Sport Events in March 2000

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.

Events 2000