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1. P. V. Sindhu
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P. V. Sindhu is an Indian professional badminton player; she is currently world No. 2 in the Badminton Women’s Final World Ranking. At the year of 2016 Summer Olympics, Sindhu becomes the first woman to win the Olympic silver medal.
She is also one of the two Indian badminton players ever to win an Olympic medal other on the list is Saina Nehwal.
Sindhu was also a silver medalist at the year of 2017 Badminton Women’s Final World Championships. In the year 2017, she became the first Indian ever to win the Korea Open Super Series.
Sindhu came to the international game when broke into the top 20 of the Badminton Women’s Final World Ranking in the year September 2012 at the age of 17.
In the year 2013, she became the first ever Indian women’s singles player to win a silver medal at the Badminton World Championships. In the year March 2015, she is the recipient of India’s fourth highest civilian honor and also Padma Shri.
2. Saina Nehwal
Saina Nehwal is a badminton singles player. She is the former world No. 1 who has won over twenty-one international titles like ten superseries titles. She reached to the world No. 2 ranking in the year 2009;
it was only in the year 2015 that she was able to position the world No. 1 ranking; she became the only female player from India and overall the second Indian player after the legendary player Prakash Padukone, who achieve this feat.
She has represented India three times in the Olympics, winning a bronze medal on her second appearance.
Nehwal has success on several milestones in badminton for India. She is the only Indian to have won at least a medal in every Badminton Women’s Final, which is a major individual event that is the Olympics, the Badminton World Final World Championships, and the Badminton World Final World Junior Championships.
She is the first-ever badminton player to have won an Olympic medal, along with being the only Indian to have won the Badminton World Final World Junior Championships.
In the year 2006, she became the first Indian female and the youngest Asian to win a 4-star tournament. Saina is appreciated for increasing the popularity of the game of badminton in India
In the year 2016, the Government of India confirmed the Padma Bhushan as India’s third-highest civilian award to her.
Earlier, the nation’s top two sporting honors are the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna, and the Arjuna Awards also confirmed on her by the Government of India.
3. Abhinav Bindra
Abhinav Bindra is an Indian businessman and a retired professional shooter. He is a World and Olympic champion in the 10 m Air Rifle event.
He is winning the gold in the 10 m Air Rifle event in the year 2008 Beijing Olympic Games; he became the first Indian to win an individual gold medal at the Olympic Games.
It is also India’s first gold medal since the year 1980 when the Men’s Field Hockey Team won the gold medal.
He is the first Indian to have held both the World and Olympic titles at the same time; he won by capturing the Gold Medal at the year 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing, after having won the gold at the age 2006 in the International Shooting Sports Federation World Shooting Championships.
He won Gold Medal in the year 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow.
In collaboration with the Go Sports Foundation, he will also give support to India’s upcoming talented youths in shooting through the Abhinav Bindra Shooting Development Programme.
The Indian Olympics Association appointed Abhinav Bindra as the Goodwill Ambassador for the Rio 2016 Olympic Games Indian Contingent.
Currently, in the Rio 2016 Summer Olympics, he finished 4th in the finals of the 10m Air Rifle Event. On the year 5 September 2016, Abhinav announced his retirement to give way to the younger generation.
4. Virender Singh
Virender Singh is an Indian professional boxer and the current World Boxing Organization, Asia Pacific Super Middle Weight Champion, and World Boxing Organization.
He won medals in different competitions at the national level. Virender was picked to train and compete at several international levels competitions like the year 2004 Athens Summer Olympics and the year 2006 Commonwealth Games.
At the age 2006 Asian Games in Doha, he won the Gold medal after losing the semifinal against Kazakhstan’s Bakhtiyar Artayev.
In the year 2008, Beijing Summer Olympics, he defeated Carlos Góngora in the quarterfinals which gave him a bronze medal. Virender is the first ever Olympic medal as an Indian boxer.
He won a number of awards such as the Rajiv Gandhi, Khel Ratana award, India’s highest sporting honor, and Padma Shri and the fourth highest civilian honor.
He was participating in the World Amateur Boxing Championships; he also won the bronze medal in the International Boxing Association announced Boxer Virender as the top-ranked boxer in its annual middleweight category list with 2800 points. Virender also represented India at the London in the year 2012 Olympic Games.
5. Sushil Kumar
Sushil Kumar is an Indian freestyle wrestler. He Competing in the 66-kg weight division. Sushil also won the year 2010 world title, a silver medal at the year 2012 London Olympics, and a bronze medal at the age 2008 Beijing Olympics, which also made him the only Indian to win two individual Olympic medals.
His 2008 Olympic medal was the second for India in wrestling and the first since Khashaba Dadasaheb Jadhav’s bronze medal at the year 1952 Summer Olympics.
In the year July 2009, he received the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna which is India’s highest honor for sportspersons.
On the year 3rd October 2010, Kumar handed the Queen’s Baton to Prince Charles in the Queen’s Baton Relay for the year 2010 Commonwealth Games Opening Ceremony.
Sushil also won the gold medal in the 74-kg division in the year 2014 in the Commonwealth Games.
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