India's top sporting achievements in 2023

  




As the year 2023 draws to a close it is time for us to take stock of India's Sporting achievements for the year which saw several international events where Indians excelled . 

The top mention has to be for javelin maestro at just 25 years , Neeraj Chopra who went into the 2023 World Championships in Budapest as the outright favourite to clinch the gold medal and Neeraj completed a great victory to get crowned the world champion . He thus became just the third javelin thrower in history,  to simultaneously hold their continental, World and Olympic titles simultaneously. Neeraj then went on to defend his Asian Games gold medal as well later in the year to achieve the feat .



The next achievement  was an unprecedented haul for the Indian contingent at the Hangzhou Asian Games. India ended with a total of 107 medals which included 28 gold, 38 silvers and 41 bronze. Never before had India's medal tally at the Asiad crossed 100. 


In  badminton  , Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty have been at the forefront of the Indian cause for a while now but they seem to have come of age this year. The pair won three BWF titles and clinched gold in the Asian Games and the Asian Badminton Championships and all of that led to them rising to the top of the men's doubles rankings. They are the only Indians to have topped the world rankings in doubles badminton.


In chess Grandmaster Rameshbabu Praggnanandhaa  at just 18 years of age, became the  youngest ever player to have reached the title clash of the prestigious tournament FIDE world cup final .  It is a tremendous achievement by 18 year old prodigy who is poised to become an able successor of Indian chess legend  Vishwanathan Anand .



In cricket , though India failed to win the World cup final , Virat Kohli created history by reaching 50 ODI centuries and surpassing Sachin Tendulkar.  Kohli also achieved the distinction of scoring  765 runs in a single World cup which is now the all time highest in any World cup surpassing Tendulkar's figure of 673 runs in 2003 edition. 



Indian women's cricket team led by Harmanpreet  Kaur has attained big feats towards the end of this year beating England and Australia in back to back one off tests by big margins  and thereby winning test matches for the first time in almost 10 years  .

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