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2016 Sports(Jan - Dec)

January
Name of the Sport Events Name of the Winners
ICC ranking
Steve Smith (Aus) 899 points
Top-3 Test batsmen Kane Williamson (NZ) 889
Joe Root (Eng) 888
RavichandranAshwin (Ind) 871 points
Top-10 Test bowlers Dale Steyn (SA) 867
Stuart Broad (Eng) 859
RavichandranAshwin (Ind) 406 points
Top-3 Test all-rounders Shakib Al Hasan (Ban) 384
Stuart Broad (Eng) 326
National Wrestling Championship
Mens 65kg
First Bajrang
Second Rajneesh
Third Manoj and Bhagat Singh
Mens 57kg
Gold SandeepTomar
Silver Ravinder
Womens 48kg
Gold RituPhogat
Silver AprnaBishni
Bronze Pooja and Nirmal
Qatar Masters Open chess tournament Magnus Carlsen
2015 South Asian Football Federation India
P T Rajan Gold Cup Rajsamman
World record by scoring 1009 runs at school level
PranavDhanawade
tournament
Chandela (Gold)
Swedish Air-Rifle Championship Astrid Steffensen (Silver)
Stine Nielsen(Bronze)
26th LalBahadurShastri Hockey tournament Oil and Natural Gas Corporation(ONGC)
MCL Title sponsors Oxigen Wallet
Junior Badminton World Federation (BWF) rankings.
Mens Singles Womens Singles
First: SirilVerma(India) First: Carolina Marin(Spain)
Second:TomaJunior Popov(France) Second: SainaNehwal(India)
Third: ChiragSen(India) Third: Li Xuerei(China)
Ninth: KidambiSrikanth(India) Twelfth: PV Sindhu(India)
FIFA rankings India 163
2015 England Player of the Year Wayne Rooney
Hilton Asian Tour Golfer of the Month MiguealTabuena
2016 with Brisbane title SaniaMirza(India) and Martina Hingis(Swiss)
Qatar Open 2016
Singles Novak Djokovic (Serbia)
Doubles Feliciano Lopez (Spain)
Marc Lopez (Spain)
Hopman Cup Nick Kyrgios (Austrlaia)
Brisbane International Victoria Azarenka
WTA title Sloane Stephens
2016 Chennai Open title StanislasWawrinka from Switzerland
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BWF Ranking
Marcelo Melo of Brazil, followed by HoriaTecau of
Man Double Ranking
Romania and Netherlands Jean-JulienRojer.

Novak Djokovic of Serbia ahead of Andy Murray of

Mens Singles Great Britain and Swiss Roger Federer.

Sania and Martina

Womens Double
Bopanna - 9th
Coach of Pune IPL team Stephen Fleming
Queen Elizabeth Commemoration Cup Queens Turf
ICC Event Partner MoneyGram
World Record by Sania-Martina as they win 29th match SaniaMirza and Martina Hingis
on trot
2nd-fastest 50 in T-20 Colin Munro
Denmarks sportsperson of 2015 Rene HoltenPoulsen
International Tennis Hall of Fame Marat Safin
2015 German Player of the Year MesutOzil
Sydney International Title 2016 SaniaMirza and Martina Hingis
7000 ODI runs after AB de Villers ViratKohli
2016 Apia international title
Mens Singles Viktor Troicki
Womens Singles Svetlana Kuznetsova
Mens Doubles Jamie Murray of UK/Bruno Soares of Brazil
Womens Doubles Martina Hingis of Switzerland/SaniaMirza
1.India
ICC Test Rankings 2.Australia
3.South Africa
Delhi International Open chess title Ivan Popov(Russia)
2016 Dafabet Masters UKs Ronnie OSullivan
Badminton League Champion Delhi Acers
Life time ban by ICC IPL player AjitChandila
First England bowler in ICC top Bowler Stuart Broad after Steve Harminson
Lady Wigram Trophy JehanDaruvala
T20 Fifty Record Chris Gayle
Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy Uttar Pradesh
Grand Slam Singles title Roger Federer 300th win
Malaysia Masters Grand Prix
Mens Singles Lee Chong Wei (Malaysia)
Womens Singles P. V. Sindhu (India)
Mens doubles Kevin SanjayaSukamuljo (Indonesia) & Markus Fernaldi
Gideon (Indonesia)
Womens doubles Ayaka Takahashi (Japan) &MisakiMatsutomo (Japan)
Mixed doubles ZhengSiwei (China) & Li Yinhui (China)
womens world indoor pole vault record JennSuhr
34th National Rowing Championship
Open single sculls NavneetKaur (Pun)
Double sculls HarpreetKaur&NavneetKaur (Pun)
Coxless fours Odisha (PramilaPravaMinz, PratimaPuhana, Sanjukta
Dung, ManjulaXess)
Pairs Sanjukta Dung &ManjulaXess (Odi)
Senior Men
Single sculls Sandeep Kumar (All India Police)
Lt wt double sculls G. Vishnu Prasad &Arjun B. Panicker (Ker)
Coxless four Punjab (Lachhman Singh, Sushil Kumar, Robin Mangar,
Rohit Kumar)

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Lt wt coxless fours All India Police (DharmendraChoudhary, Nitesh Kumar

Lall, Ravinderjit Singh, Jagsir Singh)
Pairs Gurwinder Singh &Karamjeet Singh (Pun)
Australian Open 2016
Mens Singles Novak Djokovic (Serbia)
Womens Singles Angelique Kerber (Germany)
Mens Doubles Jamie Murray (UK)/Bruno Soares (Brazil)
Womens Doubles Martina Hingis (Switzerland)/SaniaMirza (India)
Mixed Doubles Elena Vesnina (Russia)/Bruno Soares (Brazil)
Retired from International Cricket Pakistan - Imran
West Indies Chanderpaul(all form)
BWF ranking P V Sindhu 11th
th
12 Sub-Junior National Snooker championship Ishika Shah
Olympic quota with gold medal HeenaSidhu
2015 FIH Awards
Player of the Year (Men) Robert Van der Horst
Player of the Year (Women) LidewijWelten
Rising Star of the Year award (Men) Chrisopher Ruhr
Rising Star of the Year award (Women) Lily Owsley
Goalkeeper of the Year award (Men) David Harte
Goalkeeper of the Year award (Women) Joyce Sombroek
ITTF World Junior Circuit Finals IzumoTakuto and Zhu Chengzhu
Blind T20 Asia Cup India
Fifth spot in ICC batting Rohit Sharma
National Billiards Championship Sourav Kothari

February
Name of the Sport Events Name of the Winners
2016 Syed Modi Badminton Title
Mens singles category Indian KidambiSrikanth
Womens singles Sayaka Sato from Japan
Mens doubles category Goh V Shem and Tan Wee Kiong from Malaysia
Womens doubles category Jung Kyung-eun and Shin Seung-chan from South Korea

Mixed Doubles Title Indonesian pair Praveen Jordan and Deby Susanto
2021 World Aquatics Championships Fukuoka
2015 MRF Challenge Formula 2000 PietroFittipaldi
No 1 batsman in T20 Internationals ViratKohli
` National Snooker Championship 2016
Mens final Aditya Mehta
womens final VidyaPillai
womens billiards final KeerathBhandaal
61st National School Athletics championship Kerala
World No. 9 in latest BWF ranking K.Srikanth
ICC Permanent member status India, England and Australia (removed)
Mumbai International Open Chess tournament Title Swapnil S Dhopade
ICC suspended for three months Yasir Shah
Retired from One-Day Internationals New Zealand cricketer Brendon Barrie McCullum(100th
consecutive Test)
Fastest cricketer to make 10 ODI centuries De Kock of South Africa
Womens World Cup Final In 2017 Lord
BCCI bans for 5 years Pakistani umpire AsadRauf
St. Petersburg Ladies Trophy SaniaMirza and Martina Hingis

