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This List of Indian Sportswomen includes Indian female sportspersons who brought laurels for the country at the international stage. Indian professional badminton player P.V.Sindhu. Anjali Bhagwat, Shooting - Conferred with Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award, Arjuna Award. Anju Bobby George, Long Jump; Apurvi Chandela, Air rifle shooting; Anisa ...
On 8 March 2020, to coincide with International Women’s Day, the BBC announced P. V. Sindhu as Indian Sportswoman of the Year 2019 at a ceremony held in Delhi. [13] Minister of Youth Affairs and Sports (India) Kiren Rijiju was present as the guest of honour at the event.
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Anjali won the ISSF Champion of Champions award and is the only Indian to win the ISSF Champions' Trophy in Air Rifle Men & Women mixed event at Munich in 2002. She has represented India in three consecutive Olympics , and was a finalist in the 2000 Sydney Olympics , a first for any Indian women shooter and also the first Indian athlete to make ...
The Indian women's team played their first Test match in 1976, against the West Indies. [18] India recorded its first-ever Test win in November 1978 against West Indies under Shantha Rangaswamy's captaincy at the Moin-ul-Haq Stadium in Patna. [19] [20] Indian Batter at Cricket World Cup 2010 Mithali Raj, Captain of India Women's cricket team
The first Indian woman to ever win an Olympic medal was Karnam Malleswari, who won a bronze medal at the 2000 Sydney Olympics in the Women's 69 kg category in Weightlifting. [ 1 ] In the 2012 London Olympics , women's boxing was featured as a sport for the first time.
Kharb was born on 20 January 2007 in Faridabad, Haryana.She was inspired by her brother's passion for badminton.Despite her brother shifting focus away from the sport, Anmol continued pursued it with her family's support.
She is the first Indian badminton player to have won an Olympic medal, the first Indian to have reached the final of the BWF World Championships, and the first Indian to have won the BWF World Junior Championships. [12] In 2006, Nehwal became the first Indian female and the youngest Asian to win a 4-star tournament.