First in Sports - Indians

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1. The first Indian to win an individual medal at the Olympic Games---KD Jadhav
2. The first Indian to win a gold medal at the Olympic Games ---Abhinav Bindra
3. The first Indian woman to win an individual medal at the Olympic Games--- Karnam Malleswari
4. The first Indian (also the first Asian) to win the Wimbledon junior Singles title ---Ramanathan Krishnan (in 1954)
5. The first Indian to win a Grand Slam title (French Open mixed doubles title in 1997) ---Mahesh Bhupathi
6. The first Indian to achieve a career Grand Slam in mixed doubles ---Mahesh Bhupathi (2006)
7. The first Indian to achieve a career Grand Slam in doubles--- Leander Paes (2012)
8. The first Indian to become a world champion in billiards ---Wilson Jones
9. India's first Grandmaster and also the first Indian to win the FIDE World Chess Championship ---Vishwanathan Anand
10. The first Indian to win the under 10 World Chess Championship--- P. Harikrishna
11. The first Indian to win the All England Badminton Championship ---Prakash Padukone
12. The first Indian gymnast to win a medal at the Commonwealth Games Ashish Kumar
13. The first Indian woman to receive the Grandmaster's title--- Koneru Humpy
14. The youngest Indian to win the Grandmaster title--- Parimarjan Negi (13 years 3 months and 22 days)
15. The youngest Indian to captain its test cricket team--- Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi
16. The first Indian to swim across the English Channel ---Mihir Sen (1958)
17. The first Indian woman (also Asian woman) to swim across the English Channel--- Aarti Saha (1959)
18. The first woman in the world to swim the seven seas ---Bula Chaudhary
19. The first Indian woman to win a gold medal at the Asian Games--- Kamaljit Sandhu
20. The first Indian women athlete to win a medal at a world event (Bronze at World Athletics Championship, 2003) ---Anju Bobby George
21. The first Indian woman to win a Grand Slam title ---Sania Mirza
22. The first Indian to win the World Junior Badminton Championships and also to win a Super Series tournament, (by clinching the Indonesia Open) ---Saina Nehwal
23. 1st recipient of Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award--- Viswanathan Anand
24. 1st woman recipient of Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award ---Karnam Malleswari
25. 1st recipient of Dhyanchand Lifetime Achievement Award ---Aparna Ghosh
26. 1st cricket player to be awarded the Arjuna Award--- Salim Durrani
27. 1st Indian to win Olympic medals at two consecutive Olympic Games ---Sushil Kumar