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    Sports of India and Best Achievements

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    This document summarizes the major sports played in India and their achievements internationally. It discusses the sports of badminton, football, kabaddi, cricket, hockey, and wrestling. For badminton, it highlights PV Sindhu's silver medal in 2016 Olympics and gold at 2019 World Championships. For football, it mentions India's 2019 Asian Cup victory. Kabaddi achievements include golds at Asian Games from 1990-2014. Cricket achievements include 1983 World Cup win. Hockey had 8 Olympic golds from 1928-1980. Wrestling achievements noted Geeta and Sushil Kumar's Olympic medals in 2010 and 2012.

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    This document summarizes the major sports played in India and their achievements internationally. It discusses the sports of badminton, football, kabaddi, cricket, hockey, and wrestling. For badminton, it highlights PV Sindhu's silver medal in 2016 Olympics and gold at 2019 World Championships. For football, it mentions India's 2019 Asian Cup victory. Kabaddi achievements include golds at Asian Games from 1990-2014. Cricket achievements include 1983 World Cup win. Hockey had 8 Olympic golds from 1928-1980. Wrestling achievements noted Geeta and Sushil Kumar's Olympic medals in 2010 and 2012.

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    This document summarizes the major sports played in India and their achievements internationally. It discusses the sports of badminton, football, kabaddi, cricket, hockey, and wrestling. For badminton, it highlights PV Sindhu's silver medal in 2016 Olympics and gold at 2019 World Championships. For football, it mentions India's 2019 Asian Cup victory. Kabaddi achievements include golds at Asian Games from 1990-2014. Cricket achievements include 1983 World Cup win. Hockey had 8 Olympic golds from 1928-1980. Wrestling achievements noted Geeta and Sushil Kumar's Olympic medals in 2010 and 2012.

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    Sports of India:

    Sports in India refers to the large variety of games played in India, ranging from tribal
    games to more mainstream sports such kabaddi, cricket, badminton and football,
    wrestling, Hockey . Kabaddi is an ancient sport and the fastest growing sport of India.
    Domestic professional sports leagues in the country include the Indian Premier
    League (Twenty20 cricket), the I-League and the Indian Super League (football),
    the Pro Kabaddi League (kabaddi), the Hockey India League (hockey), Premier
    Badminton League (badminton), the Pro Wrestling League (wrestling),

    Achievements:
    Badminton:
     Silver in 2016 Rio Olympics: Former World No.2 PV Sindhu is the first Indian
    badminton player to reach a final in the Olympics. She won a silver in the 2016
    Olympic Games held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

     National awards: Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna in 2016 PV Sindhu’s performance


    in the BWF World Championships has been commendable throughout her
    career. Apart from winning the gold in 2019, She is only second to Zhang Ning
    of China for winning five or more medals at the World Championships.
     Second female athlete to win five or more medals at World Championships:
    2016 PV Sindhu’s performance in the BWF World Championships has been
    commendable throughout her career. Apart from winning the gold in 2019, She
    is only second to Zhang Ning of China for winning five or more medals at the
    World
     Silver in 2018 Asian Games: One of her most notable wins was the silver
    medal in the 2018 Asian Games, held in Jakarta
     Gold in 2019 World Championships: PV Sindhu clinched the gold medal at the
    BWF World Championships in Switzerland held in 2019.

    Football:

     Though defeated at 2018 SAFF Championship final by 1–2 to Maldives in


    September 2018
     India regained the 2019 AFC Asian Cup with a 4–1 victory against Thailand;
    this was their biggest ever win at the Asia Cup, and their first in 55 years.
    Kabaddi:

     They have won gold medals in all the Asian Games to date except the 2018
    Asian Games, and they have won all the three Kabaddi World Cup events.
    Indian national kabaddi team has recently won Asian Kabaddi Championship
    2017 defeating Pakistan in the final by 36-22.
     Asian games winner from 1990- 2014 is India.
     Kabaddi world cup winner india in 2016.
     South Asian Games winner was India in 2016.

    Cricket:

     India won World Cup in 1983.


     India won ICC T20 in 2007.
     India achieved Number-One in ICC test ranking in 2009.
     India was joint winner of ICC Champions Trophy in 2002.
     India wins Asia Cup 5 times.
     India won Hero Cup in 1993.
     India won Benson and Hedges Cup in 1985.
     India won the Border Gavaskar Trophy in 2001.
     India won the Coca-Cola Cup Sharjah in 1998.
     India won NatWest Trophy in 2002.

    Hockey:
    Indian Hockey team won a total of 8 Olympic gold medals between 1928-1980, five
    of which were won after India's independence - 1948, 1952, 1956, 1964, and 1980
    Olympics.

    Wrestling:
     Geeta is the first freestyle wrestler in India’s history to win a gold medal in
    wrestling at the Commonwealth Games. This happened in New Delhi in 2010.
     Geeta is the first freestyle wrestler in India’s history to win a gold medal in
    wrestling at the Commonwealth Games. This happened in New Delhi in 2010.
    winning Gold at the FILA Asian Olympic Qualification Tournament in
    Almaty, Kazakhstan, in April 2012.
     Sushil Kumar won the men's 66kg freestyle category silver in the London
    Olympics in 2012. won the gold medal at the 2008 Beijing Olympics.
     Yogeshwar Dutt put wrestling in the Olympic Games and won a bronze medal.

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