From Hitler’s worship of the 1936 Kabaddi Olympic team to teenage Shafari Verma playing cricket disguised as a boy, here are 50 interesting facts about Indian sports you may not know.
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1) When Kabaddi surprised Hitler and his allies at the Olympics
Kabaddi, a popular sport in the country but mysterious to outsiders, India featured the sport at his 1936 Berlin Olympics, encouraging Adolf Hitler and members of the Stand Olympic Committee with kabaddi Many people don’t realize that they first gained international recognition when they did it. steer.
2. Payyoli Express
PT Usha, also known as the ‘Queen of Indian Athletics’, was the youngest athlete in the country to compete in the Olympics. She competed in the 1980 Moscow Olympics at the age of 16 years and 69 days.
She was also the first female sprinter from India to compete in an Olympic track final.
3) Staggering Sharath
Sharath Gayakwad, a paralympic swimmer, presently holds the record for the most medals an Indian has earned at a multi-sport competition.
By capturing six medals at the 2014 Asian Para Games, Sharath accomplished this.
4) The multi talanted cricket player
Before switching to professional cricket, Jemimah Rodrigues played hockey for Mumbai & Maharashtra Hockey and is currently the top opener for the Indian Women’s Cricket team.
5. The Father of Indian cycling
Jankidas Mehra is a world-class cyclist who established eight world records between 1934 and 1942 in addition to being an actor, production designer, and writer.
He raised the Indian flag for the first time prior to independence at the World Sports Congress. Along with that, he founded the Indian Cycling Federation.
6: Olympic Pioneers
The first women to represent independent India at the Olympics were Arati Saha, Mary D’Souza, Dolly Nazir, and Nilima Ghose.
The foursome represented India in the Helsinki Games in 1952.
The queen of the court.
PV Sindhu is the first and only Indian to hold the title of Badminton World Champion in addition to being the second individual athlete from India to win two consecutive medals at the Olympic Games.
7) Cricketer with a big heart
Kapil Dev, without a doubt India’s greatest all-arounder of all time, has never missed a cricket match due to an injury. He has, of course, been benched and has missed games, but no game has been missed due to an injury.
8) Mecca of Indian Hockey
In field hockey, 14 Olympians from Sansarpur, a 4600-person village in Jalandhar, Punjab, represented India and took home 27 medals. In one Olympics, seven athletes from this village alone participated.
9) Tottenham Hotspur’s first Indian player
Football player Dilan Markanday, 20, is the first British-Asian and Indian to play for Tottenham Hotspurs in the English Premier League.