Prakash Padukone:

Prakash Padukone is an Indian Badminton player, and the best Badminton player India has ever seen till now. Known as the Gentle Tiger on the court, Prakash was the first Indian Badminton player ever to win the prestigious All England Badminton Championship. Achievements:

Won the national senior title consecutively for nine years Won the gold at the 1979 Commonwealth Games Won the Danish Open and the Swedish Open Won the prestigious All England Badminton Championship in 1979

Achanta Sharath Kamal:

Achanta Sharath Kamal is one of those talented table tennis players of India who have made a mark for themselves in the international arena. Born in the year 1982 in Tamil Nadu, Achanta Sharath Kamal works for Indian Oil Corporation. Achievements:

First Indian to win gold medal at the Commonwealth Table Tennis Championship First Indian to win gold medal at the Commonwealth Games Won Arjuna Award in 2004

Jayant Talukdar:

Jayant Talukdar is an Indian Archer, and one of the most promising players of the sport in the nation. He picked up the game not much ago, still with his sharp skills and in-born talent for Archery, hes rose on to become on of the most bright stars of Archery, and generates a lot of hopes in the eyes of Indian Archery lovers. Achievements:

Member of the Indian team that won silver medal at the junior World Championship in Britain First Indian archer to win the gold medal in the FITA Meteksan Archery World Cup World no. 2 in individual recurve event Won gold at 2006 Colombo SAF Games

Abhinav Bindra :

Abhinav Bindra is the brightest star among a new breed of talented Indian shooters. Born on 28 September 1983 to an affluent Punjabi family, Bindra developed the passion for the game at an early age. He became a shooter at the tender age of fifteen. Bindra came into limelight by winning a bronze medal in the 2001 Munich World Cup, with a new junior world record score of 597/600 and fetched international accolade to India by winning India's first individual Olympic gold medal in 2008. Read on to know more about the profile and career of Indian shooter Abhinav Bindra. Achievements:

Made a junior world record score of 597/600 in 2001 Munich World Cup and won bronze Received Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award in 2001 Gold in 2002 Manchester Commonwealth Games Became the first Indian shooter to win a World Championship gold Won India's first individual Olympic gold medal in 2008

P. T. Usha:
Pilavullakandi Thekkeparambil Usha, generally know as P.T. Usha is an Indian Athlete, and arguably the most famous and successful Female Athlete from India to have ever existed. Her extra-ordinary performance at the track has earned Usha the titles such as Queen of Indian Track and Payyoli Express. Achievements:

Won silver medals in the 100 m and the 200 m events in the 1982 New Delhi Asiad Won gold in the 400 m with a new Asian record in the Asian Track and Field Championship in Kuwait Became the first Indian women to enter the final of an Olympics event in 1984 Los Angeles Olympics Won five gold medals at the Asian Meet in Jakarta in 1985

Bula Chowdhury
Bula Chowdhury is an outstanding long-distance Indian swimmer, who has made her mark in competitive swimming. At the tender age of nine, she proved her swimming skills by winning six gold medals in as many events. In a career spanning 24 years, Bula has brought laurels to her homeland as well as gained repute at the international level. In 2004, by crossing the Palk Straits from Talaimannar in Sri Lanka to Dhanushkodi in Tamil Nadu in nearly 14 hours, she became the first woman in the world to swim across seven seas in five continents. Read on to know more about the profile of Indian swimmer Bula Chowdhury. Achievements

First woman to swim across seven seas in five continents First Asian woman to swim across the English Channel twice Won Arjuna Award in 1999 Won Padma Shri in 2009