
ViratKohli. only Indian in Forbes top 100 paid athletes
OTHER SPORTS
Vietnam Grand Master Nguyen DucHoa bagged a decisive win against Indian GM Neelotpal Das on 10th Mumbai
Mayor's Cup International Open Chess Tournament
Lewis Hamilton Won Canadian Grand Prix
The Iranian wrestlers won 7 medals (three gold, two silver and two bronze) and 69 points to win the Junior Asian
Championships title in Taichung, Taiwan.
India bagged five medals, Five medals include gold in the 2017 Asian Junior Wrestling
Championships in Taiwan.
Professional wrestler Jinder Mahal Retained World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) Championship at St
Louis, Missouri, US.
Indian Wushu team Won 6 medals -- two golds, two silvers and two bronzes -- in the Wushu
competition of the BRICS Games, which concluded in Guangzhou, China.
Former Indian powerlifter and South First Indian woman to appear in WWE.
Asian Games gold medal winner, Kavita
Devi
Indian shooter Anish Bhanwala won a gold medal at the ISSF Junior World Championship in the 25m
Standard Pistol category in Germany
India shooters Have won a bronze medal in men's 25m rapid fire pistol team event at
the ISSF Junior World Championship held in in Suhl, Germany
Col Dr Srinivas Gokulnath of Nashik First Indian to complete solo Race Across America (RAAM) cycle race of
became the 5,000 kms
Yashaswini Singh Won Gold Medal in the Women's 10m Air Pistol at the end of day two of
Deswal of Chandigarh the International Shooting Sport Federation (ISSF) Junior World
Championship Rifle/Pistol, in Suhl, Germany.
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Bhumika Sharma. Become Miss World in bodybuilding championship in Venice, Italy

The fast-rising AnkushDahiya (60kg) clinched a gold medal and L Devendro Singh (52kg) got a silver medal in
Ulaanbaatar Cup boxing tournament in Mongolia
The Indian men's and women's throw ball Have created history by bagging a gold medal in the World Games. It was
teams held at Kathmandu
Wayde Van Niekerk Break the World Record in 300m at Golden Spike Meet in the Czech
Republic.
The International Olympic Has approved new events for the 2020 Tokyo Games, including a number
Committee (IOC) of mixed-gender competitions
India's Jitu Rai and Heena Sidhu have won the gold medal in mixed team 10m air pistol event of the ISSF
World Cup at Gabala, Azerbaijan
Shashikant Kutwal . has won the gold medal at the 17th World Individual Chess Championship
in Slovakia
21st Federation Cup National Senior Athletics Championships- Punjab.
Javelin thrower Neeraj Chopra won the gold in men's javelin throw (throw of 85.63m) contest on the
second day
Sarita Singh of Uttar Pradesh Set a new national record in the women's hammer throw with an effort
of 65.25m to claim the gold medal
Javelin thrower Anu Rani smashed her own national record and won the gold medal on the fourth
and final day
BADMINTON
B Sai Praneeth Won the Thailand Grand Prix Gold beating Indonesian Jonatan Christie.
India shuttler KidambiSrikanth Won the Australia Open Super Series men's singles title beating Chinese
Chen Long.
KidambiSrikanth Ranked into the top-10 at eighth in the latest World Badminton
Rankings released.
Winners of Indonesia Open 2017
Category Winners
Men’ Singles KidambiSrikanth (India)
Men’s Doubles Li Junhui (China) / Liu Yuchen (China)
Women’s Singles Sayako Sato (Japan)
Women’s Doubles Chen Quingchen (China) / JiaYifan (China)
Mixed Doubles Tontowi Ahmad (Indonesia) / LiliyanaNatsir (Indonesia)
FOOTBALL
Real Madrid Retained the UEFA Champions League title by defeating Juventus in the
final match at Cardiff, UK.
England’s Team Won the U-20 World Cup final against Venezuela in Suwon (South
Korea).
FIFA is set to shift India's Under-17 World Cup matches from Mumbai to the Delhi.
Mohun Bagan and Chennaiyin FC striker Nominated as the '2016 All India Football Federation (AIFF) Player of the
JejeLalpekhlua Year.
TENNIS
Rafael Nadal Ranked No. 2 spot in the ATP rankings.The top position is retained by Andy
Murray.
Swiss Tennis maestro Roger Federer Won ninth Halle Open title by defeating Alexander Zverev in the final
match played at Halle, Germany
Tennis star Leander Paes Won the Aegon Ilkley Challenger trophy with Canadian partner
AdilShamasdin on 25th of June 2017. It was held in Ilkey UK.
Indian wild card Nitin Kumar Sinha Win the boys singles title of HCL Asian Junior Tennis Championship
held in Pune.
GaneshanNeelakantaIyer First Indian to be nominated as a member of the Umpires and Referees
Committee (URC) by International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF).
Dhanya Shah and Sanmay Gandhi Won the Under-14 doubles title of the Asian Junior Tennis Championships
held at the Balewadi Stadium in Pune.
Indian tennis Won Raymond Sarmiento of the USA in Singapore
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player RamkumarRamanathan.
French Open 2017
Men’s Singles Rafael Nadal (Spain) Stan Wawrinka (Switzerland)
Women’s Singles Jelena Ostapenko (Latvia) Simona Halep (Romania)
Men’s Doubles Ryan Harrison (US) & Michael Donald Young (US) & Santiago Gonzalez
Venus (New Zealand) (Mexico)
Women’s Doubles Bethanie Mattek-Sands (US) & Ashleigh Barty (Australia)& Casey Dellacqua
Lucie Safarova (Czech Republic) (Australia)
Mixed Doubles Gabriela Dabrowski (Canada) & Anna-Lena Grönefeld (Germany) & Robert Farah
Rohan Bopanna (India) (Colombia)
July
FOOTBALL
Sudan Football Association (SFA) World football's governing body FIFA has lifted the ban.
Germany win first Confederations Cup title beating Copa America winners
Chile held at Saint Petersburg.
India Football team 96th in FIFA World ranking, its best in 21 years. Brazil Topped
Francesco Totti- a footballer legend from Italy confirmed his retirement
Mission Football Meghalaya CM launches at JN Sports Complex in Shillong
Indonesia- To host AFC U-19 championship 2018.
FORMULA ONE
Sebastian Vettel wins Hungarian Grand Prix
Lewis Hamilton wins recordequalling fifth British GP
Valtteri Bottas wins Austrian Grand Prix
BADMINTON
Rahul, Manu-Sumeeth Clinch titles at Lagos Open at Lagos International challenge held in
Nigeria.
Indian woman badminton player Ritika Wins the singles title in the Ivory Coast International
Thaker. badminton tournament at Abidjan.
H S Prannoy wins US Open Grand Prix Gold badminton title at Anaheim,
California USA.
SQUASH
India- Finishes 6th in 2017 World Junior Squash held in Tauranga, New
Zealand.
Mumbai teens Joshi, Ananya Dabke Wins Dutch Open Junior Squash Championship held in Amsterdam,
Netherlands.
Harinder Pal Sandhu Wins Victorian Open squash title in Melbourne..
Harinder Sandhu. Won South Australian Squash Open title at Adelaide,Australia
TENNIS
Team India Bags 24 medals at Jordan Open TT at the Jordan Junior and Cadet Open table tennis
tournament Jordan. (7 Gold, 7 Silver and 10 Bronze medals)
Chennai Open renamed to Maharashtra Open, to be held in Pune
John Isner(From USA) won his fourth ATP Atlanta title
131st edition -Wimbledon Championships 2017 – Overview.
Men’s Singles Roger Federer (Switzerland) Marin Cilic (Croatia)
Women’s Singles Garbine Muguruza (Spain) Venus Williams (US)
Men’s Doubles Lukasz Kubot (Poland) & Oliver MArach (Austria) & Mate Pavic (Croatia)
Marcelo Melo (Brazil)
Women’s Doubles Ekaterina Makarova (Russia) & Monica Niculescu (Romania) & Chan Hao-ching
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Elena Vesnina (Russia) (Taiwan)

