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Sports Current Affairs – JANUARY 2019

Sports/Tournament/Title
Winner
Key Notes
10th R R Lakshya Cup 2018
Divyansh Singh Panwar from Rajasthan in senior and Nupur Patil in Junior Category
Dronacharya Awardee and former National Coach Prof.
Sunny Thomas was the chief guest of the event.
80th National Table tennis
Championship in Cuttack, Odisha
Achanta Sharath Kamal won
the Men’s Title and Archana Kamath won the Women’s Title

Kids’ Golf World Championship in Malaysia
Kartik Singh
He won in the under-8 category Junior world title, to
become the youngest Indian to win the title
17th Delhi International Open Chess tournament in Delhi
Gukesh
He achieved this feat by beating D K Sharma.He
became India’s 59th Grand Master.
South Wales Men’s Amateur Golf Championship held
in Australia
Kartik Sharma
He defeated
Australia’s Nathan Barberie
7th Tata Steel Chess title in Wijk aan Zee, The Netherlands
Magnus Carlsen
Viswanathan Anand settled for joint third place
Badminton
Premier Badminton League (PBL) 2019
Bengaluru Raptors beat Mumbai Rockets
Event was held at the Kanteerava Indoor Stadium in Bengaluru
Indonesia Masters 2019 held at the Istora Senayan in Jakarta, Indonesia.

Title
Winner
Runner


Women’s singles title
Saina Nehwal of India
Carolina Marin of Spain


Men’s singles title
Danish player Anders Antonsen
Kento Momota of Japan


Men’s double
Indonesian pair Marcus
Fernaldi Gideon and Kevin Sanjaya Sukamuljo
Indonesian duo Muhammad Ahsan and Hendra Setiawan


Women’s Double
Ayaka Takahashi (L) and Misaki Matsutomo of Japan
Kim So Yeong and Kong Hee Yong of South Korea


Mixed doubles
Zheng Siwei and Huang Yaqiong of China
Indonesia’s favourite team
Tontowi Ahmad and Liliyana Natsir

Cricket
Third ODI at Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG) to win the ODI series by 2-1
India defeated Australia
Became the first Visiting team which lead by Virat Kohli to win bilateral series across the three formats against Australia in its own soil
Virat Kohli equaled Former Indian Captain Sourav
Ganguly’s record with 11th away test win as a captain after defeating
Australia
The fastest batsman to score 19000 international runs
Virat Kohli
Virat Kohli beats Cricketing legend Sachin Tendulkar’s record
Most successful pace trio with 131 wickets in 2018
Indian pace trio of Ishant Sharma, Mohammed Shami and Jasprit Bumrah

The highest international
wicket-taker of 2018 with 78 wickets
Indian fast bowler Jasprit Bumrah

1st ever player to take 20 catches in a Test series
Indian wicket-keeper Rishabh Pant
Rishabh surpassing former cricketers Naren
Tamhane and Syed Kirmani who had recorded
19 catches
The first Indian wicketkeeper
batsman to score a century in Test
Rishabh Pant

Faced highest deliveries in a test series
Indian Batsman, Cheteshwar Pujara
Pujara has faced 1258 balls in
the ongoing test series so far against Australia
Record of maximum sixes in an ODI innings
Sri Lanka’s Thisara Perera
Perera smashed 13 sixes
against New Zealand in the 2nd ODI
1st Indian to slam 5 ODI hundreds in Australia
Rohit Sharma

The highest wicket-taker in a Ranji Trophy
Bihar left- arm spinner Ashutosh Aman

World record to become the wicket-keeper captain with the
most number of catches in a match
Pakistan skipper Sarfaraz Ahmed

The 1st Asian to slam 2 first-
class double tons after turning 40
Indian Cricketer Wasim Jaffer

Created history by successfully chasing a target of 372 runs in the second quarter final against Uttar Pradesh in the
ongoing Ranji Trophy 2018-19
Saurashtra

The fastest Indian bowler to claim 100 ODI wickets.
Mohammed Shami
He succeeded the indian
record holded by Irfan Pathan to
Place in the list 10000 runs club like Sachin Tendulkar, Sourav
Ganguly, Rahul Dravid and Virat Kohli
MS Dhoni

Cricketer became the only
batsman to score 1,000 runs in two separate seasons
Wasim Jaffer

International Cricket Council
(ICC) announced USA Cricket as its 105th member.


