SPORTS PERSONALITIES OF INDIA

The young Indian women tennis sensation Sania Mirza, was born in Mumbai on November 15, 1986. Presently the highest ranked Indian, Sania started playing Tennis at the tender age of six at the Nizam club in Hyderabad.

Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar

Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar ( born 24 April 1973) is an Indian cricketer widely regarded as one of the greatest batsmen in the history of cricket. He is the leading run-scorer and century maker in Test and one-day international cricket.[He is the only male player to score a double century in the history of ODI cricket

Milkha Singh
Milkha Singh (born 8 October 1935) is an Indian athlete, who represented India in the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome and the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo. He is nicknamed The Flying Sikh. He is considered as one of the greatest athletes ever produced by and is also the father of the professional golfer Jeev Milkha Singh.

Leander Paes
y Leander Adrian Paes (born

17 June 1973) is an Indian professional tennis player who currently features in the doubles events in the ATP tour and the Davis Cup tournament. Having won 6 Doubles and 6 Mixed Doubles Tennis Grand Slam titles and finishing runners up in numerous other Grand Slam finals, he is considered to be one of the greatest and most respected contemporary doubles and mixed doubles players in the world.

Zaheer Khan
Zaheer Khan born October 1978, Shrirampur town in Ahmednagar district, Maharashtra), is an Indian cricketer who has been a member of the Indian cricket team since 2000. A left arm Fast bowler considered as the spearhead of the Indian bowling attack, Zaheer is known for his ability to swing the ball both ways, and as a batsman also holds the record for the highest Test score by a No. 11.

Rahul Sharad Dravid

Rahul Sharad Dravid (born 11 January 1973) is a cricketer in the Indian national team,of which he h as been a regular member since 1996. He was appointed as the captain of the Indian cricket team in October 2005 and resigned from the post in September 2007.[1] Dravid was honored as one of the top-five Wisden Cricketers of the Year in 2000.

Viswanathan Anand
Viswanathan Anand is an Indian chess Grandmaster and the current World Chess Champion. He is one of the greatest sports personalities of India. In fact Vishwanathan Anand has received the highest sports award, the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award, as well as the second highest civilian award, the Padma Bibhushan, from the Government of India as recognition of his immense contribution in sports and making India taking pride in his success.

Mahesh Srinivas Bhupathi

Top league Doubles Tennis star Mahesh Srinivas Bhupathi, is one of India's outstanding sporting heroes. He is known for his booming serves and hard-hitting volleys. He was born on 7th June, 1974 in Madras, Tamilnadu. Bhupathi waseducated in Dubai, Muscat and in USA. His father Mr. C.G. Krishna Bhupathi coached him right from his formative years,exclusively on hard courts in the Middle East and his son has proved that hard work pays.

Kapil Dev-Cricketer
First All Rounder in Cricket.When Kapil was just 20, he set a new record of scoring 1000 runs and taking 100 wickets. He made this record within a period of one year and 109 days only. Kapil Dev started playing in the first class cricket in 1975, and the opportunity for him to play in a test match for the first time came in 1978 during Indian team's tour to Pakistan.

Anju Bobby George- Athlete

Anju Bobby George, made history when she won the bronze medal in Long Jump at the World Athletics Championships 2003 in Paris. With this achievement, she became the first Indian athlete ever to win a medal in a World Athletics Championship clearing 6.70 m.

Dhyan Chand-Hockey Player

Dhyan Chand made great contribution in enhancing prestige of Indian Hockey in the eyes of the world. He was born on 29th August 1906, in Allahabad(UP). He joined army at the age of sixteen. He started playing hockey in army and was included in the Indian Hockey team for the 1928 Amesterdam Olympics.

Praveen kumar Sakat Singh

y Praveen kumar Sakat Singh was

born on 2nd October, 1986 in Meerut, Uttar Pradesh, India. He is a fast-medium pacer, a hard-hitting batsman and an excellent ground fielder. Earlier, he played in the domestic cricket for Uttar Pradesh. With this performance, he was selected into India A team. He was again shined with India A team by taking 67 wickets in 39 matches. With his impressive figures in domestic cricket and India A team, he was selected in the India s national team.

