From outstanding Indian wrestlers alleging that former Indian wrestling chief Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh sexually harassed feminine athletes to India’s splendid efficiency on the Asian Video games and Asian Para Video games 2023 in Hangzhou, listed below are the important thing sporting moments of the 12 months.
January
18 Jan: Wrestlers Protest-
The 12 months started with Indian wrestlers like Bajrang Punia, Vinesh Phogat, and Sakshi Malik protesting and accusing Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh of sexually harassing feminine wrestlers throughout his tenure because the president of the Wrestling Federation of India (WFI).
29 Jan: FIH Males’s Hockey World Cup-
Germany received towards Belgium in a penalty shootout of 5-4 after a 3-3 tie on the finish of the fourth quarter within the closing. India, because the host, concluded its marketing campaign with a disappointing ninth-place tie with Argentina.
29 Jan: Ladies’s U19 World Cup 2023-
India received the inaugural ICC Below-19 Ladies’s T20 World Cup by defeating England with seven wickets. Titas Sidhu was awarded the participant of the match.
29 Jan: Australian Open 2023-
Novak Djokovic secured his tenth Australian Open title and twenty second main Grand Slam by defeating Stefanos Tsitsipas 6–3, 7–6(4), 7–6(5), matching Rafael Nadal’s report. Aryna Sabalenka claimed her first main singles title on the 2023 Australian Open on January 28 by defeating Elena Rybakina 4–6, 6–3, 6–4.
February
16 Feb: Ranji Trophy 2023-
Saurashtra, led by Jaydev Unadkat, received its second Ranji Trophy closing in three seasons, defeating Bengal by 9 wickets on the Eden Gardens in Kolkata. Unadkat, named the Participant of the Match, took 9 wickets, together with a notable 6/85 within the third innings.
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26 Feb: ICC Ladies’s T20 World Cup-
Beth Mooney struck a match-winning unbeaten 74 as Australia claimed its sixth and third consecutive Ladies’s T20 World Cup title with a 19-run victory over host South Africa.
March
26 Mar: Ladies’s Premier League-
Harmanpreet Kaur settled scores with Meg Lanning, this time in a franchise league. Mumbai Indians secured the maiden WPL title by counting on Harmanpreet’s resilient 37 and one other unbeaten half-century from Nat Sciver-Brunt, defeating Delhi Capitals by seven wickets.
26 Mar: IBA Ladies’s World Boxing Championships 2023-
India completed with 4 gold medals, equalling its best-ever efficiency from 17 years in the past on the occasion. Nitu Ghanghas, Nikhat Zareen, Lovlina Borgohain and Saweety Boora have been the gold medallists who helped India rank first on the medals tally forward of China, which had three golds.
April
14 Apr: Asian Wrestling Championships 2023-
Aman Sehrawat received India’s sole gold medal on the Asian Wrestling Championships 2023 after defeating Almaz Smanbekov 9-4 within the males’s 57kg class. Antim Panghal, Rupin Gahlawat and Nisha Dahiya received silver whereas 10 different wrestlers received bronze elevating India’s medal tally to 14.
30 Apr: Badminton Asia Championships 2023-
Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty created historical past by changing into the first-ever Indian males’s doubles pair to win gold medal on the Badminton Asia Championships. The Indian duo beat the Malaysian pair of Ong Yew Sin and Teo Ee Yi 16-21, 21-17, 21-19 in 67 minutes within the closing in Dubai.
Could
29 Could: Indian Premier League 2023-
Chennai Tremendous Kings defeated Gujarat Titans by 5 wickets in a rain-hit match on the Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad to clinch its fifth Indian Premier League title, equalling Mumbai Indians’ report. CSK captain MS Dhoni, in his eleventh closing, additionally equalled Rohit Sharma for essentially the most titles as captain.
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June
11 Jun: Manchester Metropolis treble-
Manchester Metropolis beat Inter Milan 1-0 within the 2022-23 Champions League closing to win the competitors for the primary time in historical past. Having received the Premier League and FA Cup earlier, the UCL win meant that Man Metropolis grew to become solely the second membership in England after arch-rival Manchester United to win the coveted treble.
11 Jun: French Open 2023-
Novak Djokovic secured his report twenty third Grand Slam singles championship, surpassing Rafael Nadal and Roger Federer. He achieved this with a 7-6(1), 6-3, 7-5 victory over Casper Ruud on the French Open. Within the girls’s singles, Iga Swiatek efficiently defended her French Open title by defeating Karolina Muchova 6-2, 5-7, 6-4 on June 10.
