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January
Name of the Sport Events Name of the Winners
Ranji title Vidarbha has won Ranji Trophy for 1st time by defeating
Delhi
Royal Cup golf tournament India’s Shiv Kapur won the title in Thailand
India's highest ranked player in latest ITTF G Sathiyan ranks 49th position at the world level
rankings
First to score three T20 centuries in Cricket Colin Munro
Head coach of IPL team Delhi Daredevils Ricky Ponting
Head coach of Pakistan Hockey team Hasan Sardar
Hopman Cup Roger Federer & Belinda Bencic win Hopman Cup for
Switzerland
Second most expensive transfer in the world Brazilian football player Philippe Coutinho
soccer history
British Junior Open squash Winner : England's Sam Todd
Runner : India,s Neel Joshi
Kolkata Open 2018 International Invitation Aditya Mehta
Snooker Championship
Chef De Mission for Winter Olympics Games Harjinder Singh
2018
First Indian to win an international medal in Aanchal Thakur won bronze medal in the Alpine Ejder 3200
skiing Cup
National Women’s Boxing Championship Sarjubala Devi won gold medal and the best boxer trophy in
Rohtak, Haryana
World’s highest ranked Test bowler Kagiso Rabada
8th Sub-junior National Hockey Championship Winner: Assam
Runner : Rajasthan
Premier Badminton League 3 Winner: Hyderabad Hunters
Runner : Bengaluru Blasters
Brazil legend Ronaldinho Brazilian World Cup winner has retired from football.
Sir Garfield Sobers Cricketer of the year, ICC Virat Kohli
Cricketer of the Year 2017 and ICC ODI
cricketer of the year 2017 awards
ICC T20I performance of the year award. Yuzvendra Chahal
ICC T20I performance of the year award. 1.Germany
2.Brazil
102. India
Blind Cricket World Cup 2018 Winner : India
Runner : Pakistan
Host : Sharjah Cricket Stadium, in UAE
8th Hockey India Sub Junior (Women) National Hockey Haryana defeated Madhya Pradesh
Championship 2018 (A Division)
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15th edition of Mumbai Marathon Ethiopia’sSoloman Deksisa

Swedish Open Junior International Series Siddharth Singh won over Denmark’s Christophersen
2018
U-18 TT Rankings 1.Li Hsin-Yang
2.Manav Thakkar
33rd Women Senior National Weightlifting Rakhi Halder created record by lifting 128kgs in the clean
Championships and jerk for a total of 230kgs in the 63kg women's category
in Mangaluru
Newport Beach Challenger trophy in USA Leander Paes and James Cerretani have won the men’s
doubles title
Indonesia Masters Badminton final Winner : Tai Tzu Ying
Runner : Saina Nehwal
National Men's singles Table Tennis Sharath Kamal
Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy Winner : Delhi
Runner :Rajasthan
West Indies to host 2018 Women's World T20 in November 2018
Jammu and Kashmir to host international martial arts event
Goldberg inducted into WWE’s 2018 Hall of Fame class
ASSOCHAM-Football Delhi MoU to strengthen commercial profile
BCCI bans all-rounder Yusuf Pathan for five months after failed dope test
Elite Women's National Boxing Championship held in Haryana
Meghalaya signs host city contract for 39th National Games in 2022
Khelo India anthem launched by sports minister Rajyavardhan Rathore
i. Mascots of Khelo India School Games are ‘Vijay the tiger’ and ‘Jaya the black buck’.
ii. “Aur khelna chahte hain hum……” the official anthem of Khelo India School Games
Australian Open 2018
Category Winner Runners-up
Men’s Singles Roger Federer (Switzerland) Marin Cilic (Croatia)
Women’s Singles Caroline Wozniacki Simona Halep (Romania)
(Denmark)
Men’s Doubles Oliver Marach (Austria) and Juan Sebastian Cabal (Colombia) and Robert Farah
Mate Pavic (Croatia) (Colombia)
Women’s Doubles Timea Babos (Hungary) and Ekaterina Makarova (Russia) and Elena Vesnina
Kristina Mladenovic (France) (Russia)
Mixed Doubles Gabriela Dabrowski (Canada) Timea Babos (Hungary) and Rohan Bopanna
and Mate Pavic (Croatia) (India)
February
SpiceJet India Open Boxing Mary Kom, Pinki Rani , LovlinaBorgohain, Sanjeet, Manish
Tournament Kaushik Clinches Gold, India Bag 10 Medals
Highest-ranked Indian squash player in Saurav Ghosal (ranks 14 )
PSA rankings
U-19 Cricket World Cup, in New India defeated Australia
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Zealand.
Maybank Golf Championship Shubhankar Sharma
India Open 2018 (Badminton) Winner : Beiwen Zhang
Runner : PV Sindhu
Senior Women Hockey champions CRPF
First Indian golfer to qualify for China Sharmila Nicollet
LPGA Tour
world's youngest and first Asian Rohan More
swimmer to complete Ocean 7
Challenge
Australia's Border Medal Stevan Smith
13th edition of National Chess 'A' KishanGangolli won
Championship for Blind
World's first robot ski competition South Korea hosted the event
8th edition of Theatre Olympics India to host
Theme ‘“Flag of Friendship”.
8th Senior National Women's Hockey Railway Sports Promotion Board (RSPB)
Championship title
23rd Senior Women's National Football Tamil Nadu
Championship title
Sponsor Indian National Hockey teams Odisha government
for 5 years
First player in Champions League Cristiano Ronaldo
history to score 100 goals for one club
First batsman ever to score 500 runs in ViratKohli
bilateral ODI series
Oldest world No 1 in tennis history Roger Federer
Chennai Open ATP Challenger Australia's Jordan Thompson
Rotterdam Open title Roger Federer beats GrigorDimitrov
First Indian to take a 5-wicket haul in Bhuvneshwar Kumar
all three formats in international cricket
60m sprint indoor world record Christian Coleman of US
First Indian to cross 900 points in ICC ViratKohli
ODI player rankings
5th Commonwealth Nations Bridge Indian "A" team won gold
Championship in Gold Coast, Australia
Austrian Open International Challenge ParupalliKashyap

(badminton)
1st Indian to win individual medal at ArunaBudda
Gymnastics World Cup
69th Strandja Memorial boxing VikasKrishan wins gold, adjudged best boxer
tournament in Bulgaria
New Delhi Marathon titles GopiThonakal and Monika Athare won titles in the men’s and
women’s category
IOA enters partnership with Edelweiss Group for 2018 CWG, Asian Games, 2020 Olympic Games
Cricket Canada announces ICC-approved T20 league “Global T20 Canada”
Indian Golfer Shubhankar becomes World No. 72, surpasses AnirbanLahiri
JhulanGoswami 1st woman in the world to take 200 ODI wickets
First Khelo India School Games
• Mascots of Khelo India School Games were ‘Vijay the tiger’ and ‘Jaya the black buck’.
• “Aurkhelnachahtehain hum…...” was the official anthem of Khelo India School Games.
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• Haryana topped the overall medal tally with 38 gold medals. Haryana was followed by Maharashtra
and Delhi with 36 and 25 Gold respectively
Winter Games held inPyeongchang, South Korea

• Motto of PyeongChang Winter Olympics 2018 was “Passion.Connected”
• Soohorang, a white tiger, and Bandabi, an Asiatic black bear were the official mascots for
this event.
• Norway topped the medal tally at PyeongChang Winter Olympics 2018 by winning 14 Gold,
14 Silver and 11 Bronze.
March
Snooker Team World Cup in Doha, Qatar Indian duo of Pankaj Advani and Manan Chandra
ISSF World Cup in Guadalajara, Mexico Indian golfer Shahzar Rizvi
11th Tal Memorial chess in Moscow, Viswanathan Anand
Russia
ISSF World Cup in Guadalajara, Mexico Manu Bhaker
Sultan Azlan Shah Cup 2018 Australia
title,Malaysia
2018 Formula One Grand Prix of Ferrari's Sebastian Vettel
Australia
Youngest captain in international cricket Rashid Khan(19)
Deodhar Trophy 2017-18 ,Himachal India B team defeated Karnataka team
Pradesh Cricket Association Stadium in
Dharamsala
One-Day International (ODI) status for
Nepal cricket team
the first time.
Banned from playing for Australia by
Steve Smith and David Warner
Cricket Australia
Captain of Zimbabwe team Brendan Taylor
Coach-cum-mentor of Jammu and Irfan Pathan
Kashmir Cricket Association
FIFA lifted its three-decade ban on Iraq hosting international football matches, allowing Arbil, Basra and
Karbala cities to host official matches
Russia has got back its Olympic membership, following its suspension from 2018 Pyeongchang Olympics
Prasanta Karmakar was suspended for 3 years by the Paralympic Committee of India (PCI) due to allegations
of recording videos of female para-swimmers at the National Championships 2017 in Jaipur.
Jockey Cup International Youth
Invitational Football Tournament in Hong India U-16 football team
Kong
Interstate national tennis championship Maharashtra women's team
2018 held in Chhattisgarh
80th Senior National Table Tennis
Host – Odisha
Championships in Cuttack
Announced retirement from professional
Tommy Haas of Germany
tennis
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I-League title at the Tau Devi Lal

Minerva Punjab FC beat Churchill Brothers FC 1-0
Stadium in Panchkula
Women's 8km cross country race in the
14th Asian Cross Country Championship Sanjivani Jadhav - bronze medal
at Guiyang in China
Hero Indian Super League (ISL) 2017 Chennaiyin FC
F53/54 Javelin event at the World Para Deepa Malik - gold medal
Athletics Grand Prix in Dubai
Nidahas Trophy at the R Premadasa India beat Bangladesh
Stadium, in Colomb
Team USA - grabbed a total of 36 medals and topped the overall
Paralympic Winter Games Pyeong Chang medal count.Oksana Masters became the female U.S. athlete to
2018 in South Korea have won the highest number of medals in PyeongChang
Olympics with five medals
Indian contingent’s flag-bearer at the
opening ceremony of the Commonwealth PV Sindhu
Games (CWG) 2018 at Gold Coast,
Australia
Asian Billiards Championships title Pankaj Advani
in Yangon, Myanmar
8th Hockey India Senior Men National
Championship 2018 (A Division) at the
Hockey Punjab
Padma Shri Mohammad Shahid Synthetic
Hockey Stadium in Lucknow, Uttar
Pradesh
International Shooting Sport Federation (ISSF) Junior World Cup Rifle/Pistol/Shotgun in Sydney,
Australia
Elavenil Valarivan along with Shreya Gold
Agrawal and Zeena Khitta - Team
Arjun Babuta - men's 10m air rifle Bronze
Anish Bhanwala -Men’s 25m Rapid Fire
Gold
Pistol Junior event
Muskan Bhanwala - Women’s 25m Pistol
Gold
event
International Shooting Sport Federation (ISSF) World Cup-Guadalajara, Mexico
Shahzar Rizvi 10m Air Pistol Men’s Event Gold
Manu Bhaker 10m Air Pistol Women’s Event Gold
Akhil Sheoran Men's 50m Rifle 3 Position Gold
Om Prakash Mitharval & Manu Bhaker 10m Air Pistol Mixed Team Title Gold
Anjum Moudgil Women’s 50m Rifle 3 Positions Silver
Jitu Rai 10m Air Pistol Men’s Event Bronze
Ravi Kumar Men’s 10m Air Rifle Event Bronze
Mehuli Ghosh & Deepak Kumar 10m Air Rifle Mixed Team Event Bronze
Asian Wrestling Championships - Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan
50 Kg freestyle event Vinesh Phogat(Silver) defeated by Chun Lei(China)
59 Kg freestyle event Sangeeta(Bronze) defeats Jieun Um(Korea)
82 kg Greco-Roman event Harpreet Singh(bronze) defeats Khashimbekov(Uzbekistan)
55kg Greco-Roman event Rajendra Kumar(Bronze) defeats Mirakhmedov(Uzbekistan)
First Indian woman wrestler to win gold Navjot Kaur become world No 2 in the women's 65kg
in the Senior Asian Championships under category in the latest rankings released by the United World
65kg freestyle category Wrestling
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6th edition of Wisden India Almanack

