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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 ...
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
Mithali Raj (born 3 December 1982) is an Indian former cricketer who captained the national team from 2004 to 2022. [2] [3] She is the highest run-scorer in women's international cricket, and ESPN ranked her as one of the greatest female cricketers of all time.
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Women's flyweight: 8 August 2012 Silver P. V. Sindhu: 2016 Rio de Janeiro: Badminton: Women's singles: 19 August 2016 Bronze: Sakshi Malik: 2016 Rio de Janeiro: Wrestling: Women's freestyle 58 kg: 17 August 2016 Silver Saikhom Mirabai Chanu: 2020 Tokyo: Weightlifting: Women's 49 kg: 24 July 2021 Bronze P. V. Sindhu: 2020 Tokyo: Badminton: Women ...
In 2012, 2013, 2014 and 2016 India's women's team won the World Cup four times. In 2005, 2007, 2008 and 2017 India's women's Kabaddi team won Asian Kabaddi Championship. In 2010, 2014 and 2022 the Indian women's team won gold medals at the Asian Games. In 2006, 2010, 2016 and 2019 the Indian Women's team won gold medals at the South Asian Games ...
The Indian women's team played their first Test match in 1976, against the West Indies. [4] The Women's Cricket Association of India was merged with the Board of Control for Cricket in India in 2006 as part of the International Cricket Council's initiative to develop women's cricket. [5] India have played 41 Tests, starting with their first ...
Football for women in Asia started later compared to their male counterparts. The seed of women's football in India was planted in the early 1970s. The first manager was Sushil Bhattacharya, in 1975 [3] [4] and from 1975 until 1991, the administration of the game was in the hands of the Women's Football Federation of India (WFFI), which comes under the Asian Ladies' Football Confederation ...