Mixed Doubles Jamie Murray (UK) & Martina Heather Watson (UK) & Henri Kontinen (Finland)
Hingis (Switzerland)
Winners of Eastbourne Aegon Championship-UK
Men’s Singles Novak Djokovic (Serbia) GaenMonfils (France)
Women’s Singles KarolínaPlíšková (Czech Caroline Wozniacki (Denmark)
Republic)
Men’s Doubles Bob Bryan (US) & Mike Bryan Rohan Bopanna (India) & Andre Sa (Brazil)
(US)
Women’s Doubles Chan Yung-jan (Taipei) & Ashleigh Barty (Australia) & Casey Dellacqua
Martina Hingis (Switzerland) (Australia)
CRICKET
England Won ICC women world cup 2017 beating India. The Player
of the Series title has been awarded to Tammy Beaumont of
England
Misbah-ul-Haq To get honorary life membership by Marylebone Cricket Club
Harmanpreet Kaur- breaks into top 10 of ICC Women's ODI Player Rankings(6th
position)
Mithali Raj Becomes leading run-getter in Women’s ODIs (6000 ODI
runs when she hit a six off Kristen Beams)
MS Dhoni First Indian batsman to hit 200 sixes in ODIs
MICELLANEOUS
Asian Athletics Championships 2017 Overview - India finish on top in medals tally- Kalinga Stadium in
Bhubaneswar.
Rank Nation Gold Silver Bronze Total
1 India 12 5 12 29
2 China 8 7 5 20
3 Kazakhstan 4 2 2 8
Shot putter Manpreet Kaur Grabbed the gold medal with a throw of 28m on the opening day
Long distance runner G Lakhsmanan Wins gold with an unexpected win in men's 5000m race
V Neena and Nayan James Bagged a silver and bronze in women's long jump while Vikas
Gowda, Sanjivini Yadav, Annu Rani added a bronze each in the men's
discus throw, women's 5000m race and javelin throw respectively.
India to host next edition of Theatre Olympics first time ever from February 17 – April 08, 2018.
Indian judokas Bag 3 medals in Asian Cadet Championships, Kyrgyzstan
H Manudev from Karnataka Won the first National Masters snooker tournament title in Chennai.
Kargil International Marathon “Run for Sarhad” concluded. The winner of 60 km is ZaheerAbass.
Indian Damneet Singh Wins silver medal at IAAF World U18 Championships in hammer
throw held in Nairobi, Kenya.
Kerala Emerged champions with 159 points at the 57th National Inter-State
Championships that was held in Guntur, Andhra Pradesh.
Indians win gold and bronze at first global robotics Olympiad organised by ‘FIRST Global’ in Washing D.C., US.
Russia's Kazan To host 2022 World Short Course Swimming Championships
in Budapest.
Indian team won 5 medals at World Para Athletics Championships 2017, London
India ranked at 34th position on medal table. Indian team won 5
medals (1 gold, 2 silver and 2 bronze) in this championship. China
Topped with 65 medals.
Boxer Sachin Siwach wins Gold at Commonwealth Youth Games in Nassau Bahamas.
Indian weightlifter Konsam Ormila Devi wins gold in Asian Youth & Junior Weightlifting Championships in
Kathmandu, Nepal.
India To host their first Men’s World Championship in 2021.
Caeleb Dressel Becomes first ever Swimmer to win three gold medals in one night at
worlds Championship in Budapest, Hungary.
Peaty & Masse Sets world record at 2017 World Aquatic Championship, Hungary. In
medal tally US topped with 39 medals(17 gold, 12 Silver and 10
bronze)
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Manoj Kumar, Shiva Thapa Strike gold in Czech Republic tournament at the 48th Grand Prix at
Usti Nad Labem in Czech Republic.
Australia's Jeff Horn Stunned Pacquiuao to claim a unanimous 12-round decision and win
the WBO world welterweight title at Lang Park.
Jehan Daruvala Becomes 1st Indian to win FIA Formula 3 European Championship
race at Norisring
Beat Pakistan to clinch Asian Snooker Championship held in Bishkek,
Pankaj Advani-led Indian team - Kyrgyzstan.
Asian champion Govindan Lakshmanan Won a gold medal in men’s 5000m race on the opening day of the
National Inter-State Athletics Championships.
Atthaya Thitikul Youngest Ladies European Tour winner held in Thailand at the
Phoenix Gold Golf and Country Club.
August
Summer Olympics Host Paris gets – 2024 , Los Angeles – 2028
SAFF under 15 Championship India beat Nepal by 2-1 in the final
FIFA U-17 World Cup Logo for Kochi The logo represents and reflects Kochi’s identity and will be a
Venue valuable tool in linking the local community in a global World
Cup
First paralympian to be recommended Devendra Jhajharia
for India’s highest sporting honour
World Doubles Squash Championship Joshna and Dipika won bronze
WBO Oriental Super Middleweight title Boxer Vijender Singh
World Athletics Championship Usain Bolt finishes 3rd
Justin Gatlin 1st
Junior World Wrestling Championships Manju Kumari and Veer Dev Gulia wins bronze
MCC-Murugappa Gold Cup ONGC beats Bengaluru Hockey 4-2
7th Asian Shotgun Championship Ankur Mittal Won Gold
Kynan Chenai won Bronze
Mairaj-Rashmmi pair bags gold
BCCI ordered to lift lifetime ban Cricketer Sreesanth by Kerela HC
The country’s youngest athlete to figure India shooter Shapath Bhardwaj, aged 15
in the government’s Target Olympic
Podium (TOP) scheme.
First Indian To Qualify for Javelin Davinder Singh Kang
Throw World Championship Finals
India’s first solo medal in women’s Maheshwari Chauhan Bronze
skeet Rashmmi Rathore and Saniya Sheikh have won the silver medal
India Vs SriLanka Series India won(3-0)
ATP ranking Rafael Nadal return to the number one spot

