Indian Sport Personalities

India is steadily making the progress of becoming a sporting country.

From Indian Cricket team establishing its dominance, Indian Football scaling new heights, to individual athletes like P V Sindhu, Kidambi Srikanth, and many more making the country proud with their accolades at international level, thus keeping the tricolour flying high.

Here is the list of some of famous Indian Sportsperson, these athletes have made the country proud with their spectacular performances:

Sport personality	Information
Sachin Tendulkar (Cricket)	1. Sachin Tendulkar is one of the bestbatsman. 2. He is famous as “Master Blaster” and “The God of Cricket”. 3. Sachin is also the highest run-scorer across all the formats in Cricket. 4. He gave Indian Cricket all he had in his 24-year long career.
Virat Kohli (Cricket)	1. Virat Kohli is the captain of Indian Cricket team and the best batsman in the current era. 2. He became the first player in the history to win all the 3 major ICC Awards. 3. He ranks number 1 in the both ICC ODI and Test rankings for best batsman.
Sunil Chhetri (Football)	1. Sunil Chhetri is a famous Indian professional footballer who plies his trade as a striker or winger. 2. He is the captain of both Bengaluru FC and the Indian National Football team. 3. Popularly known as Captain Fantastic, he is all-time top goal scorer for the Indian National Football team scoring 68 goals in 108 games.
Dutee Chand (Running)	1. Dutee Chand is a successful Indian professional sprinter and the current national champion in the women’s 100m category. 2. She is the third Indian woman ever to qualify for the Women’s 100 metres event in the Summer Olympic Games.
Neeraj Chopra (Athletics)	1. Neeraj Chopra is the poster boy of India when it comes to Javelin Throw or even athletics in general. 2. He took the world by surprise winning a gold medal in the 2016 IAAF World U20 champion and setting the world junior record of 86.48 m at the U20 championships.
Saina Nehwal (Badminton)	1. Saina Nehwal is an Indian badminton player and India’s first shuttler to win a medal at the Olympics. 2. Saina has over 23 international titles.
Mary Kom (Boxing)	1. Mary Kom is a 6-time World Amateur Boxing Champion. 2. The only woman boxer to win a medal in all seven world championships apiece.
Hima Das (Running)	1. Hima Das, aka “Dhing Express”, is an Indian sprint runner from Assam. 2. Das is also the first Indian athlete to ever win a gold medal in a track and field event at the global stage in the IAAF World U20 Championships. 3. Hima Das was conferred with the Arjuna Award.
Viswanathan Anand (Chess)	1. Viswanathan Anand,not only India’s greatest chess player but he is also considered to be one of the very best in the world. 2. He became India’s first chess grandmaster when he was barely 20 years old.
Pankaj Advani (World Billiards and Snooker Champion)	1. Pankaj Advani is an 18-time World Billiards and Snooker Champion. 2. He won his first World Title at the young age of 18. 3. He is the only person in the history of the game to have won both the billiards and snooker IBSF World Titles as well as the World Professional Billiards Championship.
Sakshi Malik (Wrestling)	1. Sakshi Malik made history in the 2016 Rio Olympics by becoming the first ever Indian female wrestler to win an Olympic medal, the bronze medal in the 58 kg category.

Interesting Facts:

• Chess was originally named “Chaturanga” meaning intelligent or Smart.
• The ART OF SELF DEFENCE was conceived in India now called “Martial Arts”.
• Indian flying Sikh. Milkha Singh was the 1st athlete to reach the finals of Olympics in 1960 Rome Olympics
• The 1st Indian women athlete, P.T. Usha was the first lady athlete from India to reach Olympic finals in 1984.
• The hardworking Prakash Padukone is the 1stIndian to success the EBC He won the prestigious “England-Open championship” in early 1980 and defeated Lime Swie King, Indonesia.
• The first Indian grandmaster is Viswanathan Anand. He is listed as one of the four players to break the 2800 Mark (FIDE rating list).
• Sachin Tendulkar first got his chance to play international cricket in the year 1987. He was asked to field since there was a shortfall of fielders. He was merely 13 years old.
• MARY KOM – 5 times gold winner in World Boxing Championship is a complete role model for many.