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ICC U-19 Cricket World Cup 2016 West Indies

12th South Asian Games 1.India, 2. Sri Lanka 3.Pakistan
Buenos Aires Title Dominic Thiem
Rio Olympic Games Qualifier ShortDena Banks Sridhar
National Chess Team Championship Indian Railways
Clothing supplier for WC T20 Numero Uno
Indonesias first Formula1 Driver Rio Haryanto
World Rabk 6th in chess Suhaanialohi
2016 Hockey Title Japee Punjab Warriors
Asian Wrestling Championship Iran 1st and India 7th (9medals)
7th WTA career title Francesca Schiavone
Chief coach of Sri Lanka Graham Xavier Ford
Wawrinka won Dubai ATP Tennis Title 2016
Womens Singles Sara Errani from Italy
Mens Doubles Simone Bolelli and Andreas seppi
Womens Doubles Chuang Chia Jung from Chinese Taipei and DarijaJurak
from Croatia
2016 Qatar Total Open
Singles JelenaOstapenko of Latvia

Doubles Taipei Chan Hao-ching / Taipei Chan Yung-jan of China

Ranji trophy Mumbai 41st time
Record: seven better Olympic qualification time Gurmeet Singh
ICC Test rankings 1.Austrlia 2. India 3, South Africa
2016 Nagjee International Club Football Tournament Dnipro Reserves of Ukraine

March
Name of the Sport Events Name of the Winners
All India Open Invitational Snooker Championship 2016- Rahul Sachdev
Aurangabad
Aaron Phangiso Suspended from bowling in Domestic cricket for suspect
bowling action.
Asia Cup title Indian Team (6th time)
Amity Polo Cup trophy Jindal Panther
World Golf Championship AnirbanLahiri(India) - 28th
Golfer Adam Scott(Australia) 1st
Bubba Watson(USA) 2nd
Irani Cup Cricket Title Rest of India
Pro Kabaddi title Patna Pirates
CK Nayudu Trophy 2015-16 title Mumbai U 23
Unbeaten 35-Game Record Lionel Messi
ISSF World cup Thailand JituRai(India)- Gold
Pang Wei(China) - Silver
Wang Zhiwei(China) - Bronze
Asia title -professional Vijender Singh
Santosh Trophy football title 2016 -Nagpur Services
Llyod Pro-Am Championship trophy Delhi
Miss India title ShwetaRathore
Australian Grand Prix NicoRosberg
Street Child Games - 100-metre dash Chennai girl Hepziba Gold
Dr.GnaniLaksumanan Memorial Cup Quick Enough
Mens singles title - Swiss Open HS Prannoy
Hero Indian Open title SSP Chawrasia
2016 World Chess Candidates Tournament Sergey Karjakin
BNP Paribas Open titles 2016
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Mens Singles Serbian Novak

Women Singles Victoria Azarenka of Belarus
Mens Doubles Pierre Hugues Herbert and Nicolas Mahut of France
Womens Doubles US Pair Bethanie Sands and Coco Vandeweghe
Paralympic Games - Arunachal Pradesh
Wheelchair race Techi Talla
Boys 100 meter race Tabam Tatak
Girls100 meter race LiterOri
Mens 100 meter race Thasang Ajay
World Table Tennis Championship Malaysia
Womens Table Tennis India
Mens Table Tennis India
2016 All England Badminton title
Mens Singles Lin Dan
Womens Singles NozomiOkuhara
Mens Doubles Ivan AndreyevichSozonov of Russia with compatriot
VladimirIvanov
Mixed Doubles Indonesia pair Praveen Jordan and his partner Debby
Susanto
Race walk National Championships Jaipur
50km walk rcae Junior Women category of 10 Km Race
BasantBahadur Singh Rana (Gold) Walk Neena(gold)
Chandan Singh (Silver) BhawnaJat(Silver)
Jitender Singh Rathore (Bronze) Priyanka Patel(bronze)
Asian 20km walking race
Mens IndiaGurmeet Singh - Gold
Japans Isamu Fujisawa - Silver
Kazakhstans GeorgiySheiko - Bronze

Womens Chinas Rui Liang - Gold

Japans Kumiko Okada - Silver
South Korean Jeongeun Lee - Bronze

ICC T20 rankings

Number One T20 Batsman ViratKohli kept
Number one Bowler Samuel Badree
Number One Team India
2022 National Games Meghalaya
2017 FIFA Under-17 World Cup India
Retrired from International cricket after World T20 Shane Watson
Qualifies for Rio Olympics YogeshwarDutt
Second fastest player to reach 1,000 T20 runs Faf du Plessis

Second player to hit century in 2016 T20 World Cup Chris Gayle
Promoted as International Umpire Napoleon Singh
Official tech partner for London Marathon TCS
Suspended after failing drug test at Australian Open Maria Sharapova(Russia)
Suspended from bowling in international cricket Bangladesh left-arm spinner Arafat Sunny and pacer
Taskin Ahmed

April
Name of the Sport Events Name of the Winners
Womens &MensWorld Twenty20 West Indies
world title with record free skate score EvgeniaMedvedeva Gold
40th Paris Aprathon 2016 Kenyas VisilineJepkesho and Cyprian Kotut
2016 Bahrain Grand Prix Mercedes driver NicoRosberg
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Chinese Grand Prix NicoRosberg

WLBS World snooker championship ChitraMagimairaj - Gold
VarshaaSanjeev Gold
Asian Nations Cup Chess tournament, Abu Dhabi India

Hawkes Bay Cup, New Zealand India beat Canada

Miami Open 2016

Mens Singles Novak Djokovic
Womens Singles Victoria Azarenka (Belarus)
Mens Doubles Pierre Hugues (France)
And Herbert Nicolas (France)
Womens Doubles BethanieMattek-Sands (USA) and Lucieafov(Chezh
Republic)
BWF RankingsFIFA World Rankings 2016
KidambiSrikanth 14
ParuPalliKashyap 18
SainaNehwal 8
Pusarla V Sindhu 10
Manu Attri 19
B Sumeeth Reddy
JwalaGutta 15
AshwiniPonnappa
BWF RankingsFIFA World Rankings 2016
Rank(Mens) Country Rank(Mens) Country
1 Argentina 1 Argentina
2 Belgium 2 Belgium
3 Chile 3 Chile
4 Colombia 4 Colombia
5 Germany 5 Germany
Malaysian Open 2016
Mens Singles Lee Chong Wei ( Malaysia)
Womens Singles RatchanokIntanon (Thailand)
Mens Doubles Kim Gi-Jung( South Korea ) and
Kim Sa-rang ( South Korea)
Womens Doubles Tang Yuanting (China) and
Yu Yang (China)
Mixed Doubles Tontowi Ahmed ( Indonesia) and LiliyanaNastir (
Indonesia )
world International Boxing Federation title Anthony Joshua, America
US Masters golf 2016 Danny Willett - First Briton
WTA rankings
Womens Singles Womens Doubles Rank
Serena Williams (USA) Aprtina Hingis (Swiss) 1
AgnieszkaRadwanska (POL) SaniaMirza (India) 2
Angelique Kerber (GER) BethanieMattek- Sands 3
(US)
GarbineMuguruza (ESP) YaroslavaShvedova (Kzh) 4
Hilton Asian Tour Golfer of Month S.P. Chawrasia of India
Asian KhoKho Championship Title, MP Indias mens and womens teams
WTA rankingsWisdens top five cricketers of 2015
Player Country
Jonny Bairstow England
Brendon McCullum New Zealand
Steve Smith Australia
Ben stokes England

