Sport Events in 2000

Jan. 1:

Tamil Nadu men, Railways women, win the team events in the Senior National Basketball championship.

Jan. 2:

Surya Sekar Ganguly (Goodricke National Academy) wins the Junior National chess championship in Sivakasi.

Jan. 4:

Australia clinches the Test series against India 3-0 with a thumping win at Sydney.

Jan. 5:

Tamil Nadu regains Subbiah Pillai Trophy one day cricket tournament.

Jan. 8:

PSCB men and women lift titles in the Senior National and Inter-State table tennis championship in Lucknow.

Jan. 8:

Abhin Shyam Gupta and B.R. Meenakshi win the NSCI Grand Prix all India badminton tournament in Mumbai.

Jan. 9:

Golmard of France wins the ATP Gold Flake open in Chennai.

Jan. 12:

Manish Chotrani (men) and Mekala Sudbedar (women) claim the titles in the National squash championship in Chennai.

Jan. 13:

S. Raman and Moum Das lift singles title in the National table tennis championship in Lucknow.

Jan. 14:

Corinthas lifts the FIFA's Inaugural World Club football championship in Rio De Janerio.

Jan. 16:

Punjab men, Railway women win the Senior National Volleyball championship in Salem.

Jan. 17:

Board President XI lift the Wills cricket Trophy.

Jan. 19:

Railways retains the Lady Ratan Trophy Women's National Hockey championship

Jan. 21:

Hoang Thanh (Vietnam) and Xu Jun (China) claim the men's and women's title in the Asian Chess championship in Udaipur.

Jan. 22:

India retains the golf title in the SAARC championship in Dhaka.

Jan. 27:

Don Budge (84), the first man to win a Grand Slam in tennis passed away in USA.

Pugilist Gurucharan Singh wins gold medal in the light heavyweight category of the Seoul International Boxing tournament.

Jan. 28:

Indian junior cricket team wins the Youth cricket World Cup.

Jan. 30:

Andre Agassi wins the Australian Open tennis championship. He emulates Rod Laver's feat of reaching four successive Grand Slam finals.

Gary Kasparov wins the Corus Chess tournament at Wijk Aan Zee.

Jan. 31:

North Zone lifts Deodhar Trophy one day cricket tournament.

Feb. 4:

Australia wins the Carlton and United Series Trophy Triangular series in Australia.

Feb. 5:

Viswanathan Anand retains title in the Wydra International rapid chess tournament in Haifa.

Feb. 6:

Farah Khan claims the women's title in the National Billiards championship in Bangalore.

Feb. 8:

Tiger Woods claims sixth straight PGA golf title.

Feb. 12:

Ashok Shandilya wins the men's title in the National Billiards championship in Bangalore.

Feb. 13:

Cameroon clinches the African Nations Football Cup at Lagos.

Feb. 20:

India qualifies for the Thomas Cup finals defeating Thailand.

Feb. 21:

Yasin Merchant bags his second title in the National snooker championship in Bangalore.

Punjab men and Railways women emerge winners in the Indian Oil Servo Super league Volleyball championship in Chennai.

Feb. 25:

Brian Lara resigns as West Indies captain.

Feb. 26:

Sweden and China claim the world team table tennis championship at Kuala Lumpur.

Pakistan retains the Sultan Azlan Shah hockey cup held in Kuala Lumpur.

Mar. 1:

P.Harikrishna becomes India's youngest International Master in the Sangli International chess tournament.

Gopichand wins the Indian Oil Servo National badminton championship at Kochi-making it four in a row.

Mar. 6:

South Africa hands out to India its first home Test series loss in 13 years.

Mar. 12:

Michael Schumacher wins the Australian Formula One Grand Prix at Melbourne.

Mar. 13:

Xia Xuanze (men) of China and Gong Zhichao (women) win the All-England badminton championship at Birmingham.

Mar. 19:

India clinches the Pepsi one day cricket series against South Africa.

