First In India-part(4)

PART 4

Olympics

• Individual medal: Bronze by K. D. Jadhav for Wrestling at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki.
• Medal in Tennis: Leander Paes at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta.
• Individual medal by a woman: Bronze by Karnam Malleswari for weightlifting 54 kg class, at the 2000 Summer Olympics Sydney.
• Individual Gold medal: Abhinav Bindra in the 10 m Air Rifle event at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing.
• Individual Silver medal (Independent India): Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore in the Men's Double Trap event at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens.
• Medal in Boxing: Vijender Kumar in the Beijing Olympics 2008.
• Medal in Badminton: Saina Nehwal, winning a Bronze in the London Olympics 2012

Chess

• Chess Grandmaster : Male - Vishwanathan Anand, 1988.
• Female - Koneru Humpy - 2002 - She was also the youngest woman to become a grandmaster at 15 years old.(Hou Yifan of China is the youngest woman to become a grandmaster at 14years and 6 months.)

Tennis

• Grand Slam title: Mahesh Bhupathi (partnering with Japanese Rika Hiraki) in the Mixed Doubles category of the 1997 French Open.

• Woman to win a match in a Grand Slam event: Nirupama Vaidyanathan beat Italian Gloria Pizzichini in the first round of the 1998 Australian Open

• Woman to reach 4th round (highest as of 2009) of a Grand Slam singles event: Sania Mirza in the Singles category of the 2005 US Open.

• Woman to win a Grand Slam title: Sania Mirza (partnering with Mahesh Bhupathi) in the Mixed Doubles category of the 2009 Australian Open.

• Grand Slam junior title: Ramanathan Krishnan in the Singles category of the 1954 Wimbledon Championship.

• Grand Slam junior title by a woman: Sania Mirza (partnering with Russian Alisa Kleybanova) in the Doubles category of the 2003 Wimbledon Championships.

• Yuki Bhambri became the first Indian to win the Singles in the Junior Australian Open, when he defeated the Greek Alexandros-Ferdinandos Georgoudas in the final 6–3, 6–1 in the Finals in 2009.

     Cricket

• First Test Victory : Against England At Madras

• Captain in Tests: C. K. Nayudu for the 1932 tour of England.

• ODI captain: Ajit Wadekar.

• Cricketer to score a century in a Test match : Lala Amarnath, 118 against England in December 1933 at Bombay Gymkhana grounds.

• Cricketer to score a double century in a Test match : Polly Umrigar, 223 against New Zealand at Hyderabad in 1955-56