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Kane Willamson New Zealand

Sultan Azlan Shah Cup,Malaysia. Australia
Monte Carlo Masters title Rafael Nadalfrom Spain
withdraw from Sultan of Johor Cup Hockey India
First champion of the Asian Tennis Tour (ATT) Vishnu Vardhan
SidharthRawat
Rio shooting World Cup JituRai 6th Spot
OlehOmelchuk of Ukraine Gold
Wang Zhiweiof China Bronze
First Indian participant at World Kickboxing Tajamul Islam
Championship
Baecelona Open
49th Clay court cup and equaled the record with Rafael Nadal
Guillermo Vilas
Doubles Winners United States Bob Bryan & Mike Bryan
Stuttgart Grand Prix tournament
Womens doubles title Garcia-Mladenovic
and Kristina Mladenovic
Womens singles title Angelique Kerber
ISSF World Cup AprcusSvennson - Gold
Mairaj Ahmad Khan - Silver
TaAprroCasandro - Bronze
FPAI Indian Player of the year Award JejeLalpekhlua
PFA Player of the Year RiyadMahrez - first African
First woman rider TVS Shreya Sunder Iyer
Equals the world record in the womans recurve event at DeepikaKumari
Archery World Cup in Shanghai.
Commonwealth Judo Championship GarimaChaudhary Gold
RajwinderKaur - silver
Australias bowling coach Allan Donald South Africa
New Zealands captain Kane Williamson
Sri Lanka Crickets Chief Selector SanathJayasuria
Cricket Association of Nepal Suspended by ICC
World Championshipbrand ambassadors MC ApryKom
International Hockey Umpire Durga Thakur
Rio 2016 Olympic Qualifier Paddlers SoumyajitGhosh, ManikaBatra
Wrestler SandeepTomar
Indian Rower DattuBhokanal
Sprinter Sudha Singh
Judok Player Avatar Singh and ThoudamKalpana Devi
First Indian Gymnast to Qualify for Olympics DipaKarmakar

Kansai Nerolac Gujarat Lionsassociate sponsor

Mother Dairy Delhi Daredevils principal sponsor
ShahidAfridi Pakistans T20 captain
Asian/Oceania Qualifying Tournament Shiva Thapa - silver medal
Retired from international cricket Australia Cricketer Clint McKay
Retired from international cricket England Cricketer James Taylor
Retired from ODIs, T20Is Sri Lankan veteran cricketer RanganaHerath
Hong Kong all-rounderIrfan Ahmed Suspended by the International Cricket Council (ICC) for
two and a half years
First Day /Night Test India 7 New Zealand
BCCI decided to waive off the financial penalty of West Indies Cricket Board
USD 97 million
2018 Commonwealth Judo Championships India

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May
Name of the Sport Events Name of the Winners
2016 UEFA Champions League Real Madrid FC
International Sports expo(Pune) Rohit Sharma
Premier League title English football club Leicester city FC
2016 Asia Kabaddi Championship Cup Pakistan defeated India
World Snooker Championship Mark Selby defeated Ding Junhui
NBAs Most Valuable Player Stephen Curry
Bats for 51 hours straight - Guinness record Rwanda captain Eric Dusingizimana
The Europa League Football club Sevilla
IAAF World Challenge(China) Womens 4x100m relay team breaks national record 4th
position
China Team - First
Uber Cup 2016 China - First
South Korea - Second
India - Third
Asian Youth Championships tournament (Kazakhstan) Kazakhstan First
Uzbekistan - Second
India - Third
AnkushDahiya (60 Kg) Silver
AshishKulhirya (64kg) Silver
ReyalPuri (81kg) Silver
Manjeet Singh (+91kg) Bronze
Monaco Grand Prix Lewis Hamilton
Russian Grand Prix NicoRosberg
14th Fed Cup title(Ghuwati) MohunBagan
Thomas Cup badminton tournament(China) Denmark defeated Indonesia
Asian 6-Red Snooker title(Abu Dhabi) PankajAdvani
First in the world to hold both world and continental titles at
the same time
First English batsman to score 10,000 runs in test England Test captain Alastair Cook
matches
First Indian to feature in a top-tier league match in Goalkeeper Gurpreet Singh Sandhu
Europe
2016 French Open Athletics Championship (Paris) Amit Kumar Saroha- gold medal in mens club throw
Asian Team Championship campaign(Taipei) Malaysia Gold
India - Silver
Archery World Cup(Shanghai, China) 1.Silver - Womens team comprising DeepikaKumari,
Bombayla Devi Laishram and LaxmiraniMajhi
2.Bronze - Deepika and Atanufrom
3.Bronze - Indian mens recurve team of Atanu Das,
JayantaTalukdar and Mangal Singh Champia
Fifth consecutive knockout win Vijender Singh
Formula Ones youngest race winner Max Verstappen(18)
ICC Test Team Rankings
1 Australia
2 India
3 Pakistan
4 England
5 New Zealand
Test bowlers ranking
Rank Bowler Batsman All Rounders
1 Stuart Broad Steve Smith R Ashwin
2 R. Ashwin Joe Root Shakib Al Hasan
3 James Anderson Kane Williamson Stuart Broad
4 Yasir Shah HashimAmla Ben Stokes

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5 DayleSteyn Younus Khan Vernon Philander

IPL Session
Vivo-Indian Premier League title Sunrisers Hyderabad(Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bangalore)
IPL Winner Award Team Name: Sunrisers Hyderabad
IPL Runner Up Team Name Royal Challengers Bangalore
Orange Cap Award Most Runs Scored : ViratKohli (RCB)
Purple Cap Award (Most Wickets) Bhuvneshwar Kumar (SRH)
Most Valuable Player ViratKohli (RCB)
Emerging Player of the Season MustafizurRahman (SRH)
ISSF Junior World Cup Suhl, Germany
Gold Mens 25m standard pistol Rituraj Singh, ShivamShukla
and Arjun Das
Gold Womens 50m Rifle
GaayathriNithyanadamSonikaandAyushiPodder
Gold Mens 25m Standard Pistol by Rituraj Singh
Bronze womens 50m rifle prone competition by
GaayathriNithyanadam
BWF rankings
Chen Long(China) First
K Srikanth Mens singles 12th
HS Prannoy Mens singles 21st
Ajay Jayaram Mens singles 25th
Manu Attri and B Sumeeth Reddy Mens Doubles - 20th
SainaNehwal Womens Singles - 8th
PV Sindhu Womens Singles - 10th
JwalaGutta and AshwiniPonappa Womens Doubles 14th
2016 Mutua Madrid Open
Serbia Novak Djokovic Mens Singles
Netherlands Jean-JulienRojer / Romania HoriaTecu Mens Doubles

Romania SimonaHalep Womens Singles

France Caroline Garcia / France Kristina Mladenovic Womens Doubles
Rome title 2016 UK
Mens singles final United KingdomAndy Murray
Womens Signles final United StatesSerena Williams
Mens doubles finals United States Bob Bryan
United States Mike Bryan
Womens doubles finals Switzerland Martina Hingis India SaniaMirza
International Shooting Competition of Hannover - Germany
Men: 10m air rifle AbhinavBindra 3rd (Bronze)
10m air pistol HeenaSidhu - 2nd-(Silver)
Women: 10m air rifle ApurviChandela 11

