Sport Events in December 2002
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Dec 1
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Russia wins the Davis Cup in Paris.
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Uttaranchal men and Kerala women win the Senior National volleyball championship at Chautala, Haryana.
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Australia clinches the five match Ashes Series (3-0) against England. This is the eighth successive win for the Aussies.
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Dec 9
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James Willstrop of England wins the World junior men's squash championship in Chennai.
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Dec 11
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Tamil Nadu clinches Subbaiah Pillai Trophy one day cricket championship in Bangalore.
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Dec 14
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Pakistan wins the Petro World Cricket Cup cricket championship for the blind in Chennai.
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Pakistan wins the World junior men's squash championship in Chennai.
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Tai-Wei Lui of Chinese Taipei and Sania Mirza of India win the boys and girls titles in the GAIL Asian junior tennis championship in New Delhi.
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Dec 15
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Chris Byrd overcomes Evander Holyfield in the IBF heavyweight championship bout in Atlantic city.
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Dec 16
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Ronaldo bags the Golden Ball Award, and becomes the first non-European to receive the prize twice.
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Andhra Pradesh men and Tamil Nadu women clinch volleyball gold in the National Games at Hyderabad.
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Dec 17
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Andhra Pradesh women clinch gold in the women's tennis event at Hyderabad.
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David Palmer of Australia wins the World Open squash championship at Antwerp.
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Aarthie Ramaswamy becomes Women Grand Master in the First Saturday International chess tournament in Hungary.
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Dronavalli Harika (12) becomes the youngest Woman International Master in the continent, the previous record was held by Koneru Humpy.
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Dec 18
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West Bengal clinches the men's and women's titles in the table tennis event of the National Games at Hyderabad.
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Dec 20
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L. Aronian of Armenia and Zhao Xue of China wins the boys and girls titles in the junior world chess championship at Panaji.
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Dec 21
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Nitin Kirtane of Maharashtra in men and Sania Mirza (AP) in women emerge champions in the tennis event of the National Games at Hyderabad.
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Tamil Nadu men and Chattisgarh women win the basketball event of the National Games at Hyderabad.
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Punjab men win the hockey event of the National Games at Hyderabad.
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Dec 22
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New Zealand cricket team wins the Test series 2-0 against India in New Zealand.
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Manish Chotrani of Mumbai and Mekhala Subedar and Deolali win the men's and women's title in the ICICI-Lombard-Otters Club senior National squash championship at Mumbai.
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Dec 24
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Vidya Pillai of Tamil Nadu wins the National snooker championship at Jammu.
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