Sports - Current Affairs for June, 2015

In the Tennis (World Railways) Championship 2015, Indian Railway Team defeated France by a margin of 3-1 in the finals and won USIC Tennis Championship 2015 held at Nuremberg, Germany from 31 May 2015 to 6 June 2015. In the Volleyball (World Railways) Championship 2015, Indian Railway Team defeated Russian team and won USIC Volleyball Championship 2015 held at Gomel, Belarus from 10 June 2015 to 17 June 2015.

This is the fourth time that Russia won the title since the inception of games in 2009. In totality, Russia won the 368.5 points, 22 points ahead of Germany which secured second place. France had their best finish at the championships, coming third by winning 319.5 points.

The victory not only gave Bangladesh an unassailable 2-0 lead, but also ensured them a place in the 2017 Champions Trophy.

Vijender Singh, the superstar of Indian amateur boxing, has now turned professional. The announcement for this lucrative deal was signed at a star-studded media conference in London on 29th June’15.

Tournament Director of FIFA U17 World Cup Javier Ceppi on 29th June’15 announced Goa as the sixth venue and handed over a provisional selection contract to the Sports Minister of Goa. Delhi, Kolkata, Navi Mumbai, Guwahati, and Kochi have already been provisionally selected for the tournament. FIFA is to ratify the venues after inspecting the selected grounds and stadium in September 2016. In all 52 matches will be played in venues in India during 2017 Under 17 FIFA World Cup and India with a direct entry will be participating first time in a FIFA World Cup.

The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) announced the Indian Cricket team on 29th June’15. The Indian cricket team will tour Zimbabwe for three One-Day Internationals (ODI) and two Twenty-20 Internationals.

Defending champion and world number one Novak Djokovic will open the play at the Centre Court against Germany's Philipp Kohlschreiber. Women's world number one Serena Williams will also be seen in action in the opening round today against Russian Margarita Gasparyan. In the Doubles, Rohan Bopanna will begin India's campaign in this oldest and the most prestigious tennis tournament.

In the final played at Calgary the third seeded Indian duo ousted top Dutch pair of Eefje Muskens and Selena Piek. This was their first title of this season.

Lewis Hamilton took British Grand Prix glory for the third time in a pulsating competition at Silverstone.

This was also Chile's first ever international trophy. Chile created history by winning the Copa America tournament for 2015 on 4 July 2015.

In the first week of July 2015 Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff has unveiled the torch to be used at the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro.

He won the Gold Medal after a quick draw with his opponent Arghyadip Das.

Topalov secured 6.5 points while Anand ended the tournament in second place with 6 points.

The 42-year-old Leander Paes achieved this land mark feat when he joined Marcel Granollers of Spain in a match against Treat Huey and Scott Lipsky at the Aegon Open in Nottingham, the UK.

He is the Former Pakistan captain. The decision was taken on 24th June’15 during the third day of the ICC Annual Conference week in Barbados. From 1969 to 1985, Zaheer played 78 Tests for Pakistan in which he scored 5,062 runs, while in his 62 ODIs, he made 2,572 runs. With 108 centuries, Zaheer is the only Asian batsman to score a century of first-class centuries as he finished his 22-year career with 34,843 runs.

The former Indian skipper got the highest number of votes to emerge on top of the list of the 100 best Test players since 2000, in a poll conducted by the website. Sri Lanka's Kumar Sangakkara received the second highest votes, followed by Adam Gilchrist of Australia in the third position.

He achieved this feat in his team’s 2018 World Cup qualifying match against on 16 June at Tamuning (Guam). Former captain Bhaichung Bhutia stays at the second spot with 42 goals in 107 matches while IM Vijayan has 40 goals from 79 games.

Golden State Warriors celebrated its first N.B.A. championship in 40 years. This was fourth overall NBA title for Golden State Warriors and the first title since 1975. The team is based on Oakland, California and has now won NBA titles in 1947, 1948, 1975 and 2015.

Veteran leader of Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) Sharad Pawar was on 17 June 2015 re-elected as the President of the Mumbai Cricket Association (MCA).

India have dropped a place to be at fourth in the latest ICC Test team rankings after a draw against Bangladesh in Fatullah on 15th June’15.

He surpassed Pakistani legend Wasim Akram in a test match against Bangladesh. The 'Turbanator' is now only 20 wickets short of beating Kapil Dev's 434 Test wickets to become the second highest wicket-taker in history of Indian Test cricket after Anil Kumble's 619 wickets.

Mercedes teammate Nico Rosberg (Germnay) finished the race at second place and Valtteri Bottas ends at third.

Stanislas Wawrinka defeated Novak Djokovic to win his first French Open title. The victory makes him only the second Swiss to win at Roland Garros after Roger Federer, the man he beat in the quarter-finals.

In the summit clash at the Olympiastadion Berlin last night, the Spanish giants defeated Juventus.

Former captain Rahul Dravid has been appointed coach of the India A and Under-19 cricket teams.

Floyd Mayweather tops the list for the second year in a row and third time in four years with 300 million US dollars. The only Indian to figure in the list is Mahendra Singh Dhoni.

Wesley Hall is the fourth cricketer this year to be inducted into the ICC Cricket Hall of Fame after Betty Wilson, Anil Kumble and Martin Crowe, who were inducted earlier this year during the ICC Cricket World Cup 2015.

The award was presented to him at the 2015 Cricket South Africa Awards presentation ceremony held at Midrand in South Africa.

He became the first Indian umpire after S. Venkataraghavan to be inducted in the International Cricket Council’s (ICC) Elite Panel of Umpires.

India secured a medal haul of 4 gold, 5 silver and 4 bronze in the championships to finish third behind China (15, 13, 13) and Qatar (7, 2, 1).

He was awarded for his contribution towards the development of athletics in Asian continent.

The 64th Senior National Volleyball Championship for Men and Women will be held in Bengaluru during January 2016.

Indian grapplers ended their campaign on a high note in the International Wrestling tournament in Sassari City, Italy, bagging as many as nine medals, including 8 gold in Men's Freestyle event.