50 Greatest Indian Athletes of all time

Most runs and centuries in International cricket. Sachin Tendulkar appeared in 6 World Cup editions and finally won World Cup in 2011. Sachin is the first Indian Sports person to get Bharat Ratna, India's highest civilian award.

3 times Olympic Gold medalist in Men's field hockey. India's highest sporting honour, Major Dhyan Chand Khel Ratna Award is named after him.

Neeraj Chopra is the first Asian athlete to win an Olympic gold medal in javelin and the first Asian to win gold in his event at the World Championship.

Sindhu is the first and only Indian to become the badminton world champion and only the second individual athlete from India to win two consecutive medals at the Olympic Games.

Milkha Singh is the only athlete to win gold at 400 metres at the Asian Games as well as the Commonwealth Games.

Five-time World Chess Champion and two-time Chess World Cup Champion. He became the first grandmaster from India in 1988.

Paes won a bronze medal for India in men's singles at the 1996 Atlanta Olympic Games making him the 1st Asian in Olympic history to win a tennis medal and the only Indian till date. He won eight men's doubles and ten mixed doubles Grand Slam titles.

3 times Olympic Gold medalist in men's field Hockey. His Olympic record for most goals scored by an individual in an Olympic men's hockey final remains unbeaten.

He is the first Indian to win an Individual Olympic Gold Medal. He is the first Indian to have held concurrently the world and Olympic titles for the men's 10-meter air rifle event, having earned those honors at the 2008 Summer Olympics and the 2006 ISSF World Shooting Championships.

Multiple Record holder in International Cricket. Kohli achieved no. 1 ranking in all three formats of the game. He has most number of ICC Awards. Kohli won World Cup Player of the tournament 3 times (2 in T20 WC, 1 in ODI WC). Virat was part of 2011 ODI World Cup winning team and 2024 T20 World Cup winning team.

Usha has won 4 gold medals and 7 silver medals in the Asian Games. She is often associated as the "Queen of Indian track and field".

Mary Kom is the only woman to win the World Amateur Boxing Championship six times, the only female boxer to have won a medal in each one of the first seven World Championships, and the only boxer (male or female) to win eight World Championship medals.

Avani won a gold medal in the 10m air rifle standing at the 2024 Summer Paralympics at Paris and defended the gold she won at Tokyo, thus making history by winning two back to back golds. She is the first Indian woman to win multiple medals in a single Paralympics.

He won the gold at the men's javelin throw F64 event during both 2020 Tokyo Paralympics and the 2024 Paris Paralympics. He set a new Paralympic record both times with his throws of 68.55 m and 70.59 m respectively.

Nehwal is the first Indian badminton player to have won an Olympic medal, the first Indian to have reached the final of the BWF World Championships, and the first Indian to have won the BWF World Junior Championships. She is 2nd Indian Badminton player after Prakash Padukone to achieve No. 1 ranking.

Dev is the only player in the history of cricket to have taken more than 400 wickets (434 wickets) and scored more than 5,000 runs in Test. Dev captained the Indian cricket team that won the 1983 Cricket World Cup.

Advani has won 18 billiards world titles, the IBSF World Billiards Championship on 17 occasions and the World Team Billiards Championship once. In snooker, he won the IBSF World Snooker Championship three times, IBSF World six-red championship twice and the IBSF World Team Cup and IBSF World Team Championship one time each.

Mirza won six major titles – three in women's doubles and three in mixed doubles. She is the first Indian to be ranked world No. 1 in WTA's doubles rankings.

Kumar's 2008 Olympic medal was only the second for India in wrestling, and the first since Khashaba Dadasaheb Jadhav's bronze medal at the 1952 Summer Olympics. He is the first and only Indian to win a gold medal at World Wrestling Championships.

Chhetri is the most-capped Football player and the all-time top goalscorer of the India national team.

Sreejesh's goalkeeping played a vital role in the Indian national team's bronze medal win at the 2020 Summer Olympics men's field hockey tournament. He was again part of bronze medal winning Indian team in Paris Olympic. He won a total of 17 international medals in his career, FIH Hockey World Championships, Commonwealth Games, Asian tournaments combined.

Padukone was first Indian Badminton player to ranked World No. 1 in 1980; the same year he became the first Indian to win the All England Open Badminton Championships.

Chanu won the silver medal at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics in the Women's 49 kg category. Mirabai Chanu has won the World Championships and multiple medals at the Commonwealth Games including Gold at CWG 2022.

Dutt won the bronze medal in the 60 kg category. He won gold medals at the 2010 and the 2014 Commonwealth Games.

Anju Bobby George won the bronze medal in long jump at the 2003 World Championships in Athletics in Paris. With this achievement, she became the first Indian athlete ever to win a medal in a World Championships in Athletics.