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2015 Sports (Jan - Dec)

Name of the Sport Events Name of the Winner
ATP World Tennis Championship Andy Murray.
Chennai Open Tennis Title Winners Switzerland’s Stanislas Wawrinka.
Brisbane International final Roger Federer-1000th victory.
World record in swimming in 1 degree temperature
Bhakti Sharma.
at Antarctic Ocean.
Sydney Doubles Title Sania Mirza and Bethanie Mattek-Sands.
National Billiards Championship Pankaj Advani(7th ).
Fastest one-day international ton AB de Villiers of South Africa.
Syed Modi Grand Prix Gold championship Saina Nehwal.
6th Australian Open Singles Women’s Title Serena Williams.
35th National Games
Best Performing Men Sajin Prakash (Kerala), Swimmer.
Best Performing Women Aakanksha Vora (Maharastra), Swimmer.
First Place SSC.
Second Place Kerala.
Third Place Haryana.
1.Hashim Amla - South Africa.
2.Brendon McCullum - New Zealand.
3.Kumar Sangakkara - Sri Lanka.
4.Virat Kohli – India.
5.AB de Villiers - South Africa.
People's XI list for World Cup 2015 6.Steve Smith – Australia.
7.Shakib Al Hasan – Bangladesh.
8.James Faulkner – Australia.
9.Mitchell Johnson – Australia.
10.Dale Steyn - South Africa.
11.Lasith Malinga - Sri Lanka.
Best player in the Premier League Cristiano Ronaldo.
Australian Open men’s title Siberia’s Novak Djokovic.
Australian Open mixed doubles title Leander Paes and Martina Hingis.
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5 World Handball Title France.
Indian Open Golf Title Anirban Lahiri.
Delhi Open Title Somdev Devvarman.
World Cup 2015
Double century in a World Cup Chris Gayle.
Indian batsman to score century in a World Cup
Virat Kohli.
against Pakistan
Fastest 150 in ODI History Ab de Villiers.
Dubai ATP Tennis Championship 2015
Men’s Singles Title Roger Federer.
Women’s Singles Title Simona Halep.
Men’s Doubles Title Rohan Bopanna and Daniel Nestor.
Women’s Doubles Tímea Babos and Kristina Mladenovic.
Argentina Open 2015 Title Rafael Nadal.
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2 Cricketer to Cross 14K ODI Runs Kumar Sangakkara.
All England Badminton Championship Carolina Marin.
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4 consecutive ton in the World Cup 2015 series Kumar Sangakkara.

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Hero Hockey World League Round 2 India’s Women’s Hockey Team.

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69 Santosh Trophy Football title Services team.
Swiss Grand Prix Gold Championship title Kidambi Srikanth.
Australian Grand Prix Lewis Hamilton.
2015 Indian Open Title Michael White.
Ranji Trophy Karnataka.
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1 Indian Woman to reach World number One
Saina Nehwal.
Ranking
India Book of Records Cherukuli Dalli Shivani.
2015 BNP Paribas Open
Men’s Singles Title Novak Djokovic.
Women’s Singles Title Simona Halep.
Men’s Double Title Vasek Pospisil and Jack Sock.
Women’s Double Title Sania Mirza and Martina Hingis.
ICC Cricket World Cup Australia-5th time.
Man of the Series Award Mitchell Starc (Australia).
Most Runs Martin Guptill (New Zealand).
Most Wickets Mitchell Starc and Trent Boult (New Zealand)
Man of the Match James Faulkner (Australia).
India Open Super Series Badminton 2015 Title
Men’s Singles Title Srikanth Kidambi.
Men’s Doubles Title Chai Biao and Hong Wei.
Women’s Singles Title Saina Nehwal.
Women’s Doubles Title Misaki Matsutomo and Ayaka Takahashi.
Mixed Doubles Title Yixin Bao and Cheng Liu.
Malaysian Grand Prix 2015 title Sebastian Vettel.
Miami Open Titles 2015 Winners
Men’s Singles Title Novak Djokovic.
Women’s singles Title Serena Williams.
Men’s doubles Title Bob Bryan and Mike Bryan.
Women’s doubles Title Sania Mirza and Martina Hingis.
Women’s World chess championship 2015 Dronavalli Harika.
Sultan Azlan Shah Hockey Tournament 2015
Winner New Zealand.
Bronze medal India.
Chinese Grand Prix of Formula One Lewis Hamilton.
No 1 in WTA Tennis Doubles Rankings Sania Mirza.
ISSF World Cup
Gold Medal Jin Jongoh(South Korea).
Bronze Medal Jitu Rai(India).
Silver Medal Naung Ye Tun(Malaysia).
1st Shenzhen International Golf Tournament 2015 Kiradesh-Aphibarnrat.
7th Hawke’s Bay-Cup Hockey Indian women-hockey team.
Monte Carlo Masters Title 2015
Singles Title Novak Djokovic.
Double event Bob Bryan and Mike Bryan.
Presidents Cup Open International Boxing Tournament
Championship India.
Gold medals(Womens) Pinki Jangra and Shamjetsabam Sarjubala Devi.
Gold medals(Mens) Rakesh Kumar and Harpal Singh.
Bronze Medal Manish Kumar

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Shamkir Chess Tournament 2015 Magnus Carlsen.

