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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 ...
also: People: By occupation: Sportspeople: By nationality: Indian: Women also: People : By gender : Women : By nationality : By occupation : Sportswomen : Indian Articles on individual Indian sportswomen may be added directly to this category, but should be moved to an appropriate sub-category if it exists.
This edition marked the introduction of the Indian Para Sportswoman for the Year Award which was presented to Bhavina Patel for her achievements in Table Tennis. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] [ 5 ] India's Commonwealth gold medal-winning lawn bowls team, composed of Lovely Choubey , Rupa Rani Tirkey , Pinki Singh and Nayanmoni Saikia were also honoured at the ...
Santhi Soundarajan (also spelled Shanthi Soundararajan, born 17 April 1981) is a track and field athlete from Tamil Nadu, India.She is the winner of 12 international medals for India and around 50 medals for her home state of Tamil Nadu.
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
She was the only Indian athlete to win 14 gold medals at the National Games in 1999. At the peak of her career, Millet represented India at the 2000 Sydney Olympics in the 200m freestyle, where she won her heat, but failed to qualify for the semi-finals. She was the first Indian woman to meet the B Qualification timings for the Olympics.
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 ...
This category is for competitors within the sport of athletics, comprising track and field, road running, cross country running and racewalking.It is not to be used for competitors in other sports or to categorize anyone who is physically fit, two other definitions of the word athlete.