England womens cricketer of the year award for the England Cricketer Anya Shrubsole
maiden time
Englands Test and One Day International Cricketer of England Cricketer Batsman Joe Root
the year award
England womens Cricket captain Charlotte Edwards retired
Rio Olympics qualifiers 1.Discus thrower:SeemaPunia
2.Shuttlers:
SainaNehwal& PV Sindhu
JwalaGutta&AshwiniPonnappa
Kidambisrikanth
Manu Attri and Sumeeth Reddy
3.Wrestlers :
RavinderKhatri, Hardeep Singh,

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BabitaKumariVineshPhogat, Sakshi Malik, SandeepTomar

YogeshwarDuttandNarsinghYadav
4.Archers:
DeepikaKumari, Bombayla Devi and LaxmiraniMajhi
5.Boxer:
M C Mary Kom

June
Name of the Sport Events Name of the Winners
Canadian Grand Prix Lewis Hamilton (Mercedes)
2016 European Grand Prix of F1 Nico Rosberg (Germany)
AIBA Womens World Championships Sonia Lather(57kg) Gold
First professional tennis player to earn $100 million Novak Djokovic
in prize money in French Open quarter-finals
Queens title (London) Andy Murray 5th time
FIFA rankings 1.Argentina
2.Belgium
3.Colombia
Archery World Cup (Antalya) South Korea Gold
India Silver
Affiliation from Commonwealth Boxing Council Indian Boxing Council (IBC)
Josef Odlozil Memorial Athletics Meet(Czech Track and field athlete Tintu Luka - Silver
Republic)
US Open golf tournament title Dustin Johnson(US)
win the 100m in 9.88 seconds at Racers Grand Prix Usain Bolt
2016
FINA women water polo world league (China) USA First
Spain - Second
2016 Copa America Football tournament Chile beat Argentina
7thFIH Champions Trophy title Argentina defeated Netherland
(London)
First Indian captain to lead the team in three ODI MS Dhoni
series whitewashes
NHL Calder Memorial Trophy Artemi Panarin (Russia)
New national record, clocking 3:02.17 Indian mens 4x400m relay team
International Sprint and Relay Teams Cup (Turkey)
Best womens player award in the Eurasian Blitz Harika Dronavalli (India)
chess tournament(Kazakhstan)
InternationalBoxing Associations (AIBA) Vikas Krishan (75kg) Bronze
World Qualifying Tournament
(Azerbaijan)
ISSF World Cup(Azerbaijan) Felipe Almeida Wu(Brazil) - Gold
Jitu Rai(India) Silver
Sanjeev Rajput(mens 50-metre rifle) Silver
Racketlon Competitions(Denmark) Navy Officer and Commodore Ashutosh Pednekar - first
Indian Gold medal
Indian mens hockey teamEnter Final for 1st Time in 36 Years at 36th Hero Champions Trophy Hockey
Gold medal Australia
Silver medal India
Bronze medal Germany
French Open 2016
Mens Singles Novak Djokovic (Serbia)
Womens Singles Garbine Muguruza (Spain)
Mens doubles Feliciano Lpez (Spain) / Marc Lpez (Spain)
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Womens Doubles Caroline Garcia(France) / Kristina Mladenovic (France)

Martina Hingis(Switzerland)/
Mixed Doubles
Leander Paes (India)
Australian Open title 2016 - Sydney
Mens Singles HansKristianVittinghus (Denmark)
Womens Singles : SainaNehwal (India)
Markus Fernaldi Gideon (Indonesia) and Kevin
Mens Doubles
SanjayaSukamuljo (Indonesia)
Womens Doubles BaoYixin (China) and Chen Qingchen (China)
Mixed Doubles Lu Kai (China) and Huang Yaqiong (China)

IITF Ranking
Soumyajit Ghosh 61st
Achanta Sharath Kamal 69th
Mouma Das 145th
Manika Batra 113rd
ICC Rankings for ODI Bowlers
Rank Bowlers Batsman
1 Sunil Narine (WI) AB De Villiers (RSA)
2 Trent Boult (NZ) Virat Kohli (IND)
3 Imran Tahir (RSA) Hasim Amla (RSA)
Highest-paid female athlete Serena Williams(USA)
Maria Sharapova(Russia)
Ronda Rousey(USA)
2016 Worlds 100 Highest-Paid Athletes Cristiano Ronaldo Soccer
Lionel Messi - Soccer
LeBron James Basketball
Oldest Olympic torch bearer(Macapa) Aida Gemanque 106yr
7thWorld Carrom Championship Host Birmingham

Hockey Junior World Cup 2016 Host India

International Paralympic Committee (IPC) has Rao Inderjit Singh - President
recognized the Paralympic Committee of India (PCI)
Retirement from Test cricket Sri Lankan pace bowler Nuwan Kulasekara
Retirement from International Football Lionel Messi Announces
Banned for seven years West Indies all-rounder Kavon Fubler
Bannedfor two years by the International Tennis Maria Sharapova (Russia- Tennis player)
Federation.
Suspended from bowling in international cricket Sri Lanka Pacer Shaminda Eranga
Goa Cricket Officials BCCI Suspends officialsfor Financial Bungling
First day-night Test in India Indore India VsNewzealand
T20 Series India defeated Zimbabwe
Qualify for Rio Olympics Judoka Avtar Singh
Tennis star Rohan Bopanna
Boxer Mary Kom
Sprinter Dutee Chand
ArcherAtanu Das
SprinterSrabani Nanda
SprinterMohammad Anas
Long JumperAnkit Sharma
Official sponsor for the Indian contingent to the Rio Amul
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July
Name of the Sport Events Name of the Winners
Paralympic Committee of India Recognised by Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports
Fifth-wicket stand in Twenty 20 cricket of 150 in 92 Proteas Opener HasimAmla
balls for the Trinbago Knight Riders West Indies All-rounder Dwayne Bravo
Austrian Grand Prix Title 2016 Lewis Hamilton
2016 British Grand Prix Lewis Hamilton
Hungarian Grand Prix Lewis Hamilton
IWAS World Games(Prague, Czech Republic) NiranjanMukundan - 8 medals
Spanish Grand Prix Wrestling championship (Madri) ErdenebatBekhbayar of Mongolia Gold(57kg)
SandeepTomar Silver (74 kg)
NarsinghYadav Bronze(57 kg)
Fide Womens Grand Prix trophy(Chendu, China) HarikaDronavalli
oldest player to score a Test century for 82 years MisbahulHaq Pakistan
Euro 2016 football championship Portugal
EurAsia Hockey Cup 2016 Indian Junior Mens Team
WBO Asia Pacific title(New Delhi) Vijender Singh
FIFA rankings Argentina- 1st
Belgium 2nd
Columia 3rd
India 152nd
73rd Senior National Squash DipikaPallikalKarthik
Championship(Mumbai)
First Indian to clinch the most desired Mr World title RohitKhandelwal
First Indian captain to score double century outside ViratKohli
India
World of digital gaming with the proposed launch of Sachin Tendulkar
his official game named Sachin Saga.
1st Indian to set world record in Junior Athletics Neeraj Chopra
Championship
Junior World Cup in Porpetto, Italy ManavadityaRathore - bronze medal
First clay court singles title by defeating Feliciano Lopez
Netherlands Robin Haase
100m hurdles world record of 12.20 seconds at the Kendra Harrison
London Diamond League meeting
Second Rio Olympics-bound athlete to fail a dope Inderjit Singh
test after wrestler NarsinghYadav
ICC Hall of fame MuttiahMuralitharan
Arthur Morris
Karen Rolton
George Lohmann
International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) ban on Russia
the weightlifters to compete in the Rio Olympics.
10th Davis Cup RohanBopanna
Canada open Grand Prix badminton 2016
Mens Single Title B SaiPraneeth
Mens Doubles Title Manu Attri andSumeethreddy
Wimbledon 2016 Championships
Mens Singles Andy Murray (Britain)
Womens Singles Serena Williams (US)
Mens Doubles PierreHugues Herbert (France) and Nicolas Mahut (France)
Womens Doubles Serena Williams (US) and Venus Williams (US)
Mixed Doubles Henri Kontinen (Finland) and Heather Watson (UK)
National record with a massive 59.87m throw at the Javeline thrower Annu Rani
56th National inter-state Senior Athletics
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Olympians Association of India (OAI) Shiva Keshavan (luge),VirenRasquinha (hockey),MalavShroff