India Vs Netherland Hockey Cup India Won 2-1
Rogers Cup final Alexander Zverev beats Roger Federer
6th Golden Glove women’s Boxing Gold - Jyoti in 51 kg category, and Vanlal haritpuii in 60 kg
Tournament category.
Silver - Anjali in 48kg, Sakshi in 54kg, Ashtha in 69kg and
Anupama in 81kg categories.Mandeep in 57kg, Nisha in 64kg,
Shruti in 75kg
Bronze - Neha in 81+kg category
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16th IAAF World Championship 2017 1.U.S. 30 Medals

2.Kenya 11 medals
7th World Dwarf Games Joby Matthew - won six medals, including two golds three silvers
and a bronze.
ArunachalamNalini, - won five medals, including one gold.
CVRajanna- won the gold in the 200 metre sprint event.
Devappa More- won the 100 metre race and becoming the fastest
man at the event.
India had won 15 gold, 10 silver and 12 bronze medals
Bulgaria Open International Series Indian Shuttler Lakhsyasen
Highest paid female athlete of 2017 American Tennis Player Serena Williams
World U-20 Para Athletics Rinku Hooda bags silver
Championships
Western & Southern Open 2017 Bulgarian Grigor Dimitrov won his first Men’s singles Masters
1000 title.
Garbine Muguruza of Spain won women’s singles
Frenchmen
Pierre-Hugues Herbert and Nicolas Mahut won Men’s Cincinnati
Doubles.
Chan Yung-jan and Martina Hingis captured women’s double
FIBA Asia Cup Australia has beaten Iran
First Oceanic team to be crowned champions of Asia.
International Shooting Sport Federation Shapath Bharadwaj won a bronze in the double trap event
(ISSF) Junior World Cup Shotgun 2017 Lakshay Sheoran and Manisha Keer from India won the bronze
medal in the mixed team trap
India’s Akash Saharan has completed sixth in the final round of
the men’s trap
24th Abu Dhabi International Chess GM Amin Bassem of Egypt is winner, Briton GM Nigel Short
Festival 2017 was runner-up and GM Aryan Chopra from India finished third in
Masters Tournament.
2018 table tennis team World Cup Host : LONDON
SAFF U-15 Championships India beat Nepal by 2-1
23rd BWF World Championship-2017 at Men’s Singles –viktor axelsen of Denmark
Glasgow (Scotland) Women’s Singles –Nozomi Okuhara of Japan
Men’s Doubles- Liu Cheng and Zhang
Nan of China
Women’s doubles – Winners are Chen and Jia from China
Mixed doubles-Indonesia’s Tontowi Ahmad and Liliyana Natsir
FOOTBALL
ISL FC Goa signs Moroccan International Ahmed Jahouh
Neymer signs world record deal with most expensive player in football history
PSG 222 million euros ($262 million)
UEFA super cup football tournament Real Madrid defeated Manchester United
FIFA rankings India drops one spot to 97th
1. Brazil
2...Germany
3. Argentina
4. Switzerland
5. Poland
97.India
Spanish Super Cup Real Madrid
Wayne Rooney Retires from international football
UEFA player of season Cristiano Ronaldo
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UEFA Women’s Player of the Year Lieke Martens

First player to score 350 La Liga goals Barcelona and Argentina star Lionel Messi
ICC Rankings
Test Ranking Batsmen : Steve Smith
Cheteshwar Pujara(4)
Virat Kohli(6)
Bowler : James Anderson
Ravi Jadeja(2)
Ashwin(3)
All-Rounder : Shakib al hasan
Ravi Jadeja(2)
Ashwin(3)
Team: India-1
ODI Ranking Batsmen : Virat Kohli(1)
Bowler : Jasprit Bumrah(4)
All-Rounder : Shakib al hasan(1)
Team: South Africa-1
India-3
T20 Ranking Batsman : Virat Kohli(1)
Bowler : Jasprit Bumrah(3)
All-Rounder : Shakib al hasan(1)
Team : New Zealand-1
India-5
Belgian Grand Prix Lewis Hamilton
14th World Wrestling Championships 1)Men’s freestyle:a)57 kg – Yuki Takahashi(Japan)
2017 at Paris, France b)61 kg – Haji Aliyev(Azerbaijan)
c)65 kg – Zurabi Iakobishvili (Georgia)
d)70 kg – Frank Chamizo( Italy)
e)74 kg – Jordan Burroughs( United States)
f)86 kg -Hassan Yazdani(Iran)
g)97 kg – Kyle Snyder(US)
h)125 kg -Geno Petriashvili (Georgia)
2) Men’s Greco-Roman:
a)59 kg – Kenichiro Fumita(Japan)
b)66 kg – Ryu Han-su(South Korea)
c)71 kg – Frank Stäbler(Germany)
d)75 kg -Viktor Nemeš(Serbia)
e)80 kg – Maksim Manukyan(Armenia)
f)85 kg – Metehan Başar(Turkey)
g)98 kg – Artur Aleksanyan(Armenia)
h)130 kg – Rıza Kayaalp(Turkey)
3) Women’s freestyle
a)48 kg – Yui Susaki(Japan)
b)53 kg – Vanesa Kaladzinskaya (Belarus)
c)55 kg – Haruna Okuno(Japan)
d)58 kg – Helen Maroulis( United States)
e)60 kg – Risako Kawai (Japan)
f)63 kg – Pürevdorjiin Orkhon (Mongolia)
g)69 kg – Sara Dosho (Japan)
h)75 kg – Yasemin Adar (Turkey)
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September
India Junior GP Rahul Bharadwaj is defeated by top seed Thai KunlavutVitidsarn
in the men’s singles
ODI cricket MS Dhoni has become the first wicketkeeper to effect 100
stumpings,surpassed former Sri Lankan wicket-keeper Kumar
Sangakkara, who had 99 stumpings in 404 matches.
Under-12 Chess Cadet Championships Nagpur-based DivyaDeshmukh clinched the gold medal.
in Brazil
Australia’s National Basketball Amritpal Singh created history by becoming the first Indian-born
League player to play professional basketball in the National Basketball
League (NBL).
Commonwealth Youth weightlifting India’s KonsamOrmila Devi bagged a gold medal in 44kg weight
C’ship category on the opening day of theCommonwealth Youth (boys &
girls) weightlifting championships.
FIFA U-17 World Cup official song for the FIFA Under-17 World Cup football
tournament was launched by the Local Organising Committee
(LOC) and Sony Pictures Networks India (SPN).
Song: “KarKeDikhla De Goal”and the song has been written by
lyricist Amitabh Bhattacharya and composed by Pritam
IPL Star India bagged the IPL media rights for TV and digital
broadcast for a consolidated sum of Rs.16, 347.5 crore ($ 2.55
billion) for a period of five years.
The rights from 2018 to 2022.
Italian Grand Prix Lewis Hamilton wins &takes lead title from Sebastian Vettel
GauravBidhuri Clinches Bronze Medal at World Boxing
AIBA world boxing championships
Championships:AmitPhangal (49kg) and KavinderBisht (56kg)
2017 had bowed out in the quarterfinal stage:ShivaThapa, Manoj Kumar
out in first round AIBA:Ukraine’sOleksandrKhyzhniak wins Best
Boxer, Cuba win Best team and USA’s Billy Walsh wins Best
Coach:
1. Best Boxer – OleksandrKhyzhniak (UKR)
2. Best Team – Cuba:.
3. Best Coach – Billy Walsh (USA)
Commonwealth Weightlifting India has been selected to host the 2019 edition of the
Championships in 2019 Commonwealth (Youth, Junior and Senior) Weightlifting
Championships.
U.S. Open women’s singles- Carrom TejasviDuduka from Hyderabad won the women’s singles of U.S. Open
Grand Slam Carrom tournament.
men’s singles: Vemuri Anil Kumar of India finished runner up for the
second year in the U.S Open.
The U.S. Open Carrom tournament was won by former National
Champion Radhakrishnan
ISSF Shotgun World Championships Ankur Mittal, AhvarRizvi won silver medals
2017 Russia’s VitalyFokeev has won the gold medal
World Cadet Wrestling Championship. India’s Sonam Malik bags Gold (54kg)
Neelam bagged a bronze medal and competing in the 43kg category
First dividing retractable football pitch Tottenham Hotspur
Malaysian Squash Tour Harinder Pal Sandhu has won the Malaysian Squash Tour. This is his
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21st consecutive international match to win in a row.