Mar. 20:

Siddharth Jain wins the French Open Badminton championship in Paris.

Mar. 23:

Udham Singh (72), hockey legend, passed away at his home town Sansarpur (near Jalandhar).

Mar. 24:

Rupail Repale of India becomes the first woman and the youngest to swim the Robben Island channel- both ways.

Mar. 27:

Indian Railways wins the women's cricket championship at Jorhat.

Mohan Bagan lifts title in the National Football league in Calcutta.

Mar. 28:

Courtney Walsh becomes the leading wicket taker (435) in Tests overtaking Kapil Dev.

Apr. 1:

India wins four golds in the under-14 Youth chess championship in Teheran.

Apr. 5:

International Badminton Federation (IBF) bans Aparna Popat from playing international competition for three months for taking a banned drug- Phenylpropanolamine.

Apr. 8:

Air India wins the Rani of Jhansi women's cricket tournament in Chennai.

Apr. 9:

Australia wins the first leg of the pre- olympic hockey tournament at Sydney.

Apr. 11:

Nisha Millet becomes the first Indian swimmer to qualify for the Sydney Olympics.

Apr. 16:

India wins the second leg of the pre- olympic hockey tournament at Perth.

Apr. 22:

Pace bowler Abey Kuruvilla, who represented India in 10 Tests and 25 one-day internationals, announces his retirement from domestic and international cricket.

Apr. 23:

Mumbai regains Ranji Trophy in Mumbai.

Apr. 23:

Maharashtra wins the Santosh Trophy in Thrissur.

May 6:

Saurav Ganguly wins the Ceat International Cricketer of the Year award 1999-2000.

May 7:

Mika Hakkinen wins the Formula one Spanish Grand Prix at Barcelona.

May 14:

South Korea wins the Asia Cup junior hockey tournament at Kuala Lumpur.

May 20:

China claims the Uber cup at Kuala Lumpur.

May 21:

Indonesia claims the Thomas cup at Kuala Lumpur.

May 24:

Real Madrid records its eighth Champions League crown with a win over Valencia at Stade de France (Paris).

Jun. 3:

Netherlands wins the women's title in the Championship Trophy hockey tournament.

Jun. 4:

David Coulthard wins the Monaco Grand Prix at Monte Carlo.

Jun. 6:

Abhijit Kunte wins the National `A' chess championship at Mumbai.

Jun. 7:

Pakistan lifts its maiden Asia Cup at Dhaka.

Jun. 10:

Mary Pierce wins the women's French Open championship.

Jun. 11:

Gustavo Kuerten wins the men's French Open championship.

Brian Statham (69), former English fast bowler, passed away in London.

Jun. 18:

K.M. Beenamol breaks P.T. Usha's record in 400m at 51.21 sec in an international meet at Kiev in Ukraine.

Jun. 19:

Salgocar wins the Pondicherry Millennium all India Football tournament in Pondicherry.

Jun. 19:

Schumacher wins the Canadian Grand Prix at Montreal.

Jun. 25:

India lifts the Asia Cup sub-junior hockey championship in Kuala Lumpur.

Jun. 30:

France wins the Euro 2000 football tournament at Brussels.

Jul. 5:

Shakti Singh creates Asian record in shot put by heaving to 20.60m. at the Kanteerava Stadium in Bangalore.

Jul. 5:

Rachita Mistry breaks P.T. Usha's longstanding record in 100m (11.39s) clocking 11.26s in the National circuit meet in Bangalore.

Jul. 8:

Venus Williams wins the women's Wimbledon tennis championship.

Jul. 9:

India wins the Inaugural Asian cricket council under-15 cricket championship at Kuala Lumpur.

Pakistan fast bowler Waqar Younis becomes the first bowler to be banned for tampering with the ball in the Singer Cup one day cricket tournament.

India clinches the Inaugural Asian cricket council under-15 championship in Kuala Lumpur.

