India’s Sporting Triumphs 2022: A Year of Historic Achievements

2023-12-30 07:34:31

A dream come true!

The Indian team made the dream of 100 medals come true with a spectacular jump at the Asian Games held in Hangzhou, China. India has an all-time record with 107 medals including 28 gold, 38 silver and 41 bronze. 37 more medals than the 2018 Games and placed fourth in the points table. India won 111 medals in the Asian Para Games held following the Asian Games. Fourth place.

Sattvik and Chirag

Pontuval

This year, India emerged as a world power in Badminton men’s doubles with the combination of Satwik Sairaj Renkireddy and Chirag Shetty. Satvik from Andhra Pradesh and Chirag from Mumbai became the first Indian doubles team to reach the top rank in badminton. After winning gold in the Asian Games and the Asian Championship, they also won the world tournaments like Korea Open, Swiss Open and Indonesia Open.

Neeraj Chopra

The dawn of history

Neeraj Chopra became the first Indian world champion in athletics by winning the javelin throw gold at the World Championships in August. After that, he retained the gold in the Asian Games. Neeraj became the first Indian to become the world number one in athletics following becoming the world number one in men’s javelin throw.

Pragnanandam

In August, Tamil Nadu’s R. Pragnananda stunned the nation by competing in the finals of the Chess World Cup at the age of 18. Pragga succumbed to world number one Magnus Carlsen in the long final to tiebreak. Pragga, the first Indian player to reach the final of the Chess World Cup following the legendary Viswanathan Anand, became the youngest runner-up in the World Cup. Earlier this month, Pragnananda’s sister R. Vaishali achieved the title of grandmaster in chess. With this, both of them have the achievement of being the first brother and sister in the world to hold the title of Grandmaster.

During the Pragnananda competition

Other Major Achievements of India

India won the Under-19 Women’s World Cup held in South Africa in January. India’s first World Cup win in any age category in women’s cricket.

India won 4 medals including 3 gold at the World Archery Championship held in Berlin. The country’s first gold in the history of Archery World Championship.

Love all Sania!

Sania Mirza, who made the nation proud in women’s tennis for 2 decades, bid farewell to the tennis court. . Sania’s farewell tournament was the Dubai Open in February. Sania, who reached the finals of the Australian Open mixed doubles held in January, said goodbye to the court following proving that her talent has not diminished at all.

Sania Mirza is crying at the farewell ceremony

Virat Virat

Virat Kohli emerged as an irreplaceable sunshine in ODI cricket with a record of 50 centuries during the World Cup held in India. Virat Kohli equaled Sachin Tendulkar’s record of 49 ODI centuries in the match once morest South Africa and surpassed Sachin Tendulkar to score his 50th century in 10 days in the World Cup semi-final. Kohli was the player of the tournament and top scorer in the World Cup.

Virat Kohli celebrates his 50th century
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