SABA U-16 Championship India won the Second South Asian Basketball, SABA, Under – 16
Championship, in Kathmandu, Nepal
Road world record JoycillineJepkosgei of Kenya broke her own 10 km road world record,
in Prague, Czech Republic.
BWF World Senior Badminton Kochi is all set to host the BWF World Senior Badminton
Championships Championships from September 11 to 17 2017. The championship will
be held in India for the first time.
137th edition of the US Open Tennis and Men’s singles: Rafael Nadal won the title
the 4th and final Grand Slam event of Women singles: Sloane Stephens of US won the title
2017 Men’s doubles: Jean-JulienRojer and HoriaTecau won the title
Women Doubles: Chan Yung-Jan and Martina Hingis won the title
Mixed Doubles: Martina Hingis and Jamie Murray won the title.
ITF Futures tournament Indian tennis player SumitNagal won
Asian Games Asian Games gold medalistPriyankaPanwar was suspended for eight
years after she tested positive for a banned performance enhancing drug,
in New Delhi.
36th National Games Goa’s Sports Minister Mr.ManoharAjgaonkar said that Goa would host
the 36th National Games, in Goa.
National kickboxing championship Maharashtra has won the Chief Minister’s cup at National kickboxing
championship. It has 45 gold medals.
Western Asia Youth Chess Championship Rishabh Shah of Mumbai, bagged two bronze medals in the Under-14
Rapid and Blitz formats of the 2nd Western Asia Youth Chess
Championship in Sri Lanka.
‘Maharashtra Mission 1 Million’ Maharashtra Chief Minister Mr.DevendraFadnavis launched
the ‘Maharashtra Mission 1 Million’ initiative through which 10 lakh (1
million) students across the state would play football, in Mumbai.
Test Cricket South African all-rounder JP Duminy announced his retirement from test
cricket, in South Africa.
Korea Open title PV Sindhu won the women’s singles title at the Korean Open Super
Series 2017 by defeating Japanese player NozomiOkuhara, in Seoul,
South Korea.
Cricket Former Sri Lanka batsman Chamara Silva has banned for two-year from
cricket-related activities and for breaching the spirit of the game during a
Tier-B first class match.
T20 series Pakistan beat World XI to clinch the final Twenty20 match and the
series at Lahore’s Gaddafi Stadium (2-1)
Singapore Grand Prix Lewis Hamilton won the Formula 1 Singapore Grand Prix, in Singapore.
T20 West Indies legend Chris Gayle has become the first batsman to hit 100
sixes in the shortest format of the game during their Twenty20
International match.
World Championship motorbike race Ana Carrasco of Spain became the first female to win an
individual World Championship motorbike race, in Portugal.
1st female biker to win World Championship race
FIFA FIFA’s Ethics Committee banned Caribbean soccer leader Gordon
Derrick for six years due to financial offenses.
PSL Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) has imposed a five-year ban and a fine of
one million rupees on batsmanKhalidLatif for his involvement in spot-
fixing during the PSL.
FIFA Women’s World Cup 2019 Official emblem and slogan for FIFA Women’s World Cup France 2019
were unveiled in Paris, France.
The slogan of the tournament “Dare To Shine” reflects the development
of football, especially women’s football.
2028 Olympics Los Angeles has received its official go-ahead to host the 2028 Olympics
from the International Olympic Committee’s evaluation commission.
ODI Chinaman bowler KuldeepYadav has become the first Indian spinner to
take a hat-trick in ODI cricket during the second match of the ongoing
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series against Australia at Eden Gardens, Kolkata

