HOST COUNTRIES-

 FIFA Men’s WC 2022- Qatar (Argentina defeated France)

 2026- Mexico,Canada,USA 2030- Spain, Portugal, Morocco 2034- Saudi Arabia
FIFA Women’s WC 2023- NZ & Australia (Spain defeated England)

 Summer Olympic-
 2024- Paris (France) 2028- Los Angeles (US) 2032- Brisbane (Australia)
 Winter Olympic-
 2022- Beijing (China) 2026- Itlay (Milan & Cortina)
 Summer Youth Olympic 2026- Dakar (Senegal)
 Winter Youth Olympic 2024- Gangwon (South Korea)

 Commenwealth Games-
 2022- Birmingham (England) 2026- Victoria (Australia)
 Asian Games-
 2022- Hangzhou (China) 2026- Nagoya(Japan) 2030- Doha (Qatar)
 Men’s Hockey WC-
 2023- Odisha (Germany beats Belgium) {2026-Netherlands & Belgium}
 Badminton WC 2022- Tokyo (Japan) {2026-India}

CRICKET-
 ICC ODI Men’s World Cup-
 2023– India (Australia beats India) 2027- SA, Namibia, Zimbabwe
 ICC T20 Men’s WC-
 2022- Australia (England beats Pakistan) 2024- WI & USA
 Men’s Asia Cup-
 2022- Dubai (Sri Lanka defeated Pakistan) 2023 –SL & Pak (India defeated SL)
 ICC U-19 Men’s T20 WC-
 2022- WI (India defeated England) 2024 - Sri Lanka

 ICC Women’s WC-

 2022- NZ (Australia beats England) 2025- India
 ICC Women’s T20 WC-
 2023- SA (Australia beats South Africa) 2024- Bangladesh
 Women’s Asia Cup-
 2022- Bangladesh (India defeated SL)
 1st ICC Women’s U-19 T20 WC 2023 (South Africa)- India defeated England.
 Women’s Emerging Asia Cup 2023 (Hong Kong)- India defeated Bangladesh.
 Asia Cup 2023-
 Winner- India beats Sri Lanka by 10 wickets.
 Player of the Tournament- Kuldeep Yadav
 Player of the Match- Mohammad Siraj
 Most Runs- Shubham Gill (302)
 Most wickets- M Pathirana (11)

 ICC Men's Cricket WC23-

 Winner- Australia defeated India by 6 Wickets.
 Player of the Match in Final- Travis Head
 Player of Tournament- Virat Kohli
 Most Runs- Virat Kohli (765 Runs)
 Most Wickets- Mohammed Shami (24W)
 Mascots- Male(Tonk) & Female(Blaze) duo
 Official Theme song- Dil Jashn Bole
 mascot of WC launched by ICC- Crictoverse.
 Brand Ambessador of WC- Shah Rukh Khan

 IPL 2023-
 Winner- CSK defeated GT to win their 5th Trophy.
 Man of the Match- Devon Convey
 Orange Cap- Shubman Gill (890)- (Man of the Series) GT
 Purple Cap- Mohammad Shami (28)- GT
 Most Valuable Player- Shubman Gill
 Emerging Player of the Year- Yashasvi Jaiswal

 Women’s Premier League 2023- held in India (4-26 march)

 Mumbai Indians defeated Delhi Capitals
 5 Teams, 22 Matches, Official Mascot- Shakti
 Match-Nat Sciver Brunt (MI) Series- Hayley Mathews (MI)
 Most Runs- Meg Lanning (DC) 345
 Most Wickets- Hayley Mathews (MI) 16
 Most valuable player - Hayley Matthews (MI)
 Most expensive player- Smriti Mandhana (3.4 Cr.)

 South Africa host ICC U-19 Cricket World Cup 2024.