13 Jun: NBA Finals 2023-
MVP Nikola Jokic’s 28 factors helped the Denver Nuggets beat the Miami Warmth 94-89 to carry its first NBA title to Mile Excessive Metropolis. The Nuggets ended a 47-year championship wait by taking the best-of-seven sequence 4-1.
July
15 Jul: Messi-MLS switch
Lionel Messi departed from European soccer after signing with Main League Soccer (MLS) membership Inter Miami. Messi, who left Ligue 1 membership Paris Saint-Germain on a free switch, signed a contract by means of the tip of the 2025 MLS season with Miami.
16 Jul: Wimbledon 2023-
Carlos Alcaraz put apart a poor begin and surged down the stretch to finish Novak Djokovic’s 34-match profitable streak on the All England Membership by edging him 1-6, 7-6(6), 6-1, 3-6, 6-4 in a fascinating, back-and-forth closing. Marketa Vondrousova left Tunisia’s Ons Jabeur heartbroken as soon as once more as she claimed a shock 6-4, 6-4 victory to change into the primary unseeded participant to win the Wimbledon girls’s singles title on July 15.
30 Jul: Swimming World Championship 2023-
A complete of 10 world data have been damaged on the Swimming World Championship 2023 held in Fukuoka, Japan. Moreover, Katie Ledecky clinched gold within the 800m freestyle to change into the swimmer with most gold medals on the Worlds, eclipsing the report of Michael Phelps. She additionally grew to become the primary swimmer to win any occasion on the world championships six instances when she received her signature race, the 800m freestyle.
August
6 Aug: World Archery Championships 2023-
India’s Aditi Swami and Ojas Deotale received the person compound gold of their respective occasions on the World Archery Championships 2023. Jyothi Surekha Vennam and the ladies’s compound staff received bronze and gold, respectively.
12 Aug: Asian Champions Trophy 2023-
India got here again from a two-goal deficit to defeat Malaysia 4-3 and win its fourth Asian Champions Trophy hockey title on the Mayor Radhakrishnan Stadium in Chennai.
20 Aug: FIFA Ladies’s World Cup 2023-
Olga Carmona’s sole aim helped Spain clinch its debut Ladies’s World Cup title, beating England 1-0 within the closing. Spain’s first main worldwide trophy made it the primary European staff to win the Ladies’s World Cup since Germany in 2007.
24 Aug: Magnus- Praggnanandhaa FIDE World Cup
Magnus Carlsen got here good when it mattered and stopped R. Praggnanandhaa 2.5–1.5 for his maiden World Cup title in Baku, in Azerbaijan. After the 2 classical video games resulted in attracts, Carlsen received the primary speedy sport when Praggnanandhaa erred underneath time stress on the forty second flip. Dealing with a must-win state of affairs within the second sport with black items, Praggnanandhaa couldn’t get the place from which he might put stress on Carlsen and, at finest, might get a draw.
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26 Aug: BWF World Championships 2023-
H.S Prannoy’s dream run on the World Championships ended after he misplaced in three video games to Kunlavut Vitidsarn of Thailand within the males’s singles semifinal to log out with a bronze, extending India’s report of getting at the least one medallist within the showpiece since 2011.
27 Aug: World Athletics Championships 2023-
India completed tied 18th after Neeraj Chopra’s 88.17-metre javelin throw landed him his first World Championship title in Budapest after lacking the identical in Eugene final 12 months. One other breakthrough efficiency was the boys’s 4x400m staff, which surprised the group with a splendid run of two:59.05 within the heats to qualify for the ultimate and break the Asian report. Within the closing, nonetheless, they may solely end fifth.
September
10 Sep: US Open 2023-
Novak Djokovic clinched a 6-3, 7-6 (5), 6-3 victory over Daniil Medvedev at Flushing Meadows to assert a historic twenty fourth Grand Slam title in a match extra carefully contested than the straight-set rating indicated. Coco Gauff surged to her first Grand Slam title at age 19, coming again to defeat Aryna Sabalenka 2-6, 6-3, 6-2 within the U.S. Open closing on September 9.
17 Sep: Diamond League Ultimate 2023-
Neeraj Chopra landed a finest throw of 83.80m to complete second on the Diamond League finals in Eugene. Chopra had received the crown in 2022 with a finest try of 88.44m. Czech Republic’s Jakub Vadlejch ended because the Diamond League champion with a finest throw of 84.24m, which got here on his closing try.
