Sports 2021- A Glimpse- Part 1
CHESS
Grand Masters of India-
66th- Tamil Nadu's G Akash (July 2020)
1st - Vishwanathan Anand (1988)
67th -Goa's 14 year old Leon Mendonca (January 2021)
68th - Tamil
Nadu's 18 year old Arjun Kalyan (April 2021)
69th -
Maharastra's 20 year old Harshit Raja (August 2021)
70th- Telangana's 17
year old Raja Rithvik (September 2021)
71st- Nagpur's 18
year old Sankalp Gupta (November 2021)
72nd- Kolkata's 20
year old Mitrabha Guha (November 2021)
73rd- Tamil Nadu's 14 year old Bharat Subramaniyan (Jan 2022)
OTHERS
1) Tamil Nadu's D Gukesh won the title of Galfond Challenge Chess and Norway Chess Open 2021 (June 2021)
2) Youngest Grandmaster in Chess History - Indian American Abhimanyu Mishra (12 years 4 months 25 days) . He surpassed Sergei Karjakin(12 years and 7 months) in 2002
3) China's Hou Yifan won 2021 Women's Speed Chess Championship (July 2021)
4) Vishwanathan Anand won Sparkseen Trophy at Dortmund (July 2021)
5) Poland's 23 year old Jan- Krzysztof Duda won the title of FIDE Chess World Cup 2021 (August 2021)
6) SP Sethuraman won Barcelona Open Chess Title (August 2021)
7) Divya Deshmuk - India's 21st Woman Grand Master (October 2021)
8) Indian Grand Master P Iniyan won 5th Rujna Zora Chess tournament in Serbia (November 2021)
9) Norway's Magnus Carlsen won his 5th World Chess Championship in 2021's World Chess Championship organised by FIDE at Dubai, UAE
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Men's single's Title |
Women's single's Title |
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The Australian Open 2021(Hard
Court) · 109th edition · at Melbourne Park · From
8th to 21st February 2021 |
Serbia's Novak Djokovic |
Japan's Naomi Osaka |
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The
French Open 2021(Clay Court) · 125th
Edition · in Paris, France · From
30 May to 13 June 2021 |
Serbia's Novak Djokovic |
Czech
Republic's Barbora
Krejcikova |
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Wimbledon
2021 (Grass Court) · in Wimbledon, London · From 28 June 2021 to 11 July 2021 |
Serbia's Novak Djokovic Junior Men's title: Indian American Samir Banerjee |
Australia's Ashleigh Barty |
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The US Open 2021 (Hard Court) · 141st
edition · in New York |
Russia's Daniil Medvedev |
Britian's Emma Raducanu |
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Italian Open 2021 · 78th
edition · in Rome, Italy · May
2021 |
Spain's Rafael
Nadal |
Poland's Iga Świątek |
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The Serbia Open 2021 |
Italy's Matteo Berrettini |
Spain's Paula Badosa Gibert |
OTHERS:
1) Spain's Garbine Muguruza won 2021 WTA (Women's Tennis Association)Finals Tennis Title (November 2021)
2) Ramkumar Ramanathan won his maiden ATP Challenger Title in Bahrain(November 2021)
3) Russian tennis Federation won Davis Cup 2021 tennis tournament (for the third time) in Madrid (Against Croatia)
4) Women's Tennis Association (WTA)Award 2021
WTA Player of the year- Australia's Ashleigh Barty
WTA Most improved player of the year- Barbora Krejcikova
WTA New Comer of the Year - Emma Raducanu
5) The first Arab Woman to win WTA Title- Tunisia's Ons Jabeur (June 2021)
BADMINTON
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Men's
single's Title |
Women's
single's Title |
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Yonex Swiss Open 2021 (March 2021s) |
Denmark’s Viktor
Axelsen |
Spain’s Carolina Marin PV Sindhu won Silver |
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Uganda International Badminton
Tournament 2021 |