 England to host 2027 World Test Championship Final.
 MI New York won the 1st edition of US T20 League.
 Blind T20 Cricket WC 2022 in India- India wins for the 3rd Consecutive Year defeated Nepal.
 Indian Women's Blind Cricket Team won gold by defeating Australia in IBSA World Games.
 Australia won the ICC World Test Championship 21-23, defeating India.
 final was held in The Oval (London)
 India came in final by defeating England.
 Vijay Hazare Trophy 2023 (50-50 format)- Haryana defeated Rajasthan
2022- Saurashtra defeated Maharashtra
 Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy 2023-24 (20-20 format)- Punjab Defeats Baroda
2022-23- Mumbai defeated HP
 Irani Cup 2023 (Test Match format)- Rest of India beat MP
 Ranji Trophy 2022-23 (Test Match format)- Saurashtra defeated Bengal
 Duleep Trophy (Test Match format)-
 2023- South Zone defeated West Zone
 2022- West Zone defeated South Zone

 ICC's Hall of Fame- Virender Sehwag Diana Edulji Aravind D'Silva

 Diana Edulji- st
1 Indian women's player to be inducted into ICC Hall of Fame.
 Harmanpreet Kaur- 1st Indian woman to win Wisden Almanack cricket of the year.
 5 cricketers were given Marylebone Cricket Club Honorary Life Membership.
 Dhoni Raina Yuvraj Jhulan Goswami Mithali Raj
 Sydney Cricket Ground (Australia) named a gate in honour of Sachin & Brian Lara.
 Sharjah Cricket Stadium (UAE) has a stand named after Sachin Tendulkar.
 Belinda Clark (Australia)- 1st female cricketer to have a statue cast (bronze sculpture) in
her honor outside the Sydney Cricket Ground.
 22ft. Statue of Bharat Ratna Sachin Tendulkar Unveiled at Mumbai’s Wankhede Stadium.

 McGahey- 1st transgender to play International Cricket.

 Kim Cotton (NZ)- 1st female to umpire in ICC Men's T20 Cricket
 Ashwin- fastest Indian to pick up 450 Test wickets.
 Babar Azam- fastest player to reach 5000 runs in ODI.
 Yashasvi Jaiswal (RR)- fastest 50 in 13 balls in the IPL.
 Virat Kohli- 1st to score 7000 runs in the history of IPL.
 Virat Kohli- 1st batter in the world to score 50 ODI centuries.
 Mh. Shami- 1st India bowler to pick up 50W in ODI WC.
 Rohit Sharma- 1st Batsman To Hit 50 Sixes In WC.

CHESS-
 78th Chess Grandmaster- Koustav Chatterjee (WB)
 79th Chess Grandmaster- Pranesh M (TN)
 80th Chess Grandmaster Vignesh NR (Chennai)
 81st Chess Grandmaster- Sayantan Das (WB)
 82nd Chess Grandmaster- Prraneeth Vuppala (Telangana)
 83rd Chess Grandmaster - Aditya Samant (Maharashtra)
 84th Chess Grandmaster- Vaishali Rameshbabu (TN)
 FIDE World Rapid Chess Championship 2023-
 Magnus Carlsen wins Gold Medal in Men's Event.
 Koneru Humpy wins silver in Women’s Event.
 World Junior Rapid Chess Championship 2023- Raunak Sadhwani (India)
 Tata Steel Chess India Women’s Rapid Tournament 2023- Divya Deshmukh.
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44 Chess Olympiad 2022 – held in Chennai (TN) Mascot- Thambi
 Gold in men’s-Uzbekistan women’s – Ukraine
 45th- Budapest(Hungary) in 2024
 46th- Tashkent(Uzbekistan) in 2026.
 Chess World Cup 2023- held at Baku, Azerbaijan
 Magnus Carlsen(Norway) defeated grandmaster Rameshbabu Praggnananda (India)
 FIDE World Championship 2023- Astana, Kazakhstan (17th world chess champion)
 Ding Liren (China) won the title.
 Koneru Humpy has won India’s First-ever Silver medal.
 World Blitz Chess Championships 2023-
 Men’s- Magnus Carlsen Women’s- Valentina Gunina
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Koneru Humpy- 1 Indian to win 2 medals at Blitz Championship (Chess)
 World Blitz Champion- M-Magnus Carlsen W-Bibisara Assaubayeva
 Super GM Chess Tournament 2023 (Hungary)- Rameshbabu Pragyananda.
 FIDE Grand Swiss- men’s- Vidit Gujrathi women’s- Vaishali Rameshbabu
 Delhi International Open Chess Title- Aravindh Chithambaram.
 Vantika Agrawal has become the 11th woman in India to achieve International Master Title.
 GM D Gukesh overtakes Viswanathan Anand to achieve highest rank in FIDE rankings.
 India’s rank 1- Gukesh, World rank- 9 (World rank 1- Magnus Carlsen)

