{"id":13484,"date":"2017-12-26T12:34:23","date_gmt":"2017-12-26T07:04:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.oliveboard.in\/blog\/?p=13484"},"modified":"2018-01-04T15:19:17","modified_gmt":"2018-01-04T09:49:17","slug":"men-made-india-proud-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oliveboard.in\/blog\/men-made-india-proud-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"Men who made India Proud in 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">2017: A Look Back &#8211; Men who made India Proud<\/span><\/h4>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">In our last article, we provided the list of few women who made India proud in 2017 across various sectors. Here is a list of 10 men who made India proud this year.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">1. Gopi Thonakal<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">First Indian to win Asian Marathon Championship<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">2. Sand Artist Sudarsan Pattnaik<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Created Guinness World Records for the World&#8217;s tallest sand castle<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">3. Jeakson Singh<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Scored India\u2019s First FIFA World Cup Goal in U17 World Cup<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">4. Colin Gonsalves<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Won Alternative Nobel for Path-Breaking Legal Work<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">5. Rohan Chakravarty<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Won International President\u2019s Award, 2017<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">6. Prashant Ranganathan<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Won the World&#8217;s largest Pre-college science competition, US<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">7. Arjun Maini<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">First Indian driver to win a GP3 race<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">8. Rifath Sharook &amp; his team<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Designed &amp; developed World&#8217;s lightest satellite weighing a mere 64 grams, called KalamSat<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">9. Dr. Shrihari Chandraghatgi<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">First foreigner to win Japan\u2019s Ministry of Environment Award<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">10. Kidambi Srikanth<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">First Indian to win French Open Super Series title<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><em>*There are many other phenomenonal achievers, we could cover only few!<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.oliveboard.in\/bank-exams\/?ref=chan\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9565\" src=\"https:\/\/www.oliveboard.in\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Banner5.png\" alt=\"Banking Government Exams MBA Exams Free Mock Tests Free Exam Preparation Free tests Mock Tests All India Mock Tests SBI PO Exam IBPS PO Exams Bank Logo Bank Logos Banking Sector Oliveboard Quiz Daily Quiz Fun Quiz\" width=\"728\" height=\"90\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2017: A Look Back &#8211; Men who made India Proud In our last article, we provided the list of few<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13485,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,1212,60],"tags":[5190,5192,5191,5189],"class_list":["post-13484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-articles","category-featured","category-general-knowledge","tag-5190","tag-indian-men","tag-look-back-2017","tag-proud-india","generate-columns","tablet-grid-50","mobile-grid-100","grid-parent","grid-50"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.6 (Yoast SEO v26.6) - 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