Sports: Current Affairs 2016

Devendra Jhajharia

  • On 8th March 2016, he won a gold medal at the 2016 IPC Athletics Asia-Oceania Championship in Dubai. In the run up to the Rio Games he is being supported by the GoSports Foundationthrough the Para Champions Programme.

CP Singh

  • Head of Rajasthan Wrestling federation

Sunder Singh Gujjar

  • Para-athlete Sunder Singh Gujjar has braved odds with a smile. Be it footing the bill for the Fazza IPC Para-Athletics Championship in Dubai won gold medal

apurvi chandela:-

  • Indian shooter(from jaipur rajasthan) who competes in the 10 metre air rifle event.
  • Won Broze medal in Hague 2016
  • won silver medal in ISSF Rifle and Pistol worldcup in Munich.
  • Qualified for Rio Olympics 2016
  • won silver in international shooting chapionship in germany in 2015
  • won gold in 58th national shooting championship

Rajat Chauhan 

  • earned India its first-ever individual medal(silver medal) in the World Archery Championships Copenhagen.
  • won gold in senior and junior level in national ranking Archery Championships
  • won gold in asian games incheon south korea 2014
  • he is ranked 7th in word ranking.
  • deepka kumari is ranked 5th in women word ranking.

Abhijeet Gupta

  • won joint first rank with suryashekhar ganguli and AR Salem of UAE in Asian continental chess championship
  • Grandmaster and Commonwealth Champion Abhijeet Gupta defeated Lin Chen of China the seventh round of Asian continental chess championship in Al Ain.
  • has won Commonwealth Chess Championship.in june 2015( had also won it in 2013)
  • it was 4time in a row that CCT was won by an Indian

Rambagh Golf Club

  • will organize PGTI championship from 29 sep to 2nd oct

Sawai Mansingh Stadium(SMS)

  •  in Jaipur
  • Will have rajasthan first synthetic basketball complex. and
  • will also have squash complex(1st of the state)

Karan Singh :-

  • belongs to alwar
  • won 1gold and 1 silver medal in Commonwealth Archery Championship.

national athletic meet july 2015 chennai

  • rajasthan won 4 medals( 1 gold and 3 bronze)
  • gold:- Neeraj kumar in male hammer throw
  • bronze:- Khetaram- male 10,000 m race

Shakti singh- shortput

Ajay – javelin throw

 

Sapna

  • sub inspector in rajasthan police
  • lead Indian team in international police games, Virginia USA
  • won gold medal in 5km walking
  • qualified for world athletics championship

Bhakti Sharma

  • is an Indian Open water swimmer.
  • Sharma is the first Asian woman and the youngest in the world to set a record in open swimming in Antarctic waters
  • swimmed 1.4 miles in 52 minutes
  • has swimmed in all 5 oceans

35th National Games Kerala

  • Rajasthan won 18 medals(5 gold+6 silver+7 bronze) and secured 20th rank
  • gold:-shagun chaudhary(shooting), rajat chahuan(Archery),sapna(walking) and mukesh chaudhary

National men volleyball championsip:-  Rajasthan beat kerala and won bronze medal after 34 years

shagun chaudhary(shooting)

won female trap team game gold medal in 4th Asian shotgun championship in UAE with seema tomar and shriyashi

Manavaditya Rathore,

  • son of Olympic silver medallist Rajyavardhan Rathore,
  • won the gold medal in junior men’s trap at the 4th Asian Shotgun Championships.in UAE

Manmohan jaiswal:- secretory of judo federation

national athletic championship new delhi- nov 2014

  • rajasthan won 6 medals
  • sapna(walking 20 km),Neeraj kumar (in male hammer throw) praveen kumari(female discus throw silver)

asian games incheon south korea (2014) (india won 11 and 3 were from rajasthan)

  • rajath chauhan-archery gold
  • navneet gautam- kabbadi gold
  • sumitra sharma- kabbadi gold
  • manju bala- silver atheletics
  • shagun chaudhary – shooting bronze
  • bajrang lal takhar- rowing bronze

Devendra Jhajharia

  • is an Indian Paralympic javelin thrower competing in F46 events.
  • won silver medal in Para Asian in incheon south korea (2014)
  • was awarded Arjuna award in 2005

surbhi mishra:- coach of national squash team for world junior squash championship

 

mehant kailash sharma:– secratory swimming federation

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