Jul. 10:

Pete Sampras wins his 7th singles Wimbledon title and his 13th Grand Slam title overtaking Roy Emerson's 12 titles.

Jul. 22:

Sweden routs India in Davis Cup tennis at Bastad (Sweden).

Jul. 24:

S. Vijayalakshmi becomes the first Indian woman Grandmaster in the International Grandmasters chess tournament held in Hyderabad.

Tiger Woods wins the British Open and becomes the youngest and the fifth player to complete a career of four Major Slams.

Jul. 25:

Star Indian athlete P.T. Usha announces retirement from International athletics at a press conference in New Delhi.

Jul. 30:

Punjab Police men, Indian Railways women, claim the Federation Cup basketball tournament at Visakhapatnam.

Rubens Barrichello wins the German Grand Prix at Hockenhei in Germany.

Aug. 4:

Alec Stewart hits a century in his 100th test against West Indies at Old Trafford.

Aug. 5:

Lala Amarnath (88), former Indian cricketer passed away in New Delhi.

Aug. 6:

Sundararajan Kidambi becomes the new International Master in the Beil Open chess championship at Biel.

Aug. 10:

Arjuna Ranatunga, former Srilanka cricket captain, retires from international cricket.

Aug. 11:

Koneru Humpy is crowned the youngest British Ladies chess champion at the end of eleventh and final round in the Smith and Williamson British chess championship in Somerset.

West Indies cricket team lifts the under-15 World Cup in London.

Aug. 12:

Holyfield lifts WBA heavy weight boxing title and becomes the first four time heavy weight champion.

Neelam Jaswant Singh heaves the discus to a National mark (59.53m) in the Travancore National circuit athletics meet in Thiurvananthapuram.

Aug. 16:

For the first time, a one day international cricket tournament is played between South Africa and Australia at the Colonial Indoor stadium in Melbourne.

Aug. 21:

Tiger Woods becomes the second player in history to win the Majors in a single season. The first one was Ben Hogan in 1953; Woods also becomes the first player to defend his US PGA title in 63 years.

Aug. 26:

Vijay Kumar wins the Hindu Open golf championship at the Cosmopolitan Club in Chennai.

Aug. 27:

K. Sasikiran wins the Pentamedia Grandmaster chess tournament in Chennai.

Mika Hakkinen wins the Belgian Formula one Grand Prix in SPA- Francorchamps (Belgium).

Sep. 3:

National Cricket Academy (NCA) wins the MRF Buchi Babu cricket tournament in Chennai.

Sep. 9:

Venus Williams wins the women's singles in the U.S. Open championship.

Sep. 10:

Marat Safin wins the men's singles in the US open championship.

Tejas Bakre and Koneru Humpy annex the boys' and girls' title in the Asian junior chess tournament in Mumbai.

Michael Schumacher wins the Italian Grand Prix at Monza (Italy).

Sep. 13:

Viswanathan Anand of India and Xu Yuhua of China claim the men's and women's title in the North Group World Cup in Shenyang.

Sep. 15:

Sydney Olympics gets underway.

Sep. 16:

Ian Thorpe (Australia) betters his own world record in the 400 freestyle swimming event (3.40.59) in Sydney Olympics.

Aparna Popat loses to Kelly Morgan in the first round of the badminton event in the Sydney Olympics.

Sep. 17:

Chetan Baboor of India loses to Petr Korbel of Czech Republic in the preliminary league of the table tennis event in the Sydney Olympics.

Simon Whitfield of Canada claims the Triathlon gold in the Olympics.

Sep. 18:

Pieter Van Den Hoogenband of Holland breaks the world record in the men's 200m freestyle in record time (1.45.35) at Sydney.

Sep. 19:

Karnam Malleswari becomes the first Indian woman to win a Olympic medal (bronze) at the Sydney Olympics.

Gopi Chand of India falls to Henderawan of Indonesia in the quarterfinals of the badminton event of the Sydney Olympics.

