First

medal

Olympic

team Gold for Hockey at the 1928 Summer Olympics Amsterdam, beating
the Nethherlands.

First Olympic individual

Norman Pritchard, 1900
medal (in British India)
First Olympic individual Bronze by K.D. Jadhav for wrestling at the 1952 Summer Olympic
medal
Helsinki.
First Person
across
the
Channel

to

swim
English Mihir Sen,

First Women
across
the
Channel

to

swim
English Mihir Sen, 1958

First Formula
driver

race

Narain Karthikeyan

First Formula I team

Force India F1

First A1 GP race victory

Narain Karthikeyan, Zhuhai, China, 2007

First
Asian
organised

Delhi (1951)

Games

First in CHESS
First Chess Grandmaster

Viswanathan Anand in 1988, at the age of 18

First FIDE World Chess

Viswanathan Anand in December 2000
Champion
First Undisputed
Chess Champion

World

Viswanathan Anand in September 2007

First in TENNIS

First Tennis Grand Slam Mahesh Bhupati (partnering with Japanese Rika Hiraki) in the Mixed
title
Doubles category of the 1997 French Open
Nirupama Vaidyanathan beat Italian Gloria Pizzichini in the First round
First Tennis Grand Slam
of 1998 Australian Open First Women in 4th round (higest as of 2008)
win by a women
of a tennis
Grand Slam event

Sania Mirza in the Singles Category of the 2005 US Open

Leander Paes in the Singles category of the 1990 Wimbledon

First Tennis Grand Slam Championship. He is also the only medal fetcher for India in the Atlanta
Junior title
Olympics. He won a bronze medal, the only medal that put India in the
medal tally.
First Tennis Grand Slam Sania Mirza (partnering with Russian Alisa Kleybanova) in the Doubles
Junior title by a women
category of the 2003 Wimbledon Championships.

First in CRICKET
First Cricket tournament

The Bombay Triangular which Later became the Bombay Quadrangular

(1912-1936)

First Cricket Test Match

Against England at Lord's June,25, 1932

First Cricket Captain

CK Nayudu for the 1932 tour of England

First Cricketer to score a

Lala Amarnath in 1933 against England in South Bombay
century
First Cricketer to score a
Vijay Hazare
triple century
First Test Cricket cricket
Harbhajan Singh against Austrlia in March 2001
hat-trick
First Cricketer World Cup
At the 1983 Cricket World Cup
Championship Win
First
Batsman
to
complete 10,000 runs in Sunil Gavaskar (he was the first in the world to achieve this feat.)
Test Cricket
First
Batsman
to
complete 10,000 runs in Sachin Tendulkar (he was the first in the world to achieve this feat.)
ODI Cricket
First Cricketer to score
75
Test
and
ODI Sachin Tendulkar
centuries