2011 in Indian sports
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- India's Rohan Bopanna and Pakistan's Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi won the Gerry Weber Open in Halle.
August
- Champion double-trap shooter and Asian Games gold medalist Ronjan Sodhi was ranked No.1 in the world, as per the latest rankings released by the International Shooting Sport Federation (ISSF).
- India's under-16 football team was defeated by Pakistan 1-2 in the title clash of the SAFF Championship
- In cricket, India slipped from first to third position after losing Test Series to England by 4-0.[1]
- Leander Paes and Mahesh Bhupathi won Doubles Title at the Cincinnati Masters.[2]
- Gagan Narang was conferred the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna. Rahul Banerjee (archery), Preeja Sreedharan (athletics), Vikas Gowda (athletics), Jwala Gutta (badminton), M Suranjoy Singh (boxing), Zaheer Khan (cricket), Sunil Chhetri (football), Ashish Kumar (gymnastics), Rajpal Singh (hockey), Rakesh Kumar (kabaddi, men), Tejaswini Bai V (kabaddi, women), Tejaswini Sawant (shooting), Virdhawal Khade (swimming), Somdev Devvarman (tennis), Sanjay Kumar (volleyball), Ravinder Singh (wrestling), Katulu Ravi Kumar (weightlifting), W Sandhyarani Devi (wushu), Prasanta Karmakar (para-swimming) received the Arjuna awards.
September
- Rahul Sangma of Delhi won the Sunita Singh Memorial National youth (under-25) chess championship at Indore.
- Preeja Sreedharan won the gold medal in the 10000m race on the opening day of the 51st National Open Athletics Championships held in Kolkata.
- India defeated Pakistan 4-2 in the penalty shoot-out in the final to clinch the inaugural Asian Champions Trophy hockey tournament.
- In Commonwealth Youth Games held in the Isle of Man India won 3 Gold medals and secured ninth position. Pusarla Venkata Sindhu won a gold for in the women's singles event of badminton. In athletics, Durgesh Kumar and Navjetdeep Singh won gold medals for 400 m hurdles and shot put, respectively.
- India's Deepika Kumari of India settled for a silver after being defeated by China's Cheng Ming in the women's individual recurve summit clash at the World Cup archery finals in Istanbul
- Salgaocar defeated East Bengal 3-1 in the final of 33rd Federation Cup.[3]
October
- Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports on 9 October 2011 launched the nationwide Come and Play scheme in New Delhi. Through this scheme, the ministry aims at opening SAI's sporting infrastructure for the youth across India.
- In the best ever performance in Asian age group swimming championship, India bags 8 golds medals. Gold medalists include Virdhawal Khade, Sandeep Sejwal, Rehan Poncha etc.
- Vinod Kumar (freestyle) and Anil (Greco-Roman) won the gold medal in the 56th National Wrestling Championships at Nandininagar, UP
- MC Mary Kom, Mandakini Chann, Kavita Goyat and Neetu Chahal won gold at the 12th Senior Women's National Boxing Championships in Bhopal. Haryana won the overall title.
- Olympic Champion Abhinav Bindra won Air Rifle Silver in 4th Asian Airgun Shooting Championship
- India's Rohan Bopanna and Pakistan's Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi won the Stockholm Open men's doubles title.[4]
