Tribal girl from Andaman and Nicobar, Deborah won four Gold Medals in the Track Asia Cup Cycling Championship 2014. - Magnus Carlsen of Norway won FIDE World Chess Championship 2014 played at Sochi, Russia. He defeated Viswanathan Anand of India - Switzerland won its first Davis Cup Tennis title after defeating France by securing three-one lead at Lille Stade Pierre Mauroy. - Indian Women pugilists Sarjubala Devi and Saweety won Silver medals in the 8th World Womens Boxing Championships, in Jeju, South Korea. - Lewis Hamilton won the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix at Yas Marina circuit and the Formula 1 racing championship title of 2014. - India won the 2014 SAFF Womens Championship at the Jinnah Stadium in Islamabad after defeating Nepal 6-0. - Terry Walsh resigned as Chief Coach of Indian Hockey team - India won 5-match ODI series against Sri Lanka 5-0 after winning the final played at JSCA Stadium Complex in Ranchi. - Novak Djokovic won this years ATP World Tour finals after Roger Federer withdrew from the title clash due to a back injury. - Saina Nehwal and Kidambi Srikanth won women’s and men’s singles title of the China Open Super Series Premier of Badminton. - Supreme Court disclosed names N Srinivasan and Gurunath Meiyappan involved in IPL spot fixing probe done by Mudgal Committee. - ICC announced its ambassadors for ICC Cricket World Cup (CWC) 2015. The ambassadors for ICC CWC 2015 includes • India’s - Virat Kohli • Australia fast-bowler - Mitchell Johnson • New Zealand captain - Brendon McCullum • Sri Lanka’s former captain - Kumar Sangakkara • Australia’s - Shane Watson - LG ICC awards 2014. Below are the award winners: 1. Australias Mitchell Johnson was named the ICC Cricketer of the Year. 2. Mitchell Johnson was also named the ICC Test Cricketer of the Year. 3. South Africas AB de Villiers was named the ODI Cricketer of the Year. 4. Indias Bhuvneshwar Kumar won the LG Peoples Choice award. 5. Englands Sarah Taylor was named the Womens ODI Cricketer of the Year. 6. Australia T20 skipper, Aaron Finchs knock of 156 against England was named the T20I Performance of the Year. 7.Englands Gary Ballance was named the Emerging Player of the Year. 8.Preston Mommsen of Scotland was named the ICC Associate and Affiliate Cricketer of the Year. 9.Richard Kettleborough won the David Shepherd award for the Umpire of the year. 10.Australias Meg Lanning was named the T20I Womens Cricketer of the Year. 11. Katherine Brunt, the England women cricketer, won the ICC Spirit of Cricket award. - Indian Men’s Hockey team won four match series against Australia played at Perth Hockey Stadium, 3-1. - Angelo Mathews was named as captain of the ICC Test Team of the Year 2014 by a panel chaired by Anil Kumble. - Mahendra Singh Dhoni was named as the captain of ICC OCI Team of the Year 2014. - The International Olympic Committee (IOC) welcomed the United Nations resolution on Sports as a means to promote education, health, development and peace. - Central Zone won the 2014-15 Duleep Trophy title of cricket by defeating South Zone in the finals played at Feroz Shah Kotla Ground, Delhi with 9 runs. - Sachin Tendulkar and Steve Waugh entered Bradman Hall of Fame at a gala dinner held at the historic Sydney Cricket Ground. - Indian golfer Anirban Lahiri won Venetian Macau Open. This was his second title of the year fifth career win on the Asian Tour. - Sania