Laura Dahlmeier took her second gold medal at PyeongChang 2018, as she emerged victorious in women’s 10km biathlon. Two days prior she took the gold in 7.5km Biathlon event., thus creating history in Biathlon for Germany. Slovakia’s Anastasiya Kuzmina...
1938
Vijay Mehra, the youngest Test cricketer for India at that time, was born on this day. He was overtaken by Maninder Singh in 1982-83. An opener, Mehra played two Tests in his debut series but remained out of contention...
Saurav Ghosal, the National Champion in squash, clinched the Vedanta Indian Open Squash after a playing brilliantly in the final hours of the final match against No 2 seed Nicolas Mueller of Switzerland. Top seeded Ghoshal won 11-9 5-11...
India had an eventful opening day in the Asian Games invitational athletics test event by winning two gold, three silver and three bronze in Jakarta. Javelin thrower Davinder Singh Kang and 400m runner Sonia Baishya won the gold. stamped...
Redmond Gerard of USA scored a run of 87.16 to win gold in the Men’s Swboarding Slopestyle event ahead of Max Parrot and Mark McMorris of Canada. 17-year old Gerard, the youngest in the men’s competition, landed a perfect...
The Indian women cricketers are in the same country as their male counterparts, playing One Day Internationals against the South Africans. They have already won their series by winning the first two matches of the 3-match series. But there...
1971
India won their first Test against West Indies at the 25th attempt in Port-of Spain. Dilip Sardesai's hundred and half-centuries by Gavaskar and Eknath Solkar gave India a first-innings lead of 138. In the second innings, Sunil Gavaskar hit...
Sweden’s Charlotte Kalla claimed the first gold of the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics in skiathlon cross country race ahead of Norway’s Marit Bjoergen who was set to win her third straight gold medal in the event. Though not a gold...
At around -28 degrees centigrade with steady winds making the chill further, Thomas Bach, president of the International Olympic Committee, inaugurated the 23rd Winter Olympics Games at Pyeonghang in South Korea.
“This is the moment that we have all been...
1928
Jack Hobbs became the oldest man in Test history to score a hundred when he knocked 142 in Melbourne against Australia. He was 46 years and 82 days old.
1931
Neil Adcock, the first South African to get to 100 Test...