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




 TENNIS

 

Men's single's Title

Women's single's Title

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 

The French Open 2021(Clay Court)

·       125th Edition

·       in ParisFrance

·       From 30 May to 13 June 2021

Serbia's Novak Djokovic

Czech Republic's Barbora Krejcikova

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

The US Open  2021 (Hard Court)

·       141st edition

·      in New York

Russia's Daniil Medvedev 

Britian's Emma Raducanu

Italian Open 2021

·       78th edition

·       in Rome, Italy

·        May 2021

Spain's                   Rafael Nadal

Poland's Iga ÅšwiÄ…tek

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

 

Men's single's Title

Women's single's Title

Yonex Swiss Open 2021 (March 2021s)

Denmark’s     Viktor Axelsen

Spain’s Carolina Marin

PV Sindhu won Silver

Uganda International Badminton Tournament 2021

India’s Varun Kapur

India’s Malvika Bansod

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)
2) Lewis Hamilton(Mercedes-Great Britain) won
    • 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)     
3) OTHERS:
    • 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 DubaiUAE

             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 NagvenkarAIFF Best Referee Award of the year 2020-2021

8) Lionel Messi Joined Paris Saint Germain Team after Barcelona Exit (August 2021)

9) FIFA Men's Rankings
                    1st- Belgium
                    2nd- Brazil
                    3rd- France
                    106th- India

10) India won against Nepal in 2021 SAFF(South Asian Football Federation) in Male, Maldives (October 2021)


11) Poland's Footballer Robert Lewandowski won Europe's Golden Shoe Award 2021

12) Manipur won Senior Women's National Football Championship (December 2021)

13)Kolkata hosted Durand Cup 2021- 130th edition- 16 teams participated

            FC Goa won against Mohammedan sporting (October 2021)








HOCKEY

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)

3) Vandana Katariya - The First Indian Female Hockey player to score a hat-trick in Olympics (India Vs South Africa) (August 2021)

4) Asian Men's Hockey Championship Trophy 2021 (Held in Dhaka, Bangaladesh) - Japan won

India won bronze (December 2021)

5) Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award has been renamed as  Majar Dhyan chand Khel Ratna Award (August 2021)
 
6) FIH (Federation Internationale de Hockey)Hockey Star Awards 2021 (October 2021)
        
      FIH Men's Hockey Player of the year- Harampreet Singh(India) 

     FIH Women's Hockey Player of the year Gurujit Kaur (India)

     FIH Men's Goal Keeper of the year-    PR Sreejesh (India)

     FIH Women's Goal Keeper of the year-    Savita (India)

    FIH Men's Hockey Coach of the year- Graham Reid(India) 

    FIH Men's Hockey Rising Star of the year- Vivek Prasad(India) 

7)  FIH Men's Junior Hockey World Cup 2021 (December 2021)
        Argentina defeated Germany
        Finals at The Kalinga Stadium, Odisha




Tokyo Olympics 2020 (Held in 2021)
           1) Host City - Tokyo, Japan  

            2)Mascot - Miraitowa

            3) Motto - United by Emotion  

            4)Flag Bearer in the Opening Ceremony -  Mary Kom (Boxer) & Manpreet Singh (Hockey Player) 
            Flag Bearer in the Closing Ceremony  Haryana's Wrestler Bajrang Punia

            5)Olympic Torch Bearer-Japanese Tennis Player Naomi Osaka 

            6) Olympics Theme Song of India-"Tu Haan le.. lakshya Thera Samne Hai"- Composed and sung by Singer Mohit Chauhan- launched by Kiren Rijiju (Sports Minister at that time)

            Official Theme Song of Tokyo Olympics"Colourful"- by J Pop

           Olympics Cheer Song of India-"Hindustani Way"- Sung by AR Rahman and Ananya Birla

            7) Current President of International Olympic Committee (IOC)Thomas Bach (Germany)
 
            8) President of Tokyo Olympics -Seikho Hashimoto (Japanese Speed Skater and Cyclist- Appeared in 7 Olympics)

            9)United states has topped with 113 Medals ( 39 Gold, 41 Silver and 33 Bronze Medals)

           10) India at 48th Position with 7 Medals (1- Gold, 2- Silver and 4- Bronze Medals)