BWF (Badminton World Federation) PV Sindhu becomes world number 2
women’s singles ranking TAI Tzu Ying of Taiwan ranks 1
International Boxing Association’s Mary Kom has become the first Indian to be selected as the International
(AIBA) Boxing Association’s (AIBA) representative for the IOC Athletes’
Forum
ICC launches anti-corruption investigation ICC has confirmed that it has opened an investigation in Sri Lanka into
corruption allegations.
LMW ITF Men’s Futures tennis Sasi Kumar Mukund of India had won his second straight Futures title.
tournament He defeated ArjunKhade by 6-3, 6-4 in the singles final
Calcutta Football League East Bengal won the Calcutta Football League (CFL) title for the 8th
consecutive time at the Kanchenjunga Stadium, in Siliguri, West Bengal.
Belgian Junior Open Vaishnavi clinches Belgian Junior Open; Arjun MR and
RamchandranShlok win in Ethiopia
India has been ranked as the No.1 both ODIs and Tests
ODI England’s Moeen Ali scored 61 runs off 14 balls including 8 sixes and 2
fours to record the fastest ODI hundred against Windies on English Soil
South Asian boxing Championship Boxing Federation of India (BFI) has presented its 2017-18
calendar which includes the prestigious South Asian Championship to be
held in Guwahati from December 6-10
Asian Indoor and Martial Arts Games India secured 11th place in the Asian Indoor and Martial Arts Games
2017 2017. Indians won a total of 40 medals.This consists of 9 gold, 12 silver
and 19 bronze medals.1st -Turkmenistan.
2nd – China 3rd – Iran
FIFA U-17 World Cup FIFA has launched the official ball for Under-17 football World Cup and
it will be called Krasava, a word generally used by Russian sports fans to
describe a striking performance.
The ball is manufactured by ‘Adidas’ and the pattern on it features a
striking red design with jagged lines running through it.
Youth Sports Centre Minister of State for Youth Affairs and Sports Shri Vijay Goel
has announced that a new Youth Sports Centre to be built at
Alipur, Delhi
FIFA U-17 World Cup The government announced that it has exempted import duty for
sports items and a wide range of goods for the upcoming FIFA U-
17 World Cup India.
sports stadium Saudi Arabia allows women into sports stadium for the first time
Dhyan Chand Award Samurai Tete first woman from Jharkhand
Sports minister Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore
British cyclist Mark Beaumont set a new world record by cycling around the world in 79 days, in Paris.
Circumnavigated the world in 79 days:
i. Mark Beaumont travelled around the world in 79 days. He beat the previous record of 123 days.
ii. He has finished it one day ahead of his schedule.
Japan Open 2017 Badminton Championship
Men’s singles Viktor Axelsen of Denmark won
Women’s singles Carolina Marin of Spain
Men’s doubles. Marcus Fernaldi Gideon and Kevin SanjayaSukamuljo
Women’s doubles. MisakiMatsutomoto and Ayaka Takahashi
Mixed doubles Wang Yilyu and Huang Dongping
PV Sindhu and SainaNehwal crashed out in second round.
Indian shuttlersSrikanth, Prannoy crashed out of Japan Open
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October
Malaysian Grand Prix Max Verstappen
Japanese Grand Prix, Lewis Hamilton
United States Grand Prix Lewis Hamilton
Mexican GP Max Verstappen
2017 Formula One championship title Lewis Hamilton
National Motorcycle Racing Jagan Kumar
FIFA U-17 World Cup Referee Female assistant referee to be seen
FIFA U17 World Cup Tournament as Hyundai India
Official Partners
Isle of Man Chess Meet Anand finishes joint 2nd
Laver Cup 2017 Europe
International Weightlifting Federation suspends nine countries for doping violations
campaign ‘#HereToCreate’ Adidas unveils for FIFA U-17 World Cup in India
European racing title Mahaveer Raghunathan became the first Indian to win a European
racing championship, by winning the Boss GP Championship
(Formula Class) title, at Imola, Italy
Wushu World Championships Pooja Kadian
Cricket Australian fast bowler John Hastings retires from Tests, ODIs
Cricket Ashish Nehra announces retirement from all forms of cricket
world gymnastics championships American Morgan Hurd won Gold
International Olympic Carlos Nuzman(Olympic Committee suspends Brazilian arm after
Committee (IOC) chief’s arrest)
20th Asia Masters meet India bag 37 gold medals, finish second
Yeangder Tournament Players Ajeetesh Sandhu Wins First-ever Asian Tour Title in Taipei
Championship (TPC) at Taipei
China Open 2017 Nadal win Men’s title
Caroline Garcia win Women’s Singles
Henri Kontinen & John.Peers clinched men’s double
Chan Yung-jan & Martina Hingis bags women double title
World Open Under-16 Snooker India’s Anupama Ramachandran win
Championship title
Epic world solar car race Begins in 3,000 kms from Northern Australian city of Darwin to
southern city of Adelaide.
World Archery Youth Championship India bagged one gold, one silver and one bronze at the World
2017 Archery Youth Championship 2017
2018 FIFA World Cup Iceland became smallest country to qualify
Bulgarian International Gurusaidutt wins
Tournament(Badminton)
FIFA Pakistan Football Federation Suspended
Football Arjen Robben retires from International Football
2019 AFC Asian Cup India beat Macau to qualify for 2019 AFC Asian Cup
International Cricket Council Test championship & ODI league approved
ICC South Africa-Zimbabwe 4 day test on trial basis Approved
MCC World Cricket Committee Shakib Al Hasan becomes first Bangladeshi to be inducted
Tianjin Open Maria Sharapova Won
Shanghai Masters Federer beats Nadal`
Egypt Junior and Cadet Table-Tennis Indian paddler Selena Selvakumar wins gold
Open.
All India Governor’s Gold Cup Mohun Bagan lifts Governor’s Gold Cup for 10th time
football tournament.
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WWE Kavita Devi becomes first Indian woman wrestler to sign with
WWE
Olympics Legendary Brazilian sailor Scheidt announced his retirement from
Olympics
Egypt Junior and Cadet TT India’s Selena clinches triple gold
Cricket Kerala High Court restores life ban on Sreesanth
Cricket  Ravi Shastri becomes World’s Highest Earning Cricket
Coach.
 South Africa displaces India from top of ODI rankings.
 Virat Kohli Top Run Scorer at 200 ODIs
 Virat Kohli becomes fastest to score 9,000 runs in ODIs
 Mithali Raj, Virat Kohli top spot in ICC ODI ranking
Pyeongchang Olympics Park Ji-Sung to be first South Korean to carry Olympic Games
flame
World skills competition Mohit Dudeja, Kiran bag medals silver and Bronze
Big Bash League Veda Krishnamurthy signs for Big Bash League, to play for
Hobart Hurricanes
Australian MotoGP Marc Marquez
Hockey Asia Cup title India beat Malaysia
Youth International Championships Indian boxers win 8 medals, including 4 Gold
Balkan Open
Denmark Open Super Series Premier Men’s singles title won by Kidambi Srikanth
Ratchanok Intanon won the women’s singles title
Liu Cheng and Zhang Nan won the Men’s doubles title.
Lee So Hee and Shin Seung Chan won the women’s doubles title.
Macao Open golf Indian Golfer Gaganjeet Bhullar
FIFA U-17 World Cup 2017 England defeated Spain by 5-2.
‘Golden Ball’-- Phil Foden (England)
‘Golden Shoe’-- Rhian Brewster(England)
‘Golden Glove’-- Gabriel Brazao(Brazil)
European Open champions Divij Sharan and Scott Lipsky
ITTF Junior Circuit Manav Thakkar
ISSF World Cup Jitu Rai, Heena Sidhu win Gold in 10m Air Pistol,
Amanpreet Singh secured third place in the 50-metre.
BCCI Puducherry becomes associate member
NBA G-League Gokul Natesan becomes second Indian-origin player to be signed
by NBA G-League side
Hockey World Cup International Hockey Federation (FIH) declared that China
have qualified for the Hockey World Cup for the first time.
Pro Kabaddi Patna Pirates defeated Gujarat Fortune.
Yonex French Open Badminton Men’s Singles: Kidambi Srikanth (India)
Women’s Singles: Tai Tzu Ying (Chinese Taipei)
Men’s Doubles: Lee Jhe-Huei & Lee Yang (Chinese Taipei)
Women’s Doubles: Apriyani Rahayu & Greysia Polii (Indonesia)
Mixed Doubles: Tontowi Ahmad & Liliyana Natsir
(Indonesia)
Saudi Arabia Saudi to allow women into sports stadiums from 2018
‘Champion of Champions’, in the Italy top medal tally, Chinese crowned ‘Champion of Champions’
ISSF World Cup Final
ITTF World Cadet Challenge Diya Chitale won silver medal in the girls’ doubles category .
Forbes sportsperson list Cristiano Ronaldo tops the Forbes Rich List of sport stars
Virat Kohli-89th Position
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‘thenationspride.com’ India’s First Portal Dedicated to Para-sports Launched
November
Name of the Sport Events Name of the Winner
Asian Cricket Council (ACC) Pakistan will host the 2018 Asian Cricket Council
All India Police Championship(women’s wrestling) Geeta Phogat(Gold)
Vietnam Open trophy Bopanna wins Erste Open
Saketh Myneni and Vijay Sundar Prashanth pair won
theVietnam Open trophy
8th Basel title Roger Federer
First Asian host of Gay Games Hong Kong has become the first Asian city to host the Gay
Games in 2022.
Badminton India’s K Srikanth achieves career-best World No 2
ranking.
LET title Aditi wins in Abu Dhabi
TT Super League Chennai will host the inaugural edition of Table Tennis
Super League
Belgium Open Achanta Sharath Kamal and Sathiyan Gnanasekaran have

