Current Affairs August 2020 - Sports

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1 - Lewis Hamilton won British Grand Prix 2020

Lewis Hamilton of the Mercedes won the British Grand Prix 2020 at the Silverstone Circuit, United Kingdom. Max Verstappen of Red Bull stood second in the race followed by Charles Leclerc of Ferrari at third.

It was the third win for Hamilton in this season of F1 races and his seventh British Grand Prix victory. Hamilton leads the championship table of 2020 followed by his teammate Valtteri Bottas at second position.

2 - Harikrishna won second position at Biel Chess Festival

Indian Grandmaster, P Harikrishna won second position at the classical event of the Biel International Chess Festival in Switzerland. He scored 10 points. Radoslaw Wojtaszek of Poland, won the Biel Chess Festival with 12 points scores. Prior to this event, P Harikrishna had won ACCENTUS Chess960 tournament.

The Biel International Chess Festival takes place annually, since 1968, in the Congress Centre Biel/Bienne, Switzerland. It consists of two events, the Grandmaster Tournament, held with the round-robin system, and the Master Open Tournament (MTO), held with the Swiss system.

3 - BCCI suspended title sponsorship deal with Vivo for IPL

The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) has suspended the title sponsorship deal with Chinese mobile phone company Vivo for the upcoming edition of the Indian Premier League.

VIVO had won the IPL title sponsorship for five years from 2018 to 2022 for a reported sum of Rs. 2,190 crore. The IPL this year has been shifted to the UAE because of the prevailing COVID-19 situation in India.

4 - India to host ICC Men’s T-20 World Cup in 2021

ICC Men’s T20 World Cup 2020 will be organised in Australia in 2022. India will host the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup 2021. ICC Women’s Cricket World Cup 2021 will be organised in New Zealand in March 2022, because of the impact the Covid-19 pandemic. The IPL will be held in the UAE from September 19 to November 10.

The format of the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup 2021 will remain as it was for 2020 and all teams that qualified for that event will now participate in India in 2021.

5 - Dream11 won IPL 2020 title sponsorship rights with bid of Rs. 222 crore

Fantasy gaming platform Dream11 has won the IPL title sponsorship rights with a bid of Rs. 222 crore. The deal will be valid till December 2020. Dream11 will replace Chinese mobile phone maker VIVO. Vivo India had bagged the IPL title sponsorship rights for five years in 2017 for Rs. 2,199 crore, committing to pay the league approximately Rs. 440 crore every season.

Two education technology companies, BYJUs and Unacademy were also in the race with bids of Rs. 201 crore and Rs. 170 crore respectively. IPL 2020 starts on 19^th September in the UAE.

6 - Lewis Hamilton won F1 Spanish Grand Prix 2020

Mercedes' Lewis Hamilton won the Formula One Spanish Grand Prix 2020 held at Spain in record timing of 1hr 31mins and 45.279secs. He is regarded as one of the greatest drivers in the history of the sport,

Other players who secured second and third position were Max Verstappen and Valtteri Bottas respectively. Charles Leclerc and Lance Stroll secured 4^th and 5^th position respectively. The Spanish Grand Prix is a Formula One race. It is one of the oldest race in the world still contested.

7 - AIFF partnered with Sports Authority of India to launch “E-Pathshala”

The Sports Authority of India launched Khelo India’s the web platform e-Pathshala in association with All India Football Federation. The programme is India's first-ever national level open online coaching and education programme for grassroot-level athletes. It will educate young athletes, who have not been able to train in their academies in the past few weeks due to the ongoing COVID-19 Pandemic.

E-Pathshala is an Athlete Coaching Program in football to recognise the creativity and develop the interest of children in football. It has been split into three parts: My Football Culture, My Skills and My Training.

