Sport Events in 2001

Jan. 6:

Switzerland lifts the Hopman Tennis cup at Perth.

Jan. 7:

Michal Tabara of Czech Republic wins the Gold Flake Open tennis tournament at Chennai.

Petroleum Sports Control Board claim the men and women team titles in the National and inter-state table tennis championship at Cuttack.

Jan. 8:

Vladimir Kramnik of Russia wins the RWE Gas rapid chess tournament at Budapest.

Jan. 9:

Mohun Bagan claims the 100th Rovers Cup football championship at Mumbai.

Jan. 11:

Soumyadeep Roy and Poulomi Ghatak of Petroleum Sports Control Board claim the men and the women titles in the National table tennis tournament at Cuttack.

Jan. 12:

Tamil Nadu men retains the Todd Memorial Trophy 51st senior National basketball tournament at Bangalore.

Jan. 15:

Kerala men and Andhra Pradesh women emerge triumphant in the senior National volleyball championship at Kozhikode.

Jan. 20:

Police Sports Control Board (PSCB) women's team wins the National weightlifting championship at Visakhapatnam.

Jan. 21:

PSCB men's team clinches the National weightlifting championship at Visakhapatnam.

Jan. 22:

South Africa clinches the Test series (2- 0) against Sri Lanka in South Africa.

Jan. 25:

India triumphs in the Asian schools hockey tournament at Ludhiana.

Yogoslavia emerges winner in the Sahara Cup football tournament at Kolkata.

Jan. 27:

America's Jennifer Capriati wins the singles title of the Australian Open.

Todd Woodbridge (Australia) and Jonas Bjorkman (Sweden) win the men's doubles tiles in the Australian Open.

Garry Kasparov wins the 63rd Corus Chess tournament with a round to spare in Wijk Aan Zee.

Jan. 28:

America's Andre Agassi emerges triumphant in the Australian Open at Melbourne.

North Zone retains the Duleep Trophy cricket tournament in New Delhi.

Jan. 31:

Vladimir Akopian of Armenia emerges champion in the Ubeda international chess tournament at Ubeda.

Feb. 1:

Petroleum Sports Control Board men and women claim titles in the National badminton championship at Jaipur.

Feb. 4:

Sergei Bubka, the world's best ever pole vaulter, calls it quits.

Feb. 3:

Mustafa Ghouse and Manisha Malhotra clinch a double each in the men and women categories respectively of the Indian Oil Servo National tennis championship at Kolkata.

Feb. 4:

Air rifle record holder Abhinav Bindra (India) clinches the Den Haag Cup in the Intershoot 2001 leg of the European circuit.

India lifts the SAARC golf championship at New Delhi.

Pankaj Roy, 73, former India cricketer, passes away at Kolkata.

Feb. 7:

Gopi Chand in men and Aparna Popat in women clinch titles in the National badminton championship at Jaipur.

Feb. 9:

Australia wins the Triangular one-day cricket series against West Indies in Australia.

Feb. 10:

Anuja Thakur of Maharashtra wins the billiards championship for women in Chennai.

Feb. 11:

India gets past China in the Asia-Oceania Group I Davis Cup tie in China.

Feb. 14:

Maharashtra's Anuja Thakur wins the National snooker championship at Chennai.

Feb. 15:

Athlete Jackie Joyner Kersee (USA) retires from athletic scene.

Feb. 16:

Joseph G. Gallagher of Switzerland emerges champion in Goodricke International Open chess tournament at Kolkata.

Feb. 20:

Mohd. Azlam Iskandar in boys' section and Nicol David of Malaysia in girls' emerge champions in the Asian junior squash championship at Chennai.

Feb. 22:

Swathi Ghate wins the 7th Sri Chakra Cool Mist National women's `B' chess tournament at Palakkad.

Feb. 23:

Devendra Joshi claims the Khel.com National billiards championship in Chennai.

India lifts the ACC under-17 Asia cricket cup at Dhaka.

Feb. 26:

Sir Donald Bradman (92), Australian cricket legend, passes away at Sydney.

March 2:

India wins the Akhbar El Yom International hockey championship at Cairo.

March 3:

Yasin Merchant wins the Khel.com snooker men's championship in Chennai.

Railways wins the 25th senior National women's cricket championship at Asansol.

March 4:

Germany clinches hockey series (2-1) defeating India in the deciding third match of the Indo-German festival.

Johnny Ruiz dethrones Evander Holyfield to win the World Boxing Association title at Las Vegas.

March 5:

Former England fast bowler Dean Headley announces his retirement from first class cricket.

