JULY - 03
20th Asian Athletics Championship begins in Pune on 3rd July.→ 577 athletics from 43 countries out of 45 members in Asian Athletics Association to participate.
Top seeded Indian Grand Master Parimarjan Negi won the Continental Chess Association open title, his third of the season after pipping his nearest rival Bindi Cheng (Canada) by 1.5 points in Washington.
JULY - 04
As a host, Brazil convincingly defeated world champion Spain 3 - 0 to win the Confederations Cup.→ Golden boot: Fernando Torres (Spain)
→ Silver boot: Fred (Brazil)
→ Bronze boot: Neymar
Kabaddi team of India won gold medal in 4th Asian Indore games at Incheon in South Korea.
JULY - 05
World Soccer body FIFA on 3rd July 2013 again banned Iraq from holding any friendly football matches due to soaring violence.
JULY - 06
Parvez Rasool the first from Jammu & Kashmir team in India Cricket Squad.
JULY - 07
On July India clinched a gold medal in women’s 400 m relay in a sensational race.→ India ended the championship with two golds, five silver and 10 bronze (2 + 5 + 10 = 17).
→ China finished at the top spot with 16 golds, 6 silvers and 5 bronze (16 + 6 + 5 = 27).
On 7th July Red Bull’s Sebestian Vettel won the German Grand Prix title. → 2nd – Rikkonen
→ 3rd – Grosjean
Marion Bartoli of France on 6th July 2013 won her maiden Grand slam title by defeating Sabine Lisicki of Germany.
JULY - 08
Andy Murray on 7th July 2013 defeated Novak Djokovic in straight sets 6 - 4, 7 - 5, 6 - 4 at centre court of London to become the first Briton in 77 years to win the Men’s singles title at Wimbledon - 2013. Rohan Bopanna became the highest - ranked Indian in the world, as he achieved the career best rank of five in the ATP doubles.
ATP Rankings
1. Novak Djokovic
2. Andy Murray
3. David Ferrer
4. Rafel Nadal
5. Roger Federer
→ Federer ranked number five for first time in a decade.
India moved a rung to second spot, ahead of England in the ICC Test Rankings, while South Africa strengthened its position on the top.
JULY - 09
Ireland qualified for their third successive ICC World Cup after their World Cricket League Championship match against the Netherlands ended in a sensational tie in Amstelveen.
JULY - 10
Indian woman shooter Lajja Goswami has bagged a silver medal in 50 meter Rifle three position in ISSF, World Shooting Championship in Spain. Shiva Thapa reaffirmed his status as the rising star of Indian boxing as he became the youngest pugilist to clinch a gold medal in the 56 kg category at the Asian Championships in Amman, Jordan.
JULY - 11
| The International Cricket Council has announced that the ace leg spinner Shane Warne will be inducted into the ICC Cricket Hall of fame on 19th July. |  |
JULY - 12
The 8th World Youth Athletic Championship began in Donetsk, Ukraine.→ Previous - conducted in France 2011.
India won the Tri - Nation cricket series in a thrilling final at Port of Spain defeated Sri Lanka by one wicket.→ Player of the match - M.S. Dhoni.
→ Man of the series - Bhuwaneshwar Kumar.
India won the Under-19 Tri - Series Cricket Title in the final at Darwin. They thrashed hosts Australia by eight wickets.
→ Indian captain Vijay Zol won - Player of the Series award.
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JULY - 13
India holds on to No. 1 ODI rankings.→ India top the table with 122 points.
→ 2nd - Australia (114).
→ 3rd - England (112).
JULY - 14, 15
| The Pakistan Cricket Board opted for a younger Chief Selector when it appointed former captain Moin Khan after the sudden resignation of Iqbal Qasim last month. |  |
Grand master and former world junior champion Abhijeet Gupta has won the common wealth chess championship title.
JULY - 16
| Shahid Afridi became the first cricketer in the ODI history to achieve a unique double of recording 7000 runs and collecting 350 wickets. |  |
JULY - 19
| Ivana Maria Furtado of Goa defeted Delhi's 12th seed Madhurima Shekhar in the National Junior U - 19 Chess Championship in Lucknow. |  |
| Former South Africa player Dave Staniforth has been appointed goalkeeping coach and strategic analyst of the Indian senior and junior men's team, Hockey India announced. |  |
JULY - 20
| West Indies Test and T20 captain Darren Sammy has etched his name in the history books by becoming the first Caribbean sports personality to be named brand ambassador for German Automobile giant BMW. |  |
The South Asian Junior Table Tennis Championship began at the Indira Gandhi Indoor Stadium in New Delhi.| American Swimmer Haley Anderson won 5 km open water race to take the first gold medal of the Swimming World Championship. |  |
JULY - 21
Devendra Jhajharia became the first differently abled Indian to win a gold at the IPC Athletics World Championships by winning the Javelian throw at the sixth edition of the event in Lyon, France.
JULY - 22
Purav Raja and Divij Sharan of India on 20th July 2013 clinched their first ever ATP tour doubles titles by defeating Edouard Roger - Vasselin of France and Igor Sijsling of the Netherlands in the final match of Claro Open in Bogota, Colombia.| Serena Williams on 21st July 2013 won Swedish Open title by defeating Johanna Larsson in the final of the Swedish Open at Bastad in Sweden. |  |
India finished at fourth position in the Archery World Cup stage 3 on 21st July 2013, with Deepika Kumari winning a gold and a bronze medal on the concluding day of Archery World Cup Stage 3 in Medellin, Colombia.
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