October
8 Oct: Asian Video games-
India completed its marketing campaign on the nineteenth Asian Video games in Hangzhou, China, with a complete of 107 medals, its biggest-ever haul at a single version. The medal haul comprised 28 gold, 38 silver and 41 bronze with the nation reaching its finest efficiency by way of particular colors as properly. Capturing fetched India essentially the most variety of gold medals (seven) adopted by athletics (six) and archery (5).
10 Oct: Satwik-Chirag high World rating
Indian Males’s Doubles pair of Satwik Sairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty rose to primary within the BWF rankings for the primary time of their careers. The Indian duo sealed the highest spot after securing gold within the Males’s Doubles within the 2023 Asian Video games in Hangzhou. Satwik-Chirag beat South Korea’s Choi Solgyu and Kim Wonho in straight video games to win India’s first ever badminton gold within the Asian Video games.
28 Oct: Asian Para Video games 2023-
India completed fifth within the medal tally with a formidable complete of 111 medals—29 gold, 31 silver, and 51 bronze. Not solely did the 2023 version see India’s best-ever efficiency on the Asian Para Video games, however it was additionally the nation’s highest gold medal tally at this occasion, with the earlier highest being in 2018, with a distinction of 14 gold medals between the 2 editions.
30 Oct: Hermoso-Rubiales kiss controversy-
After beating England 1-0 within the girls’s World Cup closing, whereas the Spain gamers have been celebrating the feat, then Spanish Soccer Federation president Luis Rubiales forcibly kissed Jenni Hermoso on the lip. After FIFA’s investigation, the matter went to court docket, and a restraining order on Rubiales was imposed. The ultimate nail within the coffin for Rubiales was when FIFA banned him from soccer for 3 years.
31 Oct: Ballon d’Or-
Argentina captain Lionel Messi clinched a record-extending eighth Ballon d’Or, beating Norway’s UEFA Participant of the 12 months and treble winner Erling Haaland of Manchester Metropolis to the distinguished prize.
November
19 Nov: ICC World Cup 2023-
Travis Head’s 137 helped Australia defeat India by six wickets to clinch its record-extending sixth ICC World Cup title on the Narendra Modi Stadium.
26 Nov: Verstappen’s nineteenth win
Purple Bull’s triple world champion Max Verstappen wrapped up a 12 months of unprecedented dominance along with his record-extending nineteenth win in 22 races on the season-ending Abu Dhabi Grand Prix. With this win, the 26-year-old was in third place on System One’s all-time record of winners, changing into the primary driver to guide 1,000 racing laps in a single championship and scoring a report 575 factors.
28 Nov: Sheetal Devi turns into World No 1
Indian para archer Sheetal Devi grew to become the World No 1 within the girls’s compound archery open class. Sheetal, who topped in her class with 230 factors, had jumped two locations to attain this feat. She is world’s first-ever armless feminine archer to compete internationally and hails from Jammu and Kashmir.
December
9 Dec: WPL 2024 Public sale-
Thirty slots throughout 5 franchises have been stuffed within the 2024 Ladies’s Premier League public sale in Mumbai with 5 gamers making it to the crorepati membership. All-rounder Kashvee Gautam grew to become the most costly uncapped cricketer within the Ladies’s Premier League (WPL) after being snapped up by Gujarat Giants for Rs. 2 crore.
16 Dec: Vijay Hazare Trophy 2023-
Haryana received its first ever Vijay Hazare Trophy after beating Rajasthan by 30 runs within the closing performed on the Saurashtra Cricket Affiliation Stadium, Rajkot. Ashok Maneria, who performed for Rajasthan earlier than this season, led Haryana to the title.
16 Dec: IND-W vs ENG-W, One-off Check-
India recorded the largest win in girls’s Checks with a 347-run overcome England, surpassing the earlier better of 309 by Sri Lanka towards Pakistan. India’s win was its sixth in 39 Checks. It was additionally India’s first win over England at dwelling, extending its total constructive head-to-head to 3-1 throughout 15 conferences.
19 Dec: IPL 2024 Public sale-
The IPL 2024 Participant Public sale, held abroad for the primary time, noticed 72 gamers price 230.45 crore rupees being snapped up by 10 groups on the Coca Cola Area in Dubai. Australia’s Mitchell Starc grew to become the most costly participant ever to be bought on the IPL Public sale when the Kolkata Knight Riders acquired the pacer’s companies for Rs. 24.75 crore.