'Cricketer of the Year' KL Rahul
Shantha Rangaswamy Deepti Sharma,
Priyank Panchal,
Hasan Ali
Tamim Iqbal
Retirement from all forms of Cricket.He Former England batsman Kevin Pietersen
was the captain of England cricket team
in 2008-09 period
Asia Cup Archery Stage 1 campaign
Gold 1.Promila Daimary defeated Natalia Erdynieva of Russia
(Womens recurve individual)
2. Akash, Gora Ho and Gaurav Lambe defeated Mongolia's
Adiyasuren Baasankhuu, Otgonbold Baatarkhuyag and Gantugs
Jantsan(Indian Trio)
3. Muskan Kirar(women's compound individual section)
Bronze Madhu Vedwan
Muskan Kirar
Indian Wells Masters 2018 or 2018 BNP Paribas Open - California, United States.
Men's Singles Juan Martin Del Potro Roger Federer (Switzerland)
(Argentina)
Women's Singles Naomi Osaka (Japan) Daria Kasatkina (Russia)
Men's Doubles John Isner (United States) Bob Bryan (United States)
Jack Sock (United States) Mike Bryan (United States)
Women's Doubles Hsieh Su-wei (Chinese Ekaterina Makarova (Russia)
Taipei) Elena Vesnina (Russia)
Barbora Strycova (Czech
Republic)

April
Asian Armwrestling Championship Indian arm wrestler Shrimant Jha
56th edition of Belgrade International Boxing Gold medal winners,Sumit Sangwan(91Kg), Indian woman
Championship at Belgrade in Serbia boxer Nikhat Zareen(51 kg), Himanshu Sharma (49 kg).
Monte Carlo Masters in Monaco Rafael Nadal
Asian Youth and Junior Weightlifting Jeremy Lalrinnunga
Championship at Urgench, Uzbekistan
Barcelona Open tennis title Rafael Nadal
2018 Chinese Grand Prix Red Bull`s Daniel Riccia
Retirement from international cricket at the
conclusion of South Africa-Australia test South African fast bowler Morne Morkel
series
Retired from football after playing a last Julio Cesar
match for boyhood club Flamengo
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Virat Kohli and Mithali Raj, captains of Indian men and

Wisden’s leading cricketers of the year
women’s cricket team respectively
FC Goa in collaboration with the Forca Goa Foundation
FC Goa Soccer Schools
to provide opportunity to more children to play football
72nd Santosh Trophy (Football) at the Salt Kerala defeated West Bengal
Lake Stadium in Kolkata, West Bengal
Host to the inaugural edition of the four-nation
Mumbai Football Arena Intercontinental Cup, which is slated to be held from June 1
to June 10, 2018
PFA Player of the Year Mohamed Salah - first Egyptian to win this award
30th overall Copa del Rey title at the Wanda
Barcelona defeated Sevilla
Metropolitano, Madrid.
Latest ATP Ranking Top 3 are as follows:
1.Rafael Nadal,2.Roger Federer,3.Alexander Zverev.
Leander Paes - 43rd doubles win
Davis Cup He has broken the 46-year-old record of Italian player
Nicola Pietrangeli
International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF) Sathiyan Gnansekaran - 46
rankings Manika Batra – 58
Australian former captain Steve Smith - First
ICC Test Player Rankings
Virat Kohli – Second
Kidambi Srikanth - First
BWF rankings
First Indian male player to achieve this mark.
Germany - First
FIFA rankings
Brazil – Second
World record to double cross the Bangla
Sampanna Ramesh Shelar(Pune)
Channel
Top-100 ATP men’s singles ranking Yuki Bhambri -83
Denmark’s Viktor Axelsen – First(men’s singles ranking)
Kidambi Srikanth – 5th
BWF rankings – April 19, 2018 PV Sindhu - Third and Saina Nehwal -12th
Japan’s Akane Yamaguchi – First(women’s singles ranking)
FIBA Basketball World Cup 2019, in Beijing Son of Dreams was unveiled as official Mascot
8th South Asian Judo Championship 13-player Indian contingent won 10 golds and three bronze
Kathmandu, Nepal medals in individual categories.
National Muaythai Federation Cup, a martial arts competition, ended at the Indoor Stadium, Srinagar
. It is also known as 'the art of eight limbs' as it is involves the combined use of fists, elbows knees and shins.
Won his first singles title on the ATP
Prajnesh Gunneswaran
Challenger circuit in the Kunming Open in
Anning, China
Tournoi World Cup Satellite Fencing
CA Bhavani Devi – Silver
Championship in Reykjavik, Iceland
2018 Miami Open
Men’s Singles John Isner (United States) Alexander Zverev (Germany)
Women’s Singles Sloane Stephens (United Jelena Ostapenko (Latvia)
States)
Men’s Doubles Bob Bryan (United States) Karen Khachanov (Russia) and
and Mike Bryan (United Andrey Rublev (Russia)
States)
Women’s Doubles Ashleigh Barty (Australia) Barbora Krejcikova (Czech
and CoCo Vandeweghe Republic) and Katerina
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(United States) Siniakova (Czech Republic)

May
Azerbaijan Grand Prix 2018 Lewis Hamilton
Spanish Grand Prix Lewis Hamilton
Four-Nation Tournament in Serbia Indian U-16 national football team defeated Tajikistan
Grand Prix of Liberation international Gagan Narang and Pooja Ghatkar bagged the silver medal
shooting competition held in Pilsen, Czech
Republic
3rd South Asian Junior Athletics India finished on top with 20 gold, 22 silver and 8 bronze
Championships (SAJAC) at Sugathadasa medals
Stadium in Colombo, Sri Lanka. Girls:
Punitha Ramasamy (gold, long jump, 5.95m)
Ajay (gold, discus throw, 50.11m)
Ashish Bhalothia (bronze, discus throw, 46.52m)
Pragyan Sahu (silver, 100m hurdles, 14.98s)
Chaitrali Gujar (silver, 100m, 12.24s)
Subha Venkatesan (silver, 400m, 55.18s)
Rachna Gujar (bronze, 400m, 55.70s)
Poonam Sonune (silver, 1500m, 4:36.65)
Boys:
Gurjeet Singh (silver, high jump, 2.00m)
Rishabh Rishiwar (silver, long jump, 7.43m)
Kunal Choudhary (gold, 110m hurdles, 14.50s)
Mohammed Fias (silver, 110m hurdles, 14.55s)
Prajwal Ravi (gold, 100m, 10.81s)
Akash Kumar (bronze, 100m, 10.89s)
Ankit (gold, 1500m, 3:51.52)
Ajit Kumar (3:53.45)
International Shooting Competitions of 10m air pistol category
Hannover (ISCH) Heena Sidhu won a gold medal
Shri Nivetha won a bronze medal
First Indian to reach the highest-ever score in Delhi Daredevils' Rishabh Pant scored 128*(63)
the history of Indian Premier League
50th straight set on clay, the most consecutive Rafael Nadal broke John McEnroe’s record of 49 straight
sets won by a player on a surface sets won
Italian Open in Rome, Italy. Rafael Nadal defeated Alexander Zverev
5th Women’s Asian Champions Trophy, at the Indian Women’s Hockey Team was defeated by host South
Sunrise Stadium, Donghae City, South Korea Korea
Multi year agreement with IOS Commonwealth medal winner and Table Tennis Star Manika
Batra and weightlifter Mirabai Chanu
Formula Junior Racing Series 2018 Bala Prasath
Championship in Coimbatore
European Golden Shoe Lionel Messi - Fifth time
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UEFA Europa League in Lyon, France Atletico Madrid defeated Marseille

Chief coach for the Indian men’s hockey team Harendra Singh
Coach of the Australian national cricket team Justin Langer
Australia's new ODI and T20 captains Tim Paine and Aaron Finch
England's captain at the World Cup in Russia Harry Kane
France’s player of the Year Paris saint-Germain’s brazilian forward footballer Neymar
UNFP manager of the year award: Unai Emery.
UNFP Young Player of the Year award: Kylian Mbappa.
UNFP Goalkeeper : Steve Mandanda.
Archery World Cup stage II 2018-Turkey Mixed pair of Abhishek Verma and Jyothi Surekha Vennam
- Bronze
Women’s compound team : Jyothi Surekha Vennam,
Muskan Kirar, Divya Dhayal – Silver
Eugene leg of Diamond League held in Doha Neeraj Chopra ranks 6th
Uber cup held at Bangkok Japan won over Thailand by a score of 3-0
Champions Trophy Spanish Team of Real Madrid beat Liverpool from England
Indian Premier League (IPL) held at Chennai Super Kings defeated Sunrisers Hyderabad
Wankhede stadium, in Mumbai.
Board of Control for Cricket in India(BCCI) and UN Environment Signed the letter of Intent to Promote
“Green” Cricket in India
Athletics Federation of India announced the retirement of discus thrower Vikas Gowda
Football Writers' Association Footballer of the Mohamed Salah of Liverpool football team
Year for 2017/18
WBC Asia Boxer of the Year Award Indian pugilist Neeraj Goyat
All India Invitational Blind Football Tournament in Kochi, Kerala.
ISSF World Cup Stage 2 - Changwon, South Top 3:
Korea China, Russia and USA
i. Shahzar Rizvi won India’s first medal
ii.Manu Bhaker and Om Prakash Mitharwal finished fourth
in the 10m mixed team air pistol event.
iii. Sheeraz Sheikh shot 49 out of 50 and was the best-placed
Indian shooter at 11th position
ICC ODI Team Rankings Top 3 Team :
England , India and South Africa
Retirement from all forms of international Former South Africa captain A B de Villiers
cricket
International Cricket Council (ICC) Cricket New Zealand’s Mike Hesson, Australia’s Belinda Clark, and
Committee new members Scotland’s Kyle Coetzer
Badminton World Federation (BWF) Ranking Kidambi Srikanth -3rd
HS Pronnoy - 8th
PV Sindhu – 3rd
Saina Nehwal – 10th
ATP rankings Top 3:
Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal and Alexander Zverev
WTA rankings - women’s singles tennis Top 3:
Simona Halep, Caroline Wozniacki, Garbine Muguruza
Womens Tennis Association (WTA) ranking Top 3:
Simona Halep, Caroline Wozniacki, Garbine Muguruza
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June
French Grand Prix Lewis Hamilton of Mercedes team
2018 World Para Athletics Grand Prix held in Iran won a total of 23 medals.
Tunisia. The final Grand Prix of the 2018 India's Amit Kumar Saroha won gold medal in the men's
season will be held in Berlin club throw F51 event
Ulaanbaatar Cup boxing tournament 2018 ( India won a total of 9 medals :
70th anniversary) held in in Mongolia. Mandeep Jangra (69kg) - gold medal.
Sonia Lather (57kg) and Lovlina Borgohain (69kg) and
Himanshu Sharma (49kg) and Etash Khan (56kg) -silver
medals.
Shiva Thapa (60kg), Vanhmlimpuia (75kg), Ashish (64kg),
and Bina Devi Koijam (48kg) -bronze medals.
ICC ODI rankings Top2 :England,India
Nepal, Netherlands, Scotland and the UAE inducted in ICC
ODI rankings
73rd US Women's Open at the Shoal Creek, Ariya Jutanugarn
Alabama course, United States. She has become the first player from Thailand to win a US
Women's Open title
Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh Parvez Rasool (cricket), Manzoor Ahmad Pandav (cricket),
felicitated sports persons in J&K Mehraj Uddin Wadoo (football), Real Kashmir Club
(football), Ms Palak Kaur (gymnastics) and Ms Balween
Kaur (gymnastics).
First Indian cricketer to score 2000 runs in Mithali Raj
Twenty20 Internationals (T20I).
45th Glenmark Junior and 35th Sub Junior Bengal swimmer Swadesh Mondal created another national
National Aquatic Championships in Pune, record
Maharashtra
Women's Asia T20 Cup 2018 at the Kinrara Bangladesh defeated India
Academy Oval in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Intercontinental Cup Football Tournament title India beat Kenya
at the Mumbai Football Arena
Gouden Spike meeting in Leiden, The Gavit Murali Kumar won gold in men's 10,000 metre
Netherlands
BCCI (Board of Control for Cricket in India) named Dinesh Karthik as replacement for Wriddhiman Saha in
the Afghanistan Test.
Indian football team captain Sunil Chhetri became the joint second highest international goal scorer among
active players along with Argentine player Lionel Messi
Sri Lanka cricket captain Dinesh Chandimal has been suspended from his side's third and final Test against
the West Indies
England set a new one-day international world record total of 481/6 and defeat Australia by 242 runs at Trent
Bridge.
Sports Illustrated India magazine Awards
Sportsperson of the Year for 2017 Kidambi Srikanth
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Coach of the Year Stephen Constantine