March 6:

India lifts the inaugural OIL SAARC men's basketball tournament at Guwahati.

Tom Moody, former Australian Test cricketer, announces his retirement.

March 7:

Garry Kasparov wins the Linares chess tournament in Spain.

March 9:

Sheetal Goutham clinches the ITF women's circuit Masters tennis tournament in New Delhi.

March 11:

Pullela Gopi Chand becomes the second Indian after Prakash Padukone to win the All England badminton championship at Birmingham.

Off spinner Harbhajan Singh becomes the first Indian bowler to get a hat-trick in Test cricket against Australia in Kolkata.

March 14:

V.V.S. Laxman becomes India's highest individual scorer with his 281 in the second Test match against Australia at Kolkata, bettering the record held by Sunil Gavaskar (236).

March 15:

India ends Australia's 16th match winning streak by defeating the latter by 171 runs in the second Test at Kolkata.

March 17:

England clinches the test series against Sri Lanka at Sri Lanka.

Thongchai Jaidee of Thailand wins the Wills Indian Open golf tournament at Gurgaon.

March 18:

Abhinn Shyam Gupta wins the French Open badminton tournament.

March 19:

Veteran fast bowler Courtney Walsh becomes the first bowler to claim 500 Test wickets.

March 20:

India emerges triumphant in the Prime Minister's Gold Cup hockey tournament at Dhaka.

March 22:

India lifts the Border Gavaskar Trophy by posting a narrow victory over Australia in the third and final Test at Chennai.

March 25:

Garry Kasparov wins the second World Cup rapid chess tournament at Cannes (France).

March 27:

Sri Lanka clinches one-day series against England in Sri Lanka.

March 29:

Vladimir Kramnik (Russia) and Veselin Topalov (Bulgaria) are declared joint champions in the 10th Amber rapid and Blindfold chess tournament at Monte Carlo.

April 6:

Australia wins the one-day series (3-2) against India in India.

April 8:

India defeats Japan in the Davis Cup Asia Oceania Group I second round at Tokyo.

Indian Overseas Bank in men and Southern Railway in women win the Federation Cup volleyball tournament at Tuticorin.

April 9:

Shakoor Rana (63), Pakistan's controversial cricket umpire, passes away in Karachi.

Tiger Woods becomes the first player in history to hold all four major titles at Augusta (USA).

April 10:

South Africa wins the Test cricket series (2-0) against West Indies in West Indies.

April 15:

Railways lifts the Indira Priyadarshini champions Trophy cricket tournament in Kolkata.

England's Peter Gilchrist regains the World professional billiards championship title at Mumbai.

April 16:

Indian women bag their maiden bronze medal in the Commonwealth table tennis championship at New Delhi.

Athlete K. K. Premchandran (46), Asian Games silver medallist, passes away at Kochi.

April 20:

Former New Zealand left-handed batsman Bert Sutcliffe (77) passes away at Auckland after a long battle with emphysema.

Sri Lanka clinches the Tri-series cricket tournament at Sharjah.

Mathew Syed (England) and Lia Jia Wei (Singapore) claim the men's and women's titles respectively in the Commonwealth table tennis championship at New Delhi.

April 22:

America's Hasim Rahman knocks out world champion Lennox Lewis in the heavyweight boxing championship at Johannesburg.

April 23:

Baroda regains the Ranji Trophy at Vadodara.

Els van Breda Vriesman of the Netherlands becomes the first woman President of the Federation Internationale de Hockey (FIH).

April 24:

South Africa wins the Test series (2-1) against West Indies in West Indies.

Fast bowler Courtney Walsh retires from International cricket.

April 28:

China retains the women's team title in the World table tennis championship at Osaka.

April 29:

China takes the men's team title in the World table tennis championship at Osaka.

April 30:

East Bengal lifts maiden National League Football title at Thiruvananthapuram.

May 5:

Wang Nan of China is the women's winner in the World table tennis championship at Osaka.

May 6:

China claims the Asia Cup badminton tournament at Singapore.

Wang Liqin of China lifts the men's title in the World table tennis championship at Osaka.

May 8:

Ronnie O' Sullivan claims his maiden snooker title in the world championship at Sheffield.

May 12:

Star Brazilian footballer Didi (72) passes away in Rio De Janeiro.

May 13:

Krishnan Sasikiran in men and Pallavi Shah in women win the FIDE World chess championship zonal tournament at Colombo.

May 14:

Former Australian wicket keeper Bill Langley (81) passes away at Adelaide.

May 17:

Liverpool clinches the UEFA cup football championship at Dortmund (Germany).

May 22:

Viswanathan Anand wins the second Torneo Magistral of Chess category 18 tournament at Merida (Mexico).

