First in Sports
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| First Olympic team medal | Gold for Hockey at the 1928 Summer Olympics Amsterdam, beating the Nethherlands. |
| First Olympic individual medal (in British India) | Norman Pritchard, 1900 |
| First Olympic individual medal | Bronze by K.D. Jadhav for wrestling at the 1952 Summer Olympic Helsinki. |
| First Person to swim across the English Channel | Mihir Sen, |
| First Women to swim across the English Channel | Mihir Sen, 1958 |
| First Formula I race driver | Narain Karthikeyan |
| First Formula I team | Force India F1 |
| First A1 GP race victory | Narain Karthikeyan, Zhuhai, China, 2007 |
| First Asian Games organised | Delhi (1951) |
| First in CHESS | |
| First Chess Grandmaster | Viswanathan Anand in 1988, at the age of 18 |
| First FIDE World Chess Champion | Viswanathan Anand in December 2000 |
| First Undisputed World Chess Champion | Viswanathan Anand in September 2007 |
| First in TENNIS | |
| First Tennis Grand Slam title | Mahesh Bhupati (partnering with Japanese Rika Hiraki) in the Mixed Doubles category of the 1997 French Open |
| First Tennis Grand Slam win by a women | Nirupama Vaidyanathan beat Italian Gloria Pizzichini in the First round of 1998 Australian Open First Women in 4th round (higest as of 2008) of a tennis |
| Grand Slam event | Sania Mirza in the Singles Category of the 2005 US Open |
| First Tennis Grand Slam Junior title | Leander Paes in the Singles category of the 1990 Wimbledon Championship. He is also the only medal fetcher for India in the Atlanta Olympics. He won a bronze medal, the only medal that put India in the medal tally. |
| First Tennis Grand Slam Junior title by a women | Sania Mirza (partnering with Russian Alisa Kleybanova) in the Doubles category of the 2003 Wimbledon Championships. |
| First in CRICKET | |
| First Cricket tournament | The Bombay Triangular which Later became the Bombay Quadrangular (1912-1936) |
| First Cricket Test Match | Against England at Lord's June,25, 1932 |
| First Cricket Captain | CK Nayudu for the 1932 tour of England |
| First Cricketer to score a century | Lala Amarnath in 1933 against England in South Bombay |
| First Cricketer to score a triple century | Vijay Hazare |
| First Test Cricket cricket hat-trick | Harbhajan Singh against Austrlia in March 2001 |
| First Cricketer World Cup Championship Win | At the 1983 Cricket World Cup |
| First Batsman to complete 10,000 runs in Test Cricket | Sunil Gavaskar (he was the first in the world to achieve this feat.) |
| First Batsman to complete 10,000 runs in ODI Cricket | Sachin Tendulkar (he was the first in the world to achieve this feat.) |
| First Cricketer to score 75 Test and ODI centuries | Sachin Tendulkar |
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