Mirza and Cara Black won the doubles title at the BNP Paribas WTA Finals Singapore after defeating defending champions Peng Shuai and Hsieh Su-Wei, 6-1, 6-0 - AIBA provisionally suspended Indian boxer Laishram Sarita Devi for protesting against a controversial verdict, at 2014 Incheon Asian Games. - Pankaj Advani won the World Billiards Point Format Championship by defeating Singapore’s Peter Gilchrist, 6-2 at Leeds, United Kingdom. - Terry Walsh, the chief coach of Indian men’s hockey team resigned from his post because of a pay dispute with the Sports Authority of India (SAI). - India won the 5 match ODI series of Cricket against West Indies, 2-1, after the Caribbean team pulled out from the remainder of India tour. - India retained its Sultan of Johor Cup Under-21 Hockey title by defeating Great Britain, 2-1. - Union Minister of Social Justice and Empowerment announced that a multi-sport Paralympic Games will be held in India in February 2015. - Indian shuttler, Ajay Jayaram won Dutch Open Grand Prix badminton tournament by defeating Indonesia’s Ihsan Maulana Mustofa. - British Formula One driver Lewis Hamilton won inaugural Russian Grand Prix - RCA removed former IPL Commissioner Lalit Modi as its President after a no—confidence resolution against Lalit Modi was passed in Jaipur. - India will host first leg of Asia Cup Archery Tournament in Delhi in January 2015. - Roger Federer won his maiden ATP Shanghai Masters trophy by defeating Gilles Simon, 7-6, 7-6. - Government Girls Senior Secondary (GGSS) School of Hisar, Haryana won the Under-17 title of the 55th Subroto Cup football tournament - International Cricket Council (ICC) banned the Zimbabwe bowler Prosper Utseya and Bangladeshi bowler Sohag Gazi from bowling in international cricket. - 17th Asian Games Incheon 2014 was held in Incheon, South Korea Asian Games Host city Incheon, South Korea Motto Diversity Shines Here Events 439 in 36 sports Opening ceremony September 19 Closing ceremony October 4 Main venueIncheon Asiad Main Stadium India at Asian Games Country G S B Total 1. China 151 109 83 343 2. South Korea 79 71 84 234 3. Japan 47 76 76 199 4. Kazakhstan 28 23 33 84 5. Iran 21 18 18 57 6. Thailand 12 7 28 47 7. North Korea 11 11 14 36 8. India 11 10 36 57 9. Chinese Taipei 10 18 23 51 10. Qatar 10 0 4 14 Gold (11) 1. Jitu Rai: Mens 50 metre pistol shooting 2. Sandeep Kumar, Rajat Chauhan, Abhishek Verma: Mens compound team archery 3. Saurav Ghosal, Harinder Pal Singh Sandhu, Mahesh Mangaonkar, Kumar Kush: Mens team squash 4. Yogeshwar Dutt: Mens freestyle 65 kg wrestling 5. Seema Punia: Womens discus throw athletics 6. Sania Mirza, Saketh Myneni: Mixed doubles tennis 7. M.C. Mary Kom: Womens 48-51 kg boxing 8. Indian team: Mens hockey 9. Priyanka Panwar, Tintu Luka, Mandeep Kaur, M.Poovamma:Womens 4X400m relay athletics Indian team: 10. Womens kabaddi 11. Indian team: Mens kabaddi Silver (10) 1. Saurav Ghosal: Mens singles squash 2. Pemba Tamang, Gurpreet Singh, Vijay Kumar: Mens 25m centre fire pistol team shooting 3. Dipika Pallikal, Joshna Chinappa, Anaka Alankamony: Womens team squash 4. Abhishek Verma: Mens individual compound archery 5. Khushbir Kaur: Womens 20 km race walk athletics 6. Saketh Myneni, Sanam Singh: Mens doubles tennis 7. Bajrang Kumar: Mens freestyle 61 kg wrestling 8. Vikas Gowda: Mens discus throw athletics 9. Tintu Luka: Womens 800m athletics 10. Manju Bala: Womens