May 24:

Bayern Munich lifts the European Cup football championship.

May 27:

Manipur clinches the National women's football championship at Gurusar Sadhar (Ludhiana).

June 2:

China, for the fourth successive time, lifts the Sudirman Cup badminton championship at Seville.

June 4:

Anju B George (Tamil Nadu) breaks the National record in the women's long jump event (6.74m) in the second leg of the National domestic circuit athletic meet at Thiruvananthapuram.

June 9:

Jennifer Capriati of the US made it two Grand Slams in a row by winning the French Open tennis.

Leander Paes and Mahesh Bhupathi win the French Open men's doubles title.

June 10:

Brazil's Gustavo Kuerten wins the men's French Open tennis championship.

India lifts the inaugural junior (under-18) Asia cup hockey tournament at Ipoh.

Koneru Humpy becomes India's second women chess Grand Master.

V. Anand wins the Advanced chess match against Alexie Shirov of Spain at Leon.

June 15:

Dibyendu Barua and S. Vijayalakshmi win the men's and women's titles in the National `A' chess championship at New Delhi.

June 19:

World squash champion Jansher Khan (Pakistan) announces retirement.

Retif Goosen of South Africa lifts the US open golf championship at Tulsa.

June 30:

Uzbekistan lifts the Merdeka Cup football championship at Kuala Lumpur.

July 7:

West Indies lifts the Triangular series cricket tournament in Zimbabwe.

July 8:

Venus Williams retains title in the Wimbledon tennis championship.

July 9:

Goran Ivanisevic becomes the first wild card entrant to win the men's Wimbledon tennis championship.

Swati Ghate becomes the first women chess player to qualify for the men's `A' championship.

July 20:

India's M. Kasturi wins the girls' title in the Asian junior chess championship at Teheran.

July 21:

Roy Gilchrist (67), former West Indian cricketer, passes away at Kingston (Jamaica).

July 22:

Vladimir Kramnik (Russia) bags title in the 29th Sparkassen chess meeting at Dortmund.

Ian Thorpe creates world record in the 400m freestyle (3:40.17sec) in the World swimming championship at Fukuoka (Japan).

July 23:

Russia's Roman Sloudnov rewrites his 100m breaststroke World record (59.94) in the semifinal of the World swimming championship at Fukuoka (Japan).

July 24:

Ian Thorpe creates a world record in the 800m freestyle (7:39.16) event of the World swimming championship at Fukuoka.

July 28:

China retains title in the Asian Confederation basketball title at Shanghai (China).

England wins the team title in the World women's squash championship at Penang.

July 29:

Argentina emerges winner in the World Cup qualifying hockey tournament at Edinburgh.

July 30:

Colombia wins the Copa America football championship at Bogota.

Aug. 1:

Bhagyashree Thipsay wins the 28th National `B' women's chess championship at Visakhapatnam.

Aug. 4:

Australia retains the Ashes series.

Aug. 5:

Sri Lanka wins the Coca-Cola cup cricket tournament at Colombo.

Railway Sports Control Board win the men's and the women's team titles in the 31st all-india inter-institutional table tennis championship at Kolkata.

Aug. 7:

Petroleum Sports Control Board's Soumyadeep Roy and Mouma Das retain the men's and women's titles in the all-india inter-institutional table tennis championship at Kolkata.

Aug. 11:

Chetan Anand and Aparna Popat win the men's and the women's titles in the BPL Asian Satellite badminton championship at Bangalore.

Ellen Pepersen of Denmark wins the WISPA Indian Squash open at Chennai.

Aug. 15:

P. Harikrishna, at 15 years, becomes India's youngest Grand Master.

Aug. 19:

Viswanathan Anand wins the Villarrobledo Open rapid chess tournament in Spain.

Aug. 28:

P. Harikrishna crowned champion in the Commonwealth chess championship at London.

Aug. 29:

Peter Acs of Hungary and Koneru Humpy of India wins the boys' and the girls' title in the World junior chess championship at Athens.

Aug. 30:

Mohun Bagan lifts the Federation Cup football championship at Chennai.

Aug. 31:

Koneru Humpy wins the third Saturday Grand Master chess tournament at Belgrade.

Sept. 2:

Sri Lanka wins the Coca-Cola cup Test series defeating India 2-1 in Sri Lanka.

Michael Schumacher accumulates 52 titles overall in the Formula one Grand Prix, eclipsing Alan Prost's record for most number of Grand Prix wins.

Sept. 8:

Govind Rao Savant (68), hockey olympian passes away in Vadodara.