World Team Chess Championships
Gold medals Georgia beat,China.
Silvermedals Dronavalli Harika.
Bronze medals Koneru Humpy.
Men’s World Team Chess Championships
Gold medals China.
Silvermedals Ukraine.
Bronze medals America.
ICC ODI rankings. Australia topped,India-2nd .
100 metres breaststroke world record Britain’s Adam Peaty.
Asian junior championship India’s Y Pranjala.
National Youth record in hammer throw Ashish Jakhar.
Top ten of junior TT rankings Mudit Dani-3rd Indian.
Claro Open Colsanitas tennis tournament Brazil’s Teliana Pereira.
Bahrain Grand Prix Lewis Hamilton.
3-match ODI series against winner Bangladesh.
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5 Senior Men’s National Hockey Championship Railway Sports Promotion Board.
2015 Asian Indoor Rowing Championship
Gold in the 2000 men’s light weight pair category Dushyant Singh and Succha Singh.
Bronze in the 2000 men’s open-pair event Om Prakash and Rajesh Verma.
ITF (International Tennis Federation) doubles title Prarthana and Harriet.
FA Cup(world's oldest knockout competition) Arsenal.
Archery World Cup- Bronze medal Deepika Kumari.
International wrestling tournament-Gold medal 1.Yogeshwar-65kg.
(Indians) 2.Praveen Rana-70kg.
3.Amit Kumar -57kg.
4.Narsingh Yadav-74kg.
5th quota place in shooting for the 2016 Rio Gurpreet Singh.
Olympics
Shot-putter qualifies for Rio Olympics Inderjeet Singh.
Clinch Premier League title Chelsea.
TEB BNP Paribas Istanbul Open Men’s singles title Roger Federer.
5th National Hockey Championship title Railway Sports Promotion Board (RSPB).
ITTF rankings Sharath Kamal-32nd Rank.
International Shooting Competition
Gold Medal Abhinav Bindra, Gagan Narag and Chain
Singh.
Bronze medal Gagan Narag.
International Speed Skating Championships
Star performer Kushi Shah.
14 medals-seven were gold India.
Asian Wrestling Championships-Bronze medal Geeta Phogat.
All England Open Badminton Championship
Winner Carolina Marin.
Runner Saina Nehwal.
Times Of India Sports awards
TOISA sportsperson of the year Jitu Rai.
Life time Achievement Of The Year Milkha Singh
Popula Choice Awards. Pankaj Advani.
Upcoming or emerging player award Malaika Goel, Sanjitha Channu.
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Best cricketer award in men’s category Virat kohli.

Best cricketer award in Women’s category Harmanpreet Singh.
Federation Cup national senior athletic championship
First Place Indian Army Team.
Second Place Tamil Nadu
Overall Women’s championships
First Place Kerala.
Second Place Karnataka.
Third Place Tamil Nadu.
Best athlete award in the men’s category Inderjeet Singh.
Best athlete award in the Women’s category Srabani Nanda.
Asian Youth Athletics Championships.
Silver medal Ashish Bhalothia(boys shot put)
Bronze medal Anumol Thampi (girls 3000m race) and Seema
Sangwan (girls discus throw).
Asian Wrestling Championship
Bronze medal Sakshi Malik(60kg) and Lalita(55kg).
$50,000 Challenger tennis tournament doubles title Yuki Bhambri and Adrian Menendez.
Spanish Grand Prix Nico Rosberg.
Madrid Open Trophy 2015- Men’s doubles Title Rohan Bopanna and Florin Mergea.
Country’s No 1 doubles player Rohan Bopanna.
BRICS U-17 football tournament Held in India.
Sacramento State Open- men’s hammer throw event Kamalpreet Singh.
12th Jamaica International meet
First Vikas Gowda.
Second Chad Wright.
Third Jared Schuurmans.
World school chess championship(U -15)
Gold medal Tejaswini Sagar.
Silver medal Barbayenka.
Bronze medal Nur Shanti.
ISSF world cup
Gold medal Micheal Mc Phail.
Silver medal Kristian Ole Bryhn.
Bronze medal Gagan Narang.
4th Italian Open title
Men Singles Title NovakDjokovic.
Women Singles Title Maria Sharapova.
Women’s Title Timea Babos & Kristina Mladenovic.
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8 Edition of TCS World 10 Thousand metre run
Men’s category Mosinet Geremew.
Women’s category Mamitu Daska.
Indian Men’s category Suresh Kumar
Indian Womenen’s category Suriya Loganathan.
Thailand Open table tennis tournament -Bronze Archana Kamath.
Paragliding World Cup 2015 Held in Himachal Pradesh.
132 world ranking Yuki Bhambri
172 world ranking Somdev Devvarman.
196 world ranking Saketh Myneni.
12th South Asian Games 2015 Held in Kerala
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6 most marketable athlete by British magazine Virat Kohli.

