# Sports - First Khelo India University Games Bhubanweswawr, Odhisa - Edmund Hillary, Tenzing Norgay first person to climb mount Everest. Avatar Singh Cheema first Indian. Bachendri Singh Pal first Indian woman. - **Sofia Kenin** (of America) has won Women's single title of **Australian Open** by defeating Spain's Garbine Muguruza - Novak Djokovic (of Serbia) has won Men's single title of Australian Open by defeating Austria's Dominic Thiem. <hr> #### National Games **Rubigula**, Flame-Throated Bulbul, has been unveilled as <u>official mascot</u> of the 36th edition of the National Games. It will be held in **Goa** <hr> - Rohit Rajpal will continue as India's non-playing Davis Cup captain. - Kaamya Karthikeyan, a class 7th student of Navy Children School (NCS), Mumbai, became the youngest girl in the world to summit Mt. Aconcagua, the highest peak in South America and outsdie of Asia. - Indian Men's Hockey team captain **Manpreet Singh** has been named **Player of the year for 2019** by the International Hockey Federation. - 2022 Asian **Football** Confederation (AFC) **Women's Asian Cup** will be hosted in **India** --- ##### FIFA U-17 Women's Football World Cup * Host - India * Venues - Ahmedabad, Bhubaneswar, Guwahati, Navi Mumbai, and Kolkata --- * Sunil Kumar won gold medal in Greco-Roman category in the Asian Wrestling Championship, ending India's 27 years of gold medal drought. - All India Football Federatiion (AIFF, Delhi) has recieved the "Grassroots Charter Bronze Level" membership of AFC. - PV Sindhu won the ESPN's Female Sportsperson of the Year Award for a third consecutive time. Young shooter Saurabh bagged the honour in the male category. ------ #### Asian Wrestling Championship - AWF has been started in New Delhi. - **Divya Kakran** became the only second Indian woman to win a **gold** medal at the Asian **Wrestling** Championships. - Navjot Kaur had become the first Indian woman to win a gold medal at the Asian Championships in 2018. - **Ravi Dahiya** has won the **gold** medal in Asian **Wrestling** Chamionship in New Delhi. <hr> - Ross Taylor, England has become the first Crickter to play 100 matches in all three formats of the game - Motera Stadium, Saradar Patel Stadium biggest cricket stadium in world - Lionel Messi won his 6th Men's Ballon d'Or award for the year 2019.