Sept. 9:

America's Venus Williams retains the women's US Open tennis championship.

Sept. 10:

Australia's Lleyton Hewitt wins the men's US Open tennis championship.

Sept. 12:

Li Roufan of China claims the Asian women's chess championship at Chennai.

Sept. 13:

Former Wimbledon champion and Olympic ice hockey medallist Jaroslav Drobny (79) of Czecholovaskia passes away at London.

Sept. 16:

Colombian Juan Pablo Montoya seals his maiden win in the Italian Grand Prix at Monza.

Sept. 19:

Punjab's Gurpreet Singh sets a new National record in the men's 110m hurdles (14.07s), in the National inter- state athletics at Lucknow.

Sept. 22:

Lanka Ravi wins the National rapid chess tournament at Tirur (Kerala).

Sept. 23:

India's Geet Sethi lifts the Rockpool IBSF world billiards championship at Christchurch.

Sept. 30:

Madavrao Scindia (56), former President, Board of Control for cricket in India, dies in a plane crash.

Oct. 1:

France lifts the under-17 World Cup FIFA football championship at Port of Spain.

Oct. 7:

China, for the first time in its history, qualifies for the World cup football championship.

Oct. 14:

Michael Schumacher equals Manseel Nigel's record of 9 titles in a season in Japan.

Oct. 17:

Rest of India claims the Irani Trophy cricket tournament at Nagpur.

Oct. 18:

Pem Dorji (42), former India football captain, passes away in Kolkata.

Oct. 21:

Karun Chandhok wins the Formula Asia circuit motor racing championship at China.

India wins the junior World cup hockey championship at Hobart (Australia).

Oct. 23:

Railways retains title in the National women's cricket championship at Faridabad.

Oct. 26:

South Africa defeats India in the final to emerge champion in the Summer Spice cricket tri-series at Durban.

Oct. 31:

V. Anand retains the Corsica Masters chess title at Bastia in France.

Nov. 4:

Pakistan lifts the Champions Trophy cricket tournament at Sharjah.

Anup Sridhar becomes the first Indian to win the juniors title in the French Open international badminton championship.

Nov. 5:

Javagal Srinath bags his 200th Test wicket in the first Test against South Africa at Bloemfontein.

Nov. 11:

Germany wins the Champions Trophy hockey tournament in Kuala Lumpur.

Belgium claims its first Federation Cup tennis tournament at Madrid.

Nov. 17:

Kerala lifts the 57th Santosh Trophy National football championship at Mumbai.

Nov. 18:

Lleyton Hewitt wins the Masters Cup tennis championship at Sydney.

Lennox Lewis reclaims the World Boxing Council and International Boxing Federation heavyweight titles, knocking out Hasim Rahman at Las Vegas.

Nov. 21:

Hardeep Kaur creates new national record (61.56m) in the Hammer Throw event of the National Games in Punjab.

Nov. 22:

Anju B George wins the triple jump event with a new National record distance of 13.61m, in the National Games.

Nov. 23:

Karamjeet Kaur vaults to new high of 3.25m in the Pole Vault event at the National Games.

Nov. 27:

South Africa wins the Castle Lager-MTN cricket series 2-0 against India in South Africa.

Punjab and Maharashtra claim titles in the men's and women's sections respectively of the National Games basketball tournament at Ludhiana.

Services clinches its maiden gold in the National games hockey championship at Jalandhar.

Nov. 30:

Punjab wins the gold medal in the National games football competition at Ludhiana.

Dec. 2:

France lifts the Davis cup beating Australia at Melbourne.

Mike Russel claims the British Open billiards championship at Middlesbrough.

Dec. 8:

India's Sunil Kumar and Chinese Taipei's Chin-Wei Chan claims the boys' and girls' titles in the Asian junior tennis championship in New Delhi.

Zimbabwe bowled out for the lowest ever one-day score (38) by Sri Lanka. Also Chaminda Vaas created a world record by claiming eight for 19, (inclusive of a hat-trick). He overcame M. Muralitharan's record.

Dec. 10:

Ritwik Bhattacharya (Delhi) and Joshna Chinappa (Chennai) emerge the men's and the women's winners in the senior National squash championship at Chennai.

Dec. 14:

Zhu Chen of China is the new women's champion in the World chess championship at Moscow.

Dec. 15:

India claims the Champions Challengers Cup hockey tournament at Kuala Lumpur.

Dec. 16:

Vijay Kannan and Rushmi Chakravarthi clinch the men's and the women's titles respectively in the DSCL National tennis championship at New Delhi.

Dec. 23:

India wins the three-Test home series against England 1-0.

Events 2001