All Important Sport News - June 2015

Nelson Piquet Jr won the inaugural FIA Formula E Championship title

Piquet drove for Chinese team Nextev.

Wei, Li won men's & women’s singles of Canada Open Badminton tournament 2015

In the finals played at Calgary, Wei defeated Ng Ka Long Angus 17-21 13-21 and Li defeated Kaori Imabeppu 21-17 25-23.

Gutta-Ponappa won women's doubles of Canada Open Badminton tournament 2015

In the final played at Calgary, the third seeded Indo-pair defeated top Dutch pair of Eefje Muskens and Selena Piek in straight games of 21-19, 21-16.

International Cricket Council approved amendments to playing conditions in ODIs and T20Is

The approvals were given during the ICC Annual Conference held in Barbados.

Veselin Topalov won the Norway Chess Tournament 2015

Topalov secured 6½ points while Anand ended the tournament in second place with 6 points.

Sachin Tendulkar named as greatest Test player of 21st century

Sachin received highest number of votes (23 percent votes) to emerge on the top of the list of the 100 best Test players since 2000. The survey was participated by more than 16000 fans.

Zaheer Abbas, former Captain of Pakistan’s Cricket team, named as President of ICC

The ICC Council also approved the admission of the Serbia Cricket Federation (SCF) as the 58th Affiliate Member during the weeklong annual conference held in Barbados.

Bangladesh won 3-match ODI series against India 2-1

Mustafizur Rahman of Bangladesh claimed the Man of the Series Award for his outstanding bowling performance. He picked up 13 wickets in the three matches.

Inderjeet Singh, Jinson Johnson won gold at Asian Athletics Grand Prix

In the first leg, India won a total of eight medals which included 2 Gold, 1 Silver and 5 Bronze medals

Indian Railway Team won World Railway Championship 2015 in Tennis and Volleyball

In 2011, the Indian Railway Tennis Team won Silver Medal during last USIC Tennis Championship and it won Bronze Medal during the USIC Volleyball Championship.

Russia won European Team Athletics Championships 2015

In totality, Russia won the 368.5 points, 22 points ahead of Germany which secured second place.

Jordan Spieth of US won US Open of Golf

Overall, he is the fourth-youngest player to win two majors and the sixth to win the Masters and US Open in the same year.

China won 2015 Nongfu Spring World Cup of Snooker

India stood at the third position in the competition that was held at Wuxi near Shanghai in China.

Andy Murray won the men’s singles of Aegon Tennis Championships at the Queen’s Club

Murray, who has won the title at the Queen’s Club in 2009, 2011, 2013 and now 2015, defeated South African Kevin Anderson 6-3, 6-4.

Serbia won 2015 FIFA U-20 World Cup by defeating Brazil 2-1

It is Serbia’s first title since it became an independent nation in 2006.

Roger Federer won Gerry Weber Open tennis title for eighth time

It is Federer’s 10th Halle final and his most at a single event in his career.

Mercedes driver Nico Rosberg of Germany won Austrian Grand Prix of Formula One

It is the eleventh overall championship title for Rosberg and the second title in Austria having won the 2014 title too.

Indian paddlers won team titles at South Asian Junior and Cadet Table Tennis Championships

To retain the title in junior boys section, the Indian paddlers won all the four matches without dropping a set. Similarly, cadet girls won all their matches without a hiccup.

AIBA constituted Ad-hoc committee chaired by Kishan Narsi for boxing in India

The ad-hoc committee will be chaired by Kishan Narsi and other members are Jay Kowli, Manisha Malhotra and Injeti Srinivas.

Sunil Chhetri became first Indian footballer to score 50 international goals

Guam defeated India 2-1, in the India's second match of the second round of qualifiers for 2018 football World Cup qualifying group match.

Rafael Nadal won Stuttgart Open

It was Rafael Nadal’s third Stuttgart Men’s single title and with this victory he also became first tennis player to win titles at the event on both clay and grass surface.

Sir Wesley Winfield Hall inducted into the ICC Cricket Hall of fame

With this, Hall became 80th cricketer to be inducted in the ICC Cricket Hall of Fame and 18th from West Indies itself.

FC Barcelona won 2015 UEFA Champions League title

This was the fifth time Barcelona has been crowned with the title and their fourth in the last decade after their victories in 2006, 2009 and 2011.

Indian Basketball Players Association launched in New Delhi

The launching ceremony also saw the nomination of President and other members of the IBPA.

Mercedes driver Lewis Hamilton of Britain won 2015 Canada Grand Prix of Formula 1

For Hamilton, it was the fourth victory at the Circuit Gilles Villeneuve on Montreal’s Isle Notre-Dame, where he earned his first Grand Prix win in 2007.

Momota and Ratchanok won Indonesia Open Badminton titles

Japanese rising star shuttler Kento Momota and Thailand's Ratchanok Intanon won the men’s and women’s singles respectively of the Indonesia Open Badminton tournament.

Stanislas Wawrinka won Men's single title of French Open

This was second grand slam title for Wawrinka after Australian Open 2014.

Justin Gatlin finished 100m race at Rome Diamond League in record time

With this, he has become the fastest man in the history of Rome Diamond League in 100m discipline having broken the track record held by Usain Bolt of Jamaica.

AIFF signed an agreement with French Football Federation

The agreement was signed by Praful Patel, President, AIFF in the presence of Kushal Das, General Secretary of AIFF.

AB De Villiers conferred with South Africa Cricketer of the Year Award for 2015

Having received the annual award for 2014 also, he joined Makhaya Ntini who received the award in successive years- 2005 and 2006.

Sundaram Ravi inducted into Emirates Elite Panel of ICC Umpires for 2015-16

Sunder Ravi has become the first Indian after S Venkataraghavan who was inducted into the elite panel in 2004.

Inderjeet won gold in shot put at 21st Asian Athletics Championships

Inderjeet heaved the iron ball to a new championship record of 20.41 metres, which he achieved in his fourth attempt.

Ravi Shastri re-appointed as Director of Indian Cricket team

Team India's tour to Bangladesh will start from 10 June 2015. During the tour, India will play one Test and three One-Day Internationals matches.

Tendulkar, Ganguly, Laxman inducted in BCCI’s Cricket Advisory Committee

This Cricket Advisory Committee will advise the BCCI on various progressive steps needed to enable Indian Cricket to be better prepared for the challenges of the future.

Mohun Bagan won I-League title of football after 13 years

In the final clash at Kanteerva Stadium in Bengaluru, Mohun Bagan managed a 1-1 draw against the defending champions Bengaluru FC.

Barcelona Football Club won King's Cup title for 27th time

This was 27th Copa del Rey title for Barcelona and second of the season after La Loga.

Gurpreet Singh became 5th Indian to get quota place in shooting for 2016 Rio Olympics

Singh became the fifth Indian shooter to win a quota place for the Rio Olympics after Gagan Narang, Jitu Rai, Apurvi Chandela and Abhinav Bindra.