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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 |