First in Sports - Indians

Achievement	Sportsperson
The first Indian to win an individual medal at the Olympic Games	KD Jadhav
The first Indian to win a gold medal at the Olympic Games	Abhinav Bindra
The first Indian woman to win an individual medal at the Olympic Games	Karnam Malleswari
The first Indian (also the first Asian) to win the Wimbledon junior Singles title	Ramanathan Krishnan (in 1954)
The first Indian to win a Grand Slam title (French Open mixed doubles title in 1997)	Mahesh Bhupathi
The first Indian to achieve a career Grand Slam in mixed doubles	Mahesh Bhupathi (2006)
The first Indian to achieve a career Grand Slam in doubles	Leander Paes (2012)
The first Indian to become a world champion in billiards	Wilson Jones
India's first Grandmaster and also the first Indian to win the FIDE World Chess Championship	Vishwanathan Anand
The first Indian to win the under 10 World Chess Championship	P. Harikrishna
The first Indian to win the All England Badminton Championship	Prakash Padukone
The first Indian gymnast to win a medal at the Commonwealth Games	Ashish Kumar
The first Indian woman to receive the Grandmaster's title	Koneru Humpy
The youngest Indian to win the Grandmaster title	Parimarjan Negi (13 years 3 months and 22 days)
The youngest Indian to captain its test cricket team	Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi
The first Indian to swim across the English Channel	Mihir Sen (1958)
The first Indian woman (also Asian woman) to swim across the English Channel	Aarti Saha (1959)
The first woman in the world to swim the seven seas	Bula Chaudhary
The first Indian woman to win a gold medal at the Asian Games	Kamaljit Sandhu
The first Indian women athlete to win a medal at a world event (Bronze at World Athletics Championship, 2003)	Anju Bobby George
The first Indian woman to win a Grand Slam title	Sania Mirza
The first Indian to win the World Junior Badminton Championships and also to win a Super Series tournament, (by clinching the Indonesia Open)	Saina Nehwal
1st recipient of Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award	Viswanathan Anand
1st woman recipient of Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award	Karnam Malleswari
1st recipient of Dhyanchand Lifetime Achievement Award	Aparna Ghosh
1st cricket player to be awarded the Arjuna Award	Salim Durrani
1st Indian to win Olympic medals at two consecutive Olympic Games	Sushil Kumar

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