Sports

Field Person
The first Indian woman to swim across the English
Miss. Arati Shah
Channel

The first Indian to win world Billiards Trophy Wilson Jones

The first to cross the Damelles by swimming Mihir Sen

The first to conquer Everest Sherpa Tenzing (1953)

The first to sail round the world Megellan

The first person to win Wimbledon title five times Bjorn Borg
The first woman who conquered Everest Jungo Table (Japan)

The first person to reach North Pole Robert Peary

First woman Olympic Medallist (Weight Lifting) Karnam Malleswari (2000)

The first person to reach South Pole Amundsen

The first Indian to win All England Badminton
Prakash Padukone
Championship
The first Indian woman to conquer Everest Bichendri Pal

The first an to climb Everest twice Nawang Gombu

The first person to complete solo walk to magnetic David Hempleman Adam
North pole (UK)
The first woman to reach North pole Ann Bancroft

The first woman to sail non stop around the world

Kaycottee
alone

The first deaf & dumb to cross the strait of Gibraltar Taranath Shenoy (India)
The first woman to climb Mt. Everest twice Santosh Yadav (India)

The first black player to win the Wimbledon men's

Arthur Ashe (US)
singles title

The first person to win the Palk Strait ocean swimming

Baidyanath
contest

World Athletics Records Men

S.No Athlete Name Nation Event Time Place Date
Tim
1 USA 100m 9.78 Paris 9/14/2002
Montgomery

2 Michael Johnson USA 200m 19.32 Atlanta, Ga 1/8/1996

3 Michael Johnson USA 400m 43.18 Sevilla 8/26/1999

4 Wilson Kipketer DEN 800m 01:41.1 Koln 8/24/1997

Hicham El
5 MAR 1500m 03:26.0 Roma 7/14/1998
Guerrouj
6 Kenenisa Bekele ETH 5000m 12:37.4 Hengelo 5/31/2004

7 Kenenisa Bekele ETH 10,000m 26.20.3 Ostrava 8/6/2004

Saif Saaeed 3000m Steeple
8 QAT 07:53.6 Bruxelles 3/9/2004
Shaheen Chase
9 Colin Jackson GBR 110m Hurdles 12.91 Stuttgart 8/20/1993

10 Xiang Liu CHN 110m Hurdles 12.91 Athina 8/27/2004

11 Kevin Young USA 400m Hurdles 46.78 Barcelona 6/8/1992

Javier
12 CUB High Jump 2.45 Salamanca 7/27/1993
Sotomayor

13 Sergey Bubka UKR Pole Vault 6.14 Sestriere 7/31/1994

14 Mike Powell USA Long Jump 8.95 Tokyo 8/30/1991

Jonathan
15 GBR Triple Jump 18.29 Goteborg 7/8/1996
Edwards

16 Randy Barnes USA Short Put 23.12 Westwood 5/20/1990

Neubranden
18 Jurgen Schult GDR Discus 74.08 6/6/1986
Burg
19 Yuriy Sedykh RUS Hammer 86.74 Stuttgart 8/30/1986

20 Jan Zelezny CZE Javelin 98.48 Jena 5/25/1996

21 Roman Sebrle CZE Decathlon 9026 Gotzis 5/27/2001

Bernardo 20 km Race
22 MEX 17:25.6 Bergen 7/5/1994
Segura Walking

50 km Race
23 Thierry Toutain FRA 40:57.9 Hericourt 9/29/1996
Walking

24 Paul Tergat KEN Marathon 2:04:55 Berlin 9/28/2003

World Athletics Records Women
S.No Athlete Name Nation Event Time Place Date
Florence
1 USA 100M 10.49 Indianapolis 7/16/1988
G.Joyner

Florence
2 USA 200M 21.34 Seoul 9/29/1988
G.Joyner

3 Marita Koch GDR 400M 47.6 Canberra 6/10/1985

Jarmila
4 TCH 800M 01:53.3 Munchen 7/26/1983
Kratochvilova
5 Yunxia Qu CHN 1500M 03:50.5 Beijing 11/9/1993