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Doha Boxing Tournament

Gold medal 1.L Devendro Singh(49kg).
2.Shiva Thapa (56kg).
3. Manish Kaushik (60 kg).
4. Manoj Kumar(64kg).
Silver medal Gaurav Bidhuri(52kg).
Bronze medal 1.Mandeep Jangra(69kg)
2.Vikas Krishan(75kg)
AIBA Women’s Junior/Youth World Boxing Championships
Gold medal 1.Savita(50kg).
2. Mandeep(52kg).
3.Sakshi(54kg).
Silver medal 1.Soniya(48 kg).
2. Niharika Gonella(70 kg).
Bronze medal Jamuna Boro(57 kg).
IPL 2015
Winner Mumbai Indians (MI).
Player of the Tournament Andre Russell (KKR).
Orange Cap award David Warner (Sunrisers Hyderabad).
Purple Cap awarded Dwayne Bravo (CSK).
Emerging Player of the Season Shreyas Iyer (Delhi Daredevils).
Most Valuable Player Andre Russell (KKR).
Monaco grand prix,2015
First Nico Rosberg.
Second Sebastian Vettel.
Third Lewis Hamilton.
Hockey Test series 3-0 Winner India.
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4 Indian shooter to qualify for 2016 Rio Olympics Abhinav Bindra.
Europa League title Sevilla FC.
Oldest woman to finish marathon in Record book Harriette Thompson(92).
Asian Football Confederation (AFC) U-16 final Host in India.
FIFA Rankings
India 155th
Argentina First position.
Germany Second Position.
Belgium Third position.
Colombia Fourth position.
Brazil Fifth position.
21st Asian Athletics Championship-India(3rd )
Gold medal 1.Inderjeet Singh(Shotput).
2. Lalita Babar, Vikas Gowda(Disc throw).
3. Tintu Luka-800m.
4. Vikas Gowda – Discus Throw.
Silver medal in women’s 200m finals 1.Machettira Raju Poovamma-400m Sprint.
2.Lakshmanan Govindan -10,000m.
3. Liksy Joseph – Heptathlon.
4. Jinson Johnson – 800m.
5. Jisna Mathew, Tintu Luka, Debashree Majumder,
MR Poovamma – relay women’s.
Bronze in 800m 1.Dharambir Singh – 200m
2. Lakshmanan – 5,000m
3. Purnima Hembram – Heptathlon
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4. Sarbani Nanda – 200m

South African cricketer of the year De Villiers.
2015 French Open
Women’s Single Title(3rd ) Serena Williams(20th Grand Slam title).
Women’s doubles Title Lucie Safarova and Bethanie
Mattek-Sand
Men’s doubles Title Ivan Dodig and Marcelo Melo.
Men’s Singles Title Stan Wawrinka.
Mixed Double’s Title Bethanie Mattek-Sands and Mike Bryan.
Champions league trophy Barcelona(5th time).
Canadian Grand Prix Lewis Hamilton.
Indonesia Open Men’s title Kento Momota.
Indonesia Open Women’s title Ratchanok Intanon.
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7 International junior shotgun Cup
Gold medal Anantjeet Naruka(Star Performer)-2 gold medals.
Silver medal Akash Saharan, Kismat Chopra and Lakshay
Bronze medal Angadvir Singh Bajwa.
5th Youth Delphic Games in Feb 2016 Host in Goa.
CPL T20 team Trinidad & Tobago Acquired by Shah Rukh Khan.
Indian Basketball Players Association launched in New Delhi.
Forbes magazine’s 100 highest-paid athletes in the Mahendra Singh Dhoni.
world
Forbes magazine’s 1st highest-paid athletes in the Floyd Mayweather.
world
Latest cricketer to be inducted into the ICC Cricket Sir Wesley Hall.
Hall of Fame
ITF Women’s tennis Doubles Title Sowjanya Bavisetti.
9th highest wicket-taker in Test matches Harbhajan Singh.
ODI series Winner New Zealand.
2018 FIFA World Cup qualifier Guam(33rd rank).
1st Indian to score 50 International goals Sunil Chhetri.
Stuttgart Open Title Rafael Nadal.
Under-20 World Cup Brazil.
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BWF ranking-12 HS Prannoy.
South Asian Junior and Cadet Table Tennis Championships
Team title winner Indian paddlers.
In Junior Boys category
Silver Sri Lanka’s Junior Boys.
Bronze Pakistan team.
In Cadet Girl’s category
Silver Sri Lank’s Cadet Girls
Bronze Nepal team.
Austrian Grand Prix Nico Rosberg.
ATP Halle tournament Roger Federer(86th).
Aegon Championships Andy Murray.
2015 FIFA U-20 World Cup Serbia.
Nongfu Spring World Cup China’s Zhou Yuelong and Yan Bingtao.
ICC Test rankings India-4th Spot.
European Team Athletics Championships 2015 Russia.
US Open 2015 Jordan Spieth.
Best Test player of 21st century Sachin Tendulkar.
Top 10 bowlers in ODI Ravichandran Ashwin-10th.
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Asian Athletics Grand Prix(Gold medal) Inderjeet Singh, Jinson Johnson.