The youngest man to hit an International fifty,he scored 55 for Nepal in the 2nd ODI
against UAE
Nepal’s Rohit Paudel

First West Indian cricketer since Garfield Sobers to be named as
the world’s leading all-rounder in ICC Ranking.
Jason Holder

South African all Rounder Albie Morkel retired from all forms of cricket.
Former South African all-rounder Johan Botha announced his immediate retirement from all forms of cricket
England off-spinner Danielle Hazelle retired from international cricket
Former New Zealand pacer Ewen Chatfield retired from all forms of cricket
Football
I-League’s youngest ever goal- scorer
Indian Footballer Rohit Danu

Nagaland Chief Minister Neiphiu Rio inaugurated first Astro Turf Football Pitch of the State at Indira Gandhi Stadium in Kohima, Nagaland
Indian Football team’s Head Coach, Stephen Constantine resigned from his post
Arsenal goalkeeper PetrCech announced his retirement
Tennis
Hopman Cup
Switzerland’s Roger Federer and Belinda Bencic
It was held in Perth, Western Australia
24th Edition of ATP World Tour Tennis tournament, Maharashtra Open – 2019 also known as Tata Open
Maharashtra was held in Pune, Maharashtra

Title
Winner
Runner


Men’s singles title
Kevin Anderson of South Africa
Ivo Karlovic


Men’s double
Indian tennis pair of Rohan Bopanna and Divij Sharan
United Kingdom’s Luke Bambridge and Jonny O’Mara

Brisbane International 2019

Title
Winner
Runner


Women’s singles title
K. Pliskova (Czech Republic)
L. Tsurenko (Ukrain)


Men’s singles title
K. Nishikori (Japan)
D. Medvedev (Russia)


Men’s double
M. Daniell (New Zealand)
W. Koolhof (Netherland)
R. Ram (USA)
J. Salisbury (Britain)


Women’s Double
N. Melichar (USA)
K. Peschke (Czech Republic)
H. Chan (Taiwan)
L. Chan (Taiwan)


Australian Open 2019

Title
Winner
Runner


Women’s singles title
Japan’s Naomi Osaka
Czech Republic’s Petra Kvitova


Men’s singles title
Spain’s Rafael Nadal
Serbia’s Novak Djokovik


Men’s double
France’s Pierre-Hugues Herbert and Nicolas Mahut
Finland’s Henri Kontinen and Australia’s John Peers


Women’s Double
Timea Babos of Hungary and Kristina Mladenovic of France
Samantha Stosur of Australia and Shuai Zhang of China


Mixed doubles
Barbora Krejcikova of Czech
Republic and Rajeev Ram of United States
Australia’s Astra Sharma and Compatriot John Patrick Smith

International Tennis
Federation’s (ITF) 25,000-dollar Women’s tournament
in Singapore
India’s Ankita Raina defeating top seed and world number 122 Arantxa Rus of the Netherlands

British tennis player and former World No. 1, Andy Murray, because of his right hip injury, announced to retire from the game after this year’s Wimbledon
Croatian tennis player, Ivo Karlovic became the oldest man to win a match at the Australian Ope
Australian cities Sydney and Brisbane have been announced as the first two host locations for the newest team event in men’s tennis for the multi-million dollar ATP Cup from 2020.
Other Sports News
Malaysia removed from the right to host world Para swimming championship 2019
‘Operation Olympics’managed by Kerala’s Sports Department and State Sports Council was commenced to train 123 athletes in 11 disciplines for 2020 Tokyo Olympics
Khelo India Youth Games concluded at the Shiv Chhatrapati Sports Complex, Balewadi in Pune with the host Maharashtra leading the medals table by winning a mammoth 85 gold, 62 silver and 81 bronze for a total of 228 medals in the Games. Haryana stood at second place
Asian Cup gold medallist Shakil Ahmed set a world record in indoor rowing by completing 1,00,000 (one lakh) metres in 10hours, in above-40 years category, at Salt Lake Stadium in Kolkata.
Hockey India announced that striker Rani Rampal will lead the 18-member Indian women’s team for the season opener tournament in Spain
Hockey India Performance and Development Committee held and decided to remove Harendra Singh as the coach of India’s senior men’s team
Shri Jaswantsinh Sumanbhai Bhabhor Minister of State for Tribal Affairs launched the 1st National Level
Sports Meet for the students of Eklavya Model Residential Schools (EMRS) at G.M.C Balayogi Stadium, Gachibowli, Hyderabad
Indian Weightlifting Federation President Birendra Prasad Baishya is named as Chef de Mission for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics
Confederation of African Football’s (CAF) Executive Committee announced that Egypt will host African
Cup for the fifth time in 2019

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