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==June==
* India's Rohan Bopanna and Pakistan's Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi won the Gerry Weber Open in Halle.

==August==
* Champion double-trap shooter and Asian Games gold medalist [[Ronjan Sodhi]] was ranked No.1 in the world, as per the latest rankings released by the International Shooting Sport Federation (ISSF).
* India's under-16 football team was defeated by Pakistan 1-2 in the title clash of the SAFF Championship
* In [[cricket]], India slipped from first to third position after losing Test Series to England by 4-0.
* [[Leander Paes]] and [[Mahesh Bhupathi]] won Doubles Title at the [[Cincinnati Masters]].
* [[Gagan Narang]] was conferred the [[Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna]]. [[Rahul Banerjee (archer)|Rahul Banerjee]] ([[archery]]), [[Preeja Sreedharan]] ([[athletics (sport)|athletics]]), [[Vikas Gowda]] ([[athletics (sport)|athletics]]), [[Jwala Gutta]] ([[badminton]]), [[Suranjoy Singh|M Suranjoy Singh]] ([[boxing]]), [[Zaheer Khan]] ([[cricket]]), [[Sunil Chhetri]] ([[association football|football]]), [[Ashish Kumar (gymnast)|Ashish Kumar]] ([[gymnastics]]), [[Rajpal Singh]] ([[field hockey|hockey]]), [[Rakesh Kumar (kabaddi)|Rakesh Kumar]] ([[kabaddi]], men), [[Tejaswini Bai V]] ([[kabaddi]], women), [[Tejaswini Sawant]] ([[shooting]]), [[Virdhawal Khade]] ([[Swimming (sport)|swimming]]), [[Somdev Devvarman]] ([[tennis]]), [[Sanjay Kumar (volleyball)|Sanjay Kumar]] ([[volleyball]]), [[Ravinder Singh (wrestler)|Ravinder Singh]] ([[wrestling]]), [[Katulu Ravi Kumar]] ([[Olympic weightlifting|weightlifting]]), [[Sandhyarani Devi Wangkhem|W Sandhyarani Devi]] ([[wushu (sport)|wushu]]), [[Prasanta Karmakar]] ([[para-swimming]]) received the [[Arjuna award]]s.

==September==
* [[Rahul Sangma]] of Delhi won the Sunita Singh Memorial National youth (under-25) chess championship at [[Indore]].
* [[Preeja Sreedharan]] won the gold medal in the 10000m race on the opening day of the [[51st National Open Athletics Championships]] held in [[Kolkata]].
* India defeated Pakistan 4-2 in the penalty shoot-out in the final to clinch the inaugural [[2011 Asian Men's Hockey Champions Trophy|Asian Champions Trophy hockey tournament]].
* In [[India at the 2011 Commonwealth Youth Games|Commonwealth Youth Games]] held in the Isle of Man India won 3 Gold medals and secured ninth position. Pusarla Venkata Sindhu won a gold for in the women's singles event of badminton. In athletics, Durgesh Kumar and Navjetdeep Singh won gold medals for 400 m hurdles and shot put, respectively.
* India's [[Deepika Kumari]] of India settled for a silver after being defeated by China's Cheng Ming in the women's individual recurve summit clash at the [[FITA Archery World Cup|World Cup archery]] finals in Istanbul
* [[Salgaocar]] defeated [[East Bengal]] 3-1 in the final of 33rd [[Federation Cup (India)|Federation Cup]].

==October==
* [[Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports]] on 9 October 2011 launched the nationwide Come and Play scheme in New Delhi. Through this scheme, the ministry aims at opening SAI's sporting infrastructure for the youth across India.
* In the best ever performance in [[Asian age group swimming championship]], India bags 8 golds medals. Gold medalists include [[Virdhawal Khade]], [[Sandeep Sejwal]], Rehan Poncha etc.
* Vinod Kumar (freestyle) and Anil (Greco-Roman) won the gold medal in the 56th National Wrestling Championships at [[Nandininagar]], UP
* [[Mary Kom|MC Mary Kom]], Mandakini Chann, Kavita Goyat and Neetu Chahal won gold at the 12th Senior Women's National Boxing Championships in Bhopal. [[Haryana]] won the overall title.
* Olympic Champion Abhinav Bindra won Air Rifle Silver in 4th Asian Airgun Shooting Championship
* India's [[Rohan Bopanna]] and [[Pakistan|Pakistan's]] [[Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi]] won the [[Stockholm Open]] men's doubles title.

==November==
* Anirban Lahiri became the first Indian golfer to shoot a spectacular round of 12-under 60 on home soil.
* Rohan Bopanna and Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi won their first ever [[ATP Masters tournament]], [[Paris Masters]].
* [[Karnataka]] emerged the overall champion of the [[65th National aquatics meet]] which concluded on 20 November 2011 in [[Ranchi]]. Aaron D'Souza and Richa Mishra of Police were crowned the best swimmers of the meet. Both won five individual gold medals and broke three records. [[Talasha Prabhu]] and [[Anshul Kothari]] emerged as fastest swimmers.
* [[Gagan Narang]] won 50m Rifle 3 Position Men's Event at the [[55th National Shooting Championships]]. [[Sushil Ghaley]] won gold in the 50m rifle prone event.

==December==
* [[Belgium]] defeated India 4-3 in the final of the [[2011 Men's Hockey Champions Challenge I|Champions Challenge hockey tournament]] in Johannesburg. [[Sandeep Singh]] finished the tournament with seven goals, all through penalty corners, and won the Player of the Tournament award.
* India won its 6th [[SAFF Championship]] title against the [[Afghanistan]]. India's star striker [[Sunil Chhetri]] won all the individual awards in the tournament.
* Indian Grandmaster Abhijeet Gupta won the London Chess Classic's Open Section.
* [[Saina Nehwal]] of India was defeated by first seed [[Wang Yihan]] in the women's singles final of the [[World Super Series badminton championship]] in China. Saina is the first ever Indian to enter the singles final of the World Super Series.
* Indian Striker [[Sunil Chhetri]] voted Player of the Year by the [[All India Football Federation]].
* [[Kerala]] won Men's & Women's Title in the 10th All-India Volleyball Tournament.

==References==
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