Assen MotoGP Valentino Rossi.
Copa America Cup. Eduardo Vargas.
ICC ODI Rankings 1.Australia
2.India
3.New Zealand
4.South Africa
5.Sri Lanka
Top 5 ODI Batsman 1.AB de Villiers – South Africa.
2.Kumar Sangakkara – Sri Lanka
3.Hashim Amla – South Africa
4.Virat Kohli – India
5.Tillakaratne Dilshan – Sri Lanka
Top 5 Bowlers 1.Mitchell Starc – Australia
2.Trent Boult – New Zealand
3.Sunil Narine – West Indies
4.Dale Steyn – South Africa
5.Imran Tahir – South Africa
ODI series winner Bangladesh
3rd ODI Winner India.
Junior Asian championship
Men’s Freestyle category
Gold Ravi Kumar in 55kg division.
Silver Bharat Patil (50kg) and Vikas (66kg)
Bronze Amit (60kg), Dinesh (74kg), Parveen (84kg), Rubal
Jeet (96kg) and Manjeet (120kg).
Greco-Roman category
Gold Ravinder (60kg) and Mehar Singh (120kg).
Silver Manish (55kg).
Bronze Rahul (84kg).
Female Wrestling category
Silver Sarita (59kg)
Bronze Manisha (63kg), Divya Kakran (67kg) and Pooja
(72kg).
Wimbeldon 2015
Women’s double title Sania Mirza and Martina Hingis.
Men’s Singles title Novak Djokovic.
Women’s Singles Title Serena Williams.
Mixed doubles Leander Paes,Martina Hingis
Guinness World Records for spending 804 days on Gennady Padalka
ISS
New Zealand series Winner Indian women’s cricket team.
World University Games –Gold medal Inderjeet Singh .
Welterweight world title Floyd Mayweather Jr.
World Police and Fire games India -156 medals, including 89 gold and 50 silvers.
1.US.
2.Canada finished second 430 medals.
Rio 2016 Olympic torch Brasília.
British Grand Prix Lewis Hamilton .
South Asian Basketball(SABA) Championship title Sports.
2015 FIFA Women's World Cup US.
Copa America China.
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19th Commonwealth Chess Championship. Abhijeet Gupta

Guinness Book of World Records World Hand washing Day-MP.
2015 Men’s Cricket World Cup Australia and New Zealand.
2019 Men’s Cricket World Cup England and Wales.
2023 Men’s Cricket World Cup India.
2017 Women’s Cricket World Ireland.
2017 Men’s ICC Test Championship England and Wales.
2021 Men’s ICC Test Championship India
2016 ICC Men’s World Twenty20 India
2020 ICC Men’s World Twenty20 Australia
2016 ICC Women’s World Twenty20 India
2016 Summer Olympics & Paralympics Rio- de Janeiro, Brazil.
2020 Summer Olympics & Paralympics Tokyo, Japan
2018 Winter Olympics & Paralympics Pyeongchang, South Korea.
2015 Special Olympics World Summer Games Los Angeles, USA.
2014 Summer Youth Olympics Nanjing, China
2018 Summer Youth Olympics Buenos Aires, Argentina
2016 Winter Youth Olympics Lillehammer, Norway
2018 Asian Games Jakarta, Indonesia.
2017 Asian Winter Games Sapporo, Japan.
2018 Commonwealth Games Gold Cost, Queensland, Australia.
2022 Commonwealth Games Durban, South Africa (Yet to be confirmed).
2018 FIFA World Cup Russia.
2022 FIFA World Cup Qatar.
2015 FIFA U 20 World Cup New Zealand.
2017 FIFA U 20 World Cup South Korea.
2015 FIFA U 17 World Cup Chile.
2017 FIFA U 17 World Cup India.
2017 FIFA Confederations Cup Russia.
2015 FIFA Women's World Cup Canada.
2015 AFC Asian Cup Australia.
2019 AFC Asian Cup UAE.
2015 Copa America Chile.
2019 Copa America Brazil.
2023 Copa America Ecuador.
2016 Copa America Centenarian (100 years) USA.
UEFA Euro 2016 France.
UEFA Euro 2020 Pan Europe
2018 Men's Hockey World Cup Bhubaneswar, India
2018 Women's Hockey World Cup London, England.
2016 Men's Hockey Champions Trophy Argentina.
2018 Men's Hockey Champions Trophy Netherlands.
2016 Women's Hockey Champions Trophy United kingdom.
2018 Women's Hockey Champions Trophy Argentina.
32nd sub junior and 42nd Junior National Aquatics Shree Shiv Chhatrapati Sports Complex in Balewadi,
Championship Pune.
Paraguay Lionel Messi (Argentina)
2014–15 Women’s FIH Hockey World League Netherlands
British Grand Prix Lewis Hamilton
2015 South Asian Basketball Championship India
32nd sub junior and 42nd Junior National Aquatics Pune
Championship
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WBO welterweight belt Floyd Mayweather

