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Deepika kumari
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#.
2016 Commonwealth Judo Championships held in South Africa. India will host
Commonwealth Judo Championships in Jaipur (Rajasthan) in 2018.
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#. Women's Tennis Association
Rankings - Serena Williams (USA) maintained the top Position.
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#. Tobago batsman Iraq Thomas
created a record by scoring 21-ball century in Tobago Cricket Associations
T20 tournament at Louis D'or. He broke previous record made by Chris Gayle
when he made century in 30 balls in IPL Match against Pune Warriors.
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#. Australia won 25th Sultan
Azlan Shah Hockey Tournament 2016 by defeating India in Ipoh (Australia).
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#. Australia's Fast Bowler
Clint McKay announced retirement from international cricket.
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#. BCCI will host its
first-ever day and night cricket Test with pink ball during New Zealand tour
to India in 2016.
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#. Badminton Player Nandu
Natekar became first non-Cricketer to be inducted into Legends Club founded
by late Cricket Club of India (CCI) president Raj Singh Dungarpur.
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#. Barcelona open Tennis 2016
Men's Singles -
Rafael Nadal of Spain,
Men's Doubles -
Bob Bryan and Mike Bryan of USA.
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#. Beijing Olympics gold
medalist and ace shooter Abhinav Bindra Joined Salman Khan as India's
Goodwill Ambassador for Rio Olympics 2016
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#. British boxer Anthony
Joshua won 2016 International Boxing Federation (IBF) heavy weight title
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#. Cricketer Virat Kohli is
named as Brand Ambassador of Premier Futsal, a newer and shorter five-a-side
variant of soccer (football). World's first multinational Futsal league will
be held in 8 Indian cities from July 15 to 24, 2016.
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#. Cyprian Kotut from Kenya
won 40th Paris marathon in Men's Category. Women's title was won by Visiline
Jepkesho (Kenya)
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#. Stuttgart Grand Prix
Women's Tennis 2016
Doubles -
Caroline Garcia and Kristina Mladenovic (France), Singles - Angelique Kerber
(Germany)
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#. Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC)
announced appointment of Sanath Jayasuriya as chief selector of Sri Lankan
Cricket team
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#. Sports Ministry will
provide 1 lakh rupees monthly allowance to sports persons under Target Olympic
Podium (TOP) scheme for their preparation for Olympics and Paralympics Games
at Rio de Janeiro (Brazil)
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#. Spain's Rafael Nadal won
2016 Monte Carlo Rolex Masters title of Tennis, by defeating Gael Monfils of
France
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#. South Korea announced that
its Olympic athletes will wear uniforms that have been infused with insect
repellent to keep mosquitoes carrying Zika virus.
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#. Riyad Mahrez (Algeria)
became first African footballer to win Professional Footballers Associations
(PFA) Player of the Year award for 2015 - 16. Tottenham Hotspur midfielder
Dele Alli was named Young Player of the Year.
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#. Noted Sri Lankan spinner
Rangana Herath retired from T20 and One Day International Cricket (ODI)
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#. Nico Rosberg (Germany) won
2016 Formula One Baharain Grand Prix and Chinese Grand Prix.
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#. New emblem of 2020
Olympics (Tokyo) and Paralympic Games has been unveiled. Logo features a
circular Japanese traditional checkered pattern
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#. Miami Open Tennis 2016
winners
Men's Singles -
Novak Djokovic (Serbia),
Womens Singles - Victoria
Azarenka (Belarus)
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#. Malaysian Open Badminton
2016 winners
Men's Singles -
Lee Chong Wei (Malaysia),
Women's singles -
Ratchanok Intanon (Thailand).
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#. Danny Willett from England
won 2016 US Masters Golf tournament
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#. England Cricketer James
Taylor announced his retirement at age of 26 due to ill health
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#. Football club Mohun
Bagan's striker Jeje Lalpekhlua named as Football Players Association of
India (FPAI) Player of The Year.
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#. Government merged Rajiv
Gandhi Khel Abhiyan, Urban Sports Infrastructure Scheme (USIS) and National
Sports Talent Search Scheme (NSTSS) with Khelo India Programme for
development of sports
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#. ICC World T20 Cricket 2016
Men's and Women's tournament was won by West Indies, they defeated England in
men's final and Australia in women's final
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#. ICC suspended Hong Kong 's
all rounder Irfan Ahmed for 2.5 years as he admitted to breach the ICC's
Anti-Corruption Code.
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#. India won 2016 Asian
Nations Cup Chess by defeating Vietnam in Abu Dhabi.
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#. India's Durga Thakur has
been promoted to international outdoor umpire by International Hockey
Federation (FIH).
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#. India's men's and women's
teams have won both categorys championship titles at third Asian Kho-Kho
championship in Indore, Beating Bangladesh in both cases
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#. Indian boxer Mary Kom
named among eight ambassadors for the upcoming World Championship of AIBA
scheduled in May 2016 in Astana (Kazakhstan)
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#. Indian boxer Shiva Thapa
won silver at Asian/Oceania Qualifying Tournament in China.
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#. Indian gymnast Dipa
Karmakar created history by becoming first Indian woman gymnast to qualify
for 2016 Rio Olympics Games to be held in August 2016
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#. Indian rower Dattu Baban
Bhokanal qualified for 2016 Rio Olympics to be held in August 2016 in Brazil.
He qualified Rio Olympics after winning a silver medal in single sculls event
in South Korea
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#. Indias Deepika Kumari
equalled world record set by South Korea's Ki Boe Bae in Womens Recurve event
at qualifying stage of Archery World Cup held in Shanghai (China) by scoring
686 out of 720 to finish 1st in qualifiers
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#. India's Mairaj Ahmed Khan
won silver in men's skeet event at ISSF World Cup held in Rio de Janeiro,
Brazil
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#. As per International
Cricket Council (ICC) Latest Team Rankings, Top teams are
Test Cricket -
Australia,
ODI - Australia ,
T20I - NewzeaLand
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#. International Cricket
Council (ICC) renewed its deal with Emirates Airline for seven years and ICC
suspended Cricket Association of Nepal due to lack of leadership and
misgovernance
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#. Jonathan Bairstow (England),
Ben Stokes
(England),
Brendon McCullum
(New Zealand),
Kane Williamson
(New Zealand) and
Steven Smith
(Australia)
have been named
as the Wisden Almanacks Five Cricketers of 2015 for outstanding performance
in a year.
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#. Kane Williamson appointed
29th test cricket captain of New Zealand cricket
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