Sep. 22:

Americans Gary Hall Jr and Anthony Ervin finish joint first in the 50m freestyle in Sydney.

Sep. 23:

Maurice Greene and Marion Jones - both from USA, claim the men's and women's 100m gold respectively in Sydney Olympics.

Redgrave wins the roving gold for the fifth successive time at Sydney.

Sep. 24:

Naoko Takahashi becomes the first women to win an Olympic gold for Japan at Sydney.

Sep. 25:

Cathy Freeman of Australia wins the women's 400m gold at Sydney.

Kong Linghui of China claims the men's table tennis crown at Sydney.

Sep. 26:

The International Olympic Committee disqualifies Romanian gymnast Andrea Raducan- a gold medal winner following a positive dope test.

Sep. 27:

Jan Ullrich of Germany wins the gold in the men's cycling road race at Sydney.

India fails to qualify for the semifinals of the hockey tournament in Sydney Olympics. They drew with Poland after squandering a one goal lead.

Venus Williams of USA claims the women's gold in the tennis event in the Sydney Olympics.

Gurucharan Singh goes down fighting to Ukraine Andri Fedtchouk of Ukraine in the 81 Kg bout of the Olympics boxing.

Sep. 28:

Russian Yevgeny Kafelnikov claims the men's gold in the tennis event of the Sydney Olympics.

Marion Jones wins the 200m gold medal at Sydney.

Fu Mingxia of China wins the women's 3m springboard title for the fourth time at Sydney.

Konstantinos Kenteris of Greece claims the men's 200 m gold in Sydney.

Sep. 29:

India loses to Britain in the play off for the fifth and sixth places in the hockey match of the Sydney Olympics.

Heike Drechsler of Germany captures the women's long jump gold at Sydney.

Nayudu Award goes to former India cricket captain, Lt. Col. Hemu Adhikari.

Sep. 30:

Felix Savon wins the gold medal, for the third successive time in the heavy weight category at Sydney.

Oct. 2:

Mukesh Kumar, India hockey player, retires from international hockey.

Oct. 8:

Anup Sridhar and Trupti Murugunde claim the boys and girls title in the Sonora all India junior ranking tournament in Kozhikode.

Michael Schumacher wins the Japanese Grand Prix and ends Ferrari's 21 year title drought.

Oct. 15:

Sachin Tendulkar becomes the highest run- getter in one-day internationals (9379 runs) during his innings of 69 in the final of the ICC cricket tournament against New Zealand.

Leander Paes and Mahesh Bhupathi claim the double title in the Japan Open in Tokyo.

New Zealand wins the ICC knock out cricket tournament.

Oct. 16:

Rest of India wins the Irani Trophy cricket tournament; Murali Karthik scalps nine for 70, the best figures by a bowler in 38 Irani cup matches.

Oct. 21:

Seema Antil becomes the first Indian ever to win a global title by bagging a discus gold in the World Junior athletic championship in Santiago.

Oct. 22:

Chen Tian Yuan (China), in the men's category and Tang Yuan (China), in the women's category, win the 15th Asian table tennis championship in Mumbai.

Oct. 23:

Deep Sen Gupta lifts the under-12 title and Koneru Humpy clinches the under-14 title in the World Youth Chess festival in Oropesa.

Oct. 27:

Muthiah Muralitharan creates a world record by claiming seven for 30 against India in the Coca-Cola one day cricket tournament in Sharjah.

Oct. 29:

Sri Lanka lifts Coca-Cola Trophy one day cricket tournament dismissing India for 54 runs-its lowest in 454 one- day internationals. India's previous lowest was 63 against Australia.

Oct. 30:

Central Bureau of Investigations (CBI) submits its report on the match fixing scandal in New Delhi.

Oct. 31:

Five times Olympic gold medalist Steve Redgrave announces retirement.

