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Abhinav Bindra
Abhinav Bindra (born 28 September 1982 in Dehradun, Uttarakhand, India) is an Indian businessman and retired professional shooter who is a former World and Olympic champion in the 10 metre Air Rifle event.
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Anjali Bhagwat
Anjali Bhagwat (born 5 December 1969) is a professional Indian shooter.
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Arjuna Award
The Arjuna Awards are given by the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports, Government of India to recognize outstanding achievement in sports.
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Asian Games
The Asian Games, also known as Asiad, is a continental multi-sport event held every four years among athletes from all over Asia.
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Athletics at the 2012 Summer Paralympics – Men's high jump
The Men's High Jump athletics events for the 2012 Summer Paralympics took place at the London Olympic Stadium on 3 September and 8 September.
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Badminton
Badminton is a racquet sport played using racquets to hit a shuttlecock across a net.
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Board of Control for Cricket in India
The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) is the national governing body for cricket in India.
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Boxing
Boxing is a combat sport in which two people, usually wearing protective gloves, throw punches at each other for a predetermined set of time in a boxing ring.
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Bruno Soares
Bruno Fraga Soares (born February 27, 1982, in Belo Horizonte) is a professional tennis player from Brazil.
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Chess
Chess is a two-player strategy board game played on a chessboard, a checkered gameboard with 64 squares arranged in an 8×8 grid.
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Commonwealth Games
The Commonwealth Games are an international multi-sport event involving athletes from the Commonwealth of Nations.
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Cricket
Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of eleven players each on a cricket field, at the centre of which is a rectangular pitch with a target at each end called the wicket (a set of three wooden stumps upon which two bails sit).
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Cue sports
Cue sports (sometimes written cuesports), also known as billiard sports, are a wide variety of games of skill generally played with a cue stick, which is used to strike billiard balls and thereby cause them to move around a cloth-covered billiards table bounded by elastic bumpers known as.
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Devendra Jhajharia
Devendra Jhajharia (born 10 June 1981) is an Indian Paralympic javelin thrower competing in F46 events.
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Disabled sports
Disabled sports, also adaptive sports or parasports, are sports played by persons with a disability, including physical and intellectual disabilities.
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Discus throw
The discus throw is a track and field event in which an athlete throws a heavy disc—called a discus—in an attempt to mark a farther distance than their competitors.
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English billiards
English billiards, called simply billiards Serves as a good example; the book refers to English billiards simply as "billiards", from cover to cover.
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Field hockey
Field hockey is a team game of the hockey family.
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Girisha Nagarajegowda
Girisha Hosanagara Nagarajegowda (born 26 January 1988), also known as Girish N. Gowda is paralympic high jumper from India.
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Government of India
The Government of India (IAST), often abbreviated as GoI, is the union government created by the constitution of India as the legislative, executive and judicial authority of the union of 29 states and seven union territories of a constitutionally democratic republic.
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Grand Slam (tennis)
The Grand Slam tournaments, also called majors, are the four most important annual tennis events.
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Grandmaster (chess)
The title Grandmaster (GM) is awarded to chess players by the world chess organization FIDE.
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Gymnastics
Gymnastics is a sport that requires balance, strength, flexibility, agility, coordination, and endurance.
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Hockey
Hockey is a sport in which two teams play against each other by trying to maneuver a ball or a puck into the opponent's goal using a hockey stick.
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India
India (IAST), also called the Republic of India (IAST), is a country in South Asia.
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Indian Olympic Association
The Indian Olympic Association is the body responsible for selecting athletes to represent India at the Olympic Games, Asian Games and other international athletic meets and for managing the Indian teams at these events.
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Javelin throw
The javelin throw is a track and field event where the javelin, a spear about in length, is thrown.
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Jitendra Singh (Congress politician)
Jitendra Singh (born 12 June 1971) is the former Minister of State for Youth Affairs and Sports (Independent charge) and the Minister of State for Defence, Government of India.
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K. M. Beenamol
Kalayathumkuzhi Mathews Beenamol, popularly known as K. M. Beenamol (born 15 August 1975), from Kombidinjal, Idukki district, Kerala is an international athlete from India.
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Kapil Dev
Kapil Dev Nikhanj (born 6 January 1959), better known as Kapil Dev, is a former Indian cricketer.
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Karnataka High Court
The Karnataka High Court is the High Court of the Indian state of Karnataka.
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Krishna Poonia
Krishna Poonia (born 5 May 1982) is an Indian discus thrower.
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Mahesh Bhupathi
Mahesh Shrinivas Bhupathi (born 7 June 1974) is a retired Indian professional tennis player.
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Martina Hingis
Martina Hingis (born 30 September 1980) is a Swiss former professional tennis player who spent a total of 209 weeks as the singles world No.
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Medal
A medal or medallion is a small portable artistic object, a thin disc, normally of metal, carrying a design, usually on both sides.
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Michael Ferreira
Michael Ferreira (born 1 October 1938 in Bombay [now Mumbai]), nicknamed "the Bombay Tiger", is notable amateur player of English billiards from India, and a three-time Amateur World Champion.
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Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports
The Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports, a branch of the Government of India, which administers Department of youth affairs and Department of Sports in India.
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National Anti-Doping Agency
National Anti-Doping Agency also referred to as NADA is the national organisation responsible for promoting, coordinating, and monitoring the doping control program in sports in all its forms in India.
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National Rifle Association of India
The National Rifle Association of India (NRAI) was founded in 1951 with a view to promote and popularize the shooting sports in India.
