Sports



First Asian city to host Olympics
Tokyo, Japan (1964)

First tour de France (road bicycle race) winner
Maurice Garin (1903)

First recognized boxing (fisticuffs) champion
Tim Hyer (1841)

World’s first chess champion
Wilhelm Steinitz (1886)

First golf club in the world
Honourable company of Edinburg Golfers (1744)

First footballer of the year
Sir Stanley Matthews, English footballer. He was also the first European footballer to be knighted in 1965. (1948)

First man to run a mile under a minutes
British athlete Sir Roger Bannister. He established this record at lffley Road Track, Oxford in 3 minutes 59.4 seconds (1954)

First Indian Olympic team medal
Gold for Hockey. At Amsterdam beating the Netherlands (1928)

First Indian Olympic individual medal winner
K.D Jadhav, Bronze in wrestling at Helsinki (1952)

First athlete disqualified at the Olympics for drug us
Hans-Gunnar Liljenwall at the mexico summer Olympics (1968)