Elvan
6 TUR 5000M 14:24.7 Bergen 11/6/2004
Abeylegesse

7 Junxia Wang CHN 10,000M 29:31.8 Beijing 8/9/1993

Gulnara 3000M
8 RUS 09:01.6 Iraklio 4/7/2004
Samitova STEEPLECHASE
Yordanka Stara
9 BUL 100M HURDLES 12.21 8/20/1988
Donkova Zagora
Yuliya
10 RUS 400M HURDLES 52.34 Tula 8/8/2003
Pechenkina
Stefka
11 BUL HIGH JUMP 2.09 Roma 8/30/1987
Kostadinova
Yelena
12 RUS POLE VAULT 4.92 Bruxelles 3/9/2004
Isinbayeva
Galina
13 URS LONG JUMP 752 Leningrad 11/6/1988
Chistyakova
Inessa
14 UKR TRIPLE JUMP 15.5 Goteborg 10/8/1995
Kravets
Natalya
15 URS SHOT PUT 22.63 Moskva 7/6/1987
Lisovskaya
Gabriele Neubran
16 GDR DISCUS 76.8 9/7/1988
Reinsch denburg
Mihaela
17 ROM HAMMER 76.07 Rudlingen 8/29/1999
Melinte
Osleidys
18 CUB JAVELIN 71.54 Rethimno 1/7/2001
Menendez
Jackie
19 Joyner- USA HEPTATHLON 7291 Seoul 9/24/1988
 Shane Warne

Shane Warne
First Bowler In Test History To Take 700 Wickets

Date of Birth: September 13, 1969

Place of Birth: Melbourne (Australia)

Teams: Australia, Victoria, Hampshire

Test Debut: Against India, Sydney, 1992

Test Performance: 708 Wickets in 145 Tests (average: 25.41)

ODI Performance: 293 Wickets in 194 matches (average: 25.73)

Wisden’s one of the five Best cricketers of 20th century

1994: Became the first bowler in the 90 years’ history of Ashes to take a Hat-trick
in Melbourne

1999: Adjudged ‘Man of the Match’ in the World Cup final which Australia won

2000: Broke Dennis Lillie’s Australian record of 355 wickets during his New Zealand
tour

2001: Took his 400th wicket in the Ashes series; made his highest score in a Test
innings (99) against New Zealand

2004: Made a comeback to Test cricket after a long absence and got his 500th Test
Wicket; also broke Sri Lankan M. Muralitharan`s world record of 532 wickets.

2005: Completed his tally of 600 Test wickets; took 40 wickets in the Ashes series
and also broke Dennis Lillie’s world record of highest wickets (85) in a calendar year

2006: In the fourth Ashes Test in Melbourne, he took the wicket of England’s
Andrew Strauss, thus becoming the first bowler in the history of Test cricket to take
700 or more wickets.

2007: Announced retirement from international cricket at the peak of his

prominence as the best leg spinner as well as the highest wicket taker in the history
of Test cricket.

A Woman’s Record in Space

A Woman’s Record in Space
Sunita Williams` spacewalk tasks and triumph

U.S. astronaut Sunita Williams, of Indian-American origin, has now spent more time
walking in space than any other woman. She set the record as she and a crewmate
upgraded the international space station’s cooling system.

Ms. Williams broke the previous women’s spacewalking hours on Sunday when she
and Michael Lopez-Alegria completed the second of what could be a precedent-
setting three spacewalks in nine days. The new record of 22 hours and 27 minutes
includes her two most recent walks, as well as a spacewalk in December.

During Sunday’s spacewalk, which lasted more than seven hours, small amounts of
toxic ammonia leaked from a fluid line. The liquid ammonia, which freezes into
flakes when it hits the vacuum of space, did not appear to touch either astronaut.
Mission Control told them to continue their task of hooking up ammonia fluid lines
from a temporary cooling system to a permanent one.

Ammonia could cause respiratory problems for the three-person crew if enough of it
got into the space station. Once they were back in the space station’s airlock,
Mission Control made the astronauts test for contamination. The test was negative.
“They look like pinpoints”, Mr. Lopez-Alegria said of the flakes Sunday.

Joint Effort

Mr. Lopez-Alegria and Ms. Williams hooked up the permanent cooling system,
covered an obsolete radiator that was retracted by remote control from the ground
and stowed a fluid line that was connected to an ammonia reservoir.

They then moved on to other jobs ahead of schedule; removing a sun shade,
photographing a solar array that will be retracted during space shuttle Atlantis’
mission next month and making electrical connections for a new system that will
allow power from the station to be shared with a docked shuttle.

The third spacewalk is set for Thursday, making the first time three spacewalks will
have been conducted in such a short period at the space station without a shuttle
docked to it. Mr. Lopez-Alegria plans to conduct a fourth spacewalk with Russian
flight engineer Mikhail Tyurin on Feb, 22.

After Sunday’s spacewalk, Mr. Lopez-Alegria moved to third on the list of the most
time spent spacewalking.

He is expected to surpass Jerry Ross’ U.S. record of more than 58 hours over nine
spacewalks by the end of the month. Russian cosmonaut Anatoly Solovyov has
more than 77 1/2 hours over 16 spacewalks – AP