Editor’s Choice for Excellence (Team) Aizawl FC
Editor’s Choice for Excellence (Male) Jitu Rai
Young Sportsperson of the Year Manav Vikas Thakkar
Community Development in Sport Sailen Tudu
Comeback of the Year Sushil Kumar
Gamechanger of the Year Shubhankar Sharma
Outstanding Contribution to Sport Leander Paes
Lifetime Achievement Award Dhanraj Pillay
Special Award Living Legend Balbir Singh Sr.
ICC Test rankings Ravindra Jadeja – 3rd Spot
. Shikhar Dhawan - 24th spot
Murali Vijay - 23rd spot
Ishant Sharma - 25th spot
Umesh Yadav - 26th position
2026 Football World Cup – FIFA USA, Canada and Mexico
XXth International Umakhanov boxing India won 7 medals comprising of four bronze, two silver
Tournament was held in Kaspiysk, Russia and one gold medal
i.Indian women: Pinki Rani (51kg), Shashi Chopra (57kg)
and Pavitra (60kg) and Gaurav Bidhuri had reached the last
four-stage but lost their matches and won a bronze medal
each.
ii.Men’s category: Brijesh Yadav in the 81 kg division
and Virender Kumar in 91 kg lost in the Finals and won a
Silver medal each.
iii.Saweety Bora won gold medal in the Women’s 75 kg
category after beating Russia’s Anna Anfinogenova in the
final
Target Olympic Podium (TOP) Scheme SanjitaChanu, Yuki Bhambri dropped from TOP Scheme
First Indian to score a century in the one-off Shikhar Dhawan - He has become the sixth batsman in the
test match against Afghanistan in Bengaluru world to achieve this in the test format.
World record in the women's ODI cricket by New Zealand's teenage player Amelia Kerr
scoring an unbeaten 232 runs in a match
against Ireland in Dublin
18th KSS Memorial Shooting Championship Heena Sidhu topped the charts for the selection trials 5 in the
10M Air Pistol Women category
Chain Singh won gold in the three-position rifle event
ITF Pro circuit at the Hong Kong ITF Karman Kaur Thandi defeated China’s Jia-Jing tobagged her
Tournament first singles title
Singapore National Swimming Championships Sandeep Sejwal won gold medal in men's 50 meter
breaststroke event
World Cup (Stage III) event at Salt Lake. Deepika Kumari defeated Germany's Michelle Kroppen to
won gold medal in the women's recurve event
Chemistry World Cup of Olympic Boxing India won two gold, a silver and three bronze medals:
2018 held in Halle, Germany Gaurav Solanki (52kg) - gold medal. Mohammed
Hussamuddin (56kg) - gold medal.
Madan Lal - silver medal.
Amit Panghal (49kg), Dheeraj Rangi (64kg) and Narender
(+91kg) - bronze medals
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2018 Asian Junior Athletics Championships in Gifu, Japan

India won: Five gold, Two silver and Ten bronze medals.
GOLD MEDAL WINNERS
400 Metres Jisna Mathew
800 Metres Anu Kumar
5000 Metres Ajeet Kumar
Triple Jump Kamalraj Kanagaraj
Hammer Throw Ashish Jakhar
SILVER MEDAL WINNERS
Hammer Throw Damneet Singh
4*400 M Relay Subha Venkatesan,Rachna,Nithi Singh,Jisna Mathew
BRONZE MEDAL WINNERS
200 Metres Jisna Mathew
1500 Metres Durga Deore
5000 Metres Poonam Sonune
10000 Metres Karthik Kumar
4*100 M Relay Prajwal Ravi,Akash Kumar,Nithin Balakumar,Gurindervir
Singh.
Long Jump Sreeshankar
Shot Put Ashish Bhalothia
High Jump Abhinaya Shetty
Triple Jump Priyadharshini Suresh
Discus Throw Arpandeep Bajwa
French Open tennis tournament was held in Paris, France
2018 Men's Singles Rafael Nadal
2018 Women's Singles Simona Halep
2018 Men's Doubles Pierre-Hugues Herbert
Nicolas Mahut
2018 Women's Doubles Barbora Krejčíková
Kateřina Siniaková
2018 Mixed Doubles Latisha Chan
Ivan Dodig
ISSF Junior World Cup was held in Suhl, Germany.India won a total of 26 medals with 15 gold, 2
silver and 9 bronze medals
Event Winner (s) Medal
Men’s 10 Metre Air Rifle Hriday Hazarika Gold
Men’s 25 metre rapid fire pistol Anish Bhanwala Bronze
Men’s 50 metre pistol Anmol Anmol Bronze
Men’s 10 metre air pistol Saurabh Chaudhary Gold
Men’s 25 meter standard pistol Vijayveer Sindhu Gold
Men’s 25 meter standard pistol Rajkanwar Singh Sandhu Bronze
Men’s 25 meter pistol Udhayveer Sindhu Bronze
Men’s 10 metre air rifle (Team) Hriday Hazarika, Divyansh Singh Gold
Panwar, Sahu Tushar Mane
Men’s 50 metre pistol (Team) Arjun Singh Cheema, Gaurav Rana, Gold
Anmol Anmol
Men’s 10 metre air pistol (Team) Saurabh Chaudhary, Abhishek Arya, Gold
Anmol
Men’s 10 metre air pistol (Team) Arjun Singh Cheema, Gaurav Rana, Bronze
Udhayveer Sindhu
Men’s 25 meter standard pistol (Team) Udhayveer Sindhu, Vijayveer Sindhu, Gold
Anish Bhanwala
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Men’s 25 meter pistol (Team) Udhayveer Sindhu, Vijayveer Sindhu, Gold

Rajkanwar Singh Sandhu
Women’s 10 metre air rifle Elavenil Valarivan Gold
Women’s 10 metre air rifle (Team) Elavenil Valarivan, Zeena Khitta, Bronze
Shreya Agarawal
Women’s 50 metre pistol Neha Silver
Women’s 50 metre pistol Devanshi Dhama Bronze
Women’s 25 meter standard pistol Vishwa Jignesh Dahiya Gold
Women’s 10 metre air pistol Manu Bhaker Gold
Women’s 50 metre pistol (Team) Neha, Devanshi Dhama, Anushka Patil Gold
Women’s 25 meter standard pistol (Team) Vishwa Jignesh Dahiya, Anshika Gold
Satendra, Tanu Rawal
Women’s 10 metre air pistol (Team) Manu Bhaker, Devanshi Rana, Mahima Bronze
Turhi Agrawal
Women’s Skeet (Team) Ganemat Shekhon, Areeba Khan, Bronze
Parinaaz Dhaliwal
10 metre air pistol (mixed team) Saurabh Chaudhary, Devanshi Rana Gold
10 metre air pistol (mixed team) Anmol Anmol, Manu Bhaker Silver
10 metre air rifle (mixed team) Elavenil Valarivan, Divyansh Singh Gold
Panwar
July
Austrian Grand Prix Red Bull’s Max Verstappen
German Grand Prix 2018 Lewis Hamilton
Kabaddi Masters Dubai title in Dubai India defeated Iran
Champions Trophy hockey 2018 in Australia defeated India
Breda, the Netherlands
Tbilisi Grand Prix in Georgia Bajrang Punia defeated Iranian wrestler Mehran Nasiri to won gold
medal in the 65kg category
Reached the milestone of playing 500 Mahendra Singh Dhoni
international matches during the
second T20 International against
England
The fourth Indian to achieve the mark Mahendra Singh Dhoni
of 10,000 runs in ODIs, during the
second match of the three-game
series against England, at Lord’s
cricket ground in London.
The quickest player to reach the 1000 Pakistan batsman Fakhar Zaman
runs in one-day internationals (ODI).
World’s most expensive goalkeeper Brazilian goalkeeper Alisson Beckar
upon joining the team of Liverpool
from Roma.
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Retired from international football Australian football player Tim Cahill