won bronze medal in the men’s doubles
In women’s doubles category, Indian pair of Manika Batra
and Mouma Das too performed well and reached quarter
finals.
Asia Cup 2017 Indian women win Asia Cup 2017, qualify for Hockey
World Cup
National Cycling Championships Petroleum Conservation Research Association (PCRA)
organised Delhi’s first ‘Saksham Pedal Delhi’ cyclothon
event to promote cycling and conservation of transport fuel.
Women’s Asia Cup hockey title India beat Chinagold medal after 13 years.
Panasonic Open title Shiv Kapur clinches Panasonic Open titleat the Delhi Golf
Club.
AIBA Youth Women’s World Boxing Championship The official mascot, named Guppy, is a female version of
2017 Assam’s one-horned rhino. The official anthem is ‘Make
Some Noise’. The anthem as composed by Shaan and sung
by Sunidhi Chauhan.
• India finish with 20 medals at Commonwealth
Shooting Championships
• The Indian squad won a total of 20
Commonwealth Shooting Championships medals which included six gold, seven silver
and seven bronze medals.
• Satyendra Singh wins goldHeena Sidhu on a
roll, wins gold at Commonwealth Shooting
C’ships
• Shahzar, Pooja Win Gold At Commonwealth
Shooting Championships
• Nanjappa, Mittal win gold medals at
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Commonwealth shooting
• Gagan Narang wins silver medal in 50m rifle
prone event
• Anish Bhanwala won a silver,Anjum & Neeraj
Kumar bagged a bronze.
Cricket • Mitchell Starc makes history with two hat-
tricks in one game.
• Dhoni inaugurates his first global cricket
academy in UAE.
• Virat Kohli – first captain to smash 10
international hundreds in a calendar year
• Afghanistan defeated Pakistan and won the
Under-19 Asia Cup for the first time at the
Kinrara Academy Oval in Kuala Lumpur,
Malaysia.
• Gates 3 & 4 of Feroz Shah Kotla to be named
after Anjum Chopra.
• R Ashwin breaks Dennis Lillee’s record of
fastest 300 Test wickets
• Competition Commission (CCI) imposed a
fine of Rs 52.24 crore on the Board of Control
for Cricket in India (BCCI) for anti-
competitive practices with respect to the Indian
Premier League.
• Virender Sehwag Gate inaugurated at Feroz
Shah Kotla.
Asian Boxing Championships Mary Kom defeated North Korea’s Kim Hyang Mi in the
final 5-0 by unanimous judge’s decision and won the gold
medal in the Asian Boxing Championships in the Light
Flyweight category (48 kg category).
Senior National Badminton Championship 2017 Saina Nehwal, HS Prannoy
Para world cup Indian para shooters Deepender Singh and Manish
Narwal won gold and silver respectively in the P1 10m Air
Pistol SH1 category in the Shooting Para Sport World Cup
2017.
ii. Deepender Singh with 238.3 points broke the world
record set by Iran’s Mahdi Zamanishurabi (235 points). 16-
year-old Manish Narwal set a junior world record with
236.6 points.
Ultimate Fighting Championship Bharat Khandare became first Indian-born Mixed Martial
Arts (MMA) fighter to be signed by the UFC (Ultimate
Fighting Championship).
Arjan Singh Bhullar was the first Indian-origin fighter to
be signed by the UFC. Bhullar had represented Canada at
the 2012 London Olympics
2017 Judo World Championships Open in Marrakesh French heavyweight judo champion Teddy Riner won his
10th world title with victory at the open-weight world
championships in Marrakech
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IBSF World Billiards Championship 2017 Pankaj Advani wins 17th world title
MotoGP world title Spain’s Marc Marquez won his sixth world
championship and fourth in the premier MotoGP category
Tennis Rafael Nadal presented with ATP World No. 1 award
Abu Dhabi Grand Prix Valtteri Bottas of Mercedes team
Brazilian Grand Prix Sebastian Vettel
Football World Cup 2018 Italy fail to qualify for Football World Cup 2018 for first
time since 1958.
LPGA Tour Championships Aditi Ashok has qualified for the CME Group Tour
Championship on the LPGA (Ladies Professional Golf
Association), becoming the first from India to play in the
prestigious meet.
Rugby World Cup France named as host of 2023 Rugby World Cup
61st National Shooting Championship Shagun Chowdhary crowned National Women’s Trap
champion at 61st National Shooting Championship
FIM Asia Cup of Road Racing (ACRR) India to host Asia Cup of Road Racing with National
Championship
62nd National Wrestling championship Two-time Olympic medallist Sushil Kumar won
a gold medal in men’s 74 kilogram freestyle competition.
Geeta Phogat won a gold medal in the 59 kg category of
women’s wrestling. India’s single woman Olympic medal
winner Sakshi Malik won gold medal in the 62kg category
of women’s wrestling.
Wrestling Wrestler Sandeep Tulsi has been handed a four-year ban by
the Anti-Doping Disciplinary Panel of the NADA.
KPIT-MSLTA Challenger Yuki Bhambri clinched his first title of the 2017 season on
the ATP Challenger Tour following a win over Ramkumar
Ramanathan in the final of the KPIT-MSLTA Challenger
in Pune.
World Tour Swedish Open Sharath Kamal, G Sathiyan win bronze in Sweden Open
(table tennis)
JSM Champaign Challenger trophy Leander Paes-Purav Raja lift JSM Champaign Challenger
trophy (tennis)
Nitto ATP Finals (tennis) Grigor Dimitrov beats David Goffin to win the singles title
Senior Men’s National Championship 2017 Hockey Karnataka won the second edition of the Hockey
India 5-a-side Senior Men’s National Championship
2017 title at the Chhatrapati Shivaji Stadium, in Balewadi,
Pune.
Delhi Half Marathon 2017 Ethiopia’s current woman world athlete of the year Almaz
Ayana and Ethiopia’s Berhanu Legese won gold in
the women’s and men’s event respectively at the Delhi Half
Marathon 2017.
i.Almaz Ayana, the world’s leading woman long distance
runner on track, clocked one hour, seven minutes and 11
seconds and became champion in her first half marathon
race, securing the gold medal.
Badminton and Para Badminton World Championships Basel will become the first city to jointly
in 2019 host the Badminton and Para Badminton World
Championships in 2019.
Casino Delta Corp Limited claimed to have set up the first casino
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game training course centre in India, at Goa.