BADMINTON-
 India’s Satwiksairaj & Chirag Wins Silver in Men’s Doubles of India Open Badminton 2024.
 Satviksairaj Rankireddy breaks a decade old Guinness World Record of Fastest Badminton
Hit (565 KMPH)
 Satwiksairaj Rankireddy & Chirag Shetty- 1st Indian Men's Doubles pair to win a Gold at the
Badminton Asia Championships.

 Sudirman Cup 2023- China.

 India Open 2023- Men’s single- Kunlavut Vitidsarn (Thailand)
Women’s single- An Se-young (S.Korea)
 US Open 2023- Men’s single- Li Shi Feng (China)
Women’s single- Supanida Katethong (Thailand)
 Malaysia Open 2023- Men’s single- Viktor Axelsen (Denmark)
Women’s single- Akane Yamaguchi (Japan)
 YONEX Swiss Open 2023- Men’s single- Koki Watanabe (Japan)
Women’s single- Pornpawee Chochuwong (Thailand)
 Canada Open 2023- Men’s single- Lakshya Sen.
 Indonesia Open 2023- Men’s Doubles- Satwiksairaj Rankireddy & Chirag Shetty.
 Madrid Spain Masters 2023- Gregoria Mariska Tunjung (Indonesia) defeated PV Sindhu.

HOCKEY-
 Sultan Azlan Shah Cup 2022 (held in Malaysia)- winner-Malaysia (beats S.Korea)
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15 FIH Men’s Hockey WC 2023- held in India
 Germany won (3 title) after defeating Belgium by 5-4 shootout (3-3 tied)
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 Venue- Kalinga Stadium in Bhubaneshwar (Odisha) Mascot- Olly Turtle.

 Best Player- Niklas Wellen (Germany) Best Goalkeeper- Vincent Vanasch (Belgium)
 16th WC 2026- Netherlands and Belgium.

 India won- Men's Junior Asia Cup 2023

Women’s Junior Asia Cup 2023
Men’s Asian Champions Trophy
Women's Asian Champions Trophy
FIH National Cup 2023

 FIH Hockey 5s Women’s World Cup - Netherlands defeated India

 National Ice Hockey Championship 2023- ITBP defeated Ladakh Scouts.
 Indian hockey team ranked 3rd in the latest FIH rankings. (1st – Netherlands> Belgium)
 Hockey India launched Hockeyverse becomes 1st National Sports Federation to Enter
Metaverse.
 Rani Rampal – 1st Indian woman hockey player to have a stadium named after her
 Rani’s Girls Hockey Turf (Rae Bareli)
 Birsa Munda International Hockey Stadium- India’s largest hockey stadium in Rourkela,
Odisha (capacity- 20,000 ; inaugurated by CM Naveen Patnaik)

TENNIS-
 Australian Open 2024- M- Jannick Sinner (Italy) W- Aryna Sabalenka (Belarus)
 Australian Open 2023- M- Novak Djokovic (Serbia) W- A. Sabalenka (Belarus)
 French Open 2023- M- Novak Djokovic W- Iga Swiatek (Poland)
 Wimbledon Open 2023- M- Carlos Alcaraz (Spain) W- Marketa Vondrousova
 US Open 2023- M- Novak Djokovic (24 ) th
W- Coco Gauff (America)

 Davis Cup 2023- Italy Defeats Australia.

