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2018 SPORTS (Jan - Apr)

January
Name of the Sport Events Name of the Winners
Ranji title Vidarbha has won Ranji Trophy for 1st time by defeating
Delhi
Royal Cup golf tournament India’s Shiv Kapur won the title in Thailand
India's highest ranked player in latest ITTF G Sathiyan ranks 49th position at the world level
rankings
First to score three T20 centuries in Cricket Colin Munro
Head coach of IPL team Delhi Daredevils Ricky Ponting
Head coach of Pakistan Hockey team Hasan Sardar
Hopman Cup Roger Federer & Belinda Bencic win Hopman Cup for
Switzerland
Second most expensive transfer in the world Brazilian football player Philippe Coutinho
soccer history
British Junior Open squash Winner : England's Sam Todd
Runner : India,s Neel Joshi
Kolkata Open 2018 International Invitation Aditya Mehta
Snooker Championship
Chef De Mission for Winter Olympics Games Harjinder Singh
2018
First Indian to win an international medal in Aanchal Thakur won bronze medal in the Alpine Ejder 3200
skiing Cup
National Women’s Boxing Championship Sarjubala Devi won gold medal and the best boxer trophy in
Rohtak, Haryana
World’s highest ranked Test bowler Kagiso Rabada
8th Sub-junior National Hockey Winner: Assam
Championship Runner : Rajasthan
Premier Badminton League 3 Winner: Hyderabad Hunters
Runner : Bengaluru Blasters
Brazil legend Ronaldinho Brazilian World Cup winner has retired from football.
Sir Garfield Sobers Cricketer of the year, ICC Virat Kohli
Cricketer of the Year 2017 and ICC ODI
cricketer of the year 2017 awards
ICC T20I performance of the year award. Yuzvendra Chahal
ICC T20I performance of the year award. 1.Germany
2.Brazil
102. India
Blind Cricket World Cup 2018 Winner : India
Runner : Pakistan
Host : Sharjah Cricket Stadium, in UAE
8th Hockey India Sub Junior (Women) Hockey Haryana defeated Madhya Pradesh
National Championship 2018 (A Division)
15th edition of Mumbai Marathon Ethiopia’sSoloman Deksisa
Swedish Open Junior International Series Siddharth Singh won over Denmark’s Christophersen
2018
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U-18 TT Rankings 1.Li Hsin-Yang

2.Manav Thakkar
33rd Women Senior National Weightlifting Rakhi Halder created record by lifting 128kgs in the clean
Championships and jerk for a total of 230kgs in the 63kg women's category
in Mangaluru
Newport Beach Challenger trophy in USA Leander Paes and James Cerretani have won the men’s
doubles title
Indonesia Masters Badminton final Winner : Tai Tzu Ying
Runner : Saina Nehwal
National Men's singles Table Tennis Sharath Kamal
Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy Winner : Delhi
Runner :Rajasthan
West Indies to host 2018 Women's World T20 in November 2018
Jammu and Kashmir to host international martial arts event
Goldberg inducted into WWE’s 2018 Hall of Fame class
ASSOCHAM-Football Delhi MoU to strengthen commercial profile
BCCI bans all-rounder Yusuf Pathan for five months after failed dope test
Elite Women's National Boxing Championship held in Haryana
Meghalaya signs host city contract for 39th National Games in 2022
Khelo India anthem launched by sports minister Rajyavardhan Rathore
i. Mascots of Khelo India School Games are ‘Vijay the tiger’ and ‘Jaya the black buck’.
ii. “Aur khelna chahte hain hum……” the official anthem of Khelo India School Games
Australian Open 2018
Category Winner Runners-up
Men’s Singles Roger Federer (Switzerland) Marin Cilic (Croatia)
Women’s Singles Caroline Wozniacki Simona Halep (Romania)
(Denmark)
Men’s Doubles Oliver Marach (Austria) and Juan Sebastian Cabal (Colombia) and Robert Farah
Mate Pavic (Croatia) (Colombia)
Women’s Doubles Timea Babos (Hungary) and Ekaterina Makarova (Russia) and Elena Vesnina
Kristina Mladenovic (France) (Russia)
Mixed Doubles Gabriela Dabrowski (Canada) Timea Babos (Hungary) and Rohan Bopanna
and Mate Pavic (Croatia) (India)

February
Name of the Sport Events Name of the Winners
SpiceJet India Open Boxing Mary Kom, Pinki Rani , LovlinaBorgohain, Sanjeet, Manish
Tournament Kaushik Clinches Gold, India Bag 10 Medals
Highest-ranked Indian squash player Saurav Ghosal (ranks 14 )
in PSA rankings
U-19 Cricket World Cup, in New India defeated Australia
Zealand.
Maybank Golf Championship Shubhankar Sharma
India Open 2018 (Badminton) Winner : Beiwen Zhang
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Runner : PV Sindhu
Senior Women Hockey champions CRPF
First Indian golfer to qualify for Sharmila Nicollet
China LPGA Tour
world's youngest and first Asian Rohan More
swimmer to complete Ocean 7
Challenge
Australia's Border Medal Stevan Smith
13th edition of National Chess 'A' KishanGangolli won
Championship for Blind
World's first robot ski competition South Korea hosted the event
8th edition of Theatre Olympics India to host
Theme ‘“Flag of Friendship”.
8th Senior National Women's Hockey Railway Sports Promotion Board (RSPB)
Championship title
23rd Senior Women's National Tamil Nadu
Football Championship title
Sponsor Indian National Hockey Odisha government
teams for 5 years
First player in Champions League Cristiano Ronaldo
history to score 100 goals for one
club
First batsman ever to score 500 runs ViratKohli
in bilateral ODI series
Oldest world No 1 in tennis history Roger Federer
Chennai Open ATP Challenger Australia's Jordan Thompson
Rotterdam Open title Roger Federer beats GrigorDimitrov
First Indian to take a 5-wicket haul in Bhuvneshwar Kumar
all three formats in international
cricket
60m sprint indoor world record Christian Coleman of US
First Indian to cross 900 points in ViratKohli
ICC ODI player rankings
5th Commonwealth Nations Bridge Indian "A" team won gold
Championship in Gold Coast,
Australia
Austrian Open International ParupalliKashyap
Challenge (badminton)
1st Indian to win individual medal at ArunaBudda
Gymnastics World Cup
69th Strandja Memorial boxing VikasKrishan wins gold, adjudged best boxer
tournament in Bulgaria
New Delhi Marathon titles GopiThonakal and Monika Athare won titles in the men’s and
women’s category
IOA enters partnership with Edelweiss Group for 2018 CWG, Asian Games, 2020 Olympic Games
Cricket Canada announces ICC-approved T20 league “Global T20 Canada”
Indian Golfer Shubhankar becomes World No. 72, surpasses AnirbanLahiri
JhulanGoswami 1st woman in the world to take 200 ODI wickets
First Khelo India School Games
• Mascots of Khelo India School Games were ‘Vijay the tiger’ and ‘Jaya the black buck’.
• “Aurkhelnachahtehain hum…...” was the official anthem of Khelo India School Games.
• Haryana topped the overall medal tally with 38 gold medals. Haryana was followed by Maharashtra

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and Delhi with 36 and 25 Gold respectively

Winter Games held inPyeongchang, South Korea

• Motto of PyeongChang Winter Olympics 2018 was “Passion.Connected”
• Soohorang, a white tiger, and Bandabi, an Asiatic black bear were the official mascots for
this event.
• Norway topped the medal tally at PyeongChang Winter Olympics 2018 by winning 14 Gold,
14 Silver and 11 Bronze.

March
Name of the Sport Events Name of the Winners
Snooker Team World Cup in Doha, Qatar Indian duo of Pankaj Advani and Manan Chandra
ISSF World Cup in Guadalajara, Mexico Indian golfer Shahzar Rizvi
11th Tal Memorial chess in Moscow, Viswanathan Anand
Russia
ISSF World Cup in Guadalajara, Mexico Manu Bhaker
Sultan Azlan Shah Cup 2018 Australia
title,Malaysia
2018 Formula One Grand Prix of Ferrari's Sebastian Vettel
Australia
Youngest captain in international cricket Rashid Khan(19)
Deodhar Trophy 2017-18 ,Himachal India B team defeated Karnataka team
Pradesh Cricket Association Stadium in
Dharamsala
One-Day International (ODI) status for
Nepal cricket team
the first time.
Banned from playing for Australia by
Steve Smith and David Warner
Cricket Australia
Captain of Zimbabwe team Brendan Taylor
Coach-cum-mentor of Jammu and Irfan Pathan
Kashmir Cricket Association
FIFA lifted its three-decade ban on Iraq hosting international football matches, allowing Arbil, Basra and
Karbala cities to host official matches
Russia has got back its Olympic membership, following its suspension from 2018 Pyeongchang Olympics
Prasanta Karmakar was suspended for 3 years by the Paralympic Committee of India (PCI) due to allegations
of recording videos of female para-swimmers at the National Championships 2017 in Jaipur.
Jockey Cup International Youth
Invitational Football Tournament in Hong India U-16 football team
Kong
Interstate national tennis championship Maharashtra women's team
2018 held in Chhattisgarh
80th Senior National Table Tennis
Host - Odisha
Championships in Cuttack
Announced retirement from professional
Tommy Haas of Germany
tennis
I-League title at the Tau Devi Lal
Minerva Punjab FC beat Churchill Brothers FC 1-0
Stadium in Panchkula
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Women's 8km cross country race in the

14th Asian Cross Country Championship Sanjivani Jadhav - bronze medal
at Guiyang in China
Hero Indian Super League (ISL) 2017 Chennaiyin FC
F53/54 Javelin event at the World Para Deepa Malik - gold medal
Athletics Grand Prix in Dubai
Nidahas Trophy at the R Premadasa India beat Bangladesh
Stadium, in Colomb
Team USA - grabbed a total of 36 medals and topped the overall
Paralympic Winter Games Pyeong Chang medal count.Oksana Masters became the female U.S. athlete to
2018 in South Korea have won the highest number of medals in PyeongChang
Olympics with five medals
Indian contingent’s flag-bearer at the
opening ceremony of the Commonwealth PV Sindhu
Games (CWG) 2018 at Gold Coast,
Australia
Asian Billiards Championships title Pankaj Advani
in Yangon, Myanmar
8th Hockey India Senior Men National
Championship 2018 (A Division) at the
Hockey Punjab
Padma Shri Mohammad Shahid Synthetic
Hockey Stadium in Lucknow, Uttar
Pradesh
International Shooting Sport Federation (ISSF) Junior World Cup Rifle/Pistol/Shotgun in Sydney,
Australia
Elavenil Valarivan along with Shreya Gold
Agrawal and Zeena Khitta - Team
Arjun Babuta - men's 10m air rifle Bronze
Anish Bhanwala -Men’s 25m Rapid Fire
Gold
Pistol Junior event
Muskan Bhanwala - Women’s 25m Pistol
Gold
event
International Shooting Sport Federation (ISSF) World Cup-Guadalajara, Mexico
Shahzar Rizvi 10m Air Pistol Men’s Event Gold
Manu Bhaker 10m Air Pistol Women’s Event Gold
Akhil Sheoran Men's 50m Rifle 3 Position Gold
Om Prakash Mitharval & Manu Bhaker 10m Air Pistol Mixed Team Title Gold
Anjum Moudgil Women’s 50m Rifle 3 Positions Silver
Jitu Rai 10m Air Pistol Men’s Event Bronze
Ravi Kumar Men’s 10m Air Rifle Event Bronze
Mehuli Ghosh & Deepak Kumar 10m Air Rifle Mixed Team Event Bronze
Asian Wrestling Championships - Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan
50 Kg freestyle event Vinesh Phogat(Silver) defeated by Chun Lei(China)
59 Kg freestyle event Sangeeta(Bronze) defeats Jieun Um(Korea)
82 kg Greco-Roman event Harpreet Singh(bronze) defeats Khashimbekov(Uzbekistan)
55kg Greco-Roman event Rajendra Kumar(Bronze) defeats Mirakhmedov(Uzbekistan)
First Indian woman wrestler to win gold Navjot Kaur become world No 2 in the women's 65kg
in the Senior Asian Championships under category in the latest rankings released by the United World
65kg freestyle category Wrestling
th
6 edition of Wisden India Almanack
'Cricketer of the Year' KL Rahul
Shantha Rangaswamy Deepti Sharma,

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Priyank Panchal,
Hasan Ali
Tamim Iqbal
Retirement from all forms of Cricket.He Former England batsman Kevin Pietersen
was the captain of England cricket team
in 2008-09 period
Asia Cup Archery Stage 1 campaign
Gold 1.Promila Daimary defeated Natalia Erdynieva of Russia
(Womens recurve individual)
2. Akash, Gora Ho and Gaurav Lambe defeated Mongolia's
Adiyasuren Baasankhuu, Otgonbold Baatarkhuyag and Gantugs
Jantsan(Indian Trio)
3. Muskan Kirar(women's compound individual section)
Bronze Madhu Vedwan
Muskan Kirar
Indian Wells Masters 2018 or 2018 BNP Paribas Open - California, United States.
Men's Singles Juan Martin Del Potro Roger Federer (Switzerland)
(Argentina)
Women's Singles Naomi Osaka (Japan) Daria Kasatkina (Russia)
Men's Doubles John Isner (United States) Bob Bryan (United States)
Jack Sock (United States) Mike Bryan (United States)
Women's Doubles Hsieh Su-wei (Chinese Ekaterina Makarova (Russia)
Taipei) Elena Vesnina (Russia)
Barbora Strycova (Czech
Republic)

April
Name of the Sport Events Name of the Winners
Asian Armwrestling Championship Indian arm wrestler Shrimant Jha
56th edition of Belgrade International Boxing Gold medal winners,Sumit Sangwan(91Kg), Indian woman
Championship at Belgrade in Serbia boxer Nikhat Zareen(51 kg), Himanshu Sharma (49 kg).
Monte Carlo Masters in Monaco Rafael Nadal
Asian Youth and Junior Weightlifting Jeremy Lalrinnunga
Championship at Urgench, Uzbekistan
Barcelona Open tennis title Rafael Nadal
2018 Chinese Grand Prix Red Bull`s Daniel Riccia
Retirement from international cricket at the
conclusion of South Africa-Australia test South African fast bowler Morne Morkel
series
Retired from football after playing a last Julio Cesar
match for boyhood club Flamengo
Virat Kohli and Mithali Raj, captains of Indian men and
Wisden’s leading cricketers of the year
women’s cricket team respectively
FC Goa in collaboration with the Forca Goa Foundation
FC Goa Soccer Schools
to provide opportunity to more children to play football
72nd Santosh Trophy (Football) at the Salt Kerala defeated West Bengal
Lake Stadium in Kolkata, West Bengal
Mumbai Football Arena Host to the inaugural edition of the four-nation
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Intercontinental Cup, which is slated to be held from June 1

to June 10, 2018
PFA Player of the Year Mohamed Salah - first Egyptian to win this award
30th overall Copa del Rey title at the Wanda
Barcelona defeated Sevilla
Metropolitano, Madrid.
Latest ATP Ranking Top 3 are as follows:
1.Rafael Nadal,2.Roger Federer,3.Alexander Zverev.
Leander Paes - 43rd doubles win
Davis Cup He has broken the 46-year-old record of Italian player
Nicola Pietrangeli
International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF) Sathiyan Gnansekaran - 46
rankings Manika Batra - 58
Australian former captain Steve Smith - First
ICC Test Player Rankings
Virat Kohli - Second
Kidambi Srikanth - First
BWF rankings
First Indian male player to achieve this mark.
Germany - First
FIFA rankings
Brazil - Second
World record to double cross the Bangla
Sampanna Ramesh Shelar(Pune)
Channel
Top-100 ATP men’s singles ranking Yuki Bhambri -83
Denmark’s Viktor Axelsen – First(men’s singles ranking)
Kidambi Srikanth – 5th
BWF rankings – April 19, 2018 PV Sindhu - Third and Saina Nehwal -12th
Japan’s Akane Yamaguchi – First(women’s singles ranking)

FIBA Basketball World Cup 2019, in Beijing Son of Dreams was unveiled as official Mascot
8th South Asian Judo Championship 13-player Indian contingent won 10 golds and three bronze
Kathmandu, Nepal medals in individual categories.
National Muaythai Federation Cup, a martial arts competition, ended at the Indoor Stadium, Srinagar
. It is also known as 'the art of eight limbs' as it is involves the combined use of fists, elbows knees and shins.
Won his first singles title on the ATP
Prajnesh Gunneswaran
Challenger circuit in the Kunming Open in
Anning, China
Tournoi World Cup Satellite Fencing
CA Bhavani Devi - Silver
Championship in Reykjavik, Iceland
2018 Miami Open
Men’s Singles John Isner (United States) Alexander Zverev (Germany)
Women’s Singles Sloane Stephens (United Jelena Ostapenko (Latvia)
States)
Men’s Doubles Bob Bryan (United States) Karen Khachanov (Russia) and
and Mike Bryan (United Andrey Rublev (Russia)
States)
Women’s Doubles Ashleigh Barty (Australia) Barbora Krejcikova (Czech
and CoCo Vandeweghe Republic) and Katerina
(United States) Siniakova (Czech Republic)

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