Top 10 Indian players who defy age
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Tarundeep Rai, 37 years old
Tarundeep Rai became the first Indian to win an individual men’s silver medal in archery at the Asian Games 2010, One of the most experienced archers in the Indian team qualified for the Tokyo Olympics which could be his last.
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Sania Mirza, 34 years old
Sania Mirza is undoubtedly one of the most admired sportspersons in the country. She is the highest-ranked female player ever from India, at world No. 27, and also won many WTA doubles titles on the tour. In addition, she has spent 91 weeks as the world No. 1 in doubles.
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Vishwanathan Anand, 51 years old
Former World Champion Viswanathan Anand became the first grandmaster from India in the year 1988. And is one of the few players to have surpassed an Elo rating of 2800, a feat he first achieved in 2006 and still ongoing.
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Anitha Pauldurai, 35 years old
She played for 18 years on the Indian women's national team (2001 to 2018). Anitha is the first only Indian woman to have played nine Asian Basketball Confederation championships. Anitha has a record of 30 medals in national championships.
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Manavjit Sandhu, 44 years old
A four-time Olympian, Manavjit Sandhu is a former World No. 1 ranked Trap Shooter. Also won the gold medal at the 2006 ISSF World Shooting Championships, becoming the first Indian shotgun shooter to be crowned World Champion
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Mithali Raj, 38 years old
Indian women’s cricket ODI team skipper has played a huge hand in the growth of cricket in the country. Amassing a total of 6720 runs in 183 innings thus far to be the leading run-getter in the format, she became the first woman cricketer to turn out in 200 ODI games.
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Leander Paes, 47 years old
Regarded as one of the greatest tennis players in doubles, he holds the record for the most doubles wins in the Davis Cup. Paes has won eight doubles and ten mixed doubles Grand Slam titles. and is expected to play at Roland-Garros and the 2020 Summer Olympics.
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Mary Kom, 38 years old
The only female to become World Amateur Boxing champion for a record six times, and the only boxer (male or female) to win eight World Championship medals and now she will compete at Summer Olympics 2020.
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Sharath Kamal, 38 years old
He is the first Indian table tennis player ever to become nine times Senior National Champion hence breaking the record of eight times. His ITTF world ranking is 32 as of May 2021.
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Sunil Chhetri, 37 years old
The is the most-capped player and all-time top active goalscorer for the national team with a total of 72 goals in his 115 appearances, One of the lethal striker of India is now expected to start against Qatar for WC qualification round on 3rd June 2021.