 Carlos Alcaraz (Spain) won- (Madrid, Barcelona & Argentina) Open 2023.
 Novak Djokvic (Serbia)- wins the 6th ATP Finals Title.
 Roger Federer announces retirement from professional Tennis. (last- Laver Cup 2022)
 1st to win 20 Grand Slam Titles (6A 1F 8W 5U)
 Serena Williams announced her retirement (23 Grand Slam titles)
FOOTBALL-
 76th Santosh Trophy- Karnataka beat Meghalaya (national football championship)
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132 Durand Cup 2023- Mohun Bagan SG defeated East Bengal
 Intercontinental Cup Title 2023- India defeated Lebanon.
 SAFF Championship 2023- India defeated Kuwait.
 SAFF U-19 Championship- India defeated Pakistan
 SAFF U-16 Championship- India defeated Bangladesh

 27th La Liga Title 2023- FC Barcelona defeated Espanyol.

 FIFA Club WC 2023- Manchester City Defeats Fluminense.
 Carabao Cup Title 2023- Manchester United defeated Newcastle
 Women’s FIFA WC 2023- held at NZ,Australia
 Spain won its 1st WC title by defeating England (1-0)
 FIFA U-20 Men’s WC 2023- Argentina (Uruguay defeated Italy)

 Cristiano Ronaldo- 1st football player to play 200 Int. matches (Guinness World Record)
 Cristiano Ronaldo- 1st man to score in 5 FIFA WC’s.
 Cristiano Ronaldo has joined Al Nassr football clubs. (Saudi Arabian team)

BOXING-
 IBA Women’s World Boxing Championships 2023 - New Delhi.
 Mascot- Veera.
 India tops medal tally with 4 Gold (2nd– China >Russia>Italy)
 Saweety Boora (81kg) Lovlina Borgohain (75Kg)
Nikhat Zareen (50Kg) Nitu Ghanghas (48kg)

SHOOTING-
 Indian pair of Rhythm Sangwan and Ujjwal Malik won 1st gold medal at ISSF Shooting
World Cup 2024 in Cairo.
 Divyansh Singh Panwar Clinches ISSF World Cup Gold In 10m Air Rifle Event.
 ISSF World Cup 2023 - Baku, Azerbaijan
 China topped > India- 2nd (1-2-1=4)
 ISSF Junior World Cup 2023- held at Suhl (Germany)
 1 - India (6-6-3=15)
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>Korea> USA > Italy > France
 15th Asian Shooting Championships 2023- held in South Korea
 India- 55 Medals (21:21:13) in 2023.

WRESTLING-
 World Wrestling Championship 2022- held in Belgrade (Serbia)
 1st – USA (15) 2nd- Japan(13) 3rd –Turkey(8)
 India- 24th (2 Bronze)- Bajrang Punia (65kg) Vinesh Phogat (53kg) (both-Haryana)
KABADDI-
 India’s 1st Women's Kabaddi League 2023 (held in Dubai)
 Uma Kolkata defeated Punjab Panthers
 Pro Kabaddi League 2022 S9- Jaipur Pink Panthers defeated Puneri Paltan
 Pro Kabaddi League 2022 S8- Dabang Delhi defeated Patna Pirates.
 Kabaddi WC 2025 to be hosted by West Midlands (England)

AWARDS-
 ICC Awards 2023-
 Sir Garfield Sobers Trophy- Pat Cummins.
 Rachael Heyhoe Flint Trophy- Nat Sciver-Brunt (England)
 ODI Cricketer of the Year- Virat Kohli Chamari Athapaththu (SL)
 T20I Cricketer of the Year- Suryakumar Yadav Hayley Matthews (WI)
 Test Cricketer of the Year- Usman Khawaja (Aus)
 Emerging Cricketer- Rachin Ravindra Phoebe Litchfield (Australia)
 Umpire of the Year- Richard Illingworth (England)
 Spirit of Cricket Award- Zimbabwe Team (for consoling opposition WC Qualifier)

 Pubity Sport Men’s Athlete of Year 2023 Award- Virat Kohli.

