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Indian women's hockey team wins FIH Nations Cup, returns to Pro League
India beat hosts New Zealand 2-0 in the final to win the FIH Women's Nations Cup and earn promotion to the FIH Pro League.
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India beat hosts New Zealand 2-0 in the final to win the FIH Women's Nations Cup and earn promotion to the FIH Pro League.
Grandmaster R Praggnanandhaa won Norway Chess 2026, becoming the first Indian ever to claim the super-elite title, after a final-round win over Germany's Vincent Keymer in Oslo.
Grandmaster R Praggnanandhaa became the first Indian to win the Norway Chess title, defeating Vincent Keymer in the final round and beating world No. 1 Magnus Carlsen twice during the event.
Two-time Commonwealth Games champion Mirabai Chanu will lead India's 11-member weightlifting squad at the Glasgow 2026 Commonwealth Games.
At the 65th National Inter-State Senior Athletics Championships in Bhubaneswar, Dev Meena set a national pole vault record (5.46m) and teenager Anushka Yadav broke the women's hammer throw national record (67.02m), both qualifying for the 2026 Asian Games.
At the ISSF Junior World Championship 2026 in Suhl, Germany, India's Abhinav Shaw and Shambhavi Kshirsagar won the 10m air rifle mixed team gold with a junior world record on June 24, 2026, part of a six-medal day for India.
Olympic javelin champion Neeraj Chopra and steeplechaser Parul Chaudhary were named Best Male and Best Female Athletes of the Year 2025 at the first-ever Indian Athletics Awards.
India's women's 4x100m relay team won gold with a season-best 43.85s at the Asian Relays Championships 2026 in China.
Indian boxers won 12 medals, including eight gold, at the 56th Grand Prix Usti nad Labem in Czechia, with Olympic medallist Lovlina Borgohain among the gold winners.
16-year-old Pritam Kendre won the 10m air rifle gold at the ISSF Junior World Championship in Suhl, Germany.
Boxer Jyoti won India's only gold (48kg) at the World Boxing Cup Stage 2 in Guiyang, China, as India finished with one gold and three silver.
Neeraj Chopra and Parul Chaudhary were named Best Male and Female Athletes at the first-ever Indian Athletics Awards in New Delhi.
Midfielder Manpreet Singh became India's most-capped hockey player with his 413th cap against Germany in the FIH Pro League, overtaking Dilip Tirkey.
India opened the ISSF Junior World Championship 2026 in Suhl, Germany with three medals, including individual and team gold for Sejal Kamble in the junior women's 10m air pistol.
Indian archer Dhiraj Bommadevara won the men's individual recurve gold and, with Kumkum Mohod, the mixed team gold at the Archery World Cup Stage 3 in Antalya.
Deepti Sharma took 5/10 against Pakistan to become the highest wicket-taker in Women's T20Is as India won their World Cup opener by 64 runs.
Olympic and world champion Neeraj Chopra will return to action at the Doha Diamond League on June 19, his first competition of the 2026 season.
The BAI announced India's badminton squad for the 2026 Asian Games in Aichi-Nagoya, led by PV Sindhu, Lakshya Sen and Satwik-Chirag.
Hurdler Tejas Shirse clocked 13.27s at the Indian Athletics Series 9 in Ludhiana, breaking his own national record and qualifying for the Commonwealth Games 2026.
Olympic and world javelin champion Neeraj Chopra will skip the Doha Diamond League on June 19 as he continues to recover from a back injury during a training camp in Switzerland; he is yet to begin his 2026 season.
Hosts India dominated the inaugural World Yogasana Championships 2026 in Ahmedabad, finishing on top with 114 medals including a century of golds (102); Japan placed second.
Long jumper Shaili Singh won gold with a 6.24m effort and the Indian women's 4x100m relay team also struck gold (equalling the meet record) at the New Taipei City Athletics Open 2026.
India ended the Ulaanbaatar Open Senior Ranking Series wrestling tournament with 17 medals and a top-three finish, with Deepak, Sagar Jaglan and Dinesh winning men's freestyle golds on the final day.
Indian International Master Savitha Shri Baskar won the 2026 Women's Asian Individual Chess Championship in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, finishing on 7.5/9 and qualifying for the 2027 FIDE Women's World Cup.
Indian player Savitha Shri Baskar won the Women's Asian Chess Championship, adding to India's strong run in continental chess.
India beat Bangladesh 3-1 in the final to win the SAFF Women's Championship 2026 — their record-extending sixth title and first since 2019.
The Indian U-18 men's hockey team won the Men's U-18 Asia Cup 2026, beating hosts Japan 4-1 in the final at Kakamigahara — its record third title — powered by Ashish Tani Purti's hat-trick.
Fifteen-year-old Vaibhav Sooryavanshi earned a maiden India call-up for the T20I tours of Ireland and England and the Asian Games, becoming the youngest player ever picked for the national side and breaking a 36-year-old record held by Sachin Tendulkar.
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