Sotteville Athletics Meet in France Neeraj Chopra won gold medal
Latest ICC T20 rankings i.Lokesh Rahul reached a career-high 3rd position
ii.Australia’s Aaron Finch has become the first player in the history of
T20 Internationals to break the 900-point mark.
latest ODI rankings Top 3 Batting Rankings:
Virat Kohli, Joe Root and Babar Azam
Top 3 Bowling Rankings:
Jasprit Bumrah, Rashid Khan and Hasan Ali
Top 3 ODI All rounder
Shakib Al Hasan, Mohammad Hafeez and Mohammad Nabi
ICC Test rankings Top 3 Bowlers:
James Anderson, Kagiso Rabada and Ravindra Jadeja
Top 3 Batting:
Steve Smith, Virat Kohli and Joe Root
Top 3 All Rounders:
Shakib Al Hasan, Ravindra Jadeja and Vernon Philander
ATP tennis world rankings 1 – Rafael Nadal
2 – Roger Federer
3 – Alexander Zverev
FIG Atistic Gymnastics World Dipa Karmakar bagged gold medal
Challenge Cup at Mersin, Turkey
2018 IWF Junior World Jhilli Dalabehera has bagged the bronze medal
Weightlifting Championships
at Tashkent, Uzbekistan
White Nights International Ajay Jayaram lost to Pablo Abian of Spain
Challenge in Gatchina, Russia
The oldest Indian woman to complete Anju Khosla(52)
an Ironman Triathlon which is one of
the toughest one-day sporting events.
International Army Games 2018 This is the first time Armenia and Iran are co-hosting events of the
at Patriot Park in Moscow, Russia Army Games
First Asian to swim the choppy Prabhat Koli
water from Jersey (an Island in the
UK) to Francein cold weather
2018 RBC Canadian Open at the Dustin Johnson
Glen Abbey Golf Club in Oakville in
Canada
Gold medal in the Savo Games in Neeraj Chopra,
Lapinlahti, Finland
International Hockey Federation Top 3:
(FIH)rankings Australia, Argentina and Belgium
India – 5th position
2018 IAAF World U20 India’s Hima Das bagged gold medal in the women’s 400 metre
Championships was held in Tampere event at the IAAF World U20 Championships.
Stadium also known as Ratina He has become the first Indian track athlete to win gold medal in a
Stadium, in Tampere, Finland world championship across all age groups
Asian Games to be held in Indonesia Rani Rampal will lead the Indian women’s hockey team
Goalkeeper P.R. Sreejesh will lead the 18-member Indian Men’s
Hockey Team
Badminton Asia Junior Indian badminton player Lakshaya Sen defeated Indonesia’s Kunlavut
Championship 2018 was held Vitidsaran to win gold medal
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in Jakarta
India bagged 9 medals – 4 Silver Siver medal in Sanshou discipline (a Chinese self-defense system and
and 5 Bronze in the 7th World Junior combat sport )
Wushu championships held 1.Babulu (42 kg sub-junior)
in Brasilia, Brazil 2.Saleem ((56 kg sub junior)
3.Savita (48 kg junior)
4.Rohit (80 kg junior)
Bronze medal:
1.Himanshu (56 kg junior)
2.Shruti (60 kg junior)
3.Jahnvi (52 kg junior)
Bronze medal in In Taolu or Chinese Kungfu:
1.Karanjit Taijiquan
2.Karanjit Taijijian
The International Olympic New Events: women’s monobob, Big Air freestyle skiing for men and
Committee (IOC ) adds 7 medal women, plus mixed team events in short track speed skating, ski
events to 2022 Beijing Winter jumping, ski aerials and snowboardcross.
Games; total no of events add up to
109
The Yasar Dogu International Wrestling was held in Istanbul, Turkey.
India won a total of 10 medals: 2 gold, 4 silver and 4 bronze medal
Gold Bajrang-70 kg Freestyle
Pinki-55 kg Women’s Wrestling
Silver Sandeep Tomar-61 kg Freestyle
Pooja Dhanda-57 kg Women’s Wrestling
Rajni-72 kg Women’s Wrestling
Seema-53 kg Women’s Wrestling
Bronze Vicky-57 kg Freestyle
Sangeeta Balali-59 kg Women’s Wrestling
Sarita-62 kg Women’s Wrestling
Geeta-65 kg Women’s Wrestling
Women’s Tennis Association (WTA) Ranking
Serena Williams ranked 28th in the list
Women’s Ranking Simona Halep (Romania) 1
Caroline Wozniacki (Denmark) 2
Sloane Stephens 3
Men’s Ranking Rafael Nadal (Spain) 1
Roger Federer (Switzerland) 2
Alexander Zverev (Germany) 3
21st FIFA World Cup held Champions: France (2nd title)

in Russia Runners-up: Croatia
FIFA World Cup-2022 will be
hosted by Qatar
Category Player Country
Golden Ball Luka Modrić Croatia
Silver Ball Eden Hazard Belgium
Bronze Ball Antoine Griezmann France
Golden Boot Harry Kane(6 goals, 0 assists) England
Silver Boot Antoine Griezmann(4 goals, 2 assists) France
Bronze Boot Romelu Lukaku(4 goals, 1 assist) Belgium
Golden Glove Thibaut Courtois Belgium
Best Young Player Kylian Mbappé France
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FIFA Fair Play Award Spain

World record of 58.00sec to win Kathleen Baker
the 100m backstroke at the US
swimming championships.
World Archery Association (WAA) Top 3:
world rankings India, Chinese Taipei and Colombia
9th leg of Hero Women’s Pro Golf Pranavi Urs
Tour at the Eagleton golf resort, in
Bengaluru.
Broke the national record to win Muhammad Anas Yahiya
the 400 metres race at the Cena
Noveho Mesta nad Metuji meet in
Czech Republic.
International Cricket Council (ICC) has introduced stricter sanctions for ball-tampering at its annual
conference held in Dublin, Ireland
NADA gave a 4 year suspension to shot putter Inderjeet Singh for testing positive for anabolic steroids in a
dope test before the 2016 Rio Olympic Games.
Shardul Thakur will replace Jasprit Bumrah in India’s One-Day International squad for the upcoming ODI
series against England
Sports Ministry approved a monthly allowance of Rs 50,000 for each of the 18 members of the men’s hockey
team under the Target Olympic Podium Scheme (TOPS).
36th Golden Glove of Vojvodina Youth Men & Women Boxing Tournament, was held in Vojvodina,
Serbia
Aman +91kg Gold
Akash Kumar 56kg Gold
S Barun Singh 49kg Gold
Vijaydeep 69kg Gold
Nitu 48kg Gold
Divya Pawar 54kg Gold
Lalita 69kg Gold
Jyoti Gulia 51kg Silver
Manisha 64kg Silver
Neha Yadav +81kg Silver
Ankit 60kg Silver
Akash 64kg Silver
Nitin Kumar 75kg Silver
Saskhi 51kg Bronze
Sakshi Gaidhani 81kg Bronze
Bhavesh Kittamani 52kg Bronze
Anamika 51kg Bronze
2018 Russian Open
Event Winner Runners Up
Men’s Singles Sourabh Verma (India) Koki Watanabe ( Japan)
Women’s Singles Ho Yen Mei (Malaysia) Shiroi Ebihara (Japan)
Men’s Doubles Mohamad Arif Abdul Latif & Nur Konstantin Abramov & Alexandr
Mohd Azriyn Ayub (Malaysia) Zinchenko (Russia)
Women’s Doubles Chisato Hoshi & Kie Nakanishi Choe Mei Kuan & Lee Meng Yean
(Japan) (Malaysia)
Mixed Doubles Vladmir Ivanov (Russia) & Kim Rohan Kapoor & Kuhoo Garg
Min Kyung (South Korea) (India)
2018 Wimbledon Championships
Men’s Singles Novak Djokovic(Serbia) Kevin Anderson (South Africa)
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Women’s Singles Angelique Kerber (Germany) Serena Williams (USA)

Men’s Doubles Mike Bryan (USA) Michael Venus (New Zealand)
Jack Sock (USA) Raven Klaasen(South Africa)
Women’s Doubles Barbora Krejcikova (Czech Nicole Melichar (USA)
Republic)
Katerina Siniakova (Czech Kveta Peschke(Czech Republic)
Republic)
Mixed Doubles Alexander Peya (Austria) Victoria Azarenka(Belarus)
Nicole Melichar (USA) Jamie Murray (UK)
Boys’ Singles Tseng Chun-hsin (Chinese Taipei) Jack Draper(UK)
Girls’ Singles Iga Swiatek (Poland) Leonie Kung (Switzerland)
Boys’ Doubles Yanki Erel (Turkey) Nicolas Mejia (Colombia)
Otto Virtanen (Finland) Ondrej Styler (Czech Republic)
Girls’ Doubles Wang Xinyu (China) Caty McNally (USA)
Wang Xiyu (China) Whitney Osuigwe (USA)
Gentlemen’s Invitation Doubles Tommy Haas (Germany) Colin Fleming (UK)
Mark Phillippoussis (Australia) Xavier Malisse (Belgium)
Ladies’ Invitation Doubles Kim Clijsters (Belgium) Cara Black (Zimbabwe)
Rennae Stubbs (Australia) Martina Navratilova(USA)
Senior Gentlemen’s Invitation Jonas Bjorkman (Sweden) Richard Krajicek (Netherlands)
Doubles Todd Woodbridge (Australia) Mark Petchey (UK)
Wheelchair Men’s Singles Stefan Olsson (Sweden) Gustavo Fernandez (Argenttina)
Wheelchair Women’s Singles Diede de Groot (The Netherlands) Aniek Van Koot (The Netherlands)
Wheelchair Men’s Doubles Alfie Hewett (UK) Joachim Gerard (Belgium)
Gordon Reid (UK) Stefan Olsson (Sweden)
Wheelchair Women’s Doubles Diede de Groot (The Netherlands) Sabine Ellerbrock (Germany)
Yui Kamiji (Japan) Lucy Shuker (UK)
Wheelchair Quad Doubles Andrew Lapthorne (UK) Dylan Alcott (Australia)
David Wagner (USA) Lucas Sithole (South Africa)
2018 Malaysia Open
Men’s Singles Lee Chong Wei (Malaysia)
Women’s Singles Tai Tzu-ying (Chinese Taipei)
Men’s Doubles Takeshi Kamura, Keigo Sonoda (Japan)
Women’s Doubles Misaki Matsutomo, Ayaka Takahashi (Japan)
Mixed Doubles Zheng Siwei, Huang Yaqiong (China)
Lagos International Badminton in Lagos, Nigeria.
Men’s singles event Israel’s Misha Zilberman defeated Malaysia’s Ramdam Misburn
Women’s singles Indian’s Sree Krishina Priya defeated Russia’s Ksenia Polikaprova
Mixed doubles final, India’s Manu Attri and Manisha defeated Kuhoo Garg and Rohan
Kapoor of India
Men’s doubles India’s Mannu Attri and Sumeeth Reddy defeated Indian pair S.
Vaibhav and Prakash Raj
Women’s doubles event Kuhoo Garg and Ria Mukherjee defeated Krishma Wadekar and V
Harika
th
26 edition of Excellence in Sports Performance Yearly Award (ESPY) 2018
Jimmy V Award for Perseverance Jim Kelly, Pro Football Hall of Fame quarterback
Best Male Athlete Alexander Ovechkin, Washington Capitals
Best Female Athlete Chloe Kim, Snowboard
Best International Men’s Soccer Cristiano Ronaldo, Real Madrid/Portuguese National Team
Player
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Best International Women’s Soccer Sam Kerr, Chicago Red Stars/Australian National Team
Player
Best Male Tennis Player Roger Federer
Best Female Tennis Player Sloane Stephens
th
28 Meeting of Shooting Hopes junior International Championship was held in Pilsen, Czech Republic
Gold
Manu Bhaker 10 m Pistol Junior Female
Manu Bhaker, Devanshi Rana, 10 m Pistol Junior Female team
Shreya Agrawal,
Manu Bhaker , Anmol Jain 10 m air pistol mixed team
Manu Bhaker, Gaur, Muskan 25 m Pistol Junior female team
Elavenil Valarivan 10 m Rifle ISSF Junior Female
Rajkanwar Singh Sandhu 25 m Pistol Junior Male
Rajkanwar Singh Sandhu, Vijayveer 25 m Pistol Junior Male (team)
Sidhu, Udhayveer Sidhu
Saurabh Chaudhary 10 m Pistol Junior male
Arjun Singh Cheema 50 m Pistol Junior male
Arjun Singh Cheema , Anmol Jain, 50 m Pistol Junior male team
Rana
Elavenil Valarivan, Divyanish Singh 10 m rifle ISSF Mixed
Panwar
Silver
Anhad Jawanda, Anish Bhanwala, 25 m Rapid Fire Pistol Junior male (team)
Adarsh Singh
Vijayveer Sidhu 25 m Pistol Junior Male
Anhad Jawanda, Anish Bhanwala, 25 m Pistol Junior Male (team)
Adarsh Singh
Aishwarya Pratap Singh Tomar 50 m Rifle 3 Position Junior male
Anhad Jawanda 10 m Pistol Junior male
Arjun Singh Cheema, Rana, Sidhu 10 m Pistol Junior male team
Divyanish Singh Panwar 10 m Rifle ISSF Junior male
Manu Bhaker 25 m Pistol Junior female
Anmol Jain 50 m Pistol Junior male
Bronze
Anhad Jawanda 25 m Rapid Fire Pistol Junior male
Elavenil Valarivan, Shreya Agrawal, 10 m Rifle ISSF Junior Female (team)
Khitta
Udhayveer Sidhu 25 m Pistol Junior Male
Panwar, Hazarika, Rithik 10 m Rifle ISSF Junior male team
Vijayveer Sidhu 50 m Pistol Junior male
Shreya Agrawal, Hriday Hazarika 10 m rifle ISSF Mixed
Devanshi Rana, Saurabh Chaudhary 10 m pistol mixed team
th
15 National Youth Athletics Championships were held at Manjalpur Sports Complex in Vadodara
Haryana won the team championships title followed by Kerala
Kerala’s Vishnu Priya broke the women’s 400 meter hurdles record after she clocked 1:02.52 seconds
Athlete Mohit Kumar set national record in the men’s decathlon by talling 6707 points at the end of the ten
events to erase the old mark of 6618 points set by A Sangwan last year
Rakesh Gond set a youth national record of clearing a height of 4.90m to erase the national mark of 4.75m set
by Kanhaiya Singh in 2017
Punjab athlete, Dhanvir Singh, scripted a record in the 5th attempt by throwing 19.69 meters,the previous
record was set by set by Navtejdeep Singh in 2011
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Junior Asian Wrestling Championship was held in New Delhi

Freestyle team Topped by Iran
India ranked second with2 Gold, 3 Silver and 3 Bronze
Greco Roman team Topped by Iran
India ranked 4th with 129 points.India won 5 medals comprising of: 1
Gold, 2 Silver and 2 Bronze.
Women’s Wrestling team Topped by Japan
India ranked 3rd with 135 points.India won 5 medals comprising of: 2
Silver and 3 Bronze
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58 National Inter-State Senior i.Dutee Chand broke her 100m national record to become the fastest
Athletics Championships woman of the meet.
(NISSAC) ii.Hima Das clinched her second gold by posting a personal best in
was held at the Sarusajai Sports the 400m.
Complex in Guwahati, Assam iii. Kerala athlete Jinson Johnson had broken the legendary Sriram
Singh’s 42-year-old 800m record.
Event Winners In Men’s Winners In Women’s Category
Category
100m Run V.K.Elakkiya Dutee Chand(Odisha)
Dasan(Tamil Nadu)
200m Run Muhammed Anas Hima Das(Assam)
Y(Kerala)
400m Run Arokia Rajiv (Tamil Nadu) Hima Das(Assam)
800m Run Jinson Jhonson(Kerala) Komal Chodhary(Haryana)
1500m Run Jinson Jhonson(Kerala) Chitra P U(Kerala)
5000m Run G Lakshmanan(Tamil Sanjeevini Jadhav(Maharashtra)
Nadu)
10000m Run G Lakshmanan (Tamil Sanjeevini Jadhav(Maharashtra)
Nadu)
1.067m 110m Hurdles Siddhanth Nithya R(Tamil Nadu)
Thingalaya(Maharashtra)
0.914m 400m Hurdles Dharun Jauna Murmu(Odisha)
Ayyasamy(Tamilnadu)
0.914m 3000m Steeplechase Naveen Kumar Sudha Singh(Uttar Pradesh)
Dagar(Haryana)
High Jump Chethan B (Karnataka) Angel P Devasia(Kerala)
Pole Vault Kundan (Haryana) Khyati Vakharia(Karnataka)
Long Jump Sreeshankar M.( Kerala) Rintu Mathew(Manipur)
Triple Jump Arpinder Singh(Haryana) Sheena N V(Kerala)
Mens 7.260kg Shot Put Tejinder Pal Singh ———
Toor(Punjab)
Mens 2.0kg Discus Throw Dharamraj Yadav (Uttar ———
Pradesh)
Mens 7.260kg Hammer Throw Ashish Jakhar(Haryana) ———
Mens 800g Javelin Throw Shivpal Singh(Uttar ———
Pradesh)
4×100 M Rishwanth, Apsana,
V.K.Elakkiya Dasan, Sneha Pj ,
Manikanda Arumugan, Reena George ,
Siva Kumar (Tamilnadu) Prajna.S (Karnataka)
4×400 M Sathish K, Arpitha M M R,
Maruthai Thangam, Poovamma M R,
Vellayatheven C, Nityashree A,
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Mohan Kumar Vijayakumari Gk (Karnataka)

(Tamilnadu)
Declathon Daya Ram (Rajasthan) Purnima Hembram(Odisha)
Womens 4.0kg Shot Put ——- Navjeet Kaur Dhillon(Punjab)
Womens 1.0kg Discus Throw ——- Sandeep Kumari(Haryana)
Womens 4.0kg Hammer Throw ——- Sarita R Singh(Uttar Pradesh)
Womens 600g Javelin Throw ——– Annu Rani Rani(Uttar Pradesh)
Asian Cup for Cadets & Junior Judo Championships – 2018 held in Macau
Name of player Weight Medal Age category
Ms. Rohini Sambhaji Mohite -40Kg Gold medal Cadet
Mr. Mayank Kandian -60Kg Silver medal Cadet
Ms. Rebina Devi Chanam -57Kg Bronze medal Cadet
Ms. Roshni Devi Laishram -70Kg Bronze medal Cadet
Mr. Manpreet -73Kg Bronze medal Cadet
Mr. Harsh Tokas -81kg Bronze medal Cadet
Ms. Pinckey Balhara -52Kg Gold medal Junior
Ms. Tulika Maan +78kg Gold medal Junior
Mr. Shiva Kumar -55Kg Gold medal Junior
Mr. Rohit -100kg Silver medal Junior
Ms. Megha Tokas -57Kg Bronze medal Junior
Mr. Mohsin Gulab Ali -60Kg Bronze medal Junior
Mr. Nitin Chauhan -66Kg Bronze medal Junior
Mr. Jobandeep Singh -90Kg Bronze medal Junior
Mr. Sachin Mallikc +100Kg Bronze medal Junior
August
Hungarian Grand Prix Lewis Hamilton of Mercedes
Belgian Grand Prix 2018 Sebastian Vettel
European Tour title Fiji Gaganjeet Bhullar (India)

Women’s Hockey World Cup 2018 - London Netherlands defeated Ireland
Torneo Internacional de Fútbol Sub-20 de Argentina defeating Russia
L’Alcúdia (L’Alcúdia International Under-20 India was playing for the first time in the tournament.
Football Tournament),or COTIF
Tournament,held at Valencia, Spain
Tamil Nadu Premier League 2018 title - Madurai Panthers beat Dindigul Dragons
Chennai
World Junior Squash Championships 2018 – Men’s Individual- Mostafa Asal (Egypt)
Chennai Women’s Individual - Rowan Elaraby (Egypt)
Men’s Team – Egypt
Asian Nations Cup Chess Tournament - Top 3 countries:
Hamadan, Iran Iran Green, India and China
India won 5 medals: 1 gold, 2 silver, 2 bronze
Washington Open (tennis) 2018 or Citi Open 2018
Men’s Singles Alexander Zverev (Germany)
Women’s Singles Svetlana Kuznetsova (Russia)
Men’s Singles Jamie Murray (United Kingdom), Bruno Soares (Brazil)
Women’s Doubles Han Xinyun (China), Darija Jurak (Croatia)
ITF men’s Futures tennis tournament was held in Indonesia.
Event Winner Runner
Men’s Singles Niki Kaliyanda Poonacha (IND) Michael Look (AUS)
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Men’s Doubles Justin Barki (INA) / Christopher Francis Casey

Rungkat (INA) Alcantara (PHI) / Kaito
Uesugi (JPN)
2018 Vietnam Open officially known as YONEX-SUNRISE Vietnam Open 2018
Men’s Singles Shesar Hiren Rhustavito Ajay Jayaram (India)
(Indonesia)
Women’s Singles Yeo Jia Min (Singapore) Han Yue (China)
Men’s Doubles Ko Sung-hyun, Shin Baek-cheol Lee Sheng-mu, Yang Po-
(South Korea) hsuan (Chinese Taipei)
Women’s Doubles Misato Aratama, Akane Watanabe Nami
(Japan) Matsuyama,Chiharu
Shida (Japan)
Mixed Doubles Nipitphon Phuangphuapet, Alfian Eko Prasetya,
Savitree Amitrapai (Thailand) Marsheilla Gischa Islami
(Indonesia)
Cincinnati Masters also called Western & Southern Open for the year 2018 held in United States
Men’s single Novak Djokovic of Serbia Swizerland’s Roger
Federer
Women’s single Kiki Bertens of Netherland Romania’s Simona Halep
Men’s Doubles Brazil’s Bruno Soares and United Colombia’s Juan
Kingdom’s Jamie Murray Sebastian Cabal and
Robert Farah
Women’s Doubles Czech Republic’s Lucie Hradecka Belgium’s Elise
and Russia’s Ekaterina Makarova Mertens and
Netherland’s Demi
Schuurs
BWF World Championships 2018 - Nanjing, China
Event Gold medal Silver medal
Men’s Singles Kento Momota (Japan) Shi Yuqi (China)
Women’s Singles Carolina Marin (Spain) P V Sindhu (India)
Men’s Doubles Li Junhui (China), Liu Takeshi Kamura (Japan),
Yuchen (China) Keigo Sonoda (Japan)
Women’s Singles Mayu Matsumoto (Japan), Yuki Fukushima (Japan),
Wakana Nagahara (Japan) Sayaka Hirota (Japan)
Mixed Doubles Zheng Siwei (China), Huang Wang Yilü (China), Huang
Yaqiong (China) Dongping (China)
Saina Nehwal became the first woman to reach the quarter-finals of BWF World Championships for 8
consecutive times.
Asian Games 2018 held at Jakarta and i.Neeraj was the flag Bearer in the Opening Ceremony and
Palembang, Indonesia Indian women’s hockey team captain Rani
Rampal was India’s flag-bearer for the closing ceremony.
ii.Top 3: China, Japan and South Korea
iii.India won a total of 69 medals which comprises: 15 gold,
24 silver and 30 bronze medals. China finished on top of the
medal tally with 289 medals
iv.19th Asian Games is scheduled to take place
in Hangzhou, China in 2022
FIFA rankings Top 3:
France, Belgium and Brazil
India ranked 96th
Association of Tennis Professionals Top 3:
(ATP) Ranking Rafael Nadal (Spain)
Roger Federer (Switzerland)
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Alexander Zverev (Germany)

FIH rankings Top 3:
Australia, Argentina and Belgium
India – 5th
BWF ranking, Women’s singles ranking
Rank 1 – Tai Tzu Ying
Rank 2 – Akane Yamaguchi
Rank 3 -PV Sindhu
Men’s singles ranking
Rank 1 – Viktor Axelsen
Rank 2 – Shi Yuqi
Rank 3- Kento Momota
FIFA U-20 Women’s World Cup title at the Japan defeated Spain
La Rabine Stadium in Vannes, France.
4th Indian wicket-keeper to take 5 catches on Rishabh Pant
Test debut during the second day of the third
cricket Test against England, in Nottingham,
England.
World record for the most economical four- Pakistani fast bowler Mohammad Irfan
over bowling figures in the history
of T20 cricket.
Second-fastest Indian to score 6,000 runs in Indian cricket captain Virat Kohli
Test cricket.
Captain of Barcelona football team Lionel Messi

Veteran German striker Mario Gomez announced his retirement from international football
Indian cricketer Jhulan Goswami has announced her retirement from Twenty-20 Internationals (T20Is)
Manu Ginobili, Argentine basketball player, announced his retirement from basketball
Jamie Vardy and Gary Cahill announced their retirement from England international Football Team
Odisha for the First time is Organizing the 2018 Men’s Hockey World Cupat the Kalinga
Stadium in Bhubaneswar
North Korea to host 2019 Asian youth weightlifting championships from Oct 27, 2019
Olympic Council of Asia (OCA) has given recognition to Kho-Kho, India’s indigenous sport
Indian cyclist Esow Alben has won India’s first medal (a silver medal) at the 2018 UCI Junior Track Cycling
World Championships in Aigle, Switzerland.
BCCI officially handed over its hosting rights to the Emirates Cricket Board for the upcoming Asia Cup 2018
Tokyo 2020 will be the first Olympics to deploy facial recognition technology to increase security.

September
Italian Grand Prix Lewis Hamilton
Singapore Grand Prix Lewis Hamilton
Duleep Trophy India Blue defeated India Red team
Medved International Wrestling tournament Sakshi Malik won a silver medal in the 62 kg category
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was held in Minsk, Belarus Pooja Dhanda won a Bronze medal in the 57 kg category.
First Indian to win a medal at the IAAF Triple jumper Arpinder Singh
Continental Cup, by winning bronze medal, at
Ostrava, Czech Republic
Created a new marathon world record by Kenya’s Eliud Kipchoge
clocking 2hr 1min 39sec, in Berlin, Germany.
India’s oldest female athlete has won a gold Man Kaur
medal at the World Masters Athletics
Championships in Malaga, Spain.
SAFF (South Asian Football Federation) Cup
2018, at the Bangabandhu National Stadium Maldives defeated India
in Dhaka, Bangladesh
52nd ISSF World Championship was held China topped the medal tally by winning 43 medals (20
in Changwon, Republic of Korea gold, 15 silver, 8 bronze). Republic of Korea secured
2nd position with 36 medals (11 gold, 14 silver, 11
bronze). India finished in 3rd spot with a total of 27
medals (11 gold, 9 silver, 7 bronze)
The fifth and final T20 International and won Indian women defeated Sri Lankan women
the series 4-0 at Katunayake, Sri Lanka
Asia Cup at the Dubai International Cricket India defeated Bangladesh
Stadium in Dubai
Appointed as the permanent captain of Neymar
Brazil’s national football team.
US Open (tennis) 2018
Category Winner Runner-up
Men’s Singles Novak Djokovic (Serbia) Juan Martín del Potro
(Argentina)
Women’s Singles Naomi Osaka (Japan) Serena Williams
(United States)
Men’s Doubles Mike Bryan (United States), Jack Łukasz Kubot (Poland),
Sock (United States) Marcelo Melo (Brazil)
Women’s Doubles Ashleigh Barty (Australia), CoCo Tímea Babos
Vandeweghe (United States) (Hungary), Kristina
Mladenovic (France)
Mixed Doubles Bethanie Mattek-Sands (United Alicja Rosolska
States), Jamie Murray (United (Poland), Nikola Mektić
Kingdom) (Croatia)
2018 Japan Open (badminton) tournament also known as Daihatsu Yonex Japan Open 2018 was held
at Musashino Forest Sports Plaza in Tokyo, Japan.
Men’s Singles Kento Momota (Japan) Khosit Phetpradab
(Thailand)
Women’s Singles Carolina Marín (Spain) Nozomi Okuhara
(Japan)
Men’s Doubles Marcus Fernaldi Gideon, Kevin Junhui Li, Yuchen Liu
Sanjaya Sukamuljo (Indonesia) (China)
Women’s Doubles Yuki Fukushima, Sayaka Hirota Qingchen Chen, Yifan
(Japan) Jia (China)
Mixed Doubles Zheng Siwei, Huang Yaqiong Yilyu Wang, Dongping
(China) Huang (China)
China Open 2018
Men’s Singles Anthony Sinisuka Ginting Kento Momota (Japan)
(Indonesia)
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Women’s Singles Carolina Marín (Spain) Chen Yufei (China)

Men’s Doubles Kim Astrup, Anders Skaarup Han Chengkai, Zhou Haodong
Rasmussen (Denmark) (China)
Women’s Doubles Misaki Matsutomo, Ayaka Mayu Matsumoto, Wakana
Takahashi (Japan) Nagahara (Japan)
Mixed Doubles Zheng Siwei, Huang Yaqiong Zhang Nan, Li Yinhui (China)
(China)
The first female athlete to be named the Most Japanese swimmer Rikako Ikee
Valuable player in the 18th Asian Games
England’s highest Test run-scorer announced Alastair Cook
his retirement from International cricket
Former India and Tamil Nadu batsman Subramaniam Badrinath
announced his retirement from all forms of
cricket
Former India pacer announced his retirement Rudra Pratap Singh
from all forms of cricket
Former Indian hockey captain, has announced Sardar Singh

his retirement from international hockey
Former England wicket-keeper has announced James Foster
his retirement from all forms of cricket at the
end of the ongoing season
Former England cricket captain has Paul Collingwood
announced that, he will retire from cricket at
the end of the ongoing domestic season.
8th Asian Yoga Sports Championship organised by Asian Yoga Federation held in Thiruvananthapuram,
Kerala on September 28 2018
France Football magazine announced that, a women’s Ballon d’Or will be awarded for the first time in 2018
Asian Paralympic Committee (APC) confirmed that Hangzhou in China will host the 4th edition of Asian Para
Games in 2022
International Tennis Federation (ITF) announced that, Madrid would host the first two new-format Davis Cup
finals in 2019 and 2020
New Kabaddi Federation of India (NKFI) launched the first edition of Indo International Premier Kabaddi
League which would start on 26 January 2019.
October
Russian Grand Prix Lewis Hamilton
Japanese Grand Prix Lewis Hamilton
US Grand Prix Ferrari’s Kimi Raikkonen
Mexican Grand Prix Max Verstappen
Australian MotoGP Spanish rider Maverick Viñale
Men’s race at the Valencia Half Marathon in Kenyan distance runner Abraham Kiptum
Spain
2018 Egypt Junior & Cadet Open table tennis India’s Vishal Rajveer Shah defeated Mostafa and bagged
tournament, held in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt gold medal and won the mini cadet boys singles’ title.
1st edition of North East Olympic Games Manipur was crowned as the overall champions. Manipur
2018 was held at Main Stadium Khuman won 159 medals: 80 Gold, 48 Silver and 31 Bronze
Lampak Sports Complex, in Imphal, Manipur
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2018 Formula Three (F3) European title in Mick Schumacher

Hockenheim, Germany
2018 Isle of Man Chess Tournament was held Grandmaster B Adhiban from India beat Michael Adams of
at the Villa Marina, Douglas, in Isle of Man England
Santo Domingo Open trophy in Santo Leander Paes and Miguel Angel Reyyes-Varela defeated
Domingo, Dominican Republic Ariel Behar and Roberto Quiroz
25th Asian junior individual squash Yuvraj Wadhwani defeated Pakistan’s Anas Ali Shah
championship title in Chennai
First Indian wrestler to get seeded at the Bajrang Punia
World Championship that will be held in
Budapest, Hungar
The official mascot for the Odisha Men’s Turtle ‘Olly’
Hockey World Cup, which will be held at the
Kalinga Stadium in Odisha from November
28 to December 16, 2018.
Indian pair of Meghana Reddy and Tasnim India won a total of 5 medals in the championships: 1 gold
Mir won the Under-15 girls doubles title in the and 4 bronze medals
Badminton Asia Junior Under-17 and Under-
15 championships, at Mandalay, Myanmar
IBSF (International Billiards & Snooker Keerthana Pandian defeated Belarussian Albina Leschuk
Federation) World Under-16 Snooker
Championships, in St Petersburg, Russia
Samsun 2018 Hyundai Archery World Cup South Korea topped the medal tally with: 3 gold, 1 silver
and 1 bronze medals
Medal Winners Event
Silver Abhishek Verma, Jyothi Compound’s Mixed Team
Surekha event
Bronze Abhishek Verma Men’s Compound individual
event
Bronze Deepika Kumari Recurve Women’s Individual
event
2018 ATP Shenzhen Open (Tennis)
Singles Yoshihito Nishioka (Japan)
Doubles Ben McLachlan (Japan), Joe Salisbury (United Kingdom)
India’s Premier Cyclothon - Saksham Pedal Delhi
Elite women’s 40 kilometre Deborah Herold won gold medal
Men’s 50 kilometres Shreedhar Savanur won gold medal
Silver and bronze medals were won by Manjeet Singh and
Krishna Nakaodi.
Women’s elite race Sonali Chanu won silver, and Swasti Singh won the bronze
medal
China Open 2018 (Tennis)
Men’s Singles Nikoloz Basilashvili (Georgia)
Women’s Singles Caroline Wozniacki (Denmark)
Men’s Doubles Łukasz Kubot (Poland), Marcelo Melo (Brazil)
Women’s Doubles Andrea Sestini Hlaváčková (Czech Republic), Barbora
Strýcová (Czech Republic)
2018 Tianjin Open (tennis) was held in Tianjin, China
Women’s Singles Caroline Garcia (France)
Women’s Doubles Nicole Melichar (United States), Květa Peschke (Czech
Republic)
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2018 (ITTF) International Table Tennis Federation Challenge Belgium Open, was held in De Haan,
Belgium.
Under-21 women’s singles category India’s Ayhika Mukherjee - silver medal
Men’s doubles India’s Anthony Amalraj and Sanil Shetty - bronze medal
2018 Rolex Shanghai Masters (tennis)

Event Winners Runners-up
Men’s singles Novak Djokovic (Serbia) Borna Ćorić (Croatia)
Men’s Doubles Łukasz Kubot (Poland), Jamie Murray (United Kingdom),
Marcelo Melo (Brazil) Bruno Soares (Brazil)
Danisa Denmark Open 2018 (Badminton)
Men’s Singles Kento Momota (Japan) Chou Tien Chen (Chinese Taipei)
Women’s Singles Tai Tzu-ying (Chinese Saina Nehwal (India)
Taipei)
Men’s Doubles Marcus Fernaldi Gideon, Takeshi Kamura, Keigo Sonoda
Kevin Sanjaya Sukamuljo (Japan)
(Indonesia)
Women’s Doubles Yuki Fukushima, Sayaka Shiho Tanaka, Koharu Yonemoto
Hirota (Japan) (Japan)
Mixed Doubles Zheng Siwei, Huang Dechapol Puavaranukroh,
Yaqiong (China) Sapsiree Taerattanachai
(Thailand)
2018 Asian Para Games-Jakarta, Indonesia
This year’s concept was Harmony China topped the medal tally with 319 medals
Mascot: is MOMO (motivation and India won 72 medals,the highest number of medals in the
mobility). It is a graphic visualization of Asian Para Games ever,In 2014 India won 33 Medals and in
Bondol Eagle (Haliastur Indus). 2010 India won 14 Medals.
Motto:The Inspiring Spirit and Energy of
Asia
Men’s Archery Individual Recurve Open Harvinder Singh
Men’s Badminton Singles (SL3) Bhagat Pramod
Men’s Badminton Singles (SL4) Tarun Tarun
Women’s Badminton Singles (SL3) Parmar Parul Dalsukhbhai
Men’s Chess Individual Rapid VI Kishan Gangolli
Women’s Chess Individual Rapid P1 Kanickai Irudayaraj Jennitha Anto
Men’s Para athletics 100M T35 Narayan Thakur
Men’s Club Throw F51 Amit Kumar
Men’s High Jump T42/63 Sharad Kumar
Men’s Javelin Throw F42-44/61-64 Sandeep Chaudhary
Men’s Javelin Throw F55 – Men Neeraj Yadav
Women’s Para athletics 1500M T11 Raju Rakshitha
Women’s Club Throw F32/51 Ekta Bhyan
Men’s Para Swimming 50M Butterfly S7 Jadhav Suyash Narayan
Men’s Para Shooting 10M Air Pistol Manish Narwal
Elina Svitolina won the WTA Ukraine’s Elina Svitolina defeated America’s Sloane
Finals in Singapore Stephens
Swiss Indoors final in Basel, Switzerland Roger Federer won his 99th career ATP Tour title after
defeated Marius Copil
First recipient of the Chris Evert Women’s Simona Halep
Tennis Association (WTA) World No.1
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Trophy
FIFA (Fédération Internationale de Football
Association) announced that, it doubles the $50 million for the 24 participating nations
prize money for the women’s World Cup with
2019 tournament in France from June 7 to
July 7
FIFA’s world rankings Top 3:
1.Belgium and France
3.Brazil
India – 97th
Under-19 Asia Cup, at the Sher-e-Bangla India defeated Sri Lanka
National Cricket Stadium in Dhaka,
Bangladesh
International Cricket Council (ICC) global Australia has topped the ICC global Women’s T20I Team
Women’s T20I Team Rankings Rankings
India has secured 5th position
Youngest Indian to score a hundred on Test Prithvi Shaw
debut against West Indies in Rajkot, Gujarat.
Captain of Indian football team for Sandesh Jhingan
the international friendly match
Fastest batsman after Donald Bradman to Virat Kohli
reach 24 Test centuries
Fastest cricketer to score 10,000 one-day Virat Kohli
international (ODI) runs in 205 innings
Triangular series in Goa Indian team defeated Sri Lanka by 10 wickets
Puttaiah Memorial Cup 2018 at the Bangalore Bengaluru FC defeated Madras Engineering Group (MEG)
Football Stadium, in Bengaluru
International Olympic Committee’s Sport and Suheil F. Tandon
Active Society Commission’s Grant
Award for his contribution to sports for
development
MotoGP world champion Spain’s Marc Marquez
Wheelchair shuttler has won two gold Sanjeev Kumar
medals and a bronze medal at the Denmark
Open held in Odense, Denmark
2018 WBL World Billiards Sourav Kothari defeated Peter Gilchrist of Singapore
Championship title in Leeds, England
3rd Vijay Hazare Trophy title at M Mumbai defeated Delhi
Chinnaswamy stadium, in Bengaluru
8th Sultan of Johor Cup U-18 2018 hockey India lost 2-3 to Great Britain
tournament in Malaysia
Asian Hockey Champions Trophy title in India and Pakistan jointly won the trophy
Muscat, Oman India’s Akashdeep Singh was adjudged player of the
tournament
FICCI (Federation of Indian Chambers of Athletics Federation of India
Commerce and Industry) India Sports Awards
2018 for the category of Best National Sports
Federation (NSF)
Baba Indrajith was named the captain of the Tamil Nadu team for the upcoming Ranji Trophy season.
Force India has announced a one-year extension for 2019 for Formula One Mexican driver Sergio Perez.
Mexican boxer Canelo Álvarez igned the richest contract in the history of sports, which is a 5-year deal
worth $365 million (over Rs 2,680 crore) with streaming service DAZN.
International Olympic Committee (IOC) has made Senegal the host of the 2022 Youth Olympic Games,
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making it the first African host of any Olympics

Two-day Coffee Day Malnad Ultra Marathon 2018 was flagged off from Lalbaug Estate in Chikmagalur,
Karnataka.
2019 World Relays to be held in Japan
36th National Games will be held from March 30 to April 14, 2019 in Goa
Australian midfielder Mile Jedinak announced his retirement from international football
Russia goalkeeper Igor Akinfeev has announced his retirement from international football
Former Chelsea and England captain John Terry has announced his retirement from football.
Former Pakistan left-arm spinner Abdur Rehman announced his retirement from international cricket.
Indian pacer Praveen Kumar announced his retirement from all forms of cricket
Former England batsman Nick Compton announced his retirement from cricket
Sri Lanka spinner Rangana Herath has announced that he will retire from Test Cricket after playing the first
Test of Sri Lanka’s upcoming 3-match series against England from November 6 to 27, 2018
West Indies allrounder Dwayne Bravo announced his retirement from all forms of international cricket.
Summer Youth Olympic Games 2018 was held in Buenos Aires, Argentina
• Manu Bhaker led the Indian team as the flag-bearer of the Indian contingent in the opening
ceremony.
• Russian Federation topped the medal tally with 59 medals: 29 gold, 18 silver and 12 bronze medals.
Japan secured 2nd position with 39 medals: 15 gold, 12 silver, 12 bronze.
• India obtained 17th position with 13 Medals: 3 gold, 9 silver and 1 bronze.
Gold medal winners:
Event Winner Highlights
10m Air Pistol Men’s Shooting Saurabh Chaudhary
Men’s 62kg Weightlifting Jeremy Lalrinnunga India’s first ever Youth Olympics
Gold medal
10m Air Pistol Women Shooting Manu Bhaker Manu Bhaker has become the
1stIndian shooter to win gold in
Youth Olympic Games
Silver medal winners:
Event Winners Highlights
Archery – Men’s Recurve Individual Akash Malik India’s first silver-medallist
in archery at the Youth
Olympic Games
Hockey5s Men’s team event Indian Men’s Hockey won silver medals in their
team debut
Hockey5s Women’s team event Indian Women’s won silver medals in their
Hockey team debut
Badminton Men’s Singles Lakshya Sen
10m Air Rifle Women’s Shooting Mehuli Ghosh
10m Air Rifle Men’s Shooting Shahu Tushar Mane
Women’s Freestyle 43kg Wrestling Simran Simran
Athletics – Men’s 5000m Race Walk Suraj Panwar
Women’s 44 kg Judo Tababi Devi Thangjam India’s first judo medallist at
the Olympic level
November
MotoGP Malaysian Grand Prix 2018 in Malaysia Marc Marquez
World gymnastics championships in Doha, Qatar Simone Biles
Asian Snooker Tour title in Jinan, China Pankaj Advani
Brazilian Grand Prix in Brazil Lewis Hamilton
World Kick Boxing Championship in Argentina Aabid Hamid
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Tata Steel Chess India Blitz Tournament Viswanathan Anand

8th Asian Shotgun Championship Angad Vir Singh Bajwa
Bengaluru Open ATP (Association of Tennis Prajnesh Gunneswaran
Professionals) Challenger title
UIM (Union Internationale Motonautique) F1H2O
Grand Prix of India
FIG Acrobatic Gymnastics world cup India wins two bronze
Abu Dhabi Grand Prix Lewis Hamilton
World Chess Champion Magnus Carlsen
World Kick Boxing Championship in Argentina Aabid Hamid
Pulled out of Saudi Arabia led-South West Asian India and 6 other members of the South Asian Football
Football Federation (SWAFF) Federation (SAFF)
5th SAFF U-15 Championship 2018 was held at the Bangladesh beat Pakistan
ANFA Complex, Kathmandu, Nepal
The oldest European international goalkeeper as Bulgarian Georgi Petkov

Bulgaria played a Nations League draw with Cyprus
59th edition of Subroto Cup International Football Bangladesh’s Krida Shiksha Prothishtan (BKSP) by
Tournament (Junior Boys category) defeating Amini School of Afghanistan
First WTA (Women's Tennis Association) Thailand’s Luksika Kumkhum defeated Russia’s Irina
Khromacheva
2018 Fed Cup Trophy Czech Republic defeated defending champion United
States
11th Asian Air Gun championship was held at Sheikh India’s junior shooters won a total of 11 medals: 4
Sabah Al Ahmad Olympic Shooting Complex at gold, 5 silver and 2 bronze medals.
Kuwait City, in Kuwait
International Table Tennis Federation India’s Manav Thakkar settled for a bronze medal in
(ITTF)Challenge Belgosstrakh Belarus Open held in the U-21 Men’s singles category
Minsk, Belarus
Women’s World Boxing Championship 2018 at IndiraTop 3:
Gandhi Sport Complex in New Delhi. 1.China
2.Chinese Taipei
3.India
SaarLorLux Open 2018 badminton tournament – Germany
Men’s Singles Subhankar Dey (India)
Women’s Singles Cai Yanyan (China)
LI NING BWF World Junior Championship - Markham, Canada
Men’s Single event India’s top Junior Shuttler Lakshya Sen won
the bronze medal
Thailand’s Kunlavut Vitidsarn won the Men’s single
title by defeating Japanese player Kodai Naraoka
Men’s double title DI Zijian and WANG Chang
ATP Finals
Men’s Singles German Player Alexandar Zverev beat Serbian player
Novak Djokovic
Men’s Doubles Event American’s Jack Sock and Mike Bryan won the title by
defeating France’s Pierre-Hugues Herbert
and Nicolas Mahut
WTA Taipei Open Championship Luksika Kumkhum from Thailand won women singles
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by defeating Sabine Lisicki of Germany.

Ankita Raina and Karman Kaur Thandi, the unseeded
Indian Tennis pair, teamed together to clinch the
women double’s trophy
2018 Fuzhou China Open
Event Winners Runners-up
Men’s Singles Kento Momota (Japan) Chou Tien-chen (Chinese
Taipei)
Women’s Singles Chen Yufei (China) Nozomi Okuhara (Japan)
Men’s Doubles Marcus Fernaldi Gideon, Kevin He Jiting, Tan Qiang (China)
Sanjaya Sukamuljo (Indonesia)
Women’s Doubles Lee So-hee, Shin Seung-chan (South Mayu Matsumoto, Wakana
Korea) Nagahara (Japan)
Mixed Doubles Zheng Siwei, Huang Yaqiong Wang Yilyu, Huang Dongping
(China) (China)
Yonex-Sunrise Hong Kong Open 2018
Men’s Singles Son Wan Ho (South Korea) Kenta Nishimoto (Japan)
Women’s Singles Nozomi Okuhara (Japan) Ratchanok Intanon (Thailand)
Men’s Doubles Marcus Fernaldi Gideon, Takeshi Kamura, Keigo Sonoda
Kevin Sanjaya Sukamuljo (Japan)
(Indonesia)
Women’s Doubles Yuki Fukushima, Sayaka Lee So Hee, Shin Seung Chan (South
Hirota (Japan) Korea)
Mixed Doubles Yuta Watanabe, Arisa Wang Yilyu, Huang Dongping
Higashino (Japan) (China)
Syed Modi International Badminton Championship
Men’s single title India’s Sameer Verma China’s Lu Guangzu
Women’s Singles title China’s Han Yue India’s Saina Nehwal

Men’s double event Indonesia’s Men’s Pair of Fajar India’s Satwiksairaj and
Alfian and Muhammad Rian Rankireddy
Ardianto
Women’s double event Malaysia’s Chow Mei Kuan and Lee India’s Ashwini Ponnappa and
Meng Yean Reddy N. Sikki
Mixed double event China’s Ou Xuanyi China Feng Indonesia’s Rinov Rivaldy and
Xueying Pitha Haningtyas Mentari
Rolex Paris Masters 2018
Men’s Singles Karen Khachanov (Russia) Novak Djokovic (Serbia)
Men’s Doubles Marcel Granollers (Spain), Rajeev Jean-Julien Rojer
Ram (United States) (Netherlands), Horia Tecău
(Romania)
ICC (International Cricket Council) ODI (One Day International) rankings Top 3:
Virat Kohli ,Rohit Sharma
And Shikhar Dhawan
i.Rashid Khan of Afghanistan is
the top-ranked ODI all-rounder
in world cricket with 353 points
ii.Top 2 countries:
England and India
Inducted into the ICC Cricket Hall of Fame Former Indian cricket
captain Rahul Dravid
First batsman to score four Twenty20 International (T20I) centuries Rohit Sharma
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First Indian player to touch the 11,000 run figure in the Ranji Trophy by scoring Veteran first-class cricketer
an impressive knock of 153 off 284 balls during the third round match against Wasim Jaffer
Baroda
First player to pick up a hat-trick in the history of cricket’s newest format T-10 Indian Cricketer Pravin Tambe
League
Fastest to complete the double of 200 wickets and 3000 runs in the Test format Bangladesh Test captain and
of the game. left arm spinner Shakib Al
Hasan
2018 ICC Women’s World Twenty20, West Indies Australia defeated England
International Cricket Council
(ICC) announced that it has
renamed the ICC World T20 as
the ICC T20 World Cup to both
men’s and women’s cricket
ICC banned West Indies fast bowler Shannon Gabriel
Announced retirement from limited over cricket in order to concentrate on Test Pakistan batsman Azhar Ali
cricket
Retired from the long-form of cricket, including the Ranji Trophy India’s Ambati Rayudu
Retirement from all forms of cricket. Indian fast bowler Munaf Patel
Resigned from Cricket Australia’s (CA) board of directors Former Australia captain Mark
Taylor
Interim head coach of West Indies Nic Pothas
Retirement from all forms of cricket Australia all-rounder John
Hastings
Retirement from International cricket Isobel Joyce and Cecelia
Joyce, twins of Ireland Cricket
team
Retirement from football. Former England midfielder Joe
Cole
Retirement after a career of 20 years. Former Chelsea striker Didier
Drogba
Official partner for the Odisha Hockey Men’s World Cup 2018 to be held from Tata Steel
November 28 to December 16, at the Kalinga Stadium, in Bhubaneswar, Odisha
23rd edition of the World Corporate Games to be held between 6 and Qatar
9 November 2019
Formula 1 race in its capital city Hanoi for the first time in April 2020 Vietnam
Former Mumbai medium pacer and India U-19 cricketer, has been Saurabh Netravalkar
appointed captain of the United States national cricket team
34th National Junior Athletics Championships 2018 was held at the Birsa Munda Athletics
Stadium in Ranchi, Jharkhand – National Records
Name Event Record
Parveen Kumar U-20 Boys 10km Racewalk 42:41:68 seconds
Amit U-18 Boys 5-km Racewalk 21:17:63 seconds
Akashdeep Singh U-20 Boys 10000m Racewalk 40.47.78 seconds
Pawana Nagraj U-14 Girls High Jump 1.63m
Pranjali Patil U-16 Girls 100m Hurdles 14.36 seconds
Abhinash Kumar U-14 Boys Long Jump 6.84m
Aparna Roy U-18 Girls 100m Hurdles 13.76 seconds
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Saurabh Rathi U-18 Boys Decathlon 6955 points

Shaili Singh U-16 Girls Long Jump 5.94m
Jasmine Kaur U-16 Girls Shot Put 14.27m
Nitesh Poonia U-18 Boys Hammer Throw 81.47m
Danish Makwana U-14 Boys Shot Put 18.03m
December
Artistic Gymnastics World Cup held in Cottbus, Dipa Karmakar won Bronze medal
Germany
2018 Davis Cup Croatia defeated France
Women’s Hockey Champions held in Changzhou Netherlands defeated Australia
Wujin, China.
Australia’s Greg Norman Medal Minjee Lee is the first woman to win this medal.
Hero Women’s Pro Golf Tour at the Noida Golf Ridhima Dilawari
Course
2018 International Association of Ultra Running Ullas Narayan (Bronze) - first Indian individual medal
(IAU) 24 Hour Asia & Oceania Championships winner
in Taipei, Taiwan
Pune International Marathon Atlawim Debebe of Ethiopia
Ninth edition of International Admiral’s Cup Italy defeated Singapore
Regatta 2018
115th Aga Khan Gold Cup tournament in Steel Authority of India’s Hockey Academy
NewDelhi
BWF(Badminton World Federation) held in PV Sindhu defeated Japanese Nozomi Okuhara. Shi
Tianhe,Guangzhou Yuqi(China) won in Men’s singles category.
Men’s Hockey World Cup Championship held in Belgium defeated Netherland.
Bhubaneswar,Odisha. Mascot: Turtle ‘Olly’ is the official Mascot of the
Championship
National Squash Championships held in New Joshna Chinappa and Mahesh Mangaonkar secured the
Delhi women’s and men’s singles titles
Maharashtra Kesari 2018 at Azad ground, Jalna, Bala Rafique Shaikh
Maharashtra
25th Australian cricketer to be officially inducted Former Australia captain Ricky Ponting
into the International Cricket Council’s Hall of
Fame
FIFA (The Federation Internationale de Football European Champion, Real Madrid
Association) Club World Cup in Abu Dhabi,
UAE (United Arab Emirates)
Tata Motors Senior Women’s National Vinesh Phogat and Sakshi Malik won Gold medals in 57
Championship hosted by Uttar Pradesh kg and 62 kg category
Commonwealth Senior Fencing Championships, i.India won a total of 3 medals: 2 gold and 1 bronze, in the
was held in Canberra, Australia championship. Bhavani Devi won gold medal in the Senior
Women’s Sabre event
ii.Bhavani Devi become the first Indian to win a gold medal in
the Commonwealth Championship.
The youngest and the fifth Indian to win Asian Shubhankar Sharma
Tour Order of Merit in golf.
The first person to complete a solo journey American adventurer 33 years old Colin O’Brady
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across Antarctica
FIFA global ranking Top 3:

Belgium, France and Brazil
37th Senior National Rowing Army Team emerged as the champions in 2018 and was
Championship concluded at Army Rowing Node, followed by the Services team
College of Military Engineering in Pune
Five weightlifters banned after 2012 Olympic Ukrainian Oleksiy Torokhtiy, Uzbek Ruslan Nurudinov,
tests reanalyzed Valentin Hristov of Azerbaijan, Armenia’s Meline Daluzyan
and Belarusian Mikalai Novikau
CCI Western India Squash Championship held National champion Mahesh Mangaonkar of Maharashtra
India in Mumbai, Maharashtra and Yash Fadte of Goa clinched the men’s under 19 boys
titles in the
The youngest woman to win 50 World Cup ski American Mikaela Shiffrin
races with victory in the slalom in the French
Alps
US Kids Golf India Tour was held Classic Golf & Country Club in Gurugram, Haryana
Boys 7 Chaitanya Gupta
Boys 8 Sohang Har Kantor
Boys 9 Bhavesh Nirwan
Boys 10 Udai Aditya Middha
Boys 11 Kushagra Tokas
Boys 12 Vickram Baruah
Boys 13-14 Jai Bahl
Boys 15-18 Aaryomaan Bose
Girls 7 & under Anushka Gupta
Girls 8-9 Ayesha Gupta
Girls 10-11 Lavanya Gupta
Girls 12-14 Ragini Navet
Girls 15-18 Khushi Dawar
Bagged the first position against America’s Axl Indian junior golfer Arjun Bhati
Mohru
2018 ITF World Champions
Men’s Singles Category Serbia’s Novak Djokovic
Women’s Singles Category Romania’s Simona Halep
Men’s Doubles Category USA’s Mike Bryan and Jack Sock
Women’s Doubles Category Barbora Krejcikova and Katerina Siniakova
Tata Open India International Challenge 2018

Men’s Singles Lakshya Sen (India)
Women’s Singles Ashmita Chaliha (India)
Men’s Doubles Arjun M.R., B. Sumeeth Reddy (India)
Women’s Doubles Ng Wing Yung, Yeung Nga Ting (Hong Kong)
Mixed Doubles Nipitphon Phuangphuapet, Savitree Amitrapai (Thailand)
BWF(Badminton World Federation) World Tour 2018,officially known as HSBC BWF World Tour Finals
2018
Men’s Singles Shi Yuqi(China) defeated Kento Momota (Japan)
Women’s Singles P. V. Sindhu(India) defeated Nozomi Okuhara (Japan)
Men’s Doubles Li Junhui and Liu Yuchen(China) defeated Hiroyuki
Endo and Yuta Watanabe(Japan)
Women’s Doubles Misaki Matsutomo and Ayaka Takahashi(Japan) defeated Lee
So-hee and Shin Seung-chan(South Korea)
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Mixed Doubles Wang Yilü and Huang Dongping(China) defeated Zheng

Siwei and Huang Yaqiong(China)
62nd National Shooting Championship Competitions (NSCC) Shotgun held at Jaipur, Rajasthan
21st Usha National Athletics Sports Championship for the Blind Concludes in New Delhi
Pune woman Vedangi Kulkarni, 20, became the fastest Asian to cycle the globe
Indian Armed Forces inaugurated Tri Services Cycling and Trekking Expedition in Sikkim.
Maharashtra, Pune to host Khelo India Youth Games 2019 and Jersey launched
International Boxing Association (AIBA) announced that it will introduce a “Protest System” for coaches and
boxers in next year’s Men World Championship to be held in Moscow, Russia
Pakistan’s Yasir Shah became the fastest cricketer to take 200 Test wickets breaking an 82-year-old record,
beating Australian leg-spinner Clarrie Grimmett’s record
Australian batsman Shaun Marsh broke an unwanted 130-year-old record in Australian cricket
Indian Skipper Virat Kohli became the first Indian captain to win a Test in South Africa, England and Australia
after defeating Australia
Indian Cricket Team captain Virat Kohli became the second fastest player to score 25 Test Centuries
Indian Cricket team Captain, Virat Kohli surpassed former India’s Captain Rahul Dravid’s 16 years record of
highest runs in overseas Tests
Madhya Pradesh batsman Ajay Rohera scored 267 unbeaten on his first-class debut against Hyderabad while
playing the Ranji Trophy match in Indore
International Cricket Council (ICC) ropes in Royal Stag as official sponsor for next five years
Cricket Australia (CA) and the Australian Cricketers’ Association (ACA) announced to rebrand its Allan Border
Medal to Australian Cricket Awards from 2019 onwards.
Indian Premier League (IPL) franchise Delhi Daredevils were renamed as Delhi Capitals
Former India opener WV Raman has been appointed the new coach of the Indian women’s cricket team
Barcelona striker Lionel Messi surpassed his long rival Cristiano Ronaldo from Portugal after scoring his
106th Goal against PSV Eindhoven
International Olympic Committee IOC has set up an advisory committee on human rights chaired by Zeid Ra’ad
al-Hussein for human rights starting in 2024
Wrestling Federation of India (WFI) rolled out its revolutionary contracts system for Wrestlers.
Pakistan to host 2020 Asia Cup
Bhubaneswar is set to host one of the three Hockey Series Finals to be held from June 6 to 16 2019.India will host
the second of the Hockey Series Finals, Kuala Lumpur(Malaysia) will host the first event from April 23 to May 1
Hungarian capital Budapest was officially confirmed as the host city of the 2023 International Association of
Athletics Federations (IAAF) World Championships
Former Indian opening batsman, Gautam Gambhir announced his retirement from all forms of Cricket
Kabaddi World Cup Winning Captain Anup Kumar announces retirement from the game
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