Journey of India in the field of sports from 1947 to 2021

History of Indian sports quiz.

Cricket is the most favorite sport in India. Our country has hosted and won many Cricket World Cups. Refers to a wide variety of sports played in India, ranging from tribal sports to more popular sports such as cricket, badminton, and football. Field hockey is the most successful sport in the Olympics for India; Indian men's hockey team has won 8 Olympic gold medals. The most famous domestic sport in the country is Kabaddi. Other popular sports in India are football, badminton, shooting, archery, boxing, wrestling, tennis, weightlifting, squash, gymnastics, table tennis, athletics, basketball, cycling and volleyball. Chess, Kho-Kho, Kite-fighting, Leg Cricket, Polo, Snooker and Gilidanda, Latu, Ludo are very much liked locally in our country. Sports in India have a long history dating back to the Vedic period. The country has hosted and co-hosted various international sporting events, the 1951 and 1982 Asian Games; 1987, 1996 and 2011 ICC Cricket World Cups; 2010 Commonwealth Games and 2017 FIFA U-17 World Cup.

List of events that happened in previous years in Indian sports history.

• The Indian field hockey team won the country's first gold medal since independence at the London Summer Olympics after defeating the British team.

• • Apart from hockey, football was the other major sport in the early years after independence. India was invited to participate in the Football World Cup - the close of the world's popular sporting event. But India did not participate due to lack of funds for the trip.

  • Abdul Bari was a squash player, reached the final of the British Open squash but lost to the Egyptian player Mahmoud Karim.

• India hosted its first major sporting event – the Asian Games held in Delhi. It welcomed 489 athletes representing 11 countries. It included 57 sporting events in athletics, basketball, cycling, track cycling, diving, football, swimming, waterpolo and weightlifting.

• • Khashaba Jadhav won India's first bronze medal in freestyle bantamweight wrestling at the Olympics in the Helsinki Games.

  • For the first time, two Indian women participated in the Games- Neelima Ghosh and Mary D'Souza.

  • India's Balbir Singh Sr won the gold medal in hockey at the Olympics with India winning its fifth hockey gold medal.

  • Rita Davar - Indian tennis player was the runner-up in junior Wimbledon.

  • Gul Nashikwala Former table tennis player from India won the women's singles and doubles titles at the Asian Table Tennis Championships in Singapore.

• Neville D'Souza Indian footballer scored a hat-trick against Australia in Melbourne Olympics. India finished fourth, which was the best result at the Olympics in football at the time.

• • Wilson Lionel Garten-Jones was a professional English billiards player from India. A national amateur champion for more than a decade, Jones won the amateur world championship twice, in 1958.

  • Indian wrestler Leela Ram Sangwan became the first player to win a gold medal in the Commonwealth Games.

• • Ramanathan Krishnan reached the Wimbledon semi-finals twice, in 1960 and 1961, the best performance by an Indian tennis player in Grand Slam singles.

  • Milkha Singh missed a bronze medal in the 400m sprint at the Rome Olympics by 0.1 seconds.

• • The Indian football team won its second gold medal in the Asian Games. In the final in Jakarta, India won the gold medal by defeating South Korea 2-1.

  • Padam Bahadur Mall is the first Indian boxer who not only won the gold medal in the Asian Games held in Jakarta, Indonesia, but also won the title of Best Boxer of Asia.

• • The Indian cricket team (Team lead - Ajit Wadekar) defeated West Indies (1–0) in the Test series, Sunil Gavaskar who scored 774 runs in his first series. The Indian team won its second match of the five-Test series in Port of Spain, while the other matches ended in draws.

  • India defeated England by four wickets at the Kennington Oval and won the three-Test series 1–0, India's first Test series win in England.

• Indian hockey team won the Hockey World Cup by defeating Pakistan 2-1 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. This is the only world title for the India men's national hockey team.

• • India's hockey team won the hockey gold for the last time at the Moscow Olympic Games on 29 July 1980.

  • Prakash Padukone is a former Indian badminton player who won the All England Open Badminton Championship.

• India won the 1983 World Cup under the captaincy of Kapil Dev, Kapil pulled the team out of a critical situation and scored an unbeaten 175 to win the team. This innings is still counted among the most spectacular innings in ODI cricket history.

• • India won the Benson & Hedges World Championship of Cricket in Australia, Sunil Gavaskar led India to lift the Benson & Hedges World Series, defeating Pakistan by 8 wickets. It proved that the 1983 World Cup victory was no accident.

  • Geet Sriram Sethi won the IBSF World Amateur Billiards Championship by defeating Bob Marshall of Australia. This match, which lasted for about eight hours between the two, was discussed for a long time.

• • In the 10th Asian Games held in Seoul, PT Usha won 4 gold medals and 1 silver medal in track and field events.

  • Abdul Basith was part of that squad, India won a bronze medal in volleyball by defeating Japan at the Asian Games in Seoul.

  • Khajan won a silver medal in the 200m butterfly at the Asian Games in Seoul. This was the first time since 1951 that India won a medal in the Asiad.

• • Sunil Gavaskar became the first Indian cricketer to score his massive 10,000 runs in Test cricket.

  • Vijay Amritraj propelled India into the Davis Cup final, starting the first round with a stunning five-set win over Argentina's Martin Zete.

• India's first Grandmaster in Chess was Viswanathan Anand. Anand became the International Master in 1985.

• India won gold medal in men's kabaddi at Beijing Asian Games.

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