Sports First In India

First Olympic team medal

Gold for Hockey at the 1928 Summer Olympics Amsterdam, beating the Nethherlands. First Olympic individual medal (in British India)

Norman Pritchard, 1900

First Olympic individual medal

Bronze by K.D. Jadhav for wrestling at the 1952 Summer Olympic Helsinki. First Person to swim across the English Channel

Mihir Sen,

First Women to swim across the English Channel

Mihir Sen, 1958

First Formula I race driver Narain Karthikeyan

First Formula I team Force India F1

First A1 GP race victory Narain Karthikeyan, Zhuhai, China, 2007 First Asian Games organised Delhi (1951)

First in CHESS First Chess Grandmaster Viswanathan Anand in 1988, at the age of 18 First FIDE World Chess Champion

Viswanathan Anand in December 2000

First Undisputed World Chess Champion

Viswanathan Anand in September 2007

First in TENNIS

First Tennis Grand Slam title

Mahesh Bhupati (partnering with Japanese Rika Hiraki) in the Mixed Doubles category of the 1997 French Open

First Tennis Grand Slam win by a women

Nirupama Vaidyanathan beat Italian Gloria Pizzichini in the First round of 1998 Australian Open First Women in 4th round (higest as of 2008) of a tennis

Grand Slam event Sania Mirza in the Singles Category of the 2005 US Open

First Tennis Grand Slam Junior title

Leander Paes in the Singles category of the 1990 Wimbledon Championship. He is also the only medal fetcher for India in the Atlanta Olympics. He won a bronze medal, the only medal that put India in the medal tally.

First Tennis Grand Slam Junior title by a women

Sania Mirza (partnering with Russian Alisa Kleybanova) in the Doubles category of the 2003 Wimbledon Championships. First in CRICKET

First Cricket tournament

The Bombay Triangular which Later became the Bombay Quadrangular (1912-1936) First Cricket Test Match Against England at Lord’s June,25, 1932 First Cricket Captain CK Nayudu for the 1932 tour of England First Cricketer to score a century

Lala Amarnath in 1933 against England in South Bombay First Cricketer to score a triple century Vijay Hazare

First ODI cricket hat-trick

Harbhajan Singh against Austrlia in March 2001

First Cricketer World Cup Championship Win

At the 1983 Cricket World Cup

First Batsman to complete 10,000 runs in Test Cricket

Sunil Gavaskar (he was the first in the world to achieve this feat.)

First Batsman to complete 10,000 runs in ODI Cricket

Sachin Tendulkar (he was the first in the world to achieve this feat.)

First Cricketer to score 75 Test and ODI centuries

Sachin Tendulkar