Sport Events in August 2001
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.