Virat Kohli
y Indian cricketer Virat Kohli was

born on 5th November, 1988 in Bangalore, India as the son of P. N. Kohli. He learned cricket lessons from West Delhi Cricket Academy. He is come to know in the cricket world, when he gained 90 runs within hours of his father s death to save Delhi from certain follow-on in a Ranji Trophy game against Karnataka. In addition, he was the captain of the victorious Indian team at the 2008 Under-19 Cricket World Cup held in Malaysia.

P. T. Usha
The first Indian woman (and the fifth Indian) to reach the final of an Olympic event by winning her 400 m hurdles Semi-final. She was born in Kerala in 1964. When she was just 12, she joined a Sports school at Cannanore where she received guidance and training from O.P. Nambiar, the noted athlete coach.Her full name is Pilavulakandi Thekkeparambil Usha.

Narain Karthikeyan
Karthikeyan is a famous Indian Sports Personality. He is the first Formula One driver from India. He was born on Jan 14th 1977 in Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu. Narain Karthikeyan got his motivation in motor sports from his father because his father was former Indian National Rally Champion

Saina Nehwal
Saina Nehwal (born March 17, 1990) is an Indian Khel Ratna badminton player currently ranked number 6 in the world by Badminton World Federation. Saina is the first Indian woman to reach the singles quarterfinals at the Olympics and the first Indian to win the World Junior Badminton Championships. Saina Nehwal made history on June 21, 2009, becoming the first Indian to win a Super Series tournament, by clinching the Indonesia Open with a stunning victory over higher-ranked Chinese Wang Lin in Jakarta.

Yuvraj Singh
Yuvraj Singh is one of the greatest batsman in Indian team. He was born on 12 December 1981. His father s name is Yograj Singh who was former cricket player and actor in punjabi films. He is also known as Yuvi in Indian team. His favourite ground is Durbon Kingsmead. In T20 matches he made 70 runs against Australia. His favourite commentatior is Ravi Shastri. Now Yuvraj Singh considered as best Cricketer in batting and bowlin. In world cup 2007 T20 he hit six sixes against England. He is too much inspired by Sachin Tendulkar.

Neetu Chandra
A Bollywood actress who s a pro at basketball? When the director of National Basketball Association (US) operations in India, Troy Justice, saw Neetu play, he was apparently impressed. Troy, while watching my game in a celebrity match, which featured coaches and some well known Indian basketball players, said, You should be playing in NBA .

Virender Sehwag
Virender Sehwag (born 20 October 1978), affectionately known as Viru, the Nawab of Najafgarh, or the Zen master of modern cricket, is one of the leading batsmen in the Indian cricket team. Sehwag is an aggressive right-handed opening batsman and a part-time right-arm off-spin bowler. He played his first One Day International in 1999 and joined the Indian Test cricket team in 2001. In April 2009, Sehwag became the only Indian to be honored as the Wisden Leading Cricketer in the World for his performance in 2008, subsequently becoming the first player of any nationality to retain the award for 2009.[

Aparna Popat
Aparna Popat was born in Mumbai, Maharashtra into a Gujarati family of Lalji Popat and Heena Popat. She studied at the J.B.Petit School in Mumbai, and her Pre university from Mount Carmel College, Bangalore. Aparna also holds a Bachelors degree in Commerce from the Mumbai University. Aparna started playing badminton at the age of 8 and by the time she was 13, winning National level and State level tournaments became a habit. While in Mumbai, she was trained by Anil Pradhan for 10 years.

Mahendra Singh Dhoni

Mahendra Singh Dhoni (born July 7, 1981 in Ranchi, Bihar) (now in Jharkhand) is an Indian cricketer and the current captain of the Indian national cricket team. Initially recognized as an extravagantly flamboyant and destructive batsman, Dhoni has come to be regarded as one of the coolest heads to captain the Indian ODI side.

Baichung Bhutia
Baichung Bhutia(born 15 December 1976) is an Indian footballer. He is currently contracted by the club he owns, United Sikkim, although on short term from East Bengal. He is considered to be the torchbearer of Indian football in the international arena. Currently the captain of the Indian team, he plays for United Sikkim FC.He is often nicknamed the Sikkimese Sniper because of his shooting skills in football. Threetime Indian Player of the Year I. M. Vijayan described Bhutia as "God's gift to Indian football".

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