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

            
 To read more about Tokyo Olympics 2020
https://anniedais.blogspot.com/2022/01/tokyo-olympics-2020-held-in-2021.html




Summer Tokyo Paralympic 2020 
 

            1) Host City - Tokyo, Japan  

            2)Mascot - Someity

            3)Motto - United by Emotion  

           4) Current president of  Paralympic Committee of India (IOA/IOC) Deepa Malik  (The First Indian Woman to win a medal in paralympics Games- She won a silver medal at 2016 Rio paralympics in Shot Put)
             
             5) First Medalist in Table Tennis Paralympics 2020:
                    Bhavina Patel won Silver Medal in Women's singles table tennis class 4 category against China's Zhou Ying

            6) Flag Bearer in the Opening Ceremony -  Tek Chand (Javelin Thrower)  
                    Flag Bearer in the Closing Ceremony  -  Avani Lekhara (Shooter) 

            7)THEME SONG-" Kar De Kamaal Tu"- Composed and sung by Divyang Cricket Player Sanjeev Singh- launched by Anurag Thakur (Sports Minister at that time)

           8) 1st-China (Gold- 96 ; Total -207) 
            India (Gold - 5, Silver -8, Bronze -6, Total = 19) 

            9)Avani Lekhara-  First Indian Woman to win two medals in the same paralympics- Gold in 10 m air rifle standing and Bronze in 50 m air rifle Standing

            10) Atheletics- 8: Shooting- 5; Badminton- 4; Table Tennis-1; Archery-1 ; Total=19

GOLD-

        1) Avani Lekhara- Women's 10m Air Rifle Standing SH1
        2) Sumit Antil- Men's Javelin Throw - F64
        3) Pramod Bhagat- Men's Singles  badminton SL3
        4) Manish Narwal- P4 - Mixed 50m Pistol SH1
        5) Krishna Nagar-Men's Singles  badminton SH6

SILVER-
        1) Bhavina Patel- Women's singles table tennis class 4
        2) Singhraj Adhana- P4 - Mixed 50m Pistol SH1
        3) Yogesh Kathuniya-Men's Discus Throw - F56
        4)Nishad Kumar- Men's High Jump - T47
        5) Mariyappan Thangavelu- Men's High Jump - T63
        6) Praveen Kumar- Men's High Jump - T64
        7) Devendra Jhajharia- Men's Javelin Throw - F46
        8) Suhas Yathiraj- Men's Singles  badminton SL4

BRONZE-
        1) Avani Lekhara-Women's 50m Rifle 3 Positions SH1
        2) Harvinder Singh-Men's Individual Recurve - Open
        3) Sharad Kumar- Men's High Jump - T63
        4) Sundar Singh Gurjar- Men's Javelin Throw - F46
        5) Manoj Sarkar- Men's Singles SL3
        6)Singhraj Adhana-P1 - Men's 10m Air Pistol SH1


To read more about paralympics:






OTHERS

                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 BirminghamEngland 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)

5th Edition of Asian Youth Para games- Host- Tahkent (|Uzbekistan) in 2025

                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)

                Haryana's 26-year-old Sarita Mor - won two consecutive medals  women's 59 kg. 

                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 

                     Malaysia won Women's Asian team Squash Championship against Hong Kong  (December 2021)

                    18) India won 6 medals (2 Gold, 4 Silver) in Asian Rowing Championship in Thailand (December 2021)



Sports 2021- A Glimpse- Part 2



OTHER POSTS:

Governors and CMs of States; Lieutenant Governors/ Administrators and CMs of Union Territories in India - https://anniedais.blogspot.com/2022/04/governors-and-cms-of-states-lieutenant.html

Major Sea Ports in India- https://anniedais.blogspot.com/2022/04/major-sea-ports-in-india.html

 UNESCO HERITAGE SITES IN INDIA- https://anniedais.blogspot.com/2022/03/unesco-heritage-sites-in-india.html

List of Important National parks in India with mnemonics- https://anniedais.blogspot.com/2022/02/list-of-important-national-parks-in.html

Tokyo Olympics 2020 (Held in 2021)- https://anniedais.blogspot.com/2022/01/tokyo-olympics-2020-held-in-2021.html

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