(sailing),AdilleSumariwalla (athletics),AshwiniNachappa
(athletics),SainaNehwal (badminton),HakimuddinHabibulla
(swimming) and MC Mary Kom (boxing)
Badminton World Federation Rankings SainaNehwal - 5th
NozomiOkuhara 6th
P V Sindhu 10th
JwalaGutta and AshwiniPonappa 20th
Manu Attri and B Sumeeth Reddy 23rd
Pranaav Jerry Chopra and AkshayDewalkar 29th
PSA World Squash Rankings JoshnaChinappa -10th
Dipika 19th
Rio Olympics Qualifiers NirmalaSheoran Athlete
SajanPrakash and ShivaniKataria Swimmers
PR Sreejesh Mens hockey team captain
SushilaChanu - Womens hockey team captain
RenjithMaheswar - Jumper
Dharambir Singh- 200 meter race(First Indian)
Jinson Johnson - 800 Meters race
AnirbanLahiri - Golf
Shiv Shankar Prasad Chawrasia - Golf
Aditi Ashok- Golf
Ritu Rani - Womens hockey team captain(dropped)
Official nutritional partner for Rio-Olympics HERBALIFE teams up with IOA
ICC Test Ranking RavichandranAshwin All Rounder
First Australia
Second India
Third Pakistan
MRF ICC Test rankings Pakistani Wrist spinner Yasir Shah has reached the number
one spot
Dhyanchand Hockey Ground in Rajkot Recognised by the International Hockey Federation (FIH).
39th Associate Member of the International Cricket Saudi Arabia
Council (ICC)
Kabaddi World Cup 2016 In October India
New record by diving from 25 000 feet without Luke Aikins
parachute

August
Name of the Sport Events Name of the Winners
2016 German Grand Prix of F1 Lewis Hamilton
Belgian Grand Prix 2016 title Nico Rosberg
Season 4 Pro Kabbadi League Patna Pirates defeating Jaipur Pink Panthers.
Coach of Cricket Australia Darren Lehman
World Karate Champion(Australia) VivekTeja
MRF Formula 1600 category VikashAnand
Bronze upgrade to silver for London Olympic Wrestler YogeshwarDutt
ICC bowler rankings First - England Speedster James Anderson
20th Commonwealth Chess championship Abhijeet Gupta
PSG Trophy in Basketball ONGC team beat the Tamil Nadu
64th Nehru Trophy KarichalChundan
Honorary life membership of the Marylebone Cricket VirenderSehwag
Club
Hilton Asian Tour Golfer of the Month for July, 2016 Thongchai Jaidee
Gold medal in the 100-metre dash Mann Kaur from Chandigarh -100 year old
at the American Masters Games in Vancouver

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Canada
ATP title 2016(Mexico)
Mens doubles pair DivijSharan and Purav Raja defeated Israeli-British pair of
Jonathan Erlich and Ken Skupski
Mens Singles Ivo Karlovi defeated SpainsFelicianoLpez,
Australian Open Crowns 2016
Mens Australian Open 2016 Abdulla Mohd Al Tamimi (Qatar) defeated Campbell Grayson
(New Zealand)
Womens Australian Open 2016 DipikaPallikalKarthik (India) defeated MayarHany (Egypt)
Rio 2016 Olympics will be granded with 500 gms India Bullion and Jewellers Association (IBJA)
Sovereign Gold Bonds and silver
Indian Railways announces cash awards for its The gold Medalist 1 crore
athlete who wins medal at Rio Olympics The silver medallist Rs 75 lakh
Bronze winner Rs 50 lakh.
Athletes who manages a top-8 finish Rs 30 lakh
For mere participation Rs 5 lakh.
IOA announces cash award for winning athlete in 50 lakh - gold medal
Rio Olympics Rs 30 lakh silver
Rs 20 lakh bronze
271 Russian athletes to compete in Rio Games 120 athlete, finally 118 athlete went for Rio Olympics
2016 Rogers Cup
Men singles Novak Djokovic defeated K. Nishikori
Women Singless S. Halep defeated M. Keys
Men Doubles I. Dodig and M. Melo defeated J. Murray and B. Soares
Women Doubles E. Makarova and E. Vesnina defeated S. Halep and M.
Niculescu
ICC Rankings
1 India
2 Pakistan
3 Australia
4 England
5 New Zealand
ICC Test rankings
Batsman Bowler
Position Nationality Name Name Nationality
1 Australia Steve Smith Dale Steyn South Africa
2 England Joe Root James Anderson England
3 New Zealand Kane Williamson Ravi Ashwin India
4 South Africa Hashim Amla Stuart Broad England
5 Pakisthan Younus Khan Rangana herath Sri Lanka
BWF Rankings
Rank Name
1 Carolina MARIN
2 Li Xuerui
3 Nozomi OKUHARA
4 Wang Yihan
5 Ratchanok INTANON
6 Wang Shixian
7 Tai Tzu Ying
8 Sung Ji Hyun
9 Saina NEHWAL
10 Pusarla V. Sindhu
Rio Medal Tally-2016
Country G S B Total
United States(1) 46 37 38 121
Great Britain(2) 27 23 17 67

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China (3) 26 18 26 70
Russia (4) 19 18 19 56
Germany (5) 17 10 15 42
India (67) 0 1 1 2
Indias first medal at the Rio Olympics Sakshi Malik
bronze in the 58kg category
First Indian woman to win an Olympic silver medal Pusarla Venkata Sindhu
in the Women Singles badminton Event
Dipa Karmakar First Indian to qualify for the apparatus finals of
artistic Gymnastics at the Rio 2016 Olympics
Womens doublestitle at Connecticut Open in the U.S Sania Mirza with Monica Niculescu of Romania
82nd All India Railway athletic Championship Western Railway
Task force formed by PM Modi To make various suggestions to the roadmap for the
next three quadrennial Games 2020 (Tokyo), 2024
and 2028
Indian Men Hockey Team slipped to sixth First Australia, Fifth Brazil
Retire from illustrious international career after ongoing Tillakaratne Dilshan
ODI series against Australia
Chairman of a five-member National Rifle Association of AbhinavBindra
India review committee to probe the shooters dejected
show in the Rio Games
Banned four-year by Court of Arbitration for NarsinghYadav
Sports following an appeal by WADA
Four South African cricketers have been banned for PumelelaMatshikwe, EthyMbhalati,
allegedly involving in fixing the matches GoolamBodi and Jean Symes
Banned a four-year by Court of Arbitration for NarsinghYadav
Sports following an appeal by WADA
Asian Tennis Tour 2016 Hos Bhutan
ISL 2016 Opening Ceremony Host - Guwahati
Kabaddi World Cup Host Gujarat

