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    Abhinav Bindra: Delhi, The Capital City of India

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    Delhi has contributed greatly to sports in India by producing many renowned athletes. Three famous sportspeople from Delhi are Abhinav Bindra, Kapil Dev, and Virender Sehwag. Abhinav Bindra is an Olympic gold medalist in air rifle shooting and the first Indian to win an individual gold since 1990. Kapil Dev captained the Indian cricket team to victory at the 1983 World Cup. Virender Sehwag is one of India's leading batsmen, known for his powerful hitting and off spin bowling.

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    Delhi has contributed greatly to sports in India by producing many renowned athletes. Three famous sportspeople from Delhi are Abhinav Bindra, Kapil Dev, and Virender Sehwag. Abhinav Bindra is an Olympic gold medalist in air rifle shooting and the first Indian to win an individual gold since 1990. Kapil Dev captained the Indian cricket team to victory at the 1983 World Cup. Virender Sehwag is one of India's leading batsmen, known for his powerful hitting and off spin bowling.

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    Delhi has contributed greatly to sports in India by producing many renowned athletes. Three famous sportspeople from Delhi are Abhinav Bindra, Kapil Dev, and Virender Sehwag. Abhinav Bindra is an Olympic gold medalist in air rifle shooting and the first Indian to win an individual gold since 1990. Kapil Dev captained the Indian cricket team to victory at the 1983 World Cup. Virender Sehwag is one of India's leading batsmen, known for his powerful hitting and off spin bowling.

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    Abhinav Bindra: Delhi, The Capital City of India

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    Delhi, the capital city of India, represents the best of culture and advancement in

    various fields. It has contributed vastly to the sports community of the country by gifting it
    some remarkable personalities who have made us proud time and again. Many of our
    sportsmen and sportswomen today who have made India famous belong from Delhi. They have
    made it big not only in the country but also in the world.

    Abhinav Bindra
    He is one of the famous sportsmen from Delhi. At present he is the world champion in Air Rifle
    shooting. He is the first Indian who had made it to the individual Gold Medal since the 1990’s.
    His superb achievements in the field of Olympic Games have made our country proud. He had
    received the Arjuna Award when he was 17 years of age. Adding on to that he was the single
    man to receive the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award. This is one of the highest sporting honors.
    He also had been felicited with the Padma Bhushan in the year 2009. This was post he won the
    Gold Medal in the Beijing Olympics.

    Kapil Dev
    This is one of the names that remains embedded in the golden pages of history. Known for his
    strategy and tactics, Kapil Dev has been an eminent Indian cricketer. It was under his guidance
    that India won the World Cup in the year 1993. He also served as the national cricket coach for
    India for a span of 10 days. Throughout his entire cricket career he tried to play his best and
    give something valuable to the field of cricket. An extremely humble man and prolific cricketer,
    Kapil Dev shall remain one of the cricket stalwarts in India.

    Virender Sehwag
    He was born in Delhi in the year 1978, October 20th. At present he is one of the leading
    batsmen of the Indian team. He is affectionately termed as “Viru” by the teammates and also
    the general public. He is an excellent right handed open batsman, and is also known for his
    right-arm off spin bowling.
    Sehwag played his first One Day International match in the year 1999. After that in the year
    2001 he had joined the test cricket team. He earned several accolades as an ace cricket
    player. It was in April 2009 he was honored as the Wisden Leading Cricketer globally, based on
    his performance in the year 2008. He was the only Indian to have been awarded so.

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