Sport Events in 2002
Jan • Feb • Mar • Apr • May • Jun • Jul • Aug • Sep • Oct • Nov • Dec
JANUARY
| Jan 5 | Australia blanks South Africa 3-0 and clinches the Test Series in Australia. | Full Story |
| Spain lifts Hopman Cup tennis event at Perth. | ||
| Jan 6 | Guillermo Canas of Argentina wins the Tata Open tennis tournament at Chennai. | Full Story |
| Leander Paes and Mahesh Bhupathi lift the doubles title of the Tata Open tennis tournament. | Full Story | |
| PSCB lifts men's and women's titles in the National and inter-state badminton championship at Lucknow. | Full Story | |
| Jan 9 | The women's Indian cricket team clinches the Hero Honda one-day international series against England 3-0 in India. | Full Story |
| Uma Devi of Karnataka wins the National women's billiards championship at Ahmedabad. | Full Story | |
| Jan 11 | Abhinn Shyam Gupta and Aparna Popat of PSCB win men's and women's title in the National badminton championship at Lucknow. | Full Story |
| Jan 13 | Maharashtra's Varsha Majumdar wins the National women's snooker championship at Ahmedabad. | Full Story |
| India `A' clinches the NKP Salve Trophy Hero Honda Challenger one-day series at Bangalore. | Full Story | |
| Jan 15 | Punjab Police men and Western Railways win the Federation Cup basketball championship at Jamshedpur. | Full Story |
| Muthiah Muralitharan of Sri Lanka becomes the quickest bowler in Test history to claim 400 wickets. | ||
| Jan 19 | Football legend Vava dies in Rio De Janeiro. | |
| Jan 23 | Ponomariov (18 yrs & 104 days) becomes the youngest World champion defeating Vassily Ivanchuk (4.5-2.5) in the final of the World chess championship at Moscow. | Full Story |
| Alok Kumar of Punjab lifts the snooker title in the National championship at Ahmedabad. | Full Story | |
| Jan 26 | Jennifer Capriati of America wins the women's title of the Australian Open tennis tournament at Melbourne. | Full Story |
| Jan 27 | Thomas Johansson of Sweden wins the men's title of the Australian Open at Melbourne. | Full Story |
FEBRUARY
| Feb 1 | Ashok Shandilya of Railways clinches the National men's billiards championship at Ahmedabad. | Full Story |
| Feb 2 | Ellis Ferreira (South Africa) and Rick Leach (USA) claims the Touchtel World Doubles Challenge in Bangalore. | Full Story |
| Feb 3 | The one-day contest for the LG cup between India and England ends in a 3-3 draw. | Full Story |
| Feb 4 | K. Sasikiran regains the BPCL National `A' chess championship at Nagpur. | Full Story |
| Feb 8 | South Africa wins the tri-series cricket tournament in Sydney. | Full Story |
| Feb 9 | Services clinches the men's title in the National boxing championship at New Delhi. | Full Story |
| Australia wins the World junior (under-19) world cup cricket championship at Christchurch. | Full Story | |
| Feb 10 | Tamil Nadu men and Railway women win titles in the Federation Cup volleyball tournament at Payyanur. | Full Story |
| India beats Lebanon in the Asia Oceania Group Davis Cup tie at Beirut. | Full Story | |
| Cameroon retains the African Nations Cup football championship in Bamako, Mali. | ||
| Feb 16 | Zimbabwe wrist spinner Paul Strang retires from international cricket. | |
| Mahindra United lifts title in the Durand Cup football championship in New Delhi. | Full Story | |
| Feb 17 | Harmeet Kahlon wins his maiden professional title in the Hero Honda Masters golf championship in New Delhi. | Full Story |
| Feb 23 | Services Sports Control Board men and Kerala women clinch titles in the National Rowing championship at Chennai. | Full Story |
| Feb 25 | South African fast bowler Alan Donald retires from international Test cricket. | |
| Feb 27 | South zone clinches the Deodhar Trophy cricket tournament in New Delhi. | Full Story |
| Railway men and PSCB women lifts in the National & inter-state championship table tennis championship in New Delhi. | Full Story | |
| Feb 28 | K. Sasikiran lifts title in the Asian Open chess championship at Bikaner. | Full Story |