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Olympic Games
The modern Olympic Games or Olympics (Jeux olympiques) are leading international sporting events featuring summer and winter sports competitions in which thousands of athletes from around the world participate in a variety of competitions.
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Olympic weightlifting
Weightlifting, also called '''Olympic-style weightlifting''', or Olympic weightlifting, is an athletic discipline in the modern Olympic programme in which the athlete attempts a maximum-weight single lift of a barbell loaded with weight plates.
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Paralympic Games
The Paralympic Games is a major international multi-sport event involving athletes with a range of disabilities, including impaired muscle power (e.g. paraplegia and quadriplegia, muscular dystrophy, post-polio syndrome, spina bifida), impaired passive range of movement, limb deficiency (e.g. amputation or dysmelia), leg length difference, short stature, hypertonia, ataxia, athetosis, vision impairment and intellectual impairment.
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Pradip Kumar Banerjee
Pradip Kumar Banerjee (born 23 June 1936) or P. K. Banerjee as he is called often, is a distinguished former Indian footballer and football coach.
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Prime Minister of India
The Prime Minister of India is the leader of the executive of the Government of India.
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Professional boxing
Professional boxing, or prizefighting, is a regulated, sanctioned boxing.
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Public interest law
Public interest law loosely, refers to legal practices undertaken to help poor or marginalized people, or to effect change in social policies in the public interest, on 'not for profit' terms (''pro bono publico'').
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Rajiv Gandhi
Rajiv Ratna Gandhi (20 August 1944 – 21 May 1991) was an Indian politician who served as the 6th Prime Minister of India from 1984 to 1989.
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Ronjan Sodhi
Ronjan Sodhi (born 23 October 1979 in Ferozepur, Punjab, India) is an Indian Double trap shooter.
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Sania Mirza
Sania Mirza (born 15 November 1986) is an Indian professional tennis player.
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Sardara Singh
Sardara Singh (born 15 July 1986) sometimes referred as Sardar Singh, is an Indian professional field hockey player and captain of the Indian national team.
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Shooting
Shooting is the act or process of discharging a projectile from a ranged weapon (such as a gun, slingshot, crossbow, or bow. Even the acts of launching/discharging artillery, darts, grenades, rockets and guided missiles can be considered acts of shooting. When using a firearm, the act of shooting is often called firing as it involves initiating a combustion process (deflagration). Shooting can take place in a shooting range or in the field, in shooting sports, hunting or in combat. A person involved in the shooting activity is a shooter. A proficient shooter is a marksman or sharpshooter. A person's level of shooting proficiency is referred to as marksmanship.
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Shooting sports
Shooting sports is a collective group of competitive and recreational sporting activities involving proficiency tests of accuracy, precision and speed in using various types of ranged weapons, mainly referring to man-portable guns (firearms and airguns, in forms such as handguns, rifles and shotguns) and bows/crossbows.
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Snooker
Snooker is a cue sport which originated among British Army officers stationed in India in the latter half of the 19th century.
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Sport of athletics
Athletics is a collection of sporting events that involve competitive running, jumping, throwing, and walking.
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Sports Authority of India
The Sports Authority of India (SAI) (भारतीय खेल प्राधिकरण) is an apex National Sports body set up in 1984 by the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports of Government of India for the development of sport in India.
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Tennis
Tennis is a racket sport that can be played individually against a single opponent (singles) or between two teams of two players each (doubles).
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Track and field
Track and field is a sport which includes athletic contests established on the skills of running, jumping, and throwing.
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Viswanathan Anand
Viswanathan "Vishy" Anand (born 11 December 1969) is an Indian chess grandmaster, a former World Chess Champion, and the current World Rapid Chess Champion.
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Women's boxing
Although women have participated in boxing for almost as long as the sport has existed, female fights have been effectively outlawed for most of boxing’s history, with athletic commissioners refusing to sanction or issue licenses to women boxers, and most nations officially banning the sport.
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World Anti-Doping Agency
The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA; Agence mondiale antidopage, AMA) is a foundation initiated by the International Olympic Committee based in Canada to promote, coordinate and monitor the fight against drugs in sports.
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World championship
A world championship is generally an international sports competition open to elite competitors from around the world, representing their nations, and winning such an event will be considered the highest or near highest achievement in the sport or contest.
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World cup competition
A world cup is a global sporting competition in which the participant entities – usually international teams or individuals representing their countries - compete for the title of world champion.
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Wrestling
Wrestling is a combat sport involving grappling type techniques such as clinch fighting, throws and takedowns, joint locks, pins and other grappling holds.
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Yacht racing
Yacht racing is a form of sport involving sailing yachts and larger sailboats, as distinguished from dinghy racing.
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Yachting
Yachting refers to the use of recreational boats and ships called yachts for sporting purposes.
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2012 French Open – Mixed Doubles
Casey Dellacqua and Scott Lipsky were the defending champions.
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2012 Summer Paralympics
The 2012 Summer Paralympics, the 14th Summer Paralympic Games, and also more generally known as the London 2012 Paralympic Games, were a major international multi-sport event for athletes with disabilities governed by the International Paralympic Committee (IPC), that took place in London, United Kingdom from 29 August to 9 September 2012.
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2014 US Open – Mixed Doubles
Andrea Hlaváčková and Max Mirnyi were the defending champions, but chose not to participate together.
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2015 US Open – Women's Doubles
Ekaterina Makarova and Elena Vesnina were the defending champions, but Makarova decided not to participate.
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2015 Wimbledon Championships – Women's Doubles
Sara Errani and Roberta Vinci were the defending champions, but Errani chose not to participate this year.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rajiv_Gandhi_Khel_Ratna
