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Neeraj Chopra won the men's javelin throw at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games, which were held in 2021, and that medal was India's first Olympic gold in athletics and its first individual gold since shooting in 2008.

Badminton had appeared earlier as a demonstration game, but medals were first awarded at Barcelona in 1992, in men’s and women’s singles and doubles; mixed doubles was added at Atlanta in 1996.

At the Gold Coast Commonwealth Games of 2018 she became the first Indian woman to win the singles gold in table tennis, beating Singapore’s Yu Mengyu in the final, and she also took team gold at the same Games.

He won the men’s singles title at the All England Open in 1980, the first Indian to do so in the oldest badminton tournament in the world, first held in 1899.

The Swaythling Cup, presented by Lady Swaythling, is the trophy of the men’s team event at the World Table Tennis Championships, held since the first championships of 1926.

The laws of table tennis fix the playing surface at 76 centimetres above the floor, with the table 2.74 metres long and 1.525 metres wide, and the net across the middle 15.25 centimetres high.

The International Table Tennis Federation enlarged the ball from 38 millimetres to 40 millimetres after the Sydney Olympics of 2000, so that the slower, more visible ball would make rallies easier to follow on television.

Since 2006 badminton has used rally point scoring, in which a point is won on every rally whoever served, a game runs to 21 points and a match is decided over the best of three games.

The badminton net sags very slightly at the middle, so the laws fix two heights: 1.524 metres at the centre of the court and 1.55 metres over the side lines, at the posts.

The Laws of Badminton require a feathered shuttle to carry sixteen feathers fixed in a cork base covered with thin leather, and the feathers, usually from the wing of a goose or a duck, must be of the same length in one shuttle.

Named after Sir George Thomas, an English player and administrator, it is the world men’s team championship in badminton and was first contested in 1948–49.

The Corbillon Cup is the trophy of the women’s team event at the World Table Tennis Championships, and its companion, the Swaythling Cup, is the men’s team trophy.

Badminton umpires use three cards, and the black one is the last of them: it removes the player or the pair from the match altogether, and the referee is informed.

The Ryder Cup is a team golf tournament, played between teams representing the United States and Europe. It began in 1927 and is named after Samuel Ryder, the English seed merchant who donated the trophy.

Karnataka won the 2017-18 Vijay Hazare Trophy, beating Saurashtra in the final played in Delhi.

The 1983 Cricket World Cup was hosted by England, and the final was played at Lord's in London. India, led by Kapil Dev, beat the West Indies by 43 runs in that final on 25 June 1983, scoring only 183 and then bowling the holders out for 140.

Back-stick is a foul in field hockey, called when a player strikes the ball with the rounded back of the stick.

The US Open is played at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in the Flushing Meadows park of the New York borough of Queens, on hard courts, in the last week of August and the first of September.

Under the Rules of Tennis a court is 78 feet, about 23.77 metres, from baseline to baseline, and the length is the same whether singles or doubles is being played.

Points in a game are called fifteen, thirty and forty, and when both players reach forty the score is deuce.