Sports Personalities and Achievements

Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce won the gold medal in the women's 100 meters at the 2008 Beijing Olympics with a time of 10.78 seconds.

Carl Lewis, Mark Spitz, and Paavo Nurmi all achieved the milestone of winning nine Olympic gold medals during their careers.

Abhinav Bindra won the gold medal in the men's 10m air rifle event, marking India's first individual Olympic gold medal.

Maurren Maggi of Brazil won the gold medal in the women's long jump at the 2008 Olympics with a jump of 7.04 meters.

Alex Schwazer of Italy won the gold medal in men's 50 km walk at the 2008 Beijing Olympics with a time of 3:37:09. Jared Tallent (misspelled as Javed) of Australia won the silver medal, and Denis Nizhegorodov of Russia won the bronze.

Yelena Isinbayeva of Russia won the gold medal in women's pole vault at the 2008 Beijing Olympics by clearing 5.05 meters, setting an Olympic record. Jennifer Stuczynski (misspelled as Stuczynski) of USA won silver, and Svetlana Feofanova won bronze.

Usain Bolt won the gold medal in the men's 100 meters at the 2008 Beijing Olympics with a then-world record time of 9.69 seconds.

Katerina Emmons of the Czech Republic won the first gold medal of the 2008 Beijing Olympics in the women's 10m air rifle event.

Michael Phelps won eight gold medals in swimming at the 2008 Beijing Olympics, setting a record for the most gold medals in a single Games.

Usain Bolt won the gold medal in the men's 200 meters at the 2008 Beijing Olympics with a world record time of 19.30 seconds.

Vijender Kumar won the bronze medal in the middleweight boxing category for India at the 2008 Beijing Olympics.

In the 4th World Military Games held in 2007 in Hyderabad, India finished in 19th position in the medal tally.

Justin Gatlin won the gold medal in the 100m sprint at the 2004 Athens Olympics, making him the fastest man in that competition.

Manjeet Kaur was part of the Indian women's 4x400m relay team that won the gold medal at the 2006 Doha Asian Games.

Parimarjan Negi is a well-known Indian chess grandmaster. He achieved the title of Grandmaster at a very young age, making him one of the youngest to do so at the time.