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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 ...
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 is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 7 January 2025. Indian tennis player (born 1986) Sania Mirza Mirza in 2017 Country (sports) India Residence Hyderabad, India Born (1986-11-15) 15 November 1986 (age 38) Mumbai, Maharashtra Height 1.73 m (5 ft 8 in) Turned pro February 2003 Retired February 2023 Plays Right-handed (two-handed backhand ...
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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.
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
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 ...
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.