From RCB’s IPL triumph to India’s World Cup win — Finest maiden titles and achievements of 2025

2025 was yet one more yr stuffed with sporting brilliance, particularly notable for people and groups that gained in opposition to the chances. From cricket to soccer and even chess, trophy droughts had been ended, information had been damaged, and historical past was made.

Sportstar takes a take a look at the ten greatest maiden wins and performances of the yr:

Lando Norris turns into F1 champion

McLaren’s Lando Norris celebrates along with his group after changing into the 2025 System One World Champion.
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After 17 lengthy years, Lando Norris delivered McLaren its first System One drivers’ crown after a gritty third-place end within the remaining race of the season in Abu Dhabi. Norris, who grew to become Britain’s eleventh System One world champion, ended the season with 423 factors, with four-time reigning champion Max Verstappen on 421 and teammate Oscar Piastri on 410.

Royal Challengers Bengaluru wins IPL

Royal Challengers Bangaluru captain Rajat Patidar lifts the IPL trophy, surrounded by teammates, after beating Punjab Kings within the remaining.
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After 17 years and 286 video games, Royal Challengers Bengaluru lifted the Indian Premier League trophy by beating Punjab Kings by six runs within the remaining. Following defeats within the remaining within the 2009, 2011, and 2016 editions, the Rajat Patidar-led aspect went by the marketing campaign with all of the elements of a champion aspect, ending second within the league stage with 9 wins and 4 losses earlier than beating PBKS within the qualifier 1 and remaining.

Indian ladies’s cricket group wins ICC ODI World Cup

Indian ladies’s group captain carries the ODI World Cup trophy in direction of her teammates after beating South Africa within the remaining.
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The Indian ladies’s group created historical past because it beat South Africa by 52 runs within the Girls’s ODI World Cup 2025 remaining to clinch a maiden ICC crown.

A little bit of fortune helped the group scrape by to the knockout stage, however what adopted was nothing wanting brilliance.

The ladies in blue surprised large Australia within the semifinal, due to Jemimah Rodrigues and Harmanpreet Kaur, earlier than late substitute Shafali Verma and Participant of the Match Deepti Sharma stepped up within the remaining and helped them cross the barrier that had stopped them in 2005 and 2017.

India wins Blind Girls’s T20 Cricket World Cup

India’s gamers pose with the trophy after profitable in opposition to Nepal on the Blind Girls’s Twenty20 World Cup 2025 remaining match within the P. Saravanamuttu Stadium in Colombo.
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Days after the senior ladies’s cricket group lifted the World Cup, India gained the inaugural Blind Girls’s T20 World Cup in Colombo after defeating Nepal within the remaining.

Paris Saint-Germain wins UEFA Champions League

PSG’s Marquinhos holds up the trophy as he celebrates along with his teammates after profitable the Champions League remaining in opposition to Inter Milan.
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Greater than a decade after its Qatari takeover, Paris Saint-Germain lastly bought its palms on the UEFA Champions League trophy after thrashing Inter Milan 5-0 within the remaining—the most important win ever in a summit conflict within the match.

The title helped the Parisians full the treble and develop into solely the second French membership, after Marseille in 1993, to safe the title. Moreover, Luis Enrique grew to become solely the second supervisor (after Pep Guardiola) to win the treble twice, having gained it beforehand with Barcelona in 2015.

Divya Deshmukh wins FIDE Girls’s World Cup

FIDE Girls’s World Cup champion Divya Deshmukh poses along with her trophy and medal.
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Nineteen-year-old Divya Deshmukh grew to become the primary Indian to win the FIDE Girls’s World Cup 2025 after beating compatriot Koneru Humpy within the remaining.

It was a fairytale end for the lady from Nagpur, who prevailed 2.5-1.5 after the 2 classical-format video games led to attracts. With the win, Divya grew to become India’s 88th Grandmaster and solely the fourth lady from the nation to attain this standing.

Neeraj Chopra crosses the 90m mark

The 90.23m throw is India’s Nationwide Document mark.
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Neeraj Chopra broke the 90m barrier for the primary time in his profession, with a throw of 90.23 on the Doha Diamond League.

The 2-time Olympic medallist recorded 90.23m in his third try throughout the javelin remaining on the occasion. Nevertheless, on the night time, Neeraj needed to accept second place after ending behind Germany’s Julian Weber, who recorded 91.06m.

Vaibhav Suryavanshi pronounces himself to the world

With a knock of 101 runs off 38 balls, Rajasthan Royals’ Vaibhav Suryavanshi scored the second-fastest century in IPL historical past.
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Teenage batting sensation Vaibhav Suryavanshi made his mark within the cricket world when he featured for Rajasthan Royals throughout IPL 2025. The 14-year-old grew to become the youngest centurion in males’s T20 cricket in simply his third match with a 101-run knock off 38 balls—the second-fastest century in IPL historical past.

Moreover, he blasted an unbeaten 108 off 61 balls for Bihar in opposition to Maharashtra within the SMAT 2025, changing into the youngest participant ever to report a century within the match’s historical past.

In Bihar’s first recreation of the Vijay Hazare Trophy, Suryavanshi smashed 190 runs off simply 84 balls in opposition to Arunachal Pradesh. In direction of the top of the yr, he was conferred the Pradhan Mantri Rashtriya Bal Puraskar by President Droupadi Murmu.

Oklahoma Metropolis Thunder wins NBA title

This was Oklahoma Metropolis Thunder’s first NBA title since its relocation from Seattle to Oklahoma in 2008.
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Oklahoma Metropolis Thunder beat the Indiana Pacers 103-91 in Recreation 7 of the NBA 2025 Finals for the primary title of its brief historical past.

Powered by basic supervisor Sam Presti and common season and Finals MVP Shai Gilgeous-Alexander, Thunder managed a 68-win common season earlier than beating Memphis Grizzlies, Denver Nuggets, Minnesota Timberwolves, and the Pacers to clinch the championship.

Crystal Palace wins FA Cup for its first-ever trophy

Marc Guehi and Joel Ward of Crystal Palace carry the FA Cup trophy after their group’s victory within the FA Cup remaining in opposition to Manchester Metropolis.
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Premier League membership Crystal Palace secured the primary main trophy of its 164-year-old historical past after beating Manchester Metropolis 1-0 within the FA Cup remaining.

Native boy Eberechi Eze scored simply 16 minutes into the sport as Oliver Glasner’s males held off the seven-time winner Metropolis to create historical past.

Revealed on Dec 30, 2025