World Junior Golf Championship Shubham Jaglan

ICC World Twenty20 India
WWP Heavyweight Championship Sangram Singh
Wimbledon Championships 2015
Men’s Singles Title Novak Djokovic
Women’s Singles Title Serena Williams
Men’s Doubles Title Jean-Julien Rojer (Netherlands) and Horia Tecău
(Romania)
Women’s Doubles Title Sania Mirza and Swiss partner Martina Hingis
Mixed Doubles Title Leander Paes and Swiss partner Martina Hingis
Boys’ Doubles Title(Junior) Sumit Nagal
2022 Winter Olympics. Beijing (China)
7th Gold Cup title Mexico
102nd edition of the Tour de France Chris Froome(Britain)
Hungarian Grand Prix 2015 Sebastian Vettel (Germany)
10,000-run mark in ODIs Tillakaratne Dilshan(4th)
Kazakhstan Presidential Cup Indian Women Wrestling Team(Silver)
Kazakhstan(Gold)
Mangolia(Third)
Volvo Invitational U-21 hockey tournament India(3rd), Netherlands (1st) and England(3rd)
IJGA World Stars of Junior Golf event 2015 Shubham Jaglan
Junior Title At US Powerlifting Championship Amitoj Chhabra
Professional Squash Association(PSA)
Men’s rankings Saurav Ghosal (2Oth ), Egyptian Mohamed EI
Shorbagy(1st).
Women’s rankings Malaysian-Nicaol David, Jodhana Chinappa -
28th rank and Dipika Pallikal - 18th rank.
Special Olympics World Games.
Golfer Ranveer Singh(Gold) – 1st Indian
300m and 500m Roller Skating Prabhroop Sekhon(2 Gold)
World Archery Championship Indian women’s archery team(Deepika Kumari,
Laxmirani Majhi and Rimil Buriuly)- Silver
Russia – Gold
Women’s Squash Title Joshna Chinappa(10th WSA Title)
world swimming championship(Break record in Sarah Sjostrom (Swedan)
100m Butterfly)
Asian Championships Dipa Karmakar( Bronze) – India
Yan Wang(Gold) - China
Sae Miyakawa(Silver) - Japan.
World Swimming Championship(Break record 3 min Ryan Murphy, Kevin Cordes, Kendyl Stewart and
42.33 sec) Lia Neal.
Olympic world Summer games 2015 India(47 gold, 54 silver and 72 bronze in 14
disciplines)
World Championships(50m butterfly-younger) Alzain Tareq
63rd Nehru Trophy Boat Race Jawahar Thayankari of Vembanad Boat
Club,Kumarakom.
World Championship Saina, Srikanth
Ashes 2015 England –winner, Australia- Runner.
Asian Youth Football Festa 2015 India – 2nd
China - 1st

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All India Junior (U-17 and U-19) Ranking Gayatri(Youngest player)

Badminton tournament
ISSF World Cup- 8th position Prakash Nanjappa(52nd rank)
Kabaddi 2016 Poland
IBSF 6 Reds World Championship Pankaj Advani(9th world title)
World Championship Srikanth(Badminton)
PGA Championships. Anirban Lahiri(Long Drive Competition )
European series Indian Men hockey(1st )
Spain(2nd)
First in Test history to take eight catches Ajinkya Rahane
World Cup (50m rifle ) Chain Singh(3rd)
World Badminton Championship Saina Nehwal
Archery World Cup Abhishek Verma
South Zone National-ranking table tennis Junior Girls: Final:Archana Kamath
championships Junior Boys: Final:Ronit Bhanja
97th Professional Golfers Association (PGA) Anirban Lahiri
Championship
Rogers Cup
Men’s Trophy Andy Murray
Women’s Trophy Belinda Bencic
Women’s Doubles trophy Caroline Garcia(France) and Katarina
Srebotnik(Slovenian)
Men’s Doubles trophy Bob and Mike(US)
English league football. Aditi Chauhan(1st Indian to play)
16 South Asian Football Federation (SAFF) Bangladesh
championship title 2015
India’s second youngest International Master (IM) Aryan Chopra
Indian Touring Cars race Deepak Paul Chinnappa(5th)
MRF Formula Ford 1600 series Karthik Tharanisingh
British Amateur stroke play golf championship Aditi Ashok(1st Indian)
Western & Southern Open of 2015
Men’s Singles finals Roger Federer
Women’s Singles finals Serena Williams
Open Era Men’s Doubles champions Nestor of Canada and Edouard Roger-Vasselin of
France
Open Era Women’s Doubles champions Chinese Taipei duo Chan Hao-ching and Chan
Yung-jan
Worlds championship(100m) Usain Bolt
Pro KabaddiLeague 2015 Mumbai
World Athletics Championships(3000m Lalita Shivaji
steeplechase)
International Cricket Council (ICC) rankings. Rahane(20th), Mishra(39th)
ICC rankings for the ODI batsmen Virat Kohli(4th)
Belgian Grand Prix championship. Lewis Hamilton
Weightlifting Championships(1st time in India) Pune
Fastest 8000 ODI runs AB de Villiers broke Sourav Ganguly’s record
Guru Tegh Bahadur Hockey title Air India
Pakistan Super League (PSL) Doha, Qatar – Feb,2016
Euro Hockey Championships Indian women’s hockey(going to final & qualified
for Rio Olympics)
World Cadet Championship(50kg) Anil(Gold)
15th IAAF World Championships in Athletics 1.Kenya(16 medals)
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2. Jamaica 12 medals) and

