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2018 SPORTS (Jan - Apr)

JanuaryName of the Sport Events Name of the WinnersRanji 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 rankings

G Sathiyan ranks 49th position at the world level

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 soccer history

Brazilian football player Philippe Coutinho

British Junior Open squash Winner : England's Sam Todd Runner : India,s Neel Joshi

Kolkata Open 2018 International Invitation Snooker Championship

Aditya Mehta

Chef De Mission for Winter Olympics Games 2018

Harjinder Singh

First Indian to win an international medal in skiing

Aanchal Thakur won bronze medal in the Alpine Ejder 3200 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 Cricketer of the Year 2017 and ICC ODI cricketer of the year 2017 awards

Virat Kohli

ICC T20I performance of the year award. Yuzvendra Chahal ICC T20I performance of the year award. 1.Germany

2.Brazil102. India

Blind Cricket World Cup 2018 Winner : India Runner : Pakistan Host : Sharjah Cricket Stadium, in UAE

8th Hockey India Sub Junior (Women) National Championship 2018 (A Division)

Hockey Haryana defeated Madhya Pradesh

15th edition of Mumbai Marathon Ethiopia’sSoloman Deksisa Swedish Open Junior International Series 2018

Siddharth Singh won over Denmark’s Christophersen

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U-18 TT Rankings 1.Li Hsin-Yang2.Manav Thakkar

33rd Women Senior National Weightlifting Championships in Mangaluru

Rakhi Halder created record by lifting 128kgs in the clean and jerk for a total of 230kgs in the 63kg women's category

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

(Denmark) Simona Halep (Romania)

Men’s Doubles Oliver Marach (Austria) and Mate Pavic (Croatia)

Juan Sebastian Cabal (Colombia) and Robert Farah (Colombia)

Women’s Doubles Timea Babos (Hungary) and Kristina Mladenovic (France)

Ekaterina Makarova (Russia) and Elena Vesnina (Russia)

Mixed Doubles Gabriela Dabrowski (Canada) and Mate Pavic (Croatia)

Timea Babos (Hungary) and Rohan Bopanna (India)

FebruaryName of the Sport Events Name of the WinnersSpiceJet India Open Boxing Tournament

Mary Kom, Pinki Rani , LovlinaBorgohain, Sanjeet, Manish Kaushik Clinches Gold, India Bag 10 Medals

Highest-ranked Indian squash player in PSA rankings

Saurav Ghosal (ranks 14 )

U-19 Cricket World Cup, in NewZealand.

India defeated Australia

Maybank Golf Championship Shubhankar Sharma India Open 2018 (Badminton) Winner : Beiwen Zhang

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Runner : PV Sindhu Senior Women Hockey champions CRPF First Indian golfer to qualify for China LPGA Tour

Sharmila Nicollet

world's youngest and first Asian swimmer to complete Ocean 7 Challenge

Rohan More

Australia's Border Medal Stevan Smith 13th edition of National Chess 'A' Championship for Blind

KishanGangolli won

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 Championship title

Railway Sports Promotion Board (RSPB)

23rd Senior Women's National Football Championship title

Tamil Nadu

Sponsor Indian National Hockey teams for 5 years

Odisha government

First player in Champions League history to score 100 goals for one club

Cristiano Ronaldo

First batsman ever to score 500 runs in bilateral ODI series

ViratKohli

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 all three formats in international cricket

Bhuvneshwar Kumar

60m sprint indoor world record Christian Coleman of US First Indian to cross 900 points in ICC ODI player rankings

ViratKohli

5th Commonwealth Nations Bridge Championship in Gold Coast, Australia

Indian "A" team won gold

Austrian Open International Challenge (badminton)

ParupalliKashyap

1st Indian to win individual medal at Gymnastics World Cup

ArunaBudda

69th Strandja Memorial boxing tournament in Bulgaria

VikasKrishan wins gold, adjudged best boxer

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. • Haryana topped the overall medal tally with 38 gold medals. Haryana was followed by Maharashtra

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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.

MarchName of the Sport Events Name of the WinnersSnooker 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, Russia

Viswanathan Anand

ISSF World Cup in Guadalajara, Mexico Manu Bhaker Sultan Azlan Shah Cup 2018 title,Malaysia

Australia

2018 Formula One Grand Prix of Australia

Ferrari's Sebastian Vettel

Youngest captain in international cricket Rashid Khan(19) Deodhar Trophy 2017-18 ,Himachal Pradesh Cricket Association Stadium in Dharamsala

India B team defeated Karnataka team

One-Day International (ODI) status for the first time. Nepal cricket team Banned from playing for Australia by Cricket Australia Steve Smith and David Warner Captain of Zimbabwe team Brendan Taylor Coach-cum-mentor of Jammu and Kashmir Cricket Association

Irfan Pathan

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 Kong

India U-16 football team

Interstate national tennis championship 2018 held in Chhattisgarh

Maharashtra women's team

80th Senior National Table Tennis Championships in Cuttack Host - Odisha

Announced retirement from professional tennis Tommy Haas of Germany

I-League title at the Tau Devi LalStadium in Panchkula Minerva Punjab FC beat Churchill Brothers FC 1-0

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Women's 8km cross country race in the 14th Asian Cross Country Championship at Guiyang in China

Sanjivani Jadhav - bronze medal

Hero Indian Super League (ISL) 2017 Chennaiyin FC F53/54 Javelin event at the World Para Athletics Grand Prix in Dubai

Deepa Malik - gold medal

Nidahas Trophy at the R Premadasa Stadium, in Colomb

India beat Bangladesh

Paralympic Winter Games Pyeong Chang 2018 in South Korea

Team USA - grabbed a total of 36 medals and topped the overall medal count.Oksana Masters became the female U.S. athlete to 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 Games (CWG) 2018 at Gold Coast, Australia

PV Sindhu

Asian Billiards Championships title in Yangon, Myanmar

Pankaj Advani

8th Hockey India Senior Men National Championship 2018 (A Division) at the Padma Shri Mohammad Shahid Synthetic Hockey Stadium in Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh

Hockey Punjab

International Shooting Sport Federation (ISSF) Junior World Cup Rifle/Pistol/Shotgun in Sydney, Australia

Elavenil Valarivan along with Shreya Agrawal and Zeena Khitta - Team

Gold

Arjun Babuta - men's 10m air rifle Bronze Anish Bhanwala -Men’s 25m Rapid Fire Pistol Junior event Gold

Muskan Bhanwala - Women’s 25m Pistol event Gold

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 in the Senior Asian Championships under 65kg freestyle category

Navjot Kaur become world No 2 in the women's 65kg category in the latest rankings released by the United World Wrestling

6th edition of Wisden India Almanack 'Cricketer of the Year' KL Rahul Shantha Rangaswamy Deepti Sharma,

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Priyank Panchal, Hasan Ali Tamim Iqbal

Retirement from all forms of Cricket.He was the captain of England cricket team in 2008-09 period

Former England batsman Kevin Pietersen

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'sAdiyasuren Baasankhuu, Otgonbold Baatarkhuyag and GantugsJantsan(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

(Argentina) Roger Federer (Switzerland)

Women's Singles Naomi Osaka (Japan) Daria Kasatkina (Russia) Men's Doubles John Isner (United States)

Jack Sock (United States) Bob Bryan (United States) Mike Bryan (United States)

Women's Doubles Hsieh Su-wei (Chinese Taipei) Barbora Strycova (Czech Republic)

Ekaterina Makarova (Russia) Elena Vesnina (Russia)

AprilName of the Sport Events Name of the WinnersAsian Armwrestling Championship Indian arm wrestler Shrimant Jha 56th edition of Belgrade International Boxing Championship at Belgrade in Serbia

Gold medal winners,Sumit Sangwan(91Kg), Indian woman boxer Nikhat Zareen(51 kg), Himanshu Sharma (49 kg).

Monte Carlo Masters in Monaco Rafael Nadal Asian Youth and Junior Weightlifting Championship at Urgench, Uzbekistan

Jeremy Lalrinnunga

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 series

South African fast bowler Morne Morkel

Retired from football after playing a last match for boyhood club Flamengo

Julio Cesar

Wisden’s leading cricketers of the year Virat Kohli and Mithali Raj, captains of Indian men and women’s cricket team respectively

FC Goa Soccer Schools FC Goa in collaboration with the Forca Goa Foundation to provide opportunity to more children to play football

72nd Santosh Trophy (Football) at the Salt Lake Stadium in Kolkata, West Bengal

Kerala defeated West Bengal

Mumbai Football Arena Host to the inaugural edition of the four-nation

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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 Metropolitano, Madrid. Barcelona defeated Sevilla

Latest ATP Ranking Top 3 are as follows: 1.Rafael Nadal,2.Roger Federer,3.Alexander Zverev.

Davis Cup Leander Paes - 43rd doubles win He has broken the 46-year-old record of Italian player Nicola Pietrangeli

International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF) rankings

Sathiyan Gnansekaran - 46 Manika Batra - 58

ICC Test Player Rankings Australian former captain Steve Smith - First Virat Kohli - Second

BWF rankings Kidambi Srikanth - First First Indian male player to achieve this mark.

FIFA rankings Germany - First Brazil - Second

World record to double cross the Bangla Channel Sampanna Ramesh Shelar(Pune)

Top-100 ATP men’s singles ranking Yuki Bhambri -83

BWF rankings – April 19, 2018

Denmark’s Viktor Axelsen – First(men’s singles ranking) Kidambi Srikanth – 5th 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 Kathmandu, Nepal

13-player Indian contingent won 10 golds and three bronzemedals 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 Challenger circuit in the Kunming Open in Anning, China

Prajnesh Gunneswaran

Tournoi World Cup Satellite Fencing Championship in Reykjavik, Iceland CA Bhavani Devi - Silver

2018 Miami Open Men’s Singles John Isner (United States) Alexander Zverev (Germany) Women’s Singles Sloane Stephens (United

States) Jelena Ostapenko (Latvia)

Men’s Doubles Bob Bryan (United States) and Mike Bryan (United States)

Karen Khachanov (Russia) and Andrey Rublev (Russia)

Women’s Doubles Ashleigh Barty (Australia) and CoCo Vandeweghe (United States)

Barbora Krejcikova (Czech Republic) and Katerina Siniakova (Czech Republic)

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