First in Sports in India

First in Sports	Details
The first Indian to win an individual medal at the Olympic	K D Jadhav in wrestling in 1952 Olympics at Helsinki
The first Indian to win a gold medal at the Olympic	Abhinav Bindra
The first Indian Cricketer to score a triple century	Virendra Sehwag
The first Indian Cricketer to take hat trick in Test Cricket	Harbhajan Singh
The first Indian to win the Wimbledon junior singles title	Ramanathan Krishnan in 1954
The first Indian to achieve a career Grand Slam in mixed doubles	Mahesh Bhupathi
The first Indian Cricket Test match	at Lord's vs England in 1932
The first Indian Cricket Captain in Test	C K Naidu in 1932
The first Indian Cricketer to score a century	Lala Amarnath in 1933
The first Indian Cricketer to take hat trick in One Day Cricket	Chetan Sharma
The first Indian Formula 1 race driver	Narain Karthikeyan
The first Indian Formula 1 team	Force India
The first Indian Batsman to complete 10000 runs in Test Cricket	Sunil Gavaskar
The first Indian Batsman to complete 10000 runs in One Day Cricket	Sachin Tendulkar
The first Indian world champion in Billiards	Wilson Jones
The first Indian Grandmaster	Vishwanathan Anand
The first Indian to win the FIDE World Chess Championship	Vishwanathan Anand
The first Indian to win the All England Badminton Championship	Prakash Padukone
The first Indian gymnast to win a medal at the Commonwealth Games	Ashish Kumar
The first Indian woman Chess Grandmaster	S Vijaylakshmi
First Olympic team medal	Gold in Hockey at 1928 Olympics at Amsterdam beating the Netherlands.
The first Indian to win an individual medal at the Olympic in British India	Norman Pritchard in 1900
Youngest Indian to win the Grandmaster title	Parimarjan Negi (13 years 3 months and 22 days)
Youngest Captain of Indian Test Cricket team	Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi
The first Indian to swim across the English Channel	Mihir Sen
The first Indian woman to swim across the English Channel	Arti Saha
The first woman in the world to swim across the seven seas	Bula Chaudhary
The first Indian woman to win a gold medal at the Asian Games	Kamaljit Sandhu
The first Indian woman to win a Grand Slam title	Sania Mirza
The first Indian woman to receive the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award	Karnam Malleswari
The first cricketer to be awarded the Arjuna Award	Salim Durrani
The first Indian woman to win the World Junior Badminton Championships	Saina Nehwal
The first Indian to receive the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award	Vishwanathan Anand
The first Indian woman to win an individual medal at the Olympic	Karnam Malleswari
The first Indian to win a Grand Slam title	Mahesh Bhupathi (French Open mixed doubles in 1997)
The first Indian to win medals at two consecutive Olympic Games	Sushil Kumar
The first Indian woman to win a medal in Boxing at Olympic Games	Mary Kom
The first Indian woman to win a medal in Badminton at Olympic Games	Saina Nehwal
The first Indian to be a five time world boxing champion	Mary Kom
The first Indian woman shooter to win gold medal in World Shooting Championship	Tejaswani Sawant
The first Indian man to win medal in Boxing at Olympic Games	Vijender Singh
The first Indian Cricket Captain in ODI	Ajit Wadekar

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