3.SA (18 medals).
Buchi Babu Memorial Trophy of Cricket Mumbai
First test-series India
ICC Test rankings Cheteshwar Pujara (20th),Virat Kohli (11th)
and Ishant Sharma- 18th in the bowler list
2022 Commonwealth Games Durban,South Africa.
2018 Commonwealth Games Gold Coast, Australia
Women’s 10 meters air rifle event Apurvi Chandela(Silver)
Men’s 50m Rifle prone shooting category in Asia Gagan Narang – 1st
Jitu Rai(well known as Pistol King) – 2nd
Abhinav Bindra – 5th
Asia Championships Vikas Krishan silver medal in 75 kg
2015 Italian Grand Prix of Formula One Lewis Hamilton
Sushant Chipalkatti Memorial India Junior International Badminton Championship
Women’s singles titles Ruthvika Shivani Gadde
Men’s singles titles Lakshya Sen
Men’s doubles Krishna Prasad Garaga and Satwiksairaj
Rankired(India)
NSCI Open JSW Indian Squash Circuit 2015 Joshna Chinappa
President’s Cup team Ace golfer Anirban Lahiri(Qualified)
Commonwealth Youth Games Weightlifter Deepak Lather - gold medal(138 kg)
Asian Amateur Boxing Championship 2015 – 1.Kazakhstan, 2.Uzbekistan, 3.Thailand
Silver medal Vikas Krishnan - 75kg
Bronze medals Satish Kumar (95 Kg)
L Devendro (49Kg)
Shiva Thapa (56Kg)
US Open Tennis Championships 2015
Men’s Singles Serbian Novak Djokovic
Women’s Singles Italian Flavia Pennetta
Men’s Doubles French pair of Pierre-Hugues Herbert and Nicolas
Mahut
Women’s Doubles India’s Sania Mirza and Switzerland’s Martina
Hingis
Mixed Doubles India’s Leander Paes and Switzerland’s Martina
Hingis pair
Thailand Amateur championship Golfer Aditi Ashok
New Asian Football Technical Ranking India – 22nd
Commonwealth Youth Games 2015
India – 19(9gold, 4 Silver and 6 Bronze)
Gold 1. Prachi Singh (women) -Archery
2. Prachi Singh – Pantelides Thomas (Mixed) -
Archery
3. Sasi Kumar Mukund (Men single’s)-Tennis
4. Dhruthi Tatachar Venugopal (Women single’s)-
Tennis
5. Sasi kumar Mukund – Dhruthi Tatachar
(Mixed)-Tennis
6. Deepak Lather-Weightlifting
7. Jamjang Deru -Weightlifting
8. Tejaswin Shankar (High Jump-Men)Athletics
9. Mohd Hadeesh (Javelin Throw-Men)

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Silver 1. Gourav Solanki - Boxing (52 Kg)

2. Nishant Kumawat (Boys Individual) - Archery
3. Jisna Mathew (400m) - Athletics
4. Velavan Senthil Kumar – Harshit Jawanda
(Mixed) -Squash
Bronze 1. Bhimchand Singh Leichombam - Boxing (49
Kg – Men )
2. Prayag Chauhan - Boxing (64 Kg – Men )
3. Anamika Das (Shot-put Women) - Athletics
4. Velavan Senthil kumar (Singles – Men) -
Squash
5. Chandan Bauri (400m – Men) - Athletics
6. Abitha Mary Manuel (800m – Women)-
Athletics
2016 Rio Olympic - Qualified Wrestler Narsingh Pancham Yadav(1st Indian)
Shanghai Challenger Indian tennis player Yuki Bhambri
Archery World Cup India(Bronze)
2022 Asian Games Hangzhou, China
Belgium International Challenge championship Sumeeth Reddy and Manu Attri - Men’s double title
55th National Open Athletics Championship Shot putter Manpreet Kaur - 6th title
2024 Summer Olympics Los Angeles – US
Paris – France
Rome – Italy
Budapest – Hungary and
Hamburg – Germany
2016 Rio Olympics Shooter Mairaj Ahmad Khan(Qualified)
Honorary life membership by Cricket Club of India Ajinkya Rahane
(CCI).
2015 Singapore Grand Prix F1 Championship Ferrari’s Sebastian Vettel
2015 Beijing Marathon Kenyan veteran Kipchumba
5th International Pars Wushu Cup India – 12 medals(1gold, 4 silver and 7 bronze
medals)
Elite Panel of ICC Match Richie Richardson
AFF(Asian Football Federation) Championship Goa
Japanese Grand Prix 2015 Lewis Hamilton
IBSF World Billiards Championship Pankaj Advani – 14th title
16th Asian Rowing Championships India(five silver and two bronze)
Guangzhou Open title 2015
Women’s Double Sania Mirza and Martina Hingis
Women’s Single Jelena Jankovic
8th Asian Air Gun Championship
10m Air Pistol Women Final Results
Name Country Medal
Heena Sidhu India Gold
Shweta Singh India Silver
Seon A Kim Korea Bronze
10m Air Pistol Men Final Results
Name Country Medal
Sepehr Boroujeni Safari Iran Gold
Gurpreet Singh India Silver
Jitu Rai India Bronze
10m Air Rifle Women Final Results
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Name Country Medal

