India's sports ranking in the world

India national cricket team

India first participated at the Olympic Games in 1900

Indians in the Olympics

Year	Hosting city	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1900	Paris	0	2 (Athletics)	0	2
1920	Antwerp	0	0	0	0
1924	Paris	0	0	0	0
1928	Amsterdam	1 (Field hockey)	0	0	1
1932	Los Angeles	1 (Field hockey)	0	0	1
1936	Berlin	1 (Field hockey)	0	0	1
1948	London	1 (Field hockey)	0	0	1
1952	Helsinki	1 (Field hockey)	0	1 (Wrestling)	2
1956	Melbourne/Stockholm	1 (Field hockey)	0	0	1
1960	Rome	0	1 (Field hockey)	0	1
1964	Tokyo	1 (Field hockey)	0	0	1
1968	Mexico City	0	0	1 (Field hockey)	1
1972	Munich	0	0	1 (Field hockey)	1
1976	Montreal	0	0	0	0
1980	Moscow	1 (Field hockey)	0	0	1
1984	Los Angeles	0	0	0	0
1988	Seoul	0	0	0	0
1992	Barcelona	0	0	0	0
1996	Atlanta	0	0	1 (Tennis)	1
2000	Sydney	0	0	1 (Weightlifting)	1
2004	Athens	0	1 (Shooting)	0	1
2008	Beijing	1 (Shooting)	0	2 (Boxing) (Wrestling)	3
2012	London	0	2 (Shooting) (Wrestling)	4 (Shooting) (Badminton) (Boxing) (Wrestling)	6
2016	Rio de Janeiro	0	1(Badminton)	1(Wrestling)	2
2020	Tokyo	1 (Athletics)	2 (Weightlifting)(Wrestling)	4(Wrestling)(Badminton) (Boxing)(Field hockey)	7

Source: Wikipedia

India national cricket team

• Cricket is one of 33 sports recognised by the International Olympic Committee (IOC).
• India first record was the Test victory in 1952, beating England by an innings in Madras.
• India had two international highlights. In 1971, they won a Test series in England for the first time, by defeating Ray Illingworth's Ashes winners. Under the captainship of Kapil Dev in 1983, again in England, India were the surprise winners of the Cricket World Cup.
• Asian Cup was won by India in 1984 and won the World Championship of Cricket in Australia in 1985.
• In September 2007, India won the first ever Twenty20 World Cup held in South Africa.
• India won the Cricket World Cup in 2011 under the captainship of Mahindra Singh Dhoni.
• India won 53 test matches agianst other countries. (1932 - 2014)
• As of 25 July 2016, India is ranked second in Tests, third in ODIs and second in Twenty20 Internationals (T20Is) by the ICC. Virat Kohli is the current captain of the team in Tests while Dhoni is the ODI and T20I captain.
• India won all of its matches played in Asia Cup 2016 beating Bangladesh 2 times, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and UAE.

Source: Wikipedia (As of 2016)

India national football team

• The major event that showed a rise in Indian Football was in 1911 when Mohun Bagan beat East Yorkshire Regiment 2-1 in the final of the IFA Shield. This was the first time Indian team won a major national cup.
• The Indian team started in 1950s with victory in the year 1951 Asian Games which they hosted. India beat both Indonesia and Afghanistan 3-0 to reach the final where they beat Iran 1-0.
• In 1952, India continued their form by winning the Colombo Quadrangular Cup held in Sri Lanka.
• India also won 3 further matched of the Quadrangular Cup, which were held in Burma (1953), Calcutta (1954) and Dhaka (1955).
• At the 1956 Olympics they finished 4th, which is considered as one of finest achievements in Indian football.
• India first met hosts Australia, winning 4-2 with Neville D'Souza becoming the first Asian to score a hatrick in the Olympics and also making India the first Asian team to reach the Olympic semi-finals.
• India participated in the 1958 Asian Games in Tokyo, Japan where they finished fourth, and the Merdeka Cup 1959 in Malaysia finishing second.
• India took 3rd place in the 1970 Asian Games, beating Japan 1-0.
• India won gold medals in the SAF Games of both 1984 (Dhaka) and 1987 (Calcutta).
• India won the inaugural SAARC Cup in 1993 in Lahore. By 1997 the competition had been renamed as the SAFF Cup, and India won it in both 1997 and 1999 , when they hosted it in Goa.
• It was India's first victory in a football tournament outside the subcontinent since 1974. In the finals India defeated hosts Vietnam.
• In August 2007, the Indian national team won the Nehru Cup for the first time.
• In August 2009, India again won the Nehru Cup beating Syria with penalties.
• Official youth league in India is the I-League U19 which was won by Pune FC in 2012.
• In 2012, India won the 15th edition of Nehru cup by beating Cameroon 5-4 in penalties as the full-time score was tied at 2-2, making it the third successive Nehru cup win for India.

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Men's Hockey

• In 1928, the team won its first Olympic gold medal.
• From 1928 to 1956, the Indian men's team remained unbeaten in the Olympics, won six gold medals. In Olympics the Indian team has won a total of 8 gold, 1 silver and 2 bronze medals.
• On 26 Feb 2012, the India men's national field hockey team qualified for the 2012 Summer Olympics in London after a long gap of 8 years. The team won over France in the finals.
• In 2016, the Indian men's team won its first ever silver medal in Champions Trophy tournament against Australia.

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Olympics	8	1	2	11
5	World Cup	1	1	1	3
6	FIH Hockey World League	0	0	1	1
8	Hockey Champions Trophy	0	1	1	2
2	Commonwealth Games	0	2	0	2
3	Asian Games	3	9	2	14
3	Asia Cup	2	5	1	8
2	Sultan Azlan Shah Cup	5	2	6	13
3	Hockey Champions Challenge	1	1	2	4
2	Asian Hockey Champions Trophy	1	1	0	2
1	Afro-Asian Games	1	0	0	1
2	South Asian Games	1	2	0	3

Women's Hockey

• Captain Suraj Lata Devi led the team to the Gold for 3 consecutive years: During the 2002 Commonwealth Games, the 2003 Afro-Asian Games, and the 2004 Hockey Asia Cup. They were referred to as the "Jassi (Jasjeet) jaisi koi nahi" or "Golden girls of hockey," after winning the 2004 Hockey Asia Cup.
• The Indian woman's national field hockey team has thus qualified for the 2016 Summer Olympics[3][4] for the first time since the 1980 Summer Olympics.

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
2	Commonwealth Games	1	1	0	2
3	Asian Games	1	1	3	5
4	Asia Cup	1	2	2	5
13	Hockey Champions Challenge	0	0	1	1
3	Asian Hockey Champions Trophy	0	1	1	2
1	Afro-Asian Games	1	0	0	1

Source: Wikipedia

• Anand has won the World Chess Championship five times (2000, 2007, 2008, 2010, 2012), and was the undisputed World Champion from 2007 to 2013. Anand has won the Chess Oscar six times (1997, 1998, 2003, 2004, 2007, 2008).
• Koneru Humpy is the female world No. 3, with a rating of 2597
• Viswanathan Anand is currently No. 2 in the FIDE World Rankings and the former World Champion. Anand is considered a hero by many Indians. His rise in the world chess stage has inspired a whole generation of young Indians to take up the game of Chess.

Top chess players in India

Top Indian men chess players	Top Indian women chess players	Top Indian blind chess players
Viswanathan Anand	Humpy Koneru	Kishan Gangolli
Pendyala Harikrishna	Dronavalli Harika	Darpan Inani
Sasikiran Krishnan	Tania Sachdev	Charudatta Jadhav
Parimarjan Negi	Mary Ann Gomes	Kaustubh Khare
Abhijeet Gupta	Subbaraman Vijayalakshmi	Oza Rajesh
Surya Shekhar Ganguly	Eesha Karavade	Shah Swapanil
B. Adhiban	-	Makhwana Ashwin K
Vidit Santosh Gujarati	-	Krishna Udupa
Chanda Sandipan	-	-

Source: Wikipedia

Men's Volleyball

• The India men's national volleyball team represents India in international volleyball competitions which is managed by Volleyball Federation of India.
• The Indian senior men's team is ranked 46th in the world.

Women's Volleyball

• Indian women's National volleyball team represent India in international competitions which is managed by Volleyball Federation of India.

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• The All India Tennis Association (AITA) was established in 1920 and affiliated by International Tennis Federation and Asian Tennis Federation.
• All India Tennis Association operates all of the Indian national representative tennis sides, including the India Davis Cup team, the India Fed Cup team and youth sides as well.

Indian Tennis Players

1. Leander Paes

• Leander Adrian Paes is an Indian professional tennis player who is considered to be one of the best doubles and mixed doubles players of all time.
• He is one of the most successful professional Indian tennis players, he has received the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna award, India's highest sporting honour, in 1996–97; the Arjuna Award in 1990; the Padma Shri award in 2001 and its 3rd Highest Civilian Award the Padma Bhushan in January 2014 for his outstanding contribution to tennis in India.
• He also plays in World TeamTennis for the Washington Kastles, being on the 2009, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, and 2015 championship teams and was named Male MVP for 2009 and 2011 for all of World Team Tennis.

Awards and Recognition

• Arjuna Award for Lawn Tennis (1990)
• CNN-IBN Indian of the Year Outstanding Achievement (2013)
• Padma Bhushan (2014)
• CNN-IBN Indian of the Year Special Jury Award (2016)

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2. Sania Mirza

• Sania Mirza is an Indian professional tennis player who is currently ranked No. 1 in the women's doubles rankings.
• From 2003 until her retirement from singles in 2013, she was ranked by the Women's Tennis Association as India's No. 1 player, both in singles and doubles.

Awards and Recognition

• Arjuna Award (2004)
• WTA New Comer of the Year (2005)
• Padma Shri (2006)
• Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna (2015)
• Padma Bhushan (2016)

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3. Mahesh Bhupathi

• Mahesh Shrinivas Bhupathi (born 7 June 1974) is an Indian professional tennis player. In 1997, he became the first Indian to win a Grand Slam tournament
• With his win at the Australian Open mixed doubles in 2006, he joined the elite group of eight tennis players who have achieved a career Grand Slam in mixed doubles. He is also the founder of International Premier Tennis League.
• Bhupathi has donned Indian colours numerous times for the Davis Cup as well as other international tournaments, including the Asian Games.

Awards and Recognition

• Arjuna Award (1995)
• Padma Shri (2001)
• Karmaveer Puraskaar

Source: Wikipedia

• India National Badminton team represents India in international team badminton and is governed by the Badminton Association of India.
• It is currently ranked 9th in the World Teams Ranking but has been as high as 7th
• It has won 19 medals at the Commonwealth Games and 8 medals at the Asian Games along with 4 medals at the BWF World Championships and 1 medal at the Summer Olympics.

Top badminton players in India

Top Indian men badminton players	Top Indian women badminton players	Former players
Parupalli Kashyap	Saina Nehwal	Prakash Padukone
Srikanth Kidambi	Jwala Gutta	Pullela Gopichand
Prannoy Kumar	P. V. Sindhu	Aparna Popat
R. M. V. Gurusaidutt	Ashwini Ponnappa	-
B. Sai Praneeth	Aparna Balan	-
Sourabh Verma	P. C. Thulasi	-
Akshay Dewalkar	Sikki Reddy Nelakurthi	-
Ajay Jayaram	Ruthvika Shivani Gadde	-
Arun Vishnu	-	-
Tarun Kona	-	-

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