List of sportspeople from Tamil Nadu explained

The following is the list of International Sports Persons from the Indian State of Tamil Nadu:

2016 Summer Olympics - Rio 2016

• Satish Sivalingam - Weightlifting,
• Arokia Rajiv - 4 x 400 m Relay,
• Ayyasamy Dharun - 4 x 400 m Relay,
• Sharath Kamal - Table Tennis,
• Krishnan Ganapathi - 20 km Walk,
• Mohan Kumar - Track and Field

Athletics

• Rajasekaran Pichaya
• Santhi Soundarajan
• Kumaravel Premkumar
• Nikhil Chittarasu

Table Tennis

• Sathiyan Gnanasekaran
• Sharath Kamal

Achanta Sharath Kamal (born 12 July 1982) is a professional Table Tennis player from Tamil Nadu, India. Sathiyan Gnanasekaran is the highest ever ranked Indian in the world.

International Achievements

Medal	Sport	Event	Date
	Table Tennis - Men's Singles	2006 Commonwealth Games - Melbourne	26 March
	Table Tennis - Men's Team	2006 Commonwealth Games - Melbourne	27 March
	Table Tennis - Men's Doubles	2010 Commonwealth Games - Delhi	13 October
	Table Tennis - Men's Team	2010 Commonwealth Games - Delhi	9 October
^[1]	Table Tennis - Men's Team	2018 Commonwealth Games - Gold Coast	9 April
^[2]	Table Tennis - Men's Doubles	2018 Commonwealth Games - Gold Coast	14 April
^[3]	Table Tennis - Men's Singles	2018 Commonwealth Games - Gold Coast	15 April
^[4]	Table Tennis - Mixed Doubles	2018 Commonwealth Games - Gold Coast	15 April

Tennis

All grand slam and highest singles ranking by an Indian are achieved by the players from Tamil Nadu. Ramanathan Krishnan reached semi finals of grand slam twice. His son Ramesh Krishnan reached grand slam quarters thrice and have beaten then World No 1 player Matts Wilander in the Australian open. Vijay Amritraj have reached quarter finals of grand slams fours times and have won 18 ATP singles career titles. Mahesh Bhupathi have won 12 grand slams titles for doubles and mixed doubles.

• Ramanathan Krishnan
• Ramesh Krishnan
• Vijay Amritraj
• Anand Amritraj
• Mahesh Bhupathi
• Prajnesh Gunneswaran
• Ramkumar Ramanathan
• Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan
• Vijay Sundar Prashanth
• N. Sriram Balaji
• Prakash Amritraj

Chess

• Viswanathan Anand
• Gukesh D

Carrom

• A. Maria Irudayam
• S. Ilavazhagi

Hockey

• Vasudevan Baskaran

He captained the Indian team, which won the gold medal at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow, Soviet Union.

Motor racing

• Narain Karthikeyan
• Sundaram Karivardhan
• Ajith Kumar
• Parthiva Sureshwaren
• Karun Chandhok

Swimming

• Kutraleeswaran
• Niranjan

Squash

• Joshna Chinappa
• Dipika Pallikal

International Achievements

Medal	Player Name	Sport	Event	Date
^[5]	Dipika Pallikal & Joshna Chinappa	Squash - Women's Doubles	2014 Commonwealth Games - Glasgow	02 August
^[6]	Dipika Pallikal & Joshna Chinappa	Squash - Women's Doubles	2018 Commonwealth Games - Gold Coast	15 April
^[7]	Dipika Pallikal & Saurav Ghosal(West Bengal)	Squash - Mixed Doubles	2018 Commonwealth Games - Gold Coast	14 April

Skating

• Nethra

Weightlifting

• Sathish Sivalingam

International Achievements

Commonwealth Games^[8]

Year	Venue	Event	Total	Result
2018	Gold Coast	77Kg	317	Gold
2014	Glasgow	77Kg	328	Gold

Commonwealth Championships

Year	Venue	Event	Total	Result
2017	Gold Coast	77Kg	320	Gold
2015	Glasgow	77Kg	325	Gold
2012	Tasmania	77Kg	297	Gold

Notes and References

1. Web site: Results Men's Team Finals . The Official CWG 2018 Site .
2. Web site: Results Men's Doubles Finals.
3. Web site: Results Men's Singles Finals.
4. Web site: Results Mixed Doubles Finals.
5. Web site: Results Women's Doubles Finals.
6. Web site: Results Women's Doubles Finals.
7. Web site: Results Mixed Doubles Finals.
8. Web site: Sivalingam Sathish Kumar . International Weightlifting Federation . 21 July 2020 .