Jasmine Wei Xian Ser Singapore Gold
Elaheh Ahmadi Iran Silver
Ayonika Paul India Bronze
10m Air Rifle Men Final Results
Name Country Medal
Abhinav Bindra India Gold
Yuriy Yurkov Kazakhstan Silver
Jaechul Yu Korea Bronze
10m Air Pistol Men Junior Final Results
Name Country Medal
Sumedh Kumar India Gold
Hemendra Kushwah India Silver
Mohamad Ahmed Bangladesh Bronze
Combined shotgun/rifle/pistol World Cup in 2017 India
2015 Commonwealth Youth, Junior & Senior weightlifting championships
Gold medal Punam Yadav (63kg)
Silver medal G Lalitha (63kg)
ICC team ranking Indian women’s cricket team – 4th
Australia -1st
England – 2nd
Wuhan Open women’s doubles trophy Sania Mirza and Swiss Martina Hingis
Hero MTB Himalayan Edition 2015 Luis Leao Pinto
2015 FIBA Asian Basketball Championship Won China
Malaysian Open 2015 David Ferrer (Spain) -25th
Taiwan Cup Deborah – 5 medals
T-20 International match South Africa
World Military Games Dheeraj Rangi Lightweight (60 kg) boxer - Silver
2016 World Cup, 2019 Presidents Cup golf Melbourne, Australia
tournaments
Wild card for the 2016 Delhi Open N Sriram Balaji(Tennis)
Dutch Open Grand Prix
Men’s singles Shuttler Ajay jayaram
Under-17 Krishna and Satwik
Men’s doubles B. Sumeeth Reddy & Manu Attri
Beighton cup of Hockey Punjab National Bank
Russian Grand Prix title of Formula One Lewis Hamilton
China Open (Tennis) 2015
Men’s singles Novak Djokovic (Serbia)
Women’s Singles Garbine Muguruza (Spain)
Men’s Doubles Vasek Pospisil (Canada)
And Jack Sock (US)
Women’s Doubles Sania Mirza (India)
and Martina Hingis (Switzerland)
Commonwealth Youth, Junior and Senior Weightlifting Championships
Senior men (77 Kg) S Sathish Kumar
Senior women (48Kg) S Mirabai Chanu
Junior men (85 Kg) R V Rahul
Junior women (53kg) Pramila Krisani
Youth girls (48kg) Mohini Chavan
Youth boys (69kg) Lalu Taku
21st edition of Fenesta Open National Tennis championship
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Under – 16 Titles: Boys Nitin K Sinha

Under – 16 Titles: Girls Sabhyata Nihalani
Under – 14 Titles: Boys Mann Maulik Shah
Under – 14 Titles: Girls Sanya Singh
17th Edition of Himalayan Motorsport Raid de Raj Singh Rathore (co-driver Amber Udasi)
Himalaya title
Shanghai Masters Championship Novak Djokovic – 9th title
36th National Archery Championship
Compound – Men (Ranking Round) 1.Abhishek Verma(Delhi)
2.Ch. Jignas (Ser)
3.Anil Kumar (ITBP) 698
Women (Ranking Round) 1.V. Jyothi Surekha (PSPB)
2 .Swati Dudhwal (Raj)
3 .Lily Chanu Paonam
Mixed Team 1. Rajasthan (Swati Dudhwal, Sarvesh Pareek)
2 .Maharashtra (Jayalakshmi Sarikonda, Swapnil
3 .Delhi(Divya, Adlakha, Abhishek Verma)
Denmark Open Title of Badminton 2015 Xuerui Li(China)
5th Sultan of Johor Cup (SOJ Cup) Great Britain
National Cadet Corps National Games 2015 Punjab, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh and Chandigarh
Vietnam Open Tennis Trophy Saketh Myneni
WTA No. 1 doubles ranking Sania Mirza and Martina Hingis
Rugby World Cup New Zealand beat Australia
16th national women boxing championship Nikhat Zareen defeated Vanlal Duati
2015 Mexican Gand Prix title of Formula One (F1) Nico Erik Rosberg
2015 Swiss Indoors Basel Title Roger Federer
69th senior National Aquatic Championships
Overall Team Championship in Swimming
State Point
Karnataka 233 points(28 medals)
Maharashtra 232 points
Railways 188 points
Overall Team Championship in Diving
Services 32 points
Railways 32 points
World Rankings 6th – Vikas(75kg), 7th- Satish Kumar(+91kg boxers), 13th -
L Devendro Singh(49kg) 18th - Sumit Sangwan (81kg),
37th-Gaurav Bidhuri (52kg) and 58th -Mandeep
Jangra(69kg)
Melbourne Cup Michelle Payne,first female rider
2015 Paragliding World Cup Julien Wirtz-1st , Vidic Jurij of Slovenia-2nd and Torsten
Siegel of Germany-3rd
13th Asian Shooting Championship – South Korea, India, China
10m air rifle junior men’s event
Gold Xuechao Qian of China
Silver Akhil Sheoran of India
Bronze Prashant of India
Team silver Akhil, Prashant and Pratik Borse of India
Team bronze Satyajeet Kandhol, Gajendra Rai and Babu Mithiliesh of
India
Junior Women’s 50m Rifle Prone Event
Gold Fatemeh Karamzadeh of Iran
Silver N Gayathri of India
Bronze Najmeh Khidmati of Iran
Team Silver Gayathri, Srinithi Venkatesh and Sonika
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Indian bowler to reach 150 Test wicket Ravichandran Ashwin

