First in India in Sports

First in Athlete:

  1. First Olympic team medal: Gold for Hockey at the 1928 Summer Olympics Amsterdam, beating the Netherlands.
     
  2. First Olympic individual medal (in British India): Norman Pritchard, 1900
     
  3. First Olympic individual medal: Bronze by K.D. Jadhav for wrestling at the 1952 Summer Olympic Helsinki.
     
  4. First Person to swim across the English Channel: Mihir Sen
     
  5. First Women to swim across the English Channel: Mihir Sen, 1958
     
  6. First Formula I race driver: Narain Karthikeyan
     
  7. First Formula I team: Force India F1
     
  8. First A1 GP race victory: Narain Karthikeyan, Zhuhai, China, 2007
     
  9. First Asian Games organized: Delhi (1951)


First in CHESS:

 

  1. First Chess Grandmaster: Viswanathan Anand in 1988, at the age of 18.
     
  2. First FIDE World Chess Champion: Viswanathan Anand in December 2000.
     
  3. First Undisputed World Chess Champion: Viswanathan Anand in September 2007

First in TENNIS

 

  1. First Tennis Grand Slam title: Mahesh Bhupathi (partnering with Japanese Rika Hiraki) in the Mixed Doubles category of the 1997 French Open.
     
  2. First Tennis Grand Slam wins by women: Nirupama Vaidyanathan beat Italian Gloria Pizzichini in the First round of 1998 Australian Open First Women in the 4th round (highest as of 2008) of a tennis.
     
  3. Grand Slam event: Sania Mirza in the Singles Category of the 2005 US Open.
     
  4. First Tennis Grand Slam Junior title: Leander Paes in the Singles category of the 1990 Wimbledon Championship. He is also the only medal fetcher for India in the Atlanta Olympics. He won a bronze medal, the only medal that put India in the medal tally.
     
  5. First Tennis Grand Slam Junior title by a woman: Sania Mirza (partnering with Russian Alisa Kleybanova) in the Doubles category of the 2003 Wimbledon Championships.


First in CRICKET

 

  1. First Cricket tournament: The Bombay Triangular which Later became the Bombay Quadrangular (1912-1936).
     
  2. First Cricket Test Match: Against England at Lord's June 25, 1932.
     
  3. First Cricket Captain: CK Nayudu for the 1932 tour of England.
     
  4. First Cricketer to score a century: Lala Amarnath in 1933 against England in South Bombay.
     
  5. First Cricketer to score a triple century: Vijay Hazare.
     
  6. First Test Cricket cricket hat-trick: Harbhajan Singh against Australia in March 2001.
     
  7. First Cricketer World Cup Championship Win: At the 1983 Cricket World Cup.
     
  8. First Batsman to complete 10,000 runs in Test Cricket: Sunil Gavaskar (he was the first in the world to achieve this feat.).
     
  9. First Batsman to complete 10,000 runs in ODI Cricket: Sachin Tendulkar (he was the first in the world to achieve this feat.)
     
  10. First Cricketer to score 75 Test and ODI centuries: Sachin Tendulkar.








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