First in Sports

Sports  Question	Answer
The first Indian (among women) to swim across the English Channel	Miss Arati Saha (Now Mrs. Arati Gupta)
The first Indian (among men) to swim across the English Channel	Mihir Sen
The first person to ski down Mount Everest	Yuichiro Miura of Japan
The first Indian to win World Billiards Trophy	Wilson Jones
The first black player to win the Wimbledon men’s singles title	Arthur Ashe (U.S. 1975)
First Indian woman to climb Mount Everest	Bachendri Pal
First Indian Grand Master (in Chess)	Viswanathan Anand
The first man to win 4 Olympic Gold Medals	Alvin Kranzein (U.S.A.) in 1900
The first lawn tennis player who won the Wimbledon Championship for five years consecutively	Bjorn Borg
First batsman to score three Test century in three successive Tests on debut	Mohammad Azharuddin
The first batsman in the world to score centuries against all the other 8 test playing nations	Steve Waugh (Australia)
The first Indian to be Chess World Champion	Viswanathan Anand
The youngest Cricketer to score a century	Mohammad Asharful of Bangladesh
The first Indian women to register a win in Wimbledon Lawn Tennis	Sania Mirza (July 2003)
The first Indian sports woman to win a medal in World Athletics	Anju B George (August 2003, Paris)
World’s first batsman to score 400 runs in an innings in a test match	Brian Lara (April 2004)
India’s first batsman to score double century in five test matches	Rahul Dravid (April 2004)
The first woman cricketer to score the highest yet ever runs	Kiran (Pakistan, March)
First Indian woman to qualify for the 2006 Winter Olympics	Neha Ahuja
The fastest man on the earth	Usain Bolt (August 16, 2008, 100 meters clocking 9-69 seconds, an all time world record)
The first person from Africa to be appointed as the new President of the ICC (International Cricket Council)	Percy Sonn appointed on July 7, 2006
The first Indian woman player to win a four star badminton tournament	Saina Nehwal, May 2006
The first Indian sports woman to win Gold Medal in World Cup Archery	Dola Benerjee (Won the honor in World Cup Archery final in Dubai (UAE) on November 24, 2007)
The highest test cricket wicket taker in the cricket world	Muttiah Muralitharan of Sri Lanka, acquired on December 3, 2007
The first sportsman to clinch 8 Gold Medals in individual events at an Olympic	Michael Phelps at the 29th Olympiad in Beijing in August 2008.