India’s Varun Kapur |
India’s Malvika Bansod |
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All England Open Badminton
Championships |
Malaysia’s Lee Zii Jia |
Japan’s Nozomi Okuhara |
OTHERS:
1) India will host 2026 World badminton Championship
2) China's Women's Team won 15thUber Cup badminton Tournament against Japan (October 2021)
3) Indonesia won Thomas Cup against China after 19 years (October 2021)
4) BWF World Championship Women's Singles Title in Spain- won by Akane Yamaguchi
GRAND PRIX 2021
1) Max Verstappen (Netherland- Red Bull) won
- Mexico City Grand Prix 2021 (November 2021)
- Monaco Grand Prix 2021 (May 2021)
- United States Grand Prix 2021 (October 2021)
- Belgian Grand Prix 2021 (August 2021)
- F1 Emilia Romagna Grand Prix (April 2021)
- F1 Austrian Grand Prix 2021 (July 2021)
- F1 Belgian Grand Prix 2021 (August 2021)
- F1 Dutch Grand Prix 2021 (September 2021)
- F1 French Grand Prix 2021 (June 2021)
- F1 Styrian Grand Prix 2021 (June 2021)
- F1 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix 2021 (December 2021)
- F1 Brazilian Grand Prix 2021 (Sao Paulo) (November 2021)
- F1 Bahrain Grand Prix 2021 (April 2021)
- F1 British Grand Prix 2021 (July 2021)
- F1 Qatar Grand Prix 2021 (November 2021)
- F1 Russian Grand Prix 2021 (September 2021)
- F1 Saudi Arabia Grand Prix 2021 (December 2021)
- Portuguese Grand Prix 2021 (October 2021)
- Spanish Grand Prix 2021 (May 2021)
- F1 Turkish Grand Prix 2021 - Finnish Valtteri Bottas (October 2021)
- F1 Italian Grand Prix 2021 - Italian Australian - Daniel Ricciardo (September 2021)
- F1 Hungarian Grand Prix 2021 - Esteban Ocon (France) (August 2021)
- F1 Azerbaijan Grand Prix 2021 - Sergio Perez (Mexico- Red bull) (June 2021)
CRICKET
1) Border Gavaskar Trophy 2020-2021- Named after Alan Border of Australia and Sunil Gavaskar of India- held in Jan 2021- Test series played between India and Australia - India Won Australia
2) The West Indies captain Kieron Pollard hit six sixes in an over during the first T20I against Sri Lanka in Antigua.
He became the second batsman in the history of T20Is after Yuvraj Singh in the 2007 T20 World Cup clash against England.
3) * Vijay Hazare Trophy 2020-2021 (Feb and March 2021) - Mumbai Indians won against Uttar Pradesh
* Vijay Hazare Trophy 2021-2022 (December 2021)- Himachal Pradesh won against Tamil Nadu
Tamil Nadu team has won this trophy maximum times(5)
4) 2022 ICC Women's World Cup (12th Edition) to be held in March- April 2022- New Zealand will be the host- "Girl Gang" will be the Official Song
5) 2031 ICC Men's 50 Over World Cup - India will be the host
6) Australia's women's cricket team has created a world record for the most consecutive ODI wins(22 consecutive ODIs in a row)
7) New Zealand captain Kane Williamson has been awarded the Sir Richard Hadlee medal for the fourth time in six years (April 2021)
8)Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy 2021- 2022 (13th Edition)- In November 2021
Tamil Nadu has lifted the Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy defeating Karnataka by 4 wickets.
Shahrukh Khan- Hit a six on the final ball.
(Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy 2020- 2021 in January 2021 - Tamil Nadu lifted the Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy defeating Baroda by 7 wickets)
9) 5th T20 I (March 2021)
India clinches 5th T20I series against England
10) ICC World Cup Test Championship:(June 2021)- New Zealand won against India
11) 2021 ICC Women's T20 World Cup
in August 2021 in Spain
Scotland won against Ireland
Ireland's Eimear Richardson - player of the tournament.
