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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.
Arunima Sinha is an Indian mountaineer and sportswoman. She is India's first female amputee and world's second female amputee to scale Mount Everest (Asia), ...
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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.
Mangte Chungneijang "Mary" Kom [2] (born 24 November 1982) [1] is an Indian Olympic boxer, politician, and former Member of Rajya Sabha. [3] [4] [5] She is the only woman to win the World Amateur Boxing Championship six times, the only female boxer to have won a medal in each one of the first seven World Championships, and the only boxer (male or female) to win eight World Championship medals.
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. [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 ...