Swimmathon The Swimmathon had been accredited by the Swimming
Federation of India as the national selection trials.
Olympian Virdhawal Khade is the brand ambassador of
Swimmathon.
FIFA Indian football team remains 105th in FIFA rankings
Indian football team remains 105th in FIFA rankings The World Youth Women’s Boxing Championship 2017
was inauguratedat Md. Toyabullah Hockey Stadium in
Bhetapara by Assam chief minister Sarbananda Sonowal.
Senior World Wrestling Championship India wrestler Ritu Phogat (48kg) clinched the silver medal
in the Under-23 Senior World Wrestling Championship at
Poland.
Asian Marathon Championship Gopi Thonakal clocked 2 hours 15 minutes and 48
seconds and won the gold. Andrey Petrov of Uzbekistan
bagged the silver with a timing of 2:15:51s and Byambalev
Tseveenravdan of Mongolia won bronze by
clocking 2:16:14s
Para-Badminton World Championships India’s Parul Parmar defeated Thailand’s Wannaphatdee
Kamtam in the finals of the women’s singles Standing
Lower (SL3).Other gold was also won by Parul Parmar,
who paired with Japan’s Akiko Sugino in women’s doubles
(SL 3-4) final. Parul Parmar- Akiko Sugino pair beat
Chinese pair of Cheng Hefang and MA Huihui in the finals.
AIBA World Women’s Youth Boxing Championships Nitu (48kg), Jyoti Gulia (51kg), Sakshi
choudhury (54kg), Shashi Chopra (57kg) and Ankushita
Boro (64kg) won gold medals for India in the finals. Jyoti
Gulia also qualified for next year’s Youth Olympic Games
in Argentina. Also, two bronze medals were secured
by Neha Yadav (+81kg)
and Anupama (81kg). Ankushita was named the boxer of
the tournament.
International military games 7th international military games will be held in Wuhan city
in the central China‘s Hubei Province.
♦ Emblem:consists of a dove, a star, ribbons and other
elements
♦ Mascot:Bing Bing. Its design is based on the Chinese
sturgeon, a critically endangered fish known as the “panda
in water”.
♦ Slogan: Military glory, world peace
61st National Shooting Championship for Shotgun India’s top skeet shooter Mairaj Ahmad Khan was
crowned national champion at the 61st National Shooting
Championship Competitions (61st NSCC) for Shotgun
events, at Dr. Karni Singh Shooting Range, New Delhi.
2017 Asian Kabaddi Championship Indian men’s and women’s kabaddi teams were both
crowned the champions of Asia at the 2017 Asian Kabaddi
Championship, in Gorgan, Iran
ITTF Challenge, Spanish Open Indian paddler G Sathiyan defeated Japan’s Kazuhiro
Yoshimura 4-2 to clinch the men’s singles gold medal at
the 2017 ITTF Challenge Spanish Open in Almeria, Spain.
world-class football academy UK’s Southall Football Club will jointly set up
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an international level football academy with Cordia

Institutes at its campus at Sanghol in Punjab.
U-23 World Wrestling Championship Bajrang Punia lost the 65kg lop-sided final 6-17 to Russian
grappler Kuular and Vinod Kumar lost 1-3 to
American Richard Lewis. Both won silver medals in the
event.
Boxing Federation of India The Boxing Federation of India (BFI) has been recognised
as a national body by the Indian Olympic Association
(IOA), which removed the terminated Indian Amateur
Boxing Federation (IABF) as its affiliate.
10th Davis Cup (tennis) France beat Belgium
Hockey Men’s World Cup 2018 Odisha Chief Minister unveils logo & mascot of Hockey
Men’s World Cup 2018.
Honorary Doctorate Olympic gymnast Dipa karamakar conferred with D.Litt.
degree from NIT Agartala
Mithali Raj named Sportswoman of the Year (Team
Sports) at the Indian Sports Honours 2017
Indian Sports Honours 2017 Indian Sports Honours is a joint initiative by Indian Men’s
Cricket Team’s Captain Virat Kohli Foundation RP-Sanjiv
Goenka Group to honour Indian sports stars and support the
development of Indian sports.
ii. Indian Badminton players, Srikanth Kidambi and PV
Sindhu were honoured with sportsman and woman of the
year respectively for individual sports.
iii. Off-spinner R Ashwin was awarded Sportsman of the
year for team sportwhereas Indian Women’s Cricket Team
Captain Mithali Raj was awarded Sportswoman of the year
for team sport.
iv. Tennis star Sania Mirza was awarded Inspirational
Honour by the jury.
December
Name of the Sport Events Name of the Winner
The Best Boxer title’ in AIBA World Youth Women’s Ankushita Boro won the fifth gold in the 64kg final.
Boxing Championship
IBSF World Snooker Championship Pankaj Advani grabbed the title in Doha,Qatar
Asian Luge Championships India's veteran Winter Olympian
World Weightlifting Championship Saikhom Mirabai Chanu from Manipur became the first
Indian in over two decades to win a gold medal
World Para Swimming Championship Nagpur's visually challenged swimmer became the first
Indian to win the gold medal
International Tennis Federation (ITF) world champions Spaniards Rafael Nadal and Garbine Muguruza
Hockey World League 2016-17 Australia won Gold,India has won bronze medal
FIFA Club World Cup UAE 2017 Real Madrid
World Badminton Superseries Finals 2017 Japan’s Akane Yamaguchi – Gold PV Sindhu -silver
Commonwealth Wrestling Championships in 74kg Sushil Kumar
Commonwealth Wrestling Championships in 62kg Sakshi Malik
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Junior National Badminton Championships Aakarshi Kashyap won both Under-17 and Under-19
Singles
Best boxer of Galym Zharylgapov Tournament Naman Tanwar
World Rapid Championship (WRC) in Chess Viswanathan Anand
World Blitz Chess Championship Magnus Carlsen winner , Viswanathan Anand has
won bronze medal
ICC Intercontinental Cup champions Afghanistan
South Asian Regional Badminton Team Championship India bagged its first-ever South Asian Regional
Badminton Team Championship
First player to score six double centuries as captain in Virat Kohli
Test
Indoor Archery World Cup at Bangkok Deepika Kumari won a bronze medal
WSF (World Squash Federation) Men's World Team Egyptian team won the championship,India finished
Squash Championships 2017 in Marseille, France. seventh
Captain of Indian squad for the 2018 Under-19 World Prithvi Shaw
Cup to be held in New Zealand
First 21st century born male cricketer to play Afghanistan cricket team spinner MujeebZadran
international cricket
Resigns as National Sports Observer for wrestling Sushil Kumar
because active sportspersons will not be considered for
the position
IWF (International Weightlifting Federation) World Gurdeep Singh created three new senior national records
Weightlifting Championships 2017 at Anaheim in USA in +105kg weight category
46th Congress of the International Hockey Federation New Delhi
(FIH)
10th Asian Airgun ShootingChampionships which is Indian shooters bagged five medals.In men, ‘Ravi
being held in Wako City, Japan Kumar won an individual bronze’, ‘Ravi Kumar, Gagan
Narang and Deepak Kumar won Team Silver’, ‘Arjun
Babuta won individual silver’ ,’ Arjun Babuta, Krishna
Prasad Tejas and Sunmoon Singh Brar won Team
Silver’.In women Anjum Moudgil, Pooja Ghatkar and
Meghana Sajjanar, won Team Silver
Sri Lanka cricket team head coach Chandika Hathurusingha

