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Sports Current Affairs 2021

  • First Indian Fencer to Qualify Olympics – Bhavani Devi
  • Mithali Raj became the first Indian Woman Cricketer To Score 10K International Runs, and became the first woman cricketer to score 7,000 runs in ODIs.
  • India off-spinner Axar Patel became the first bowler in history to take 11 wickets in a Day-night Test match. 
  • Ishant Sharma becomes the only second Indian fast bowler after the great Kapil Dev to feature in 100 Test matches. Ishant made his Test debut back in 2007 against Bangladesh.
  • West Indies’s Kieron Pollard became the third batsman to smash 6 sixes in an over in international cricket.
  • Wrestler Bajrang Punia regained the top spot after Indian wrestler Bajrang Punia won his second consecutive gold medal in the Mateo Pelicone Ranking Series.
  • Vinesh Phogat Won Gold in Ukraine Wrestling Event
  • Manika Batra won the 82nd National Senior Table Tennis Championship
  • Ministry of Sports included Gatka, Kalaripayattu in Indigenous games and sports
  • Nozomi Okuhara clinches Women’s Singles title at Denmark Open
  • Sports Minister Kiren Rijiju chaired 1st General Council meeting of Khelo India Scheme
  • Union Cabinet approves MoU between India, Maldives on cooperation in sports and youth affairs
  • Mithali Raj becomes first Indian woman cricketer to score 10,000 international runs across all formats
  • IPL 2021 will start on 9 april 2021
  • South Africa appoints Dean Elgar as Test captain, Temba Bavuma as ODI & T20 captain
  • Rishabh Pant (men), Shabnim Ismail (women) win inaugural ICC Player of the Month Awards for January 2021.
  • Mary Kom appointed as Chairperson of AIBA champions and veterans committee
  • Indian skipper Virat Kohli becomes first cricketer to hit 100 million followers on Instagram
  • Deepak Kumar wins silver in boxing at Strandja Memorial Tournament in Bulgaria
  • ISSF Shotgun World Cup: Indian men’s skeet team wins bronze medal
  • Ministry of Sports restores recognition of Gymnastics Federation of India
  • Prime Minister Modi inaugurates 2nd Khelo India National Winter Games
  • Yusuf Pathan announces retirement from all forms of cricket
  • President Ram Nath Kovind inaugurates world’s largest Narendra Modi stadium in Gujarat
  • Karnataka to host second edition of Khelo India University Games 2021
  • Balbir Singh Junior, who was a member of the silver medal-winning 1958 Asian Games Indian hockey team, died at the age of 88.
  • Bhavani Devi is the first and only Indian fencer to qualify for the Olympics. She will compete in the sabre category in Tokyo 2021.
  • The Indian weightlifter Mirabi Chanu has successfully created a new world record by lifting 119 kg at the Weightlifting Championship. Chanu also created a new National record by lifting a total of 205 kg.
  • Manish Narwal shattered the world record en route clinching the gold in the P4 mixed 50m pistol SH1 event on the penultimate day of the 2021 Para Shooting World Cup in UAE.
  • All-rounder Thisara Perera became the 1st Sri Lankan (9th in the world) to hit six sixes in an over in any form of professional cricket.
  • The world's largest cricket stadium Motera Stadium was inaugurated by President Ram Nath Kovind and renamed as Narendra Modi Stadium.
  • World champion boxer Mary Kom has been appointed as the chairperson of the International Boxing Association's (AIBA) Champions and Legends Committee.
  • Phil Mickelson (50 years) won the PGA Golf Championship. He became the oldest major winner in history.
  • The 2nd edition of the Khelo India University Games (KIUG) 2021, is scheduled to be held in Karnataka. The KIUG-2021 will be hosted by JAIN (Deemed-to-be University), Bengaluru, in partnership with the Association of Indian Universities (AIU).
  • Babyrojisana Chanu (51kg) and Arundhati Choudhary (69kg) clinched gold medals and Lucky Rana, secured a silver as Indian women emerged as the top team with 10 medals (5 gold, 3 silver and 2 bronze) at the 30th Adriatic Pearl Tournament in Budva, Montenegro.
  • PV Sindhu won the silver medal at the BWF Swiss Open Super 300 in Basel after losing 12-21, 5-21 to Carolina Marin in the final of the women's singles event.
  • Jigmet Dolma, SPO of Ladakh police, secured fourth position in the Dhaka Marathon 2021.
  • Incumbent Ajay Singh was re-elected the Boxing Federation of India’s President. 
  • Hima Das has been appointed as a Deputy Superintendent of Police by the Assam government.
  • South African player Chris Gayle became the most expensive player in the Indian Premier League (IPL) auction history when he was bought by Rajasthan Royals for Rs 16.25 crore.
  • Assam Rifles Public School, Shillong became the first Khelo India Sports School from the North-East. At present, 9 Sports Schools have been approved across the country. 
  •  Former India boxer and Asian Games gold medalist Dingko Singh passed away on June 10, 2021 after a prolonged illness. 

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