September
Name of the Sport Events Name of the Winners
Italian Grand Prix Lewis Hamilton
Singapore Grand Prix Nico Rosberg
Quadrangular one-day series India A
Honorary life member of the Marylebone Cricket Zaheer Khan
Club
Bangladesh batting guru Thilan Samaraweera
ITF events 2016 Sriram Balajifrom India defeated Seong Chan
Hong of Korea
Asian Karting Championship Shahan Ali Mohsin First Indian
Record in the Womens Hammer Throw at the 65th Minakshi of CISF
All India Police Athletics Championship in
Hyderabad.
6 Red Snooker World Championship Pankaj Advani - bronze medal
Durand Cup Football Title Army Green beat Neroca FC
Manager of Pakistan team Wasim Bari
World Martial Arts Mastership 2016 Sushmita Rai - bronze
MCC Murugappa Gold Cup Hockey Tournament Indian Railways Team defeated
champion Indian Oil Corporation
2016 Calcutta Football League East Bengal
1st World Deaf Shooting Championships - Kazan, Priyesha Deshmukh - Bronze

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Russia
FIBA Asia Challenge India 7th
ITF womens doubles title Ankita Raina with Emily Webley
defeating Hanyu Guo and Xinyu Jiang of China
ICC Test Championship mace Received by Pakistan Test captain MisbahulHaq
Obaidullah Khan Heritage Cup Hockey Tournament BPCL defeated Railway
U-19 Asian Junior Individual squash championship - Velavan Senthilkumar
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
13th leg of the womens Professional Golf Tour Vani Kapoor
30th World Amateur Team Championship (WATC) 1.Australia
2.US
Indians finished 31st
India made a historic win in the 500th test match against New Zealand
at Kanpur
Second fastest bowler to claim 200 Test wickets Ravichandran Ashwin
BRICS football tournament logo Union Minister of Sports and Youth Affairs Vijay
Goel unveiled logo in Goa
2016 FIA Asia Pacific Rally Championship Gaurav Gill -4th time
Belgium Open , Belgium Mens singles title
Sathiyan Gnanasekaran defeated Nuytinck Cedric
International Thailand Open ChavviKohli defeated Thai fencer
Polish Open 2016
Mens Single Rituparna Das
Womens Single Rasika Raje
Womens doubles Sanjana Santosh and Arathi Sara Sunil defeating
Natalya Voytsekh and Yelyzaveta Zharka1

ITTF Junior and Cadet Open TT Championships

Junior Boys singles Manav Thakkar, Varuni Jaiswal and Ishhita Gupta
Junior Boys doubles Ananth Devarajan and Manav Thakkar combined to
outwit Taipeis LaiChi-Chien and Tai Ming-Wei.
Brazil Open Grand
Mens Double title Sikki Reddy and Pranaav Jerry Chopra defeated the
Canadian pair of Toby Ng and Rachel Honderich

Mens Single Title Anand Pawar defeated Zulfadli Zulkiffli of

Malaysia
6th Asian Championship - Taoyuan, Taiwan
Silver L Budha Chandra Singh (56Kg), Praveen Kumar
(48Kg), Rajinder Singh (90Kg), K Arunpama Devi
(60Kg).
Bronze Y Santhoi Devi (52Kg), Pooja Kadian (65Kg),
Vishakha Malik (70Kg), Rajani Deori (75Kg).
2016 US Open
Mens Singles
Winner Stan Wawrinka, Runner Novak Djokovic
Womens Singles
Winner Angelique Kerber Runner Karolina Pliskova
Mens Doubles
Winner Jamie Murray, Bruno Soares Runner Garreno busta, Garcia-lopez
Womens Doubles
Winner Mattek-sands, Lucia Safarova Runner Caroline Garcia, Kristina Madenovic
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Winner Laura Siegemund Croatia Mate Pavi Runner Coco Vandeweghe United States Rajeev
Ram
Track Asia Cup 2016 - Indoor Cycling Velodrome at IG Sports Complex
Hong Kong (18) 11 Gold 4 Silver and 3 bronze.
India 16 medals) 5 gold 4 Silver and 7 bronze
Rio Paralympics 2016 - Rio de Janeiro, Brazil from September 7 to 18, 2016
Top 3 1.China
2.Great Britain
3.Ukraine
Ankur Dhama Indias first blind athlete
T42 high jump event Mariyappan Thangavelu - gold,
Varun Bhati- bronze
29th spot in Womens Individual Recurve event Pooja Khanna
First Indian women to win medal Deepa Malik Silver
Mens javelin throw F46 event Devendra Jhajharia Gold
Iranian Para-cyclist has died at the last day Golbarnezhad
ISSF Junior World Cup 2016 1.RUSSIA 25
2.INDIA - 24
3.NORWAY 5
WTA Toray Pan Pacific Open
Womens Single title Caroline Wozniacki beat Japans Naomi
Osaka
Womens Double Title Indias Sania Mirza with Czech partner Barbora
Strycova defeating Chinese pair of Chen Liang and
Zhaoxuan Yang.
St Petersburg Open 2016
Mens Single A. Zverev defeated S. Wawrinka
Menss Double D. Inglot / H. Kontinen defeated A. Begemann / L.
Paes
70th Senior National Aquatic Championship
Overall championships Karnataka followed by Maharashtra
Swimming
Womens championship Maharashtra
Mens championship Railways
Diving championships
Mens championships Services team
womens championship Railways
water polo events
Mens category Railways
womens championship Kerala
Banned for 10 months by USOC US swimmer Ryan Lochte
First Indian woman cricketer for honorary life Anjum Chopra
membership of the MCC
ICC ODI rankings for batsmen Virat Kohli - second spot
Rohit Sharma Seventh Spot
Joe Root - Top five for the first time.
ICC ODI Ranking Australia , New Zealand followed by India
1.AB de Villiers
2.ViratKohli
7.Rohit Sharma
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8.ShikharDhawan
FIFA mens rankings 1.Argentina
2.Belgium
3.Germany
142 .India
BWF ranking Kidambi Srikanth Top 10
Saina 5
Sindhu 8
Ajay Jayaram - 27
H S Prannoy -31 and
B Sai Praneeth 35
Professional Squash Association (PSA) rankings Joshna Chinappa - 10th
Deepika Pallikal remained at 19th
Rs 75 lakh cash reward Maharashtra Gov Lalita Babar
Rs 50 lakh cash reward - Maharashtra Gov Ayonika Paul, Prarthana Thombare,
Dattu Bhonkanal, Devraj Walmiki and Kavita Raut.
Banned for 10 months by USOC US swimmer Ryan Lochte
Indias selection panel chairman MSK Prasad
Captain of the India Cricket team MS Dhoni
Indian shooter Abhinav Bindra Retirement from shooting after 2016 Summer
Games
Ritu Rani Retires from international hockey
Chief coach of the national Tennis team Massimo Costantini
2026 Asian Games Host : Japan