ITF (International Tennis Federation) Futures tennis Aryan Goveas and Arjun Kadhe won the doubles title
tournament, in Cairo, Egypt.
India host its is to first-ever major boxing tournament New Delhi.

for elite men and women, ‘India Open International
Boxing Tournament’
10th Asian Championship in Wako City, Japan. Jitu Rai and Heena Sidhu bagged a individual bronze medal
“Road to Asian Games 2018” Indonesia Open Aquatic The Indian diving team won 6 medals (1 gold, 3 silver and
Championship 2017 held at Jakarta 2 bronze medal)
Afghanistan’s first-ever Test match India to host

Joburg Open golf tournament Shubhankar Sharma of India wonto qualify for 2018
edition of the British Open.
First Indian shooters to secure the women's and men's Mehuli Ghosh and Tushar Mane
quota places for the 2018 Youth Olympic Games (YOG
BCCI) decided to lift the ban on the Rajasthan Cricket Association (RCA) provided former IPL Chief Lalit Modi stays
away from its functioning
First to hit three double hundred in ODI cricket Rohit Sharma
Host of One Day International World Cup in 2023 and Inida to host,This will be the first time India would be
the Champions Trophy in 2021. . hosting an ODI World Cup completely.
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Asian Boxing Confederation’s best youth boxer of the Sachin Siwach

year 2017
First ever International Wheelchair Cricket Tournament Kathmandu, Nepal.
Valeria Demyanova Memorial International Boxing Arundhati Choudhury won a gold medal in the 60 kg , Raj
Tournament in Ukraine. Sahiba won gold medal in the 70 kg ,
Commonwealth Wrestling Championship in South India won 10 gold and 10 silver medals
Africa’s Johannesburg.
NECC-ITF women’s tennis championship in Pune Spain’s Georgina Garcia-Perez won the singles title
record for sailing around the world alone by Francois Gabart, a French sailor
circumnavigating the world in 42 days and 16 hours
Fifth International Sven Lange Memorial Tournament, The Indian team won the ‘Best Team’ of the tournament
Schwerin, Germany. award.The Indian team won the ‘Best Team’ of the
tournament award.
First-ever T10 Cricket League champion at Sharjah Kerala Kings
Cricket Stadium, in Sharjah
SAFF U-15 Women's Championship at Dhaka Bangladesh Winner , India Runner up
International Youth Sailing Competition of India Krishnapatnam Port in Nellore, Andhra Pradesh
Host city of the 2022 Commonwealth Games. Birmingham
ICC Women's team of the year 2018. Indian women cricketers Ekta Bisht, Mithali Raj and
Harmanpreet Kaurselected
Panel of umpires for 2018 Hockey World Cup to be
held in Bhubaneswar India's Raghu Prasad and Javed Shaikh
WBO Oriental and Asia Pacific super middleweight Vijender Singh
titles
Most expensive wrestler of the PWL Sushil Kumar
61st National Shooting Championship Competitions Anisa Sayyed won the women’s 25m pistol gold with a
(NSCC), in Trivandrum, Kerala. new national record at the
First ever four-day test cricket match at St George's South Africa won over Zimbabwe
Park, in South Africa.
World Record in yoga marathon Kavitha Bharanidaran

Association of Indian Football Coaches (AIFC) was launched at the Andheri Sports Complex, in Mumbai to create a
platform for the development of football coaches and their welfare
Saudi Arabia hosted a world chess tournament for the first time at the APEX. The tournament is called the King
Salman World Rapid and Blitz Chess Championships.
Shooting has been excluded from the 2022 edition of Commonwealth Games. Shooting is listed in Commonwealth
Games Federation (CGF)’s optional sports
Former Brazilian World Cup champion Ricardo Kaka made the announcement of his retirement as a football player.
Life ban for Russia’s Alexey Voevoda from the Olympics for anti-doping violations in the 2014 Sochi Winter Games.
Two gold medals in the two-man and four-man bobsled events were cancelled.
Emblems of the Beijing 2022 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games, respectively named "Winter Dream" and
"Flight," were unveiled at the National Aquatic Center, Beijing, China.
Yuvraj launched the "Power of Sports to Shape the Future of Adolescents" campaign in South Asia in Colombo. The
event was jointly organised by UNICEF South Asia and the ICC.
Russia banned from 2018 Winter Olympics over state-sponsored doping programme.The IOC has also banned Russia's
Deputy Prime Minister VitalyMutko
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FIFA banned Kuwait's national football federation in 2015.Now FIFA President Gianni Infantino announced here that
a two-year ban imposed on Kuwait's football federation has officially been lifted.
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$500,000, making it $4.5 million with a winner’s share

Fencer Bhavani Devi Become first Indian to win a Gold Medal in an

Bhumika Sharma. Become Miss World in bodybuilding championship in Venice, Italy

Elena Vesnina (Russia) (Taiwan)

ATP ranking Rafael Nadal return to the number one spot

16th IAAF World Championship 2017 1.U.S. 30 Medals

UEFA Women’s Player of the Year Lieke Martens

21st consecutive international match to win in a row.

series against Australia at Eden Gardens, Kolkata

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game training course centre in India, at Goa.

an international level football academy with Cordia

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