Nov. 2:

Vladimir Kramnik wins the Braingames World chess championship with a round to spare in London.

John Wright is appointed India coach by the BCCI.

Nov. 3:

BCCI suspends five cricketers -Mohammed Azaruddin, Ajay Sharma, Ajay Jadeja, Nayan Mongia and Manoj Prabhakar for a period of 15 days after the CBI report.

Nov. 5:

Arjun Atwal wins the Hero Honda golf championship in Gurgaon.

Nov. 6:

Richa Mishra creates a national record in the women's 400m individual medley in 5.15.28sec in the 55th Senior National Aquatic championship in Calcutta.

Railway men's team sets a National record in 4x200m freestyle relay event in the 55th Senior National Aquatic championship in Calcutta.

Nov. 7:

Indrajit Bhalotia wins the Wills Southern Open golf tournament.

Nov. 8:

India wins the men's team title in the World carrom championship in New Delhi.

South African Jonty Rhodes announces his retirement from Test cricket.

Nov. 10:

R.M. Shankara and Rashmi Kumari lift men's and women's title in the World carrom championship in New Delhi.

Nov. 11:

Mohun Bagan wins the Durand Cup in New Delhi.

Nov. 19:

Indian girls lifts Asian junior title in the inaugural Asian Hockey Federation cup under-18 championship in Hong Kong.

Allan Donald becomes the first South African bowler to take 300 wickets.

Nov. 25:

USA wins the Federation Cup women's tennis title for a record 17th time in Las Vegas.

Nov. 29:

Wasim Akram becomes the 24th player to play his 100th Test for Pakistan.

Dec. 1:

Glenn McGrath becomes the eighth Australian bowler to take a hat-trick in Test cricket on the first day of the second cricket Test against West Indies at WACA. Incidentally, he also completed 300 wickets.

Dec. 3:

Australian men's cricket team creates history by winning 12 Tests in a row. It achieves the feat by drubbing West Indies.

Dec. 4:

Gustavo Kuerten of Brazil wins the Masters Cup in Lisbon (Portugal).

Dec. 5:

The Board of Control for Cricket in India debars Mohammed Azharuddin and Ajay Sharma for life. Ajay Jadeja, Manoj Prabhakar and physio Dr. Ali Irani are debarred for five years.

Former England cricket captain Colin Cowdrey (67) passed away in London.

Dec. 10:

Spain wins the Davis Cup at Barcelona.

Jyoti Randhawa wins the Singapore Open golf tournament.

Dec. 11:

Karnataka wins the Subbiah Pillai Trophy one day cricket tournament in Chennai.

Dec. 12:

Zinadine Zidane named FIFA World Player of the year in Rome.

Tamil Nadu wins the sub-junior girls table tennis team title after a gap of twelve years.

Dec. 13:

Former India cricket captain Vijay Samuel Hazare becomes the first recipient of the `Castrol Life-Time Achievement award'.

Dec. 15:

Xie Jun of China claims the crown in the women's world chess championship in New Delhi.

Viswanathan Anand and Alexei Shirov set up title clash to be held in Tehran.

Dec. 16:

Indian Airlines wins the 60th National Hockey championship in Jammu.

Dec. 17:

Don Johnson (USA) and Piet Norvel (RSA) claim the Gold Flake ATP doubles tennis championship in Bangalore.

Dec. 20:

Australia captures the Frank Worrel Trophy.

Dec. 21:

Central Zone and South Zone are declared joint winners after the game ends in a tie in the final of the Deodhar Trophy one day cricket tournament in Lucknow.

Dec. 22:

China wins the Asian junior women's Basketball championship in New Delhi.

Dec. 23:

New Zealand wins the women's World Cup cricket tournament in Christchurch.

Korea and China claimed the men's and women's title in the Asia Cup tennis tournament in New Delhi.

Dec. 24:

Viswanathan Anand becomes the first Asian to win a world chess title in the world chess championship inTeheran.

Events 2000