October
Name of the Sport Events Name of the Winners
Sports Sector got the Infrastructure Status Now eligible for obtaining long term financial
support from banks and other financial institutions
First Indian woman javelin thrower to cross the 60m Annu Rani
mark at the 56th Open National Athletics
Championships
Under-18 Asia Cup hockey trophy in Dhaka India defeating Bangladesh
IFSC Para Climbing Cup, UK Manikandan Kumar - Gold
First Indian to complete Worlds toughest race, Kieren Dsouza
Spartathlon
5th Asian Beach Games Vietnam
Top 3 : Vietnam , Thailand and China
India at 16th place with 24 medals(2 Gold, 4 Silver , 18
Bronze)
Womens 52kg Kurash category Pinky Balhara - Bronze medal
Mens middleweight Muay Harish Banghel - Silver
Womens single, Long Ho Quyen, Vovinam event Deepa Gawale - silver medal
Kabbadi India defeated Thailand - Gold
Russian Open badminton 2016
Mens singles Zulfadli Zulkiffli Siril Verma
Womens singles Gadde Ruthvika Shivani Evgeniya Kosetskaya
Mens doubles Vladimir Ivanov/ Ivan Abramov K./Zinchenko A.
Sozonov
Womens doubles Anastasia Chervyakova/ Olga Kosetskaya E./Polikarpova
Morozova K.
Mixed doubles Pranaav Jerry Chopra /N. Sikki Ivanov V./Sorokina V.
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2016 China Open
Mens Singles Andy Murray Grigor Dimitrov
Womens Singles Agnieszka Radwaska Johanna Konta
Mens Doubles Pablo Carreo Busta / Rafael Jack Sock / Bernard
Nadal Tomic,
Womens Doubles Bethanie Mattek-Sands / Lucie Caroline Garcia / France
afov Kristina Mladenovic
2016 Chinese Taipei Open
Mens Single Sourabh Varma Daren Liew
Womens Single Ayumi Mine Saena Kawakami
Mens Double Fajar Alfian/Muhammad Rian Hung Ling /Chen Chi-Lin
Ardianto Wang
Womens Double Yuki Fukushima /Japansayaka Shiho Tanaka /
Hirota Japankoharu Yonemoto
Mixed Chun Man Tang/Hong Ryota Taohata/Koharu
Kongying Suet Yonemoto
ISSF World Cup 2016, Italy
50m pistol event Jitu Rai - Silver
Mens 10m air pistol event Jitu Rai 6th
International Shooting Sport Federation Jitu Rai defeated Serbias Damir Mikec
(ISSF) Champions Trophy
Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) rankings
1 Novak Djokovic (Serbia) 12.900 points
2 Andy Murray (Scotland) 10.485
3 Stan Wawrinka (Switzerland) 5.820
2016 TAFISA World Games, Indonesia India won 4 medals
Naveen Kumar clinched bronze medal in 90
Kg category.Three gold medals were won by three women
martial arts players from Thane. Aarti
Chaudhari (29), Vishruti Waghmare (16) and Siddhi
Jadhav (10) won the gold medals in JeetKune-do, a form of
martial arts.
First gold in Wushu after 30 years Yengkhom Jason (52 Kg category)
First female Indian golfer to record 3 Aditi Ashok
consecutive top 10 European Tour finishes
Kabaddi World Cup 2016, Ahmedabad Pakistan not partipated
India beat Iran
U-16 World Chess Championship, Russia Aakanksha Hagawane
2016 FIFA U-17 Womens World Cup North Korea
2016 NCC National Games Punjab Directorate
WBC Asia welterweight title, New Delhi Neeraj Goyat out punched Australias Ben Kite
Indias first ever senior international roller Dhanush Babu, Vikram Ingale and Nikhilesh Tabhane
skating medal in the Asian Championship in
China.
Asian billiards 2016 Siddharth Parikh
Korea Open 2016 Gaganjeet Bhullar
BRICS U-17 Football Tourney, Goa Brazil defeated South Africa
Asian Champions Trophy India beat Pakistan (Mens)
India beat South Korea(Womens)
World Railway Shooting Championship Western Railways Team
Cup, France
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IWF World Weightlifting cships IWF Youth (Boys & Girls) won silver and a bronze
medal in the 56kg weight category
2016 Japan Grandprix Nico Roseberg
2016 Malaysian Grand Prix Daniel Ricciardo
2016 United States Grand Prix Lewis Hamilton
World No.1 status for second successive Sania Mirza
year
FIFA Rankings Top 3:
Argentina,Germany and Brazil
India 137
ICC Test rankings: India backed to No 1 after beating New Zealand at Eden
Garden
2.Pakistan
3.Australia
4.England
First Indian Test Captain to Score Two Virat Kohli
Double Centuries
ICC Test Championship mace Virat Kohli
ICC Test rankings for bowlers Ravichandran Ashwin First
50 ODI wickets in Indias 900th One Day Amit Mishra
International match
Fifth Indian to cross 9000 runs, breaks MS Dhoni
Sachin Tendulkars record of 195 sixes in
ODIs
Englishman to reach 10,000 Test runs Alastair Cook

World number 1 women bowler Jhulan Goswami

Hoogeveen International chess tournament Abhijeet Gupta
First player ever to win the title twice in a row in the FIDE
Open that concluded at the Dutch hamlet.
First team to play 900 ODIs India
2024 Olympics Italy withdrawn its bid to stage the 2024 Games in Rome
U-17 World Cup host cities Kochi, Navi Mumbai, Goa,Guwahati
and New Delhi
First Bionic Olympics Host Switzerland
First-ever womens World T20 2020, host by Australia
Duck Boats Goa To boost tourist football
World Boxing Organisation (WBO) Indian Boxing Council Inducted
2016 world cup mascot Zabivaka(Russia)
Two-year doping ban has been reduced to Maria Sharapova
15 months following her appeal to the Court
of Arbitration for Sport.
Suspended for two matches following a Surender Kumar
deliberate foul during the game against
Malaysia.
Former Formula One driver would retire Mark Webber
from professional racing
Retired from athletics Jessica Ennis-Hill
Retirement after 2017 world championships Usain Bolt
in London

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November
Name of the Sport Events Name of the Winners
Formula One championship Nico Rosberg
Abu Dhabi Grand Prix Lewis Hamilton
Mexican Grand Prix Lewis Hamilton
Brazilian Grand Prix Lewis Hamilton
Delhi Half Marathon Champion : Eliud Kipchoge from Kenya
Men winners : G Lakshmanan
Women winners: Monika Athare
World Boxing Organization welterweight Filipino star Manny Pacquiao
title
Asian Federation Cup Air Force Club, Iraq
Asian Aquatic Championship, Sri-Lanka Bastab Tapan Bordoloi 5 gold
Bahrain International Challenge Pratul Joshi
Asian Tour title, Philippines SSP Chawrasia(India) defeat Nicholas Fung(Malaysia)
2016 Champions Showdown Viswanathan Anand win over Hikaru Nakamurain
2016 National Women Premier Chess Padmini Rout 3rd time
Championship
World record in free style swimming Mritul(9km in 3 hours)
National Shooting Championship Manavjit Singh Sandhu - Gold
Aiba Youth World Boxing Championship, Sachin Singh Gold
Russia
ATP World Tour Finals Andy Murray(Britain) defeated Novak Djokovic(Serbia)
Indonesia Open 2016 Gaganjeet Bhullar defeats Jeev Milkha
Hero womens Professional Golf Tour title, Smriti Mehra
Uttar Pradesh
Asian Champions Trophy title, Singapore Indian womens hockey team defeated China

