KABADI

 Ajay Thakur is a Indian professional Kabaddi

player and the current captain of India national
kabaddi team.
 He was part of the national teams which won
2016 Kabaddi World Cup and gold medal at
2014 Asian Games
BADMINTON

 Badminton is a racquet sport played

using racquets to hit a shuttlecock across a net.
 Although it may be played with larger teams, the
most common forms of the game are "singles"
(with one player per side) and "doubles" (with
two players per side).
 The game developed in British India from the
earlier game of battledore and shuttlecock.
 European play came to be dominated
by Denmark but the game has become very
popular in Asia, with recent competitions
dominated by China.
 Saina Nehwal is an Indian professional badminton
singles player.
 A former world no. 1, she has won over 24
international titles, which includes eleven
Superseries titles.
RUNNING RACE
 Running is both a competition and a type of
training for sports that have running or
endurance components.

 As a sport, it is split into events divided by

distance and sometimes includes permutations
such as the obstacles in steeplechase and hurdles.

HIMA DAS
 Hima Das, nicknamed the Dhing Express, is an
Indian sprint runner from the state of Assam.
 She holds the current Indian national record in
400 metres with a timing of 50.79 s that she
clocked at the 2018 Asian Games in Jakarta,
Indonesia
BOXING
 Boxing is a sport with an ancient history. It was
introduced to the ancient Olympic Games in the
7th century BC.
 When boxing made its Olympic debut at the 1904
Games in St the USA, the only country entered,
which took all the medals.
 Later, the Americans continued to dominate
boxing, winning 109 medals (including 48 gold)
out of the 842 up for grabs, closely followed by
the Cubans and Russians.
 Women’s boxing will make its debut at the 2012
London Games in London. The current 11 men’s
events will be replaced by 10 men’s and 3
women’s events.
MARY KOM
 Chungneijang Mary Kom Hmangte is an Indian
Olympic boxer from Manipur.
 She is the only woman to become World Amateur
Boxing champion for a record six times, and the
only woman boxer to have won a medal in each
one of the seven world championships.
 CRICKET
 The sport of cricket has a known history beginning
in the late 16th century.
 Having originated in south-east England, it became
the country's national sport in the 18th century
and has developed globally in the 19th and 20th
centuries.
 Cricket is a game played with a bat and ball on a
large field, known as a ground, between two teams
of 11 players each.
 The object of the game is to score runs when at bat
and to put out, or dismiss, the opposing batsmen
when in the field.

Ravichandran Ashwin
Ravichandran Ashwin is an Indian international
cricketer.
A bowler who bats right-handed and bowls right-
arm off break, Ashwin plays for Tamil Nadu in
domestic cricket and captains Kings XI Punjab in
the Indian Premier League
SILAMBAM
1. Silambam is a martial art form that
originated approximately 5000 years ago
in Kerala.
2. Silambam was practiced in the 1700s in
the courts of Kings like Puli Thevar
and Maruthu Pandiyar.
3. It was mainly used as an asset in combat
skills, and soldiers mainly relied on it to
fight the British army.
4. The etymology of the word Silambam
itself is quite fascinating. Silam means
hill, and bam is a short form for bamboo,
which is a marathi word. Therefore, it
literally translates to ‘the bamboo from
the hill’.