12) ICC Men's T20 World Cup 2021- in Oct nd Nov 2021
at Dubai International Cricket Stadium in Dubai, UAE
Australia won the match against by 8 wickets to win their maiden T20 World Cup title.
Player of the series- David Warner (289 Runs)
ICC Men's T20 World Cup 2021- in Oct nd Nov 2022- Host- Australia
13) IPL(14th edition) - 4th Win of Chennai Super Kings(CSK)
BCCI has decided to move IPL to UAE (The first half of IPL was played in India while the second half was played in UAE. Finals were held at Dubai International Stadium)
Player of the Tournament- Harshal Patel (RCB)
Highest Run Scorer (Orange Cap)- Ruturaj Gaikwad (CSK) - 635 Runs
Highest Wicket Taker (Purple Cap)- Harshal Patel (32 Wickets)
Total Teams in IPL 2022= 10 (Ahmedabad and Lucknow will be a part of IPL 2022)
14) Virat Kohli becomes the first player to reach 6000 IPL runs
15) Virat Kohli became the first cricketer to score 3,000 runs in T20 International cricket
Rohit Sharma became the third cricketer to score 3,000 runs in T20 International cricket (November 2021)
Pakisthan's Babar Azam became the fastest batsman to score 2500 runs in T20 International cricket
Afghanisthan's Rashid Khan became the fastest bowler to take 100 in T20 International wickets
16) Australian umpire Claire Polosak becomes the first woman to officiate a men's Test in the 144-year cricket history
17) Shafali Verma (96 runs) - The first women Cricketer to score highest in test debut (June 2021)
18) Shafali Verma- The youngest Indian player to debut in all three Cricket Formats (July 2021)
19) Mithali Raj - The highest run scorer in women's cricket across all formats (July 2021)
20) Mithali Raj became the first woman cricketer to complete 7000 ODI runs
21)Test Rankings of Batsmen released by International Cricket Council :(December 2021)
1st- Marnus Labushchagne
5th- India's Rohit Sharma
7th- Virat Kholi
Test Rankings of Bowlers released by International Cricket Council :(December 2021)
1st- Australia's Pat Cummins
2nd- India's Ravichandra Ashwin
3rd- Pakisthan's Shaheen afridi
Test Rankings of All Rounders released by International Cricket Council :(December 2021)
1st- West Indies Jason Holder
2nd- India's Ravichandra Ashwin
3rd- Ravindra Jadeja
22) ICC welcomes Mongolia, Tajikistan and Switzerland as its new members
23) Australia's Nathan Ellis- The first bowler to take a hat-trick in T20 International Cricket Debut
24) Ireland's Amy Hunter hit 121 not out making her the youngest batter to score an ODI Century in either Men's or Women's Cricket. (October 2021)
25) Bamboo and Cane Development Institute of Tripura along with NECTAR has created India's first ever bamboo made cricket bat and stumps (November 2021)
26) Rahul Dravid has been appointed as the Head Coach till 2023 World Cup
27) W.V. Raman was replaced by Ramesh Powar in May 2021 as the coach of the India women's national cricket team
28) Rohit Sharma- New Captain of Indian T20 I and ODI
29) Sourav Ganguly - appointed as the new Chairman of the ICC Men's Cricket Committee (November 2021)- He succeeded Anil Kumble
30) Geoff Allardice- New Permanent CEO of International Cricket Council
31)BCCI announced the Formation of Differently abled Cricket Council of India(DCCI) under the presidentship of Saurav Ganguly and Secretary Jay Shah
FOOT BALL
1) 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup (9th Edition) - Australia and New Zealand will jointly host
2) FIFA under 17 Women's World cup will be held in India in October 2022
