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- Kapil Dev to be the first chancellor of Rai Sports University, Sonipat, Haryana
- Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna 2019
- Deepa Malik – Paralympic
- Bajrang Punia – Wrestling
- Aishwarya Pissay is the first Indian to claim a World Title in Motorsports, FIM World Cup
- P.T. Usha – appointed as a member of the Asian Athletics Association (AAA) & also awarded ”VETERAN PIN” by IAAF
- Cricket Australia has become the first cricket board to announce a new transgender-inclusive policy. This policy has enabled the transgender players to play cricket at the highest level
Mascot for Tokyo 2020
- Miraitowa
- Someity (Para)
- Birendra Prasad Baishya – Chef de Mission for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics
Mascots for Beijing 2022
- Bing Dwen Dwen – Panda
- Shuey Rhon Rhon, a lantern child (Para)
- The third edition of Khelo India Youth Games will be held in Guwahati in 2020 January
Golf
- Augusta Masters Tournament – Tiger Woods
- U.S. Open – Gary Woodland
- The Open – Shane Lowry
Football tournament winners
- Copa America – Brazil
- CONCACAF Cup – Mexico
- UEFA Europa League – Chelsea
- UEFA Champions League – Liverpool
- UEFA Nations League – Portugal
- Africa Cup of Nations – Algeria
- FIFA Womens World Cup 2019 – USA
All India Football Federation‘s (AIFF) Awards
- Sunil Chhetri – Men’s Footballer of the year 2019
- Asha Lata Devi – Women’s Footballer of the year 2019
Cricket
- Dravid appointed as the Head of Cricket at the National Cricket Academy (NCA) in Bengaluru
- MS Dhoni became the only second Indian player to reach the 350-game mark in ODI after Sachin
- Indian Olympic Association president Narinder Batra elected as a member of the International Olympic Committee.
- England – Winner of ICC Cricket World Cup
- Most Runs – Rohit Sharma
- Most Wickets – Mitchell Starc, Australia
- Player of the match in the final – Ben Stokes
- Player of the tournament – Kane Williamson
- USA, Oman attain ODI status from ICC
- International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) re-branded as World Athletics
- Sunil Chhetri – India’s most-capped Football Player
- 2019 Sudirman Cup Won by China
- India GS Lakshmi became the first woman female ICC match referee
- Australia’s Claire Polosak became the first woman to stand as an Umpire in a men’s one-day international
- Mumbai Indians (MI) clinched the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2019 title defeating Chennai Super Kings (CSK)
- Saurav Ghosal – Men’s Asian Squash Champion
- Joshna Chinappa – Women’s Asian Squash Champion
- G Sathiyan becomes 1st Indian to break into top 25 of World Rankings in Table Tennis
- Bajrang Punia becomes First Indian Wrestler to fight at New York’s Iconic Madison Square Garden
- 2021 Asian Athletics Championships, Hangzhou
- 2019 Asian Athletics Championships, Doha
- Services lifted Santosh Trophy Football; beat Punjab in final
- Meena Kumari Maisnam from Manipur claimed the Gold medal in the 54 kg category at the Boxing World Cup at Cologne in Germany
- Deepa Malik honoured with New Zealand Prime Ministers Sir Edmund Hillary Fellowship for 2019
- Virat Kohli and Smriti Mandhana named the Wisden’s Leading Cricketers in the World
- Saurav Ghosal becomes first Indian to enter top-10 in men’s Squash world rankings
- South Korea won Azlan Shah Cup by defeating India
- Suresh Raina becomes first cricketer to score 5,000 runs in IPL history
- For the first time ever, Bengaluru FC crowned ISL Champions by beating FC Goa
- Diksha Dagar, 18-yr-old becomes 2nd Indian golfer to win on Ladies European Tour (Aditi Ashok – 1st)
- Marc Marquez (Spain) – 8th Time MOTO GP World Champion
- Karnataka defeated Maharashtra to win their maiden Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy at the Holkar Cricket Stadium in Indore.
- India to host FIFA Under-17 Women’s World Cup in 2020
- Dipa Karmakar selected as Barbie Role Model by MATTEL
India’s Chess Grandmasters
- Swayams Mishra – 62nd Grandmaster
- Girish Koushik – 63rd Grandmaster
- Prithu Gupta – 64th Grandmaster
- Raunak Sadhwani – 65th Grandmaster
- The Union Cabinet has approved the proposal for setting up of a Centre for Disability Sports at Gwalior in Madhya Pradesh
- Roger Federer -100th career title in Dubai
- Chris Gayle Becomes First Player To Smash 500 Sixes In International Cricket
- Suresh Raina becomes 1st Indian player to score 8000 runs in T20
- Rashid Khan became first bowler in T20I history to pick 4 wickets in 4 balls
- Saina Nehwal beat PV Sindhu to become national badminton champion for 4th time
Ranji Trophy
- Vidarbha claimed Second Successive Ranji Title beating Saurashtra
- Sana Mir becomes first Asian woman to play hundred T20Is
- Mithali Raj became the first female player to play 200 ODIs
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