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Chess World Cup 2019 – FIDE Grand Prix
- Teimour Radjabov – Ajerbaijan
- Koneru Humpy – India
World U-18 Chess Champion
- R Praggnanandhaa (Tamil Nadu)
Tennis
- AUSTRALIAN OPEN
- Novak Djokovic (Serbia) & Naomi Osaka (Japan)
- US OPEN
- Rafael Nadal (Spain) & Bianca Andreescu (Canada)
- WIMBLEDON
- Navjak Djokovic (Serbia) & Simona Halep (Romania)
- FRENCH OPEN
- Rafael Nadal (Spain) & Ashleigh Barty (Australia)
- Yashasvi Jaiswal became the youngest batsman in the world who score a double century in List A cricket
- Rashid Khan of Afghanistan becomes the youngest Test captain
- Kumar Sangakkara – 1st Non-British President of Marylebone Cricket Club
- Cricket will be reintroduced in the 2022 Asian Games to be held at Hangzhou, China
- Mohammed Shami – Fastest Indian to reach 100 ODI wickets
- Harmanpreet Kaur – 1st Indian to play 100 T20 Matches
- Jasprit Bumrah becomes the fastest Indian pacer to scalp 50 Test wickets
- Virat Kohli – BLUE STAR, Puma, Manyavar, Audi, Uber
- MS DHONI – Dream11, CARS24, Mastercard, RedBus, IndianTerrain
- Jasprit Bumrah – Royal Stag & Cultsport
- Mithali Raj becomes first woman cricketer to complete 20 years in ODI
- Smriti Mandhana – Arjuna Award
- Eliud Kipchoge (Kenya) – First In World To Run A Marathon In Under 2 Hours
- Simone Biles – USA
- 25th world championship medal
- Laureus World Sports Awards 2019
- Sportsman of the Year: Novak Djokovic
- Sportswoman of the Year: Simone Biles
- Film Actor Aamir Khan launched Mission Shakti, a Maharashtra government’s initiative to train athletes from tribal areas for international sports events such as Olympics
- 2nd Khelo India Youth Games, Pune
- Winner – Maharashtra
- Runners Up – Haryana
- 3rd – Delhi
- India got its first-ever Floating Basketball Court in the Arabian Sea near Bandra Worli Sealink, Mumbai
Summer Olympic Games
- 2020 – Tokyo
- 2024 – Paris
- 2028 – Los Angeles
Winter Olympics
- 2022 – Beijing
- 2026 – Milan & Cortina
- 2022 Commonwealth Games – Birmingham
Asian Games
2022 – Hangzhou (China)
2026 – Nagoya (Japan)
FIFA Football World Cup
- 2022 – Qatar
- 2026 – Canada, Mexico, United States
ICC Cricket World Cup 2023 – India
- ICC Women Cricket World Cup 2021 – New Zealand
ICC T-20 World Cup
- 2020 – Australia
- 2021 – India
Men’s World Boxing Championship
- 2021 – New Delhi
National Games of India
- 2020 Chhattisgarh (37th)
- 2021 – Uttrakhand (38th)
- 2022 – Meghalaya (39th) – Mascot ”Smiling Clouded Leopard”
- Rupa Gurunath, daughter of former BCCI chief N. Srinivasan elected as president of the Tamil Nadu Cricket Association (TNCA), She is the first woman to head a state unit of the Indian Board.
- Lionel Messi won the FIFA 2019 Men’s Player of the Year 2019 award
- Virjil Vin Dijk won the UEFA 2019 Men’s Player of the Year 2019 award
- BWF World Championships 2019, Basel, Switzerland
- PV Sindhu defeated Nozomi Okuhara of Japan GOLD MEDAL
- Men’s singles:
- Kento Momota (Japan) – GOLD
- Sai Praneeth – Bronze