Free GK For Exams First Indian Lists to Win, Cross, Score, Award, literature

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Lists  to Win Cross Score Award literature

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First Indian Olympic team medal - Gold for Hockey. At Amsterdam beating the Netherlands (1928)

First Indian Olympic individual medal winner - K. D. Jadhav, Bronze in wrestling at Helsinki (1952)

First Asian woman to swim across the English Channel - Arati Saha, India (1959 )

First woman Chess grandmaster of india

-         S. Vijayalakshmi (2000)

First Indian woman medal winner in Olympics - Karnam Malleswari, Bronze in weightlifting, Sydney (2000)

First Indian woman to win a round at a Grand Slam - Nirupama Vaidyanathan who vbeat  Italian Gloria Pizzichini in the first round of the Australian Open (1998)

First Indian Cricket test match - Against England at Lord’s (1932)

First Indian Cricket captain - CK Nayudu, for the tour of England (1932)

First Indian cricketer to score a century- Lala Amamath, against England in South Bombay.

Independent india’s first test captain : Lala Amamath leading a tour of Australia in 1947-48. (1933)

First Indian cricketer to score a triple century - Virender Sehwag, against Pakistan at Multan (2004)

First Indian hat-trick in Test cricket - Harbhajan Singh, against Australia (2001)

First Indian batsman to complete 10,000 runs-Sunil Gavaskar also  first in the world

First Indian Tennis Grand Slam title- Mahesh Rhupathi, Japanese Rika Hiraki, in the Mixed Doubles  French Open(1997)

First Indian woman to appear in an Olympic final - P.T. Usha, Los Angeles (1984)

Indian woman in the third round (highest for Indian women) of a tennis Grand Slam event- Sania Mirza, Singles category of the Australian Open (2005)

First Indian woman to win an individual gold medal in Asian Games - Kamaljit Sandhu, Bangkok, 400 m (1970)

First Indian to win an individual Olympic Gold - Abhinav Bindra (2008)

First Indian woman to reach Antarctica- Meher Moos (1976)

First Indian in space - Rakesh Sharma aboard Salyut 7 (1984)

First Indian woman to climb Mount Everest - Bachendri Pal. (1984 )

First woman to conquer Everest twice - Santosh Yadav, India (1993 )

First Indian to win Nobel Prize in Literature - Rabindranath Tagore. (1913)

First woman from India to win a Nobel Prize-Mother Teresa, Peace Prize (1979)

First woman to win the jananpath -Ashapurna Devi (1976)

First woman to receive Bharat Ratna - Indira Gandhi (1971)

First Indian woman to win a Pulitzer Prize- Jhumpa Lahiri (2000)

First Indian to win Booker Prize - Arund hati Roy. For ‘The God of Small Things’ (1997)

First Education Minister of free India - Maulana Abdul Kalam Azad

First Indian to win Dadasaheb Phalke Award - Devika Rani (1970)

First Indian Oscar winner - Bhanu Athaiya, For Best Costume Design for the film ‘Gandhi’ (1982)