In this article we will talk about First in India or first Indian to achieve certain distinction in various disciplines of sport .
Achievement/ Event
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Sportsperson/ Sport Team
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The first Indian to win an individual medal at the
Olympic Games
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KD Jadhav
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The first Indian to win a gold medal at the Olympic
Games
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Abhinav Bindra (Shooting)
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The first Indian woman to win an individual medal at
the Olympic Games
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Karnam Malleswari (Weight Lifting)
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1st Indian to win Olympic medals at two consecutive
Olympic Games
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Sushil Kumar
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The first Indian (also the first Asian) to win the
Wimbledon junior Singles title
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Ramanathan Krishnan (1954)
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The first Indian to win a Grand Slam title
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Mahesh Bhupathi (French Open mixed doubles title in
1997)
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The first Indian woman to win a Grand Slam title
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Sania Mirza
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The first Indian to become a world champion in
billiards
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Wilson Jones
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India's first Grandmaster and also the first Indian
to win the FIDE World Chess Championship
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Vishwanathan Anand
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The first Indian to win the under 10 World Chess
Championship
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P. Harikrishna
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The first Indian to win the All England Badminton
Championship
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Prakash Padukone
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The first Indian gymnast to win a medal at the
Commonwealth Games
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Ashish Kumar
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The first Indian woman to receive the Grandmaster's
title
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Koneru Humpy
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The youngest Indian to win the Grandmaster title
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Parimarjan Negi (13 years 3 months and 22 days)
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The youngest Indian to captain its test cricket team
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Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi
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The first woman in the world to swim the seven seas
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Bula Chaudhary
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The first Indian to swim across the English Channel
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Mihir Sen (1958)
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The first Indian woman (also Asian woman) to swim
across the English Channel
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Aarti Saha (1959)
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The first Indian woman to win a gold medal at the
Asian Games
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Kamaljit Sandhu
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The first Indian women athlete to win a medal at a
world event
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Anju Bobby George (Bronze at World Athletics
Championship, 2003)
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The first Indian to win the World Junior Badminton
Championships and also to win a Super Series tournament, (by clinching the
Indonesia Open).
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Saina Nehwal
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First Indian woman to be ranked World No. 1
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1st recipient of Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award
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Viswanathan Anand
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1st woman recipient of Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award
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Karnam Malleswari
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1st recipient of Dhyanchand Lifetime Achievement
Award
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Aparna Ghosh
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1st cricket player to be awarded the Arjuna Award
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Salim Durrani
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1st Indian recipient of ICC's Sir Garfield Sobers
Trophy (also the first in the world)
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Rahul Dravid
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The first Indian Formula 1 race driver
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Narain Karthikeyan
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The first Indian Formula 1 team
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Force India
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The first Indian Batsman to complete 10000 runs in
Test Cricket
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Sunil Gavaskar
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The first Indian Batsman to complete 10000 runs in
One Day Cricket
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Sachin Tendulkar
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The first Indian Cricketer to score a triple century
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Virendra Sehwag
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The first Indian Cricketer to take hat trick in Test
Cricket
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Harbhajan Singh
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