One Liner (Current Affairs) - Sports, October 2015

October 2015 (Current Affairs) One Liner

Sports

• Abhishek Verma Makes History in Archery World Cup Final by becoming First Indian to Win Silver Medal.

• Indian tennis player Sania Mirza and her Swiss partner Martina Hingis won the 2015 Wuhan Open Women’s Doubles Trophy.

• China’s Xuerui Li defeated P V Sindhu to win the Women's Single title in Denmark Open 2015

• China's Chen Long defeated Tommy Sugiarto in the final to win the Men's singles title in Denmark Open 2015.

• FIFA has suspended its President Sepp Blatter, Secretary General Jerome Valcke and Vice-President Michel Platini for 90 days.

• Great Britain beat India 4-3 in the Sultan of Johor Cup Junior Men's Hockey tournament at Johor Bahru in Malaysia.

• Hockey India (HI) has signed a three-year partnership with Sports Authority of India (SAI), extending its commitment towards helping hockey regain its position as the country's top sport.

• Indian Archer Deepika Kumari has won Silver medal at the Archery World Cup in Mexico city.

• Indian Shuttler Ajay Jayaram wins Men's singles title at the Dutch Open Grand Prix.

• Indian Tennis player Saketh Myneni wins 2015 Vietnam Open Tennis Trophy.

• Lewis Hamilton wins Russian Grand Prix Title.

• Luis Leao Pinto of Portugal has won 2015 MTB Himalaya Title, Asia’s premier mountain biking race for the second time in the Solo Men’s category.

• Mercedes' Lewis Hamilton won his third Formula 1 World Championship to become only the second British driver after Sir Jackie Stewart to achieve the feat.

• Commemorating Mahatama Gandhi's 146th birth anniversary, the BCCI launched a specially-minted toss coin with the images of the Father of the Nation and Nelson Mandela for the India-South Africa cricket series.

• Pakistan withdraws from the Asia Cup for blind cricketers to be held in India next year, claiming threats to the security of the players due to the protests faced by visiting Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) officials.

• Russia’s Sergey Karjakin wins the 2015 Chess World Cup, hosted at Azerbaijan.

• Saina Nehwal lost her World No.1 crown to All England and World champion Carolina Marin of Spain.

• The greatest footballer Mr Edson Arantes da Nascimento, also known as Black pearl or “Pele” arrived on a 3 day visit to Kolkata.

• The Indo-Swiss pair of Sania Mirza and Martina Hingis has won the 2015 Women’s Doubles Title of China Open.

• Cricketer Virender Sehwag has formally announced his retirement from international cricket.

• Vijender Singh, India's first Olympic medal winning boxer, defeats Briton Sonny Whiting to win his debut Pro-Boxing bout.

• India’s five-time world boxing champion MC Mary Kom has announced that she has decided to hang up her gloves after the 2016 Olympics in Rio.

• Zaheer Khan, India's fast bowlers has announced his retirement from international and first-class cricket.

• Virat Kohli became the fourth player to register hundred against all the Test playing countries in ODIs.

• Indian cricket legend Sachin Tendulkar is acquiring majority ownership in Indian Super League (ISL) franchise Kerala Blasters in a shareholding re-alignment.

• South Africa win T20 series 2-0 as 3rd match abandoned due to rain.

• Around 2,000 athletes from many indigenous ethnic groups and 30 countries are taking part in the first World Indigenous Games in Brazil.

• The South Asian Games will be held in Guwahati and Shillong from 6^th February 16^th February, 2016 with eight countries. The participating countries are Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka, besides hosts India.