8 - INOX Group to be official sponsors of Team India at the Tokyo Olympics in 2021

The Indian Olympic Association (IOA) has partnered with Inox Group for the later to become official sponsor of the Indian Olympic team at the Olympic Games Tokyo 2021. The Tokyo Olympics was rescheduled to next year due to the COVID-19 pandemic. It will be held from July 23 to August 8 in 2021.

The INOX Group, a conglomerate with diverse business interests across the globe, is best known in India for its cinema-screening multiplexes, which it operates through its entertainment company, INOX Leisure Limited.

9 - Ronnie O'Sullivan won World Snooker Championship 2020

Ronnie O'Sullivan won his sixth world title at the World Snooker Championship. He won against Kyren Wilson. Victory moves him level with Ray Reardon and his hero Steve Davis on six world titles, one shy of Stephen Hendry's record of seven. He holds the all-time record for the most ranking titles with 37.

O'Sullivan, 44, is the oldest champion since Reardon, who was 45 in 1978. The 2020 World Snooker Championship took place in Sheffield, England.

10 - Sophia Popov won Women’s British Open

Sophia Popov became the first female golfer from Germany to capture a major title after winning the Women's British Open. She won $675,000 as prize money. Thailand's Jasmine Suwannapura was the runner-up. Australian Minjee Lee, ranked eighth in the world, finished third.

Popov had never won a senior professional event before and lost her card on the LPGA Tour in 2019. She was ranked number 304 in the world at the start of the tournament.

11 - Bayern Munich beat Paris Saint-Germain to win UEFA Champions League

German football club, Bayern Munich, have won the European Champions League for the sixth time after beating French club Paris Saint-Germain 1-0. The final was played in Lisbon, Portugal. Paris-born Kingsley Coman scored the only goal of the match as the Bavarians won the premier competition.

With this win, Bayern Munich are the first side in European Cup/Champions League history to win 100% of their games in a single campaign en route to lifting the trophy (11 wins). Bayern also joined Liverpool as six-time champions of Europe, only behind AC Milan (7) and Real Madrid (13).

12 - Jacques Kallis, Zaheer Abbas & Lisa Sthalekar inducted into ICC Hall of Fame

The International Cricket Council (ICC) inducted three retired greats of the game into the ICC Cricket Hall of Fame namely South Africa’s all-rounder Jacques Kallis, Pakistan's stylish batsman Zaheer Abbas & Australian World Cup-winning all-rounder Lisa Sthalekar.

The ICC Cricket Hall of Fame recognises "the achievements of the legends of the game from cricket's long and illustrious history". It was launched by ICC in 2009. Kallis is the fourth South African player inducted and Zaheer the sixth from Pakistan. Lisa is the 27^th from Australia and the ninth woman player in the list.

13 - England pacer James Anderson became first fast bowler in history to take 600 Test wickets

England pacer James Anderson became the first fast bowler in history to take 600 Test wickets. On Day 5 of the test match against Pakistan, he dismissed Pakistan batsman Azhar Ali to claim his 600^th wicket.

England won the series 1-0, with its three-wicket victory in the first test in Manchester followed by two drawn tests in Southampton. Muttiah Muralitharan with 800, Shane Warne with 708 and Anil Kumble with 619 wickets are the only other bowlers - all spinners - who remain ahead of Anderson on the all-time list of wicket-takers.

14 - Government enhanced prize money in Khel Ratna, Arjuna and Dronacharya awards

The government has enhanced the prize money in four of the seven categories of the National Sports and Adventure Awards.

The prize money has been increased as per following details:

15 - Dwayne Bravo becomes first bowler to take 500 wickets in T20s

West Indies all-rounder Dwayne Bravo became the first bowler to take 500 T20 wickets. Bravo achieved the feat during the CPL match between Trinbago Knight Riders and St Lucia Zouks. He dismissed Zouks’ Rahkeem Cornwall for his prized 500^th wicket.

Bravo has won three IPL and CPL trophies with Chennai Super Kings and Trinbago respectively. He picked 59 wickets in his international T20 career. He took 459 games to reach the 500-wicket mark.