| ACHIEVEMENT | Name |
| The first Indian woman (also Asian woman) to swim across the English Channel | Aarti Saha (1959) |
| The first Indian to win a gold medal at the Olympic Games | Abhinav Bindra |
| The first Indian women athlete to win a medal at a world event | Anju Bobby George |
| 1st recipient of Dhyanchand Lifetime Achievement Award | Aparna Ghosh |
| The first Indian gymnast to win a medal at the Commonwealth Games | Ashish Kumar |
| The first woman in the world to swim the seven seas | Bula Chaudhary |
| The first Indian woman to win a gold medal at the Asian Games | Kamaljit Sandhu |
| The first Indian woman to win an individual medal at the Olympic Games | Karnam Malleswari |
| The first woman recipient of Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award | Karnam Malleswari |
| The first Indian to win an individual medal at the Olympic Games | KD Jadhav |
| The first Indian woman to receive the Grandmaster’s title | Koneru Humpy |
| The first Indian to achieve a career Grand Slam in doubles | Leander Paes (2012) |
| The first Indian to win a Grand Slam title | Mahesh Bhupathi |
| The first Indian to achieve a career Grand Slam in mixed doubles | Mahesh Bhupathi (2006) |
| The youngest Indian to captain its test cricket team | Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi |
| The first Indian to swim across the English Channel | Mihir Sen |
| The youngest Indian to win the Grandmaster title | Parimarjan Negi |
| The first Indian to win the All England Badminton Championship | Prakash Padukone |
| The first Indian to win the Wimbledon Junior Singles Title | Ramanathan Krishnan |
| The first Indian to win the World Junior Badminton Championships and also to win a Super Series tournament, (by clinching the Indonesia Open) | Saina Nehwal |
| The first cricket player to be awarded the Arjuna Award | Salim Durrani |
| The first Indian woman to win a Grand Slam title | Sania Mirza |
| The first Indian to win Olympic medals at two consecutive Olympic Games | Sushil Kumar |
| India’s first Grandmaster and also the first Indian to win the FIDE World Chess Championship | Vishwanathan Anand |
| The first recipient of Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award | Viswanathan Anand |
| The first Indian to become a World champion in billiards | Wilson Jones |
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