 BCCI Award Best International Cricketers of 2022-23- Shubman Gill & Deepti Sharma.
 FIFA Best Awards 2023-
 Men's Player- Lionel Messi
 Women's Player- Aitana Bonmati
 Men's Goalkeeper- Ederson
 Puskas Award- Guilherme Madruga
 Time Magazine Athlete of the Year 2023- Lionel Messi.
 Ballon d’Or award or Golden Ball Award 2023- Lionel Messi
 Forbes Highest-Paid Athletes 2023- st
1 – Ronaldo 2nd– Messi
 Forbes Highest-Paid Female Athletes 2023- 1st– Iga Swiatek (Polish Tennis player)

 National Sports Award 2023-

 Arjuna award (26)- Ms Parul Chaudhary (5000m race)

Ms R Vaishali (Chess)
Mohammed Shami (Cricket)
Ms Sheetal Devi (Para Archery)
Antim Panghal (Wrestling)
Sunil Kumar (Wrestling)
Diksha Dagar (Golf)
Anush Agarwalla (Equestrian)
Aditi Gopichand Swami (Archery)
  Major Dhyan Chand Khel Ratna Award- Chirag Shetty R Satwik Raj
 Dhyan Chand Award for Lifetime achievement (3)
 Dronacharya Award- Regular (5)
Lifetime (3)- Jaskirat Singh Grewal (Golf)
Bhaskaran E (Kabaddi)
Jayanta Kumar Pushilal (TT)

APPOINTMENTS-
 Raghuram Iyer- new CEO of Indian Olympic Association.
 Gianni Infantino- new President of FIFA.
 Mark Nicholas- new president of the Marylebone Cricket Club.
 Grey Barclay- re-elected as ICC Chairman. (BCCI President- Roger Binny)
 Vishwanathan Anand- Deputy President of FIDE.
 Amol Muzumdar- Head coach of Indian women’s cricket.
 Ajay Jadeja- Mentor For Afghanistan Cricket Team In ICC Cricket WC 2023.

EXTRA-
 Winter Olympics 2022-Beijing (China) Motto- Together for a shared future.
 Meghalaya hosted 2nd North East Olympics from 30th Oct.
 Neeraj Chopra -1st Indian to win gold in the World Athletics Championships. (88.17m)
 Neeraj Chopra won Diamond League, Doha Diamond League, Lausanne Diamond League.
 Asian Billiards 2023 Title - Pankaj Advani.
 4th Asian Kho Kho Championship- in Assam.
 Snooker World Championship Title 2023- Luca Brecel (Belgium)
 Asian Kabaddi Championship (in Busan)- India beat Iran.
 Para-archer Sheetal Devi of J&K became the world's 1st armless woman archer to win a
silver medal in the World Championship.
 5000m National Record- Avinash Sable (13:19) Parul Chaudhary (15:10)
 Tajinderpal Singh Toor has created a new Asian record of 21.77m in the men’s shot put
event at the National Inter-State Senior Athletics Championships 2023 in Bhubaneswar.
 Jeswin Aldrin has created a national record in the men’s long jump (8.42 meters)
 Jyothi Yarraji breakes national record in 100m Hurdles.

 PM Modi inaugurated 2nd phase of Saansad Khel Mahakumbh 2022-23 in Basti District(UP)
 Maharashtra declared Dahi Handi as official sport.
 Amit Shah announced Ahmedabad to be developed as world’s biggest sports city.
 PM Modi inaugurated country's 1st high-tech sports training centre for Divyangjan in
Gwalior, Madhya Pradesh.
 36th National Games 2022- held in 6 Cities of Gujarat
 Inaugurated by PM Modi Theme- Ek Bharat Shreshtha Bharat
 Mascot- Savaj (launched by Amit Shah)
 Services Sports Control Board won max. medals.( 128 medals-61:35:32)

 37th
National Games - held in Goa
Motto- Get Set Goa
Mascot- Moga (An Indian bison)
Raja Bhalindra Trophy- Maharashtra
Best Male Athlete- Swimmer Srihari Nataraj (Karnataka)
Best Female Athletes - Gymnasts Sanyukta Prasen Kale (Maharashtra)
Gymnasts Pranati Nayak (Odisha)
 Top 3 Positions- 1st - Maharashtra- 228 Medals (80 : 69 : 79)
2nd - Services- 126 Medals (66 : 27 : 33)
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3 - Haryana- 192 Medals (62 : 55 : 75)
 Gatka has been officially included. (traditional martial art form of Punjab)

 3rd Khelo India University Games 2022- held in 4 cities of Uttar Pradesh.
 Mascot- Jeetu (the Barasingha) & symbol- Pride of Pride
 Panjab University topped the medal tally (26-17-26= 69) > Guru Nanak

 3rd Khelo India Winter Games 2023- held in Gulmarg (J&K)

 Mascot- Snow Leopard.
 J&K Topped with 76 Medals

 5th Khelo India Youth Games 2022- held in 8 Cities of Madhya Pradesh.
 Inaugurated by Shri Anurag Singh Thakur.
 mascot Asha (female cheetah) and Mowgli (& its smart torch Amarkantak)
 Maharashtra topped the medal Tally (56-55-50= 161) > Haryana > MP
 4th was held in Panchkula, Haryana.

 6th Khelo India Youth Games 2024-

 Venue- Chennai (TN)
 Mascot- Veera Mangai (& Torch- Thamizh)

 31st World University Games 2023- held in Chengdu, China

 India- 7 (26=11,5,10) {1 - China >Japan>Korea}
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 19th Asian Games 2023-
 Venue- Hangzhou, China
 Mascot- Chenchen, Congcong and Lianlian
 Flag Bearers in-
Opening Ceremony- Harmanpreet Singh (Hockey) & Lovlina Borgohain (Boxer)
Closing Ceremony- P. R. Sreejesh (Hockey)
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1 – China (201-111-71 = 383 medals)
 4th—India (28-38-41 = 107 medals)
 GOLD winners-
 Shooting (7) Women’s 10m Air Pistol - Palak Gulia
 Athletics (6) M&W javlin- Neeraj Chopra & Annu Rani
Women’s 5000m- Parul Chaudhary
Men’s Shot put- Tajinderpal Singh Toor
 Archery (5)
 Squash (2) Mixed Doubles - Dipika Pallikal & Harinder Pal Sandhu
 Cricket (2) Men’s Cricket Team & Women’s Cricket Team
 Kabaddi (2) Men’s kabaddi Team & Women’s kabaddi Team
 Badminton (1)- Men’s Doubles - Chirag Shetty, Satwiksairaj Rankireddy
 Tennis (1)- Mixed Doubles Team - Rohan Bopanna, Rutuja Bhosale
 Equestrian (1)
 Field Hockey (1)- Men’s Hockey Team

 Commenwealth 2022, Birmingham (England)-

 Motto- Games for everyone. Mascot- Perry (the Bull)
 India’s flag bearers at Opening ceremony- Manpreet Singh and P.V. Sindhu.
 India’s flag bearers at Closing ceremony- Sharath Kamal and Nikhat Zareen.
 1st- Australia (67,57,54=178) >2nd -England > 3rd –Canada > 4th- India (22,16,23=61)
 Anahat Singh (14 years,girl from India)– youngest player at the CW Games.
 Saikhom Mirabai Chanu (Weightlifting)- 1st Gold Medal winner from India.