First In Sport Sport • Indian to swim across the English Channel: Mihir Sen, 1958. • Woman to swim across the English Channel: Arati Saha, 1959 • Formula One racer: Narain Karthikeyan • Formula One team: Force India F1 • A1 GP race victory: Narain Karthikeyan, Zhuhai, China, 2007 • Person to equal world record in Archery: Limba Ram, 1992 • Person to walk across the Mongolian Gobi Desert: Sucheta Kadethankar who achieved the feat in 51 days, 11 hours and 40 minutes in 2011. • Ashish Kumar is the first Indian to win a medal in both Asian games(November 12 to 27 November 2010, Guangzhou(China)) and Commonwealth games(Delhi, India, from 3 to 14 October 2010). He won Bronze medal in both games. • Shiva Keshavan is the first Indian to win 2 Gold Medals for India in Winter sports at the Asia Cup in Japan in 2011 and 2012. The Asian Champion is also a 4 time Olympian and has set the new Asian speed record on ice at 134.3 kmph and track record a 49.590 seconds. • Sushil Kumar (wrestler) is the first Indian to win back to back Olympic medals (Bronze and Silver in the 2008 and 2012 Summer Olympics respectively) Visit facebook/insideindia
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