Mascot- IBHA(Arabic Lioness representing Power)
3) North Korea has announced its exit from FIFA World Cup 2022 amid Covid Pandemic (May 2021)
2022 FIFA World will be held in Qatar
4)International Goal Scorer index 2021:
1st-Portugal's Christiano Ronaldo (103 Goals)
2nd- India's Sunil Chettri (74 Goals)
3rd- Lionel Messi (72 Goals)
5)Christiano Ronaldo won Euro 2020 Golden Boot(July 2021)
6) Italy Foot Ball Team won Euro 2020 title(UEFA European Football Championship) (July 2021)
7) Bala Devi- AIFF Women's Footballer of the year 2020-2021
Sandesh Jhinghan- AIFF Men's Footballer of the year 2020-2021
Tejas Nagvenkar- AIFF Best Referee Award of the year 2020-2021
1) India secured 4th rank in Men's International Hockey Federation World Rankings (1st- Belgium) (June 2021)
2) Rani Rampal - Captain of Indian Women's Hockey Team for Tokyo Olympics (June 2021)
Haryana's Neeraj Chopra (23 yrs) | Men’s Javelin Throw- 87.58m | Gold |
Manipur's Mirabhai Chanu (26 yrs) | Women’s 49kg Weightlifting - Lifted 202 kg | Silver |
Haryana's Ravi Kumar Dhahiya (23 yrs) | Men’s 57 kg Freestyle Wrestling (against Zaur Uguvev-ROC) | Silver |
Assam's Lovlina Borghain (23 yrs) | Women’s Welterweight Boxing | Bronze |
Hyderbad's PV Sindhu (26 yrs) | Women’s Singles Badminton (against China's He Bingijiao) | Bronze |
Haryana's Bajrang Punia (27 yrs) | Men’s Freestyle Wrestling | Bronze |
Men’s Hockey Team | Men’s Hockey | Bronze |
Summer Tokyo Paralympic 2020
1) US has announced boycott of 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing (December 2021)
2)India won 16 medals (4 Gold, 7 Silver and 5 bronze) at the Commonwealth Weightlifting Championships 2021 held at Tashkent, Uzbekistan
3) The 2022 Commonwealth Games( XXII Commonwealth Games) and commonly known as Birmingham 2022, is scheduled to be held in Birmingham, England between 28 July and 8 August 2022
4) Asia hosted 4th Asian Youth Para Games(4th Edition)- India won 4 Golds, 7 Silver and 4 bronze (Iran topped with 97 Medals)
5) Sarah Gamal becomes the first Arab female basketball referee to compete in the Olympics
6) Asian Wrestling Championships 2021: India clinches 14 medals (5 Gold, 3 silver, 6 bronze)
7) Haryana's Vinesh Phogat won Gold in Ukraine wrestling Tournament (53 kg Category) (Feb-March 2021)
8) The first-ever Khelo India Zanskar Winter Sports Festival ( January, 2021) at Padum in Zanskar of Kargil district, ladakh.
9) India bags 10 medals(1- Gold; 8- Silver and 1- Bronze) in 35th Boxam International Tournament 2021
Manish Kaushik won Gold medal in Men's 63 kg category (March 2021)
10) Yashaswini Deshwal (10 m air pistol)- The first shooter to win India's Gold medal in shooting World cup 2021 Held in Delhi (March 2021)
11)Rahi Sarnobat won Gold at ISSF World Cup shooting (June 2021)
12) India's Abhishek Verma created a history by becoming the first man to win two World cup Gold medals in Individual compound Archery (June 2021)
13) Indian Golfer Jeev Milkha Singh has been awarded with Golden Visa of Dubai for his outstanding acheivements in the sport (September 2021)
14) United States won against Europe in 2021 Ryder Cup Golf Tournament
15) America's Golfer Phil Mickelson has created history by winning 2021 PGA Championship at the age of 50 (May 2021)
16) Pankaj Advani (Indian Billiards and Snooker Player) won Asian Snooker Title in Doha (September 2021)
17)Malaysia won Men's Asian team Squash Championship against India in Kuala Lampur
Sports 2021- A Glimpse- Part 2
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