Asian Archery Championships Deepika Kumari and Jayanta Talukdar - bronze
1st cricketer in Ranji Trophy history to notch up 10000 Wasim Jaffer
runs
25th All India G V Mavalankar Shooting Championship Army shooters - 10 gold, 8 silver and 9 bronze medals
2015 FIFA U-17 World Cup 1st Nigeria, 2nd – Mali, 3rd – Belgium, 4th – Mexico.
32nd edition of Indian Oil Surjit Hockey tournament Indian Railways
ODI rankings 1-Australia, 2 – India, 3-South Africa,4- New Zealand, 5-
Sri Lanka,6-England, 7-Bangladesh and 8-Pakistan.
China Open Super Series Premier - Single Saina Nehwal
160 club Members Mitchell Starc
Brazilian Grand Prix Nico Rosberg
ATP World Tour Finals 2015
Singles Serbia’s Novak
Djokovic defeated Switzerland’s Roger Federer
Doubles Netherland’s Jean-Julien Rojer and
Romania’s Horia Tecau defeated India’s Rohan
Bopanna and Romania’s Florin Mergea
8th Junior Men's Asia Cup hockey India defeat Pakistan
2015 BWF world junior championship
Boys’ Singles Lu Chia-hung
Girls’ Singles Goh Jin Wei
Boys’ doubles He Jiting and Zheng Siwei
Girls’ doubles Chen Qingchen and Jia Yifan
Boys’ Singles Lu Chia-hung
Fed cup Czech Republic over Russia
Asia Cup cycling tournament Korea – 1st ,Uzbekistan – 2nd , India – 3rd
All India FIDE Rating Chess tournament Srishti Pandey
Asian Football Awards Aditi Chauhan
IBSF World Snooker Championship Pankaj Advani defeat Zhua Xintong
Strategic coach for the Indian mens team Roger Van Gent
World Athletes of the Year Genzebe Dibaba
First day-night Test match at the Adelaide Oval Cricket Australia and New Zealand
Stadium
ICC Women’s World Twenty20 Qualifier New Zealander Kathleen, Australia’s Claire Polosak,
England’s Sue Redfern and West Indies’ Jacqueline
Williams
Macau Open Grand Prix PV Sindhu defeat Minatsu Mitani
World heavyweight champion title Tyson Fury after beatting Wladimir Klitschko
Under-19 Tri-Series cricket title India defeated Bangladesh
Abu Dhabi Grand Prix Nico Rosberg
2015 Delhi Half Marathon
Men’s title Birhanu Legese from Ethiopia
Women’s title Cynthia Limo from Kenya
Davis Cup Great Britain
ICC Test rankings James Anderson and Yasir Shah -3rd , Josh
Hazlewood - 10th
Murali Vijay - 12th position, while his captain Virat
Kohli -16th
ATP rank list Bhambri - 93rd, while Somdev Devavarman - 181
WTP rank list Sania Mirza, Martina Hingis – 1st, Ankita Raina –
255,Prerna Bhambri -473.
'Mr World' - world bodybuilding Thakur Anoop
Hockey World League(HWL) Australia

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59th National shooting championship

10m air pistol Men
1 Shahzar Rizvi 199.6 (577)
2 Vijay Kumar 198.2 (577)
3 Sib Kumar Ghosh 177.2 (580)
Juniors
1 Achal Pratap Singh Grewal 577 (21x)
2 Pawan Yadav 577 (16x)
3 Arjun Das 575
Youth
1 Saurabh Choudhary 573
2 Dhruv Pran Singh 572 (18x)
3 Shainki Nagar 572 (17x)
Juniors
First Achal Pratap Singh Grewal 562
Second Shivam Shukla 558
Third Rushiraj Atul Barot 557
Men: 25m centre fire pistol
First Vijay Kumar 588
Second Gurpreet Singh 586
Third Pemba Tamang 582
US Winter National Championships American swim star Michael Phelps
Hero World Challenge American professional golfer Bubba Watson
ICC Test Championship India – 2nd
BWF Player of the Year award
Most Promising Player of the Year - Female Para Zheng Si Wei
Badminton Player of the Year Norway’s Helle Sofie Sagoy
Male Para-Badminton Player of the Year Korea’s Lee Sam Seop
2015 National Wheelchair Basketball Championship
Maharashtra
Badminton World Superseries Finals 2015
Men’s singles Kento Momota
Women’s singles Nozomi Okuhara
Men’s doubles Mohammad Ahsan & Hendra Setiawan
Women’s doubles Luo Ying and Luo Yu
Mixed doubles Chris Adcock and Gabriele Adcock
British heavyweight title Anthony Joshua
Asian Tour’s Order of Merit crown Anirban Lahiri
Sportsperson of 2015 Serena Williams
London Classic chess championship Carlsen – 1st, Anand – 9th
World golf rankings Jordan Spieth 1st ,Rory McIlroy – 2nd
S.S.P. Chawrasia - 211
Mentor of Pakistan Super League Andy Flower
ICC Test rankings :Batsman Rank Ravichandran Ashwin - top 2nd spot, while Ravindra
Jadeja - 8th spot, Brendon McCullum - 17th .
Rankings for Test bowlers Australia’s Josh Hazlewood has entered the top 10,
Off-spinner Nathan Lyon - 15th
European Tour Golfer of the Year Rory McIlroy
World Dubai Superseries
Men’s Single title Momota beat Denmark’s Viktor Axelsen
Women’s Single title Okuhara overcame Yihan Wang from China
Women’s doubles title Chinese twin shuttlers Luo Ying and Luo Yu beating
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Christinna Pedersen and Kamilla Rytter Juhl from

Men’s double title
2015 Indian Super League
FIFA Club World Cup Japan 2015
Denmark.
Indonesian men’s doubles pair of Mohammad
Ahsan and Hendra Setiawan beat China’s Chai Biao
and Hong Wei Mixed double final - Adcock
Chennaiyin FC
Barcelona FC

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