hammer throw athletics Bronze (36) 1. Shweta Chaudhary: Womens 10 metre pistol shooting 2. Jitu Rai, Samaresh Jung, Prakash Nanjappa: Mens 10 metre air pistol team shooting 3. Saina Nehwal, PV Sindhu, P.C. Thulasi, Pradnya Gadre, N. Siki Reddy, Ashwini Ponnappa, Tanvi Lad: Womens team badminton 4. Rahi Sarnobat, Anisa Sayyed, Heena Sidhu: Womens 25 metre pistol team shooting 5. Dipika Pallikal: Womens singles squash 6. Abhinav Bindra, Ravi Kumar, Sanjeev Rajput: Mens 10 metre air rifle team shooting 7. Abhinav Bindra: Mens 10 metre air rifle shooting 8. Yumnam Sanathoi Devi: Womens sanda -52 kg 9. wushu Narendra Grewal: Mens sanda -60 kg 10. wushu Dushyant Chauhan: Mens lightweight single sculls rowing 11. Sawarn Singh: Mens single sculls rowing 12. Kapil Sharma, Ranjit Singh, Bajrang Lal Thakhar, Robin Ulahannan, Sawan Kumar Kalkal, Mohammad Azad, Maninder Singh, Davinder Singh, Mohammed Ahmed: mens eight rowing 13. Shagun Chowdhary, Shreyasi Singh, Varsha Varman: Womens double trap team shooting 14. Sandeep Sejwal: Mens 50m breaststroke swimming 15. Purvasha Sudhir, Surekha Vennam, Trisha Deb: Womens compound team archery 16. Chain Singh: Mens 50m rifle 3 positions shooting 17. Trisha Deb: Womens individual compound archery 18. Vinesh Phogat: Womens freestyle 48 kg wrestling 19. Geetika Jakhar: Womens freestyle 63 kg wrestling 20. Lalita Babar: Womens 3,000m steeplechase athletics 21. Yuki Bhambri: Mens singles tennis 22. Yuki Bhambri, Divij Sharan: Mens doubles tennis 23. Sania Mirza, Prarthana Thombare: Womens double tennis 24. M. Poovamma: Womens 400m athletics 25. Arokia Rajiv: Mens 400m athletics 26. O.P. Jaisha: Womens 1,500m athletics 27. Narsingh Pancham Yadav: Mens freestyle 74 kg wrestling 28. Naveen Kumar: Mens 3,000m steeplechase athletics 28. L. Sarita Devi: Womens 57-60 kg boxing 29. Pooja Rani: 75 kg boxing 30. Varsha Gautam, Aishwarya Nedunchezhiyan: Womens 29er two person dinghy sailing 31. India: Womens hockey 32. Annu Rani: Womens javelin throw 33. athletics Satish Kumar: 34. Mens +91 kg boxing 35. Vikas Krishan: Mens 75 kg boxing 36. Inderjeet Singh: Mens shot put athletics Kosuke Hagino of Japan (Swimmer) is announced as the most valuable player - Jaipur Pink panthers is the winner of Pro kabaddi league by beating U Mumba - CSK won CLT20 2014 title of Cricket by defeating KKR by 8 wickets in the final match played at the M Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bengaluru. Champions League T20 Man of the Series India Suresh Raina (Chennai Super Kings) Most runs India Suresh Raina (234) (Chennai Super Kings) Most wickets Trinidad and Tobago Sunil Narine (12) (Kolkata Knight Riders) - Europe won the 40th Ryder Cup in Gleneagles, Scotland - Leander Paes and Marcin Matkowski defeated Jamie Murray and John Peers 3-6, 7-6(5), 10-5 to win the ATP Malaysian Open men’s doubles title. - BCCI extended Ravi Shastri’s tenure as Director of Indian Cricket team till end of 2015 ICC Cricket World Cup to be played in Australia and New Zealand. - International Cricket Council announced that ICC World Cricket League Division 3 will be held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. - Marvan Atapattu appointed as the head coach of Sri Lankan cricket team. He is the first Sri Lankan national to coach the team in 15 years. - Union Ministry of Sport inaugurated National Academy for Athletics and National Golf Academy at Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala. - US OPEN 2014 Edition-134th 1. Mens Singles Title- Marin Cilic(Croatia) beat Kei Nishikori(Japan) 2. Womens Singles Title- Serena Williams(United states) beat Caroline Wozniacki (Denmark) 3. Mens Double Title- Bob Bryan /Mike Bryan(United States) beat Marcel Granollers and Marc Lopez(Spain) 4. Womens Double Title- Ekaterina Makarova/Elena Vesnina (Russia) beat Martina Hingis/Flavia Pennetta (Switzerland/Italy) 5. Mixed Doubles-indias Sania Mirza and Brazils Bruno Soares beats USA’s Abigail Spears and Santiago Gonzalez of Mexico - Wimbledon 2014: 1. Men’s Title: Novak Djokovic defeated Roger Federer to win his second Mens Wimbledon title and seventh career Grand Slam. 2. Women’s Title: Petro Kvitova defeated Eugenie Bouchard to win Wimbledon title -French Open 2014: 1. Men’s Title: Rafael Nadal clinches record ninth French Open title. He defeated Novak Djokovic in the final. Note: Rafal Nadal now won 14 Grand Slam singles titles till now. 2. Women’s Title: Maria Sharapova defeat Simona Halep to win French Open Title second time. Note: Maria Sharapova won 5th Grand Slam title. -Australian Open 2014: 1. Men’s Single: Switzerlands Stanislas Wawrinka claimed his first Grand Slam title by defeating Rafael Nadal 2. Women’s Single: Li Na (China) defeat Dominika Cibulkova. Li Na becomes first Chinese woman to clinch title. 3. Women’s Doubles: Errani and Roberta Vinci beat Russias Ekaterina Makarova and Elena Vesnina -Hockey World Cup 2014: 1. Men’s Title: Australia defeated Netherland in the final. Note: Australia won the title for the second time, 2. Women’s Title: Netherland defeated Australia in the final. Note: Netherland won the title for the seventh time, Note: Indian mens hockey team rank 9th in latest word hockey rankings. - FIFA World Cup Hosted By- Brazil Champion- Germany (4th title) Runners-up- Argentina Top scorer(s)- James Rodríguez(6 goals), Colombia Best player- Lionel Messi, Argentina Best young player- Paul Pogba, France Best goalkeeper- Manuel Neuer, Germany The following awards were given at the conclusion of the tournament • Golden Ball - Lionel Messi of Argentina • Golden Boot - James Rodriguez of Colombia • Golden Glove - Manuel Neuer of Germany • Best Young Player - Paul Pogba of France • FIFA Fair Play Trophy - Colombia - Commonwealth Games 2014 Host city- Glasgow, Scotland Motto- “People, Place, Passion” Officially opened by- Elizabeth II Queens Baton Final Runner- Sir Chris Hoy Flag Bearer in opening ceremony- Vijay Kumar Flag bearer in closing ceremony- Seema Punia Main venue- Celtic Park (opening ceremony) and Hampden Park (closing ceremony) -Winner of Gold (INDIA): Sanjita Khumukchan: womens 48 kg weightlifting Sukhen Dey: mens 56 kg weightlifting Abhinav Bindra: mens 10 metre air rifle shooting Apurvi Chandela: womens 10 metre air rifle shooting Rahi Sarnobat: womens 25 metre pistol shooting Satish Sivalingam: mens 77 kg weightlifting Jitu Rai: mens 50 metre pistol shooting Amit Kumar: mens freestyle 57 kg wrestling Vinesh Phogat: womens freestyle 48 kg wrestling Sushil Kumar: mens freestyle 74 kg wrestling Babita Kumari: womens freestyle 55 kg wrestling Yogeshwar Dutt: mens freestyle 65 kg wrestling Vikas Gowda: mens discus throw athletics Dipika Pallikal and Joshana Chinappa: womens doubles squash Parupalli Kashyap: mens singles badminton
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