Today, August 15, 75th year of Indian Independence, and Super365 Sports looks back at the country's 75 most significant sports moments.
Today, August 15, India is celebrating its 75th year of independence, and Super365 Sports is remembering the 74 greatest moments in Indian sports. Please see below for a recap.
| 1928 | India won first ever hockey gold in Amsterdam Olympics |
| 1958 | Wilson Jones became the first Indian world champion in snooker in |
| 1950 | Abdul Bari reaches the British Open squash final |
| 1951 | Indian football team won gold in Asiad Games |
| 1952 | K.D. Jadhav wins India’s first-ever individual Olympic medal |
| 1952 | India win their fifth hockey gold medal at the Olympics |
| 1952 | Tennis player Rita Davar finishes runner-up at junior Wimbledon |
| 1952 | Gool Nasikwala wins women’s singles and doubles titles at the inaugural Asian Table Tennis Championships in Singapore |
| 1960 | Ramanathan Krishnan reaches Wimbledon singles semifinal |
| 1975 | India won Gold in the hockey World Cup |
| 1980 | Prakash Padukone won the All England Open |
| 1983 | India win their first ever ODI World Cup |
| 1986 | PT Usha won five medals in Asian Games |
| 1996 | Leander Paes wins tennis in Atlanta |
| 2000 | Karnam Malleswari won Bronze at Sydney Olympic |
| 2001 | Gopichand won the All England Open |
| 2001 | India scripts greatest comeback in history of Test cricket |
| 2002 | India won Natwest Trophy |
| 2003 | Anju Bobby George won bronze at World Athletics Championships |
| 2004 | Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore won silver in Athens Olympics |
| 2004 | Indian Kabaddi Team won the first Kabaddi World Cup |
| 2004 | Kabaddi World Cup was the first ever Kabaddi World Cup and was hosted by India. India won the title defeating Iran 55–27 in the final |
| 2005 | Narain Karthikeyan becoming India’s first Formula 1 racer |
| 2007 | India winning inaugural World T20 |
| 2007 | Yuvraj Singh hit six sixes |
| 2007 | Viswanathan Anand won unified Chess title |
| 2008 | Abhinav Bindra won gold in Beijing Olympics |
| 2008 | Beginning of Indian Premier League |
| 2010 | Sachin Tendulkar hits 200 in ODI |
| 2011 | India won the ODI World Cup |
| 2012 | Mary Kom won bronze in London Olympics |
| 2012 | Sushil Kumar won second Olympic medal in London |
| 2013 | India won the Champions Trophy |
| 2015 | Saina Nehwal becomes world no.1 |
| 2016 | PV Sindhu wins silver medal in Rio Olympics |
| 2018 | India won Test series in Australia |
| 2020 | India retain Border Gavaskar Trophy |
| 2021 | Neeraj Chopra clinches gold in men’s javelin throw at Tokyo Olympics |
| 2022 | India’s 2nd only individual gold medal |
| 2021 | Bajrang Punia, Ravi Dahiya clinch bronze and silver medal in Tokyo Olympics |
| 2021 | PV Sindhu wins 2nd successive Olympics medal with bronze in Tokyo |
| 1958 | Mihir Sen becomes the first Indian to swim across the English Channel, from Dover to Calais |
| 2021 | Indian women’s hockey team finishes fourth in Tokyo Olympics |
| 2022 | Boxer Nikhat Zareen becomes world champion |
| 2010 | Sachin Tendulkar becomes the first man to hit ODI double century |
| 2010 | Mary Kom clinches bronze in boxing at London Olympics |
| 1971 | India’s first Test series win in West Indies |
| 1993 | India wins historic Hero Cup at Eden Gardens |
| 1985 | India trumps Pakistan to clinch World Championship of Cricket |
| 2012 | Yogeshwar Dutt wins bronze at London Olympics |
| 1960 | In 1960, Milkha Singh missed winning an Olympic medal by a fraction of 0.1 seconds in the 400m sprint. |
| 1962 | India’s Padam Bahadur Mall became the first boxer to win a gold medal at the Asian Games, in Jakarta. |
| 1971 | India won its first-ever series in England, defeating the hosts 1-0 in a three-game series |
| 1983 | India defeated Zimbabwe in a World Cup group match after Kapil Dev came in to bat at 17-5 and scored an unbeaten 175 |
| 2022 | India’s women’s lawn bowls team won the first medal in the sport at the Commonwealth Games in 2022 in Birmingham |
| 1980 | India win their last Olympic gold medal in Hockey. It is a great achievement as the team won it in a depleted field |
| 1985 | India’s cricket squad captured the Benson and Hedges Global Championship of cricket in 1983. The achievement verified that the squad’s 1983 World Cup triumph was not a one-time occurrence. India triumphed in Australia |
| 1985 | Bob Marshall was defeated by Geet Sethi in the IBSF World Amateur Billiards Championship |
| 1986 | The Indian volleyball team finished third at the Seoul Asian Games, under the guidance of Jimmy George (the nation’s first professional volleyball player in Italy). |
| 1986 | A rare medal in swimming at the Seoul Asian Games. Khajan Singh Tokas won silver for India in the men’s 200m butterfly |
| 1987 | India host World Cup. It was the first time the prestigious tournament took place outside of England |
| 1987 | India’s Sunil Gavaskar becomes the first batter to score 10,000 runs in Test cricket |
| 1988 | Viswanathan Anand becomes India’s first ever chess Grandmaster. The chess king of India became an International Master in 1985 |
| 1990 | India win gold in men’s Kabaddi at the Beijing Asian Games when the sport was introduced |
| 1994 | Kapil Dev breaks Richard Hadlee’s record of Test wickets, he finished at 434 Test wickets |
| 1997 | Mahesh Bhupathi wins Grand Slam (French Open) in mixed doubles with Rika Hiraki of Japan to become the first Indian to win a Grand Slam |
| 1999 | Anil Kumble takes 10 wickets against Pakistan in Delhi. He became the second cricketer to do so after Jim Laker of England |
| 1999 | India’s Bhaichung Bhutia becomes the second Indian to play professional football in Europe. He played for a second-division club in England named Bury FC |
| 2004 | Virender Sehwag score a triple century against Pakitan and becomes the first Indian batter to do so in Multan against the rivals |
| 2004 | India win Test series in Pakistan for the first time |
| 2011 | Virender Sehwag scores a double ton against West Indies becoming the second player to do so after the great Sachin Tendulkar |
| 2014 | Rohit Sharma scores 264 against Sri Lanka, the first batter to cross the 250-run mark in ODI cricket |
| 2013 | Rohit Sharma becomes the third Indian to score a double-ton in ODI cricket, he finished at 209 off 158 balls against Australia |
| 2005 | Sania Mirza becomes the first Indian woman to win a WTA singles title. She won AP Tourism Hyderabad Open |
| 2008 | Vijender Singh wins bronze for India at Beijing Olympics, country’s first ever medal in boxing at Olympics |
From Team Super365, we wish all our Indian Friends, a very Happy 75th Independence Day!
Source: Zee News