2016 WTA Elite Singles Trophy, China Czech Republics Petra Kvitova defeated Ukrainian Elina
Svitolina
Fastest hundred in Indian FC cricket Young Rishabh from Delhi
First Arab professional golfer Maha Haddioui
World Boxing Council(WBC) Ranking Neeraj Goyat 35th
ATP Rankings Andy Murray first
BWF Badminton rankings Carolina Marin(Spain) 1st
Ratchanok Intanon(Thailand) 2nd
P.V Sindhu (India) 9th
Saina Nehwal (India) 11th
Six Indian male shuttlers in Top 50
Badminton World Federation(BWF) 1.Kidambi Srikanth (12
2.Ajay Jayaram (19)
3.H. S. Prannoy (25)
4.B. Sai Praneeth (36)
5.Sameer Verma (43)
6.Sourabh Varma (45)
8th Sanda World Cup, China Indian wushu team - four silver and one bronze
Surjit trophy Mumbais Western Railways womens team
defeating Haryana XI 4-2
7th World Carrom Championship, UK Indias womens carrom team defeated Sri Lanka
Ladies European Tour Aditi Ashok
title
Qatar Ladies Open Aditi Ashok defeated Nanna Koerstz
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Asian Para-Badminton Championships,
China
Davis cup 2016
Asian Youth Karate Championships, New
Delhi
32nd National Junior Athletics
Championships
World Kick Boxing Championship of
Under- Eight Players
Five bilateral ODI series
First batsman to amass 1200 runs or more in
Tests in 2016
First bowler to complete 50 wickets in two
consecutive years
ICC Player Rankings for Test Batsmen
Four Nations Hockey tournament
IBSF World Snooker Championship
, Qatar
Indian cricket team new member
2016 NBA D-League Draft
8-year ban imposed By NADA
World Cup top-scorer announced retirement
South Africa spinner announces retirement
from cricket
13th World Robot Olympiad(WRO),
Greater Noida
2019 Under-20 World Cup
2018 Invictus Games
T20 Cricket World Cup for the Blind
Commonwealth Wrestling Championships
Mens Freestyle 57kg
Mens Freestyle 70kg
Mens Freestyle 97kg
Female Wrestling 48kg
Female Wrestling 55kg:
Female Wrestling 58kg:
Female Wrestling 60kg:
Female Wrestling 63kg:
Female Wrestling 69kg:
Female Wrestling 75kg :
Greco-Roman 66kg:
Greco-Roman 75kg:
Greco-Roman 80kg:
Greco-Roman 85kg:
Greco-Roman 130kg:
China Open Super Series 2016
Womens Singles
Women's Doubles
Mens Singles
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Suhas LY defeating Harry Susanto
Argentina defeated Croatia
Hashim Mansoor Gold
Tejaswin Shankar - National senior record in high jump with
an effort of 2.26m
Tajamul Islam Gold
India win against New Zealand
Bairstow from England
Ravichandran Ashwin
Steve Smith - First
Virat Kohli - Third
India beat Malaysia
Soheil Vahedi Gold
Andrew Pagett - Silver
Pankaj Advani - Bronze
Nuzhat Parveen
Palpreet Singh
Dharambir Singh(sprinter)
Miroslav Klose
Robin Peterson
High Voltage from India (Gurugram)
India
Sydney
India
Sandeep Tomar (Gold)
Amit Dhankhar (Gold), Vinod (Silver)
Satyawart (Gold), Roubaljeet (Silver)
RituPhogat (Gold), Priyanka (Silver)
Lalita (Gold), Diyanshi (Silver)
Mannu (Gold), Somali (Silver)
Sarita (Silver), Manish (Bronze)
Reshma (Gold), Gargi (Silver)
Pinki (Gold), Kavita (Silver)
Jyoti (Silver), Nikki (Bronze).
Manish (Gold), Ravinder (Silver)
Gurpreet (Gold), Dinesh (Silver)
Harpreet Singh (Gold), Ravinder Khatri (Silver)
Prabhpal (Gold), Yashpal (Silver)
Naveen (Gold), Manvir (Silver)
Indias PV Sindhu Chinas Sun Yu
South Korea pair Chang Ye - na China pair Li Yinhui and
and Lee So hee Huang Dongping
Denmarks Jan . Jrgensen Malaysias I Z Zainuddin
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Mens Doubles Chinese pair of Chai B and Hong Indonesian pair of M F

W Gideon and K S
Sukamuljo
Mixed Doubles Indonesian pair Tontowi Ahmad South Korean pair of
and Liliyana Natsir Choi S-g and Chae Y- j
2016 Hong Kong Super Series
Mens Single Ng Ka Long (Thailand) Sameer Verma(India)
Womens Single Tai Tzu-ying(Taiwan) P.V. Sindhu(India)
Mens Double Takeshi Kamura & Keigo Mathias Boe & Carsten
Sonoda (Japan) Mogensen(Denmark)
Womens Double Kamilla Rytter Juhl & Huang Dongping & Li
Christinna Pedersen(Denmark) Yinhui(China)
Mixed Doubles Tontowi Ahmad & Liliyana Praveen Jordan & Debby
Natsir(Indonesia) Susanto(Indonesia)
2016 BNP Paribas Open
Mens Single A. Murray J. Isner
Mens Double H. Kontinen / J. Peers P. Herbert / N. Mahut

December
Name of the Sport Events
World Chess Championship 2016, USA
First Indian to Win Medal at Mr. Olympia Amateur
Event, Hong Kong
World record in the 100 meter swimming
womens Hockey Junior World Cup 2016, Chile
2016 IBSF World Billiards
11th World Billiards Championship, Bengaluru
WBO-Asia Pacific Super Middleweight Title
BBC Sports Personality of the Year
1st Elite Senior Mens Nationals Championship,
Ghuwati
2016 Hero Indian Super League, Kochi
2016 FIH Junior Hockey World Cup, Lucknow
2016 ITF World Champions
ICC Womens Team of the Year
ICC ODI and T20I Player of Year
Asian Tour Title 2016
Womens Twenty20 Asia Cup, Bangkok
Cricketer Completes 4,000 Test Runs and 1,000 run
in 2016
BWF World Ranking
Highest score by an Aussie captain
Goalkeeping Mentor of Indian Junior Hockey Team
Retirement from racing
Retirement from football
Davis Cup match 2016
Name of the Winners
Magnus Carlsen of Norway defeated
Russian challenger Sergey Karjakin
Iqbal Sayed
South African swimmer Chad le Clos
Argentin defeated Netherlands
Peter Gilchrist of Singapore defeated Sourav Kothari
Pankaj Advani beats Singapores Peter Gilchrist
Vijender Singh defeated former world champion
Tanzanias Francis Cheka
Andy Murray
Shiva Thapa won Gold
Guwahati -60kg
Manoj Kumar also won a Gold medal in 69 Kg
Atletico de Kolkata defeated Kerala Blasters 5-4
India beat Belgium
Men: Andy Murray of Great Britain
Women: Angelique Kerber of Germany
Smriti Mandhana (First Indian)
New Zealand cricketer Suzannah Wilson
Mukesh Kumar(oldest golfer)
India defeated Pakistan
Virat Kohli
PV Sindhu 7th
Steven Smith(equal Ricky Pontings record)
PR Sreejesh
Nico Roseberg
Alvaro Dominguez Soto (Spain)
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2017 Bobsleigh and Skeleton World Championships Host: Sochi, Russia(loses)
Test captain of South Africa Faf du Plessis
Olympic Sports list Cheerleading and the martial art of muaythai
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ICC Test Championship Ranking
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AIBA grant full membership Boxing Federation of India(BFI)
Kids Golf World Championship, Malaysia Arjun Bhati
4th Womens U-18 Hockey Asia Cup
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Asian Luge Championship ,Japan Shiva Keshavan
2016 AIFF Player of the Year Jeje Lalpekhlua
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National title in 6-red Snooker Pankaj Advani
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Lords Cricket Ground 20 best players of 2016 list
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Ravichandran Ashwin (India)
ICC accreditatio for conducting International cricket
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