MARCH
| Mar 2 | Soumyadeep Roy and Mouma Das of PSCB wins the men's and women's titles in the National and inter-state table tennis championship in New Delhi. | Full Story |
| Mar 4 | India wins the Pepsi Test series against Zimbabwe in India. | Full Story |
| Mar 9 | Germany men wins its Maiden World Cup hockey championship at Kuala Lumpur. | Full Story |
| Railway wins the Ranji Trophy in New Delhi. | Full Story | |
| Manipur wins the National women's football title in the National championship at Kolkata. | Full Story | |
| Mar 10 | Sri Lanka lifts the Asian Test cricket championship in Lahore. | Full Story |
| Mar 12 | Tamil Nadu men's team and Railway women's team clinch titles in the National basketball championship at Ludhiana. | Full Story |
| Mar 15 | K. Sasikiran wins the International Grandmasters tournament in Raipur. | Full Story |
| Mar 17 | Indian Army lifts the Federation Cup boxing championship in Chennai. | |
| Vijay Kumar wins the Indian Open golf tournament in New Delhi. | Full Story | |
| Mar 19 | Former India wicketkeeper Naren Tamhane passed away in Mumbai. | Full Story |
| India lifts the Pepsi Cup one-day cricket tournament in India. | ||
| India wins the Rashid Memorial volleyball championship in Dubai. | Full Story | |
| Mar 21 | Indian Railway men and West Bengal women lift in the Senior National gymnastic championship in Hyderabad. | Full Story |
| Mar 23 | England cricketer Ben Hollioake is killed in a car accident in Perth. | Full Story |
| Mar 24 | Railways wins the women's National hockey championship at Jalandhar. | Full Story |
| Ashok Shandilya wins the Asian billiards championship at Bangalore. | Full Story | |
| Mar 27 | Ace badminton women's player Madhumita Bisht of India calls it a day. | |
| Mar 30 | Manoj Mahadevan and Sai Jayalakshmy clinch the men's and women's crown in the National grasscourt tennis championship in Kolkata. | Full Story |
| India retains the SAARC golf Trophy held at Gurgaon. | Full Story |
APRIL
| Apr 3 | New Zealand squares the three-match Test series 2-2 against England in New Zealand. | Full Story |
| Apr 4 | Australia clinches the one-day series 4-0 against South Africa in South Africa. | Full Story |
| Punjab Police regains the Beighton Cup hockey tournament at Kolkata. | Full Story | |
| Apr 8 | Peter Leko of Hungary wins the inaugural UAE Grand Prix chess tournament in Dubai. | Full Story |
| Aaron Peirsol of the United States wins the men's 200m backstroke in a record time of 1min 51.17sec. in the World short course swimming championship in Moscow. | Full Story | |
| Apr 12 | Parimarjan Negi (9 yrs and 9 mths) becomes the youngest Indian to enter the International rating list. | Full Story |
| West Zone regains the Duleep Trophy cricket championship at Kolkata. | Full Story | |
| Apr 15 | Tiger Woods wins the Augusta Masters golf championship at Augusta. | Full Story |
| Mohun Bagan clinches the Tata National Football league title at Margoa. | ||
| Apr 16 | Punjab Police wins the U & I hockey tournament in Bangalore. | Full Story |
| Apr 17 | Peter Nicol of Engaland and Sarah Fitz-Gerald of Australia clinch titles in the men's and women's sections respectively of the British Open squash championship in London. | Full Story |
| Apr 20 | Sachin Tendulkar equals Don Bradman in compiling 29 Test centuries in the first Test against West Indies at Port of Spain. | Full Story |
| Apr 28 | Western Railway wins the L.P. Ganguly women's cricket championship at Kolkata. | Full Story |
MAY
| May 5 | Viswanathan Anand wins the Eurotel world chess championship at Prague. | Full Story |
| South Central Railway, Secunderabad, clinches the women's title in the National league volleyball championship at Tirupur. | Full Story | |
| May 6 | Indian Overseas Bank lifts the men's title in the National league volleyball championship at Tirupur. | Full Story |
| Peter Edbon of England wins his maiden title in the Embassy world snooker championship at Sheffield. | ||
| May 13 | WGM S. Vijayalakshmi wins a record of six titles and five in a row in the Women's National `A' chess championship at Lucknow. | Full Story |
| May 16 | Real Madrid wins the Europeans Champions Cup football league championship at Glasgow. | Full Story |
| May 18 | Air India wins the Aga Khan All India memorial hockey tournament at Mumbai. | Full Story |
| China lifts the Uber Cup badminton tournament at GuangZhou, China. | ||
| May 19 | Indonesia lifts the Thomas Cup badminton tournament at GuangZhou, China | Full Story |
| May 22 | Host West Indies clinch the Test series 2-1 against India. | Full Story |
| May 25 | Mike Russel wins the World Professional billiards championship at Midsomer Norton. | Full Story |
| May 27 | Nisha Mohota wins the International rating chess tournament held at Sangli. | Full Story |
| Koneru Humpy (15 years, 1 month & 27 days) becomes the youngest woman player to achieve men's GM norm in the Elekes Memorial chess tournament at Budapest. | Full Story | |
| May 31 | Legendary leg-spinner Subash Gupte passes away in Trinidad, West Indies. | Full Story |
JUNE
| Jun 1 | Former South Africa cricket captain Hansie Cronje (32) dies in a plane crash. | Full Story |
| Jun 3 | India wins the one-day series 2-1 against West Indies at West Indies. | Full Story |
| Jun 8 | Serena Williams claims the French Open at Paris. | Full Story |
| PSCB and Tamil Nadu win the men's and women's crows respectively in the National team chess championship at Nagpur. | Full Story | |
| Jun 9 | Spain's Albert Costa wins his maiden Grand Slam title winning the French Open at Paris. | Full Story |
| Lennox Lewis knocks out Mike Tyson to clinch the heavyweight bout title at Memphis. | Full Story | |
| Australia wins the Quadrangular hockey tournament at Melbourne. | ||
| Jun 17 | Tiger Woods lifts the US Open golf championship in New York. | Full Story |
| England wins the Test series 2-0 against Sri Lanka in England. | ||
| Jun 19 | Pakistan clinches the one-day series 2-1 against Australia in Australia. | Full Story |
| Jun 21 | Gopi Chand and Aparna Popat wins the men's and women's titles in the PSCB inter-unit badminton tournament in Bangalore. | Full Story |
| Radhika Tulpule of India wins the ITF women's Masters title at New Delhi. | Full Story | |
| Jun 30 | Brazil wins the FIFA World cup. | Full Story |
JULY
| Jul 5 | Deepan Chakravarthy and Tania Sachdev of India win the Asian junior chess championship at Marawilla, Sri Lanka. | Full Story |
| Jul 6 | Serena Williams wins the women's Wimbledon crown. | Full Story |
| Jul 13 | India wins the NatWest Trophy cricket tournament in London. | Full Story |
| Jul 20 | Indian Airlines regains Murugappa Gold Cup hockey championship in Chennai. | Full Story |
| Jul 21 | Michael Schumacher wins the French Grand Prix at Magny-Cours in France and equals Juan Manuel Fangios five season title. | Full Story |
| Jul 22 | Ernie Els wins the British Open golf championship at Gullane, Scotland. | Full Story |
| Jul 23 | Kapil Dev receives the Wisden Indian cricketer of the century award. | Full Story |
| Jul 29 | Anju George becomes the first Indian woman to win an athletic medal when she wins bronze in the Commonwealth Games in Manchester. | |
| Jul 30 | M. Ilyas Babbar, athletic coach, passes away at Hyderabad. |
AUGUST
| Aug 6 | Veteran India paddler V. Sivaraman (83) passes away at Pudiyankam in Palghat District. | |
| Aug 9 | R.B. Ramesh and Koneru Humpy clinch the men's and women's sections respectively in the Smith and Williams British Open chess championship in England. | Full Story |
| Aug 11 | S. Raman and T. Pradeepa emerge victorious in the men's and women's sections respectively in the All India inter-institutional table tennis championship at New Delhi. | Full Story |
| Aug 17 | India's Mithali Raj hits a world record of 214 runs in the third and final Test against England at Taunton. | Full Story |
| Aug 18 | India's Abhinn Shyam Gupta and Salakjit Polsana of Thailand wins the men's and women's titles in the BPL Asian Satellite badminton championship in Mumbai. | Full Story |
| Aug 20 | Tamil Nadu men and Kerala women wins the South Zone senior basketball championship at Thiruvalla, Kerala. | Full Story |
| Aug 22 | India seniors lifts the Sivanthi Gold Cup volleyball tournament held at Hyderabad. | Full Story |
| Aug 23 | Sachin Tendulkar overcomes Don Bradman when he completed 30 Test centuries in the third Test match against England at Headingley, Leeds. | Full Story |
| Aug 24 | N. Srinath (8.5 yrs) becomes the youngest FIDE-rated player in India. | Full Story |
| Aug 25 | Anjali Vedpathak Bhagwat clinches the silver medal in the World Shooting finals at Munich, Germany. | Full Story |
| Aug 26 | Anuradha Biswal of Orissa creates a National record in the 100m hurdles event (13.38s) of the DDA-Raja Bhalendra Singh National athletic circuit at New Delhi. | Full Story |
| Aug 28 | Bengal's Saraswathi Saha sets a National record in the 200m event (22.82s) of the National circuit meet at Ludhiana. | Full Story |
SEPTEMBER
| Sep 4 | Sachin Tendulkar (29 years 134 days) becomes the youngest to appear in 100 Tests in the deciding and fourth npower Test series against England. | Full Story |
| Sep 6 | India's Mahesh Bhupathi with Max Mirnyi of Belarus wins the doubles title of the US Open tennis championship at New York. | Full Story |
| Sep 7 | Karamjeet Kaur of Punjab sets a National record (3.45m) in the pole vault event of the Open National athletics championship at New Delhi. | Full Story |
| Sep 8 | Serena Williams wins the US Open women's tennis championship at New York. | Full Story |
| Netherlands wins the 24th Champions Trophy men's hockey championship at Cologne, Germany. | Full Story | |
| Dronavalli Harika, aged 11, becomes the youngest-ever champion to win the National women's `B' chess championship at Pune. | Full Story | |
| Hardeep Kaur creates a national record (61.67) in the hammer throw event of the National Open athletic championship at New Delhi. | Full Story | |
| Sep 9 | Pete Sampras claims his 14th Grand Slam title winning the US Open tennis championship at New York. | |
| India draws the npower Test series 1-1 in the four Test match against England in London. | Full Story | |
| Karnataka wins overall championship in the 56th Senior National aquatic championship held at Thrissur. | ||
| Sep 14 | Tim Montgomery of the United States sets a new world record (9.78m) in the 100m event of the IAAF Grand Prix final at Paris. | |
| Sep 30 | India and Sri Lanka shares the ICC Champions Trophy cricket tournament as the final is washed out by rain for the second time at Colombo. |
OCTOBER
| Oct 7 | Anju B. George wins the women's long jump in the Asian Games at Busan. | Full Story |
| India's kabaddi men's team clinches gold medal in the Asian Games. | Full Story | |
| Oct 8 | Bahadur Singh and K.M. Beenamol win gold medals in the shot put and 800m events respectively at the Asian Games. | Full Story |
| Oct 11 | Leander Paes and Mahesh Bhupathi win the doubles title in the Asian Games. | Full Story |
| China wins the gold medal in the women's hockey event of the Asian Games. | Full Story | |
| Oct 12 | Korea wins men's hockey gold in the Asian Games. | Full Story |
| Paradorn Srichaphan of Thailand wins the tennis event of the Asian Games. | Full Story | |
| Oct 13 | Middle and long distance runner Sunita Rani of India tests positive for a banned at the Asian Games. | Full Story |
| Oct 15 | Taufiq Hidayat of Indonesia wins the badminton event of the Asian Games at Busan. | Full Story |
| Oct 18 | Sachin Tendulkar after his knock of 43 against West Indies at MA Chidambaram Stadium becomes the first batsman in history to aggregate 20,000 runs in both forms of the game in international cricket. | Full Story |
| Oct 20 | India wraps the three-match Test series 2-0 against West Indies in India. | Full Story |
| Viswanathan Anand of India and Xu Yuhua of China win the men's and women's crowns in the World Cup chess championship at Hyderabad. | Full Story | |
| Oct 22 | Australia thrashes Pakistan 3-0 in the Test series held at neutral venues— Sharjah (2) and Colombo. | Full Story |
NOVEMBER
| Nov 2 | Sachin Tendulkar scores his first Test century (176) at Eden Gardens against West Indies in third Test match at Kolkata. | Full Story |
| Railways wins the Irani Cup cricket tournament in New Delhi. | Full Story | |
| Nov 5 | Host Manipur wins the LG Santosh Trophy football tournament at Imphal. | Full Story |
| Nov 6 | Hockey Olympian Joginder Singh (63) of India passes away in Kolkata. | Full Story |
| Nov 7 | Surya Sekhar Ganguly completes his GM norm (8th GM in India) in the 12th round of the 35th Chess Olympiad at Bled, Slovenia. | Full Story |
| Nov 10 | Russian men and Chinese women clinch titles in the Chess Olympiad at Bled, Slovenia. | Full Story |
| Nov 12 | Former world No. 1 tennis star Arantxa Sanchez-Vicario of Spain announces her retirement. | |
| Nov 24 | Punjab Police men and Railways women clinch titles in the National cycling championship at Hyderabad. | Full Story |
| Nov 28 | Tiger Woods wins the PGA Grand Slam for the fifth successive time at Poipu Beach in Hawaii. | Full Story |
DECEMBER
| Dec 1 | Russia wins the Davis Cup in Paris. | |
| Uttaranchal men and Kerala women win the Senior National volleyball championship at Chautala, Haryana. | Full Story | |
| Australia clinches the five match Ashes Series (3-0) against England. This is the eighth successive win for the Aussies. | Full Story | |
| Dec 9 | James Willstrop of England wins the World junior men's squash championship in Chennai. | Full Story |
| Dec 11 | Tamil Nadu clinches Subbaiah Pillai Trophy one day cricket championship in Bangalore. | Full Story |
| Dec 14 | Pakistan wins the Petro World Cricket Cup cricket championship for the blind in Chennai. | Full Story |
| Pakistan wins the World junior men's squash championship in Chennai. | Full Story | |
| 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. | Full Story | |
| Dec 15 | Chris Byrd overcomes Evander Holyfield in the IBF heavyweight championship bout in Atlantic city. | |
| Dec 16 | Ronaldo bags the Golden Ball Award, and becomes the first non-European to receive the prize twice. | |
| Andhra Pradesh men and Tamil Nadu women clinch volleyball gold in the National Games at Hyderabad. | Full Story | |
| Dec 17 | Andhra Pradesh women clinch gold in the women's tennis event at Hyderabad. | Full Story |
| David Palmer of Australia wins the World Open squash championship at Antwerp. | ||
| Aarthie Ramaswamy becomes Women Grand Master in the First Saturday International chess tournament in Hungary. | Full Story | |
| Dronavalli Harika (12) becomes the youngest Woman International Master in the continent, the previous record was held by Koneru Humpy. | Full Story | |
| Dec 18 | West Bengal clinches the men's and women's titles in the table tennis event of the National Games at Hyderabad. | |
| Dec 20 | L. Aronian of Armenia and Zhao Xue of China wins the boys and girls titles in the junior world chess championship at Panaji. | Full Story |
| Dec 21 | Nitin Kirtane of Maharashtra in men and Sania Mirza (AP) in women emerge champions in the tennis event of the National Games at Hyderabad. | Full Story |
| Tamil Nadu men and Chattisgarh women win the basketball event of the National Games at Hyderabad. | ||
| Punjab men win the hockey event of the National Games at Hyderabad. | Full Story | |
| Dec 22 | New Zealand cricket team wins the Test series 2-0 against India in New Zealand. | Full Story |
| 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. | Full Story | |
| Dec 24 | Vidya